Lara Dodds

Definitive ranking of all the books of Paradise Lost: 8, 10, 9, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 6, 12, 11, 7

Hey my fellow Mississippi voters, a personal request: My husband, Liam, is researching polling place accessibility in the state. When y'all go vote, please notice how accessible your polling place is (see next tweet) and fill out this short survey: forms.gle/tQzKsAUpFCXfVY…

@SGUYBRAY It’s on Cavendish and Milton: similizing vs. the epic similes. But I think my title needs work.

@LaraDodds Tell me more!

Please vote in this important poll. I'm writing an essay on simile. Which is a better title: "A Metaphor is Like a Simile" or "The Motive for Simile"?

The Dept of History at the University of Alabama invites apps for a TT Assistant Professor in the field of AfAm History. The Dept. especially encourages those working on the history of Blk student activism in the era of the modern Civil Rights Movement. careers.ua.edu/jobs/assistant…

@RachelJWillie Not yet, I haven’t!

@LaraDodds Have you come across “Jane Bites Back”, where Jane Austen is a vampire bookseller, having been seduced and turned by Lord Byron (who also vampired Charlotte Brontë & seems to have worked his way through all of English literary history, the dog)?

Aren’t pretty much all spin-offs about Mary?

@SGUYBRAY Happy Birthday!!

It's my birthday! I'm 64 and 6'4", which has a pleasing sound. Instead of a selfie, please enjoy this picture of the wines we'll have with dinner & cake tonight.

@MichelleMDowd and I have been working on this book for a long time, and we are very excited that friends and colleagues will finally get to read it! _Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History_ will be published by Oxford UP in March 2025.

@wickettred My in-laws have this table.

Should I pursue the giant books coffee table?

@Dr_C_Thompson taking care of what matters

I received my contributor copy of The Oxford History of Poetry in English, vol. 5. My chapter is on “Speaker and Voice.” At first, I thought the chapter was one of the most difficult pieces I’ve ever written, and then it became the most fun.

@hudstrode I’m ready!

Before you attend Dr. Tessie Prakas' lecture “Samson Agonistes and Milton’s Anti-Prelatical Poetics” next Friday, take this quiz to test your knowledge about the life and works of John Milton! riddle.com/view/iPlsVjzl

@RachelJWillie this is a new one for me!

“Ych a fi” (uch-ah-vee) is now in the OED 🤗 🥰 It’s so much more satisfying to say than your bog-standard “yuck” search.app/FuhVx2aoJTqNJM…

@flowersks I'll check it out!

@flowersks We wondered whether we should try it.

@jsench I don't know the answer to your question, but ANQ may be of interest: tandfonline.com/toc/vanq20/cur…

I’ve read the table of contents backward several years in Notes and Queries and it seems very British. Which makes sense given its history. But is that a rule or a custom?

*Notes & Queries* says it publishes notes on “English language and literature… and scholarly antiquarianism.” By “English” do they mean literatures of Britain and the United Kingdom, or literature in the English language written, say, in the 19th century United States?

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender is currently accepting applications for Graduate Student Travel Grants for fall conferences. The awards support travel to present research that relates to the mission of the SSEMWG at national and international conferences.

@cjdenial I agree with this suggestion. I’ve never been sorry that I had the extra days (I usually schedule as review day) but have been sorry when I don’t.

How to determine order of authorship? Alphabetically? Seniority? Contribution? WRONG!

@AngelineMMorris Congratulations!!

A little behind in posting this, but I'm excited to announce that I'm joining the faculty at the University of Tennessee Southern this fall as assistant professor of English! I'm excited to be back in Tennessee and to work with such amazing faculty and students.