Dr Robert Lloyd

One week to go until publication, and my contributor copy arrived yesterday. It’s a real thing! Pages, ink, and phenomenal work from everyone 🖤

Submission guidelines available here:

A little under 1 week left* to submit an abstract for ‘Hauntings: Multidisciplinary Approaches’, taking place at Cardiff Uni June 10th & 11th. Open to students (PGT/PGR) and established academics; hybrid format; no registration fee. *Submission extensions available on request.

"The University has been pretty much paralysed since the announcements of January 28. It’s certainly not a creative climate for anyone in the affected schools trying to do serious research. ... Instead, it’s thoroughly demotivating." @CardiffUCU nation.cymru/opinion/how-to…

A suitably spectral way to start the new year!

@Cat_Liberace @LouiseChild6 Can’t wait!

This week, BBC Radio 4 have been broadcasting a selection of Shirley Jackson’s sublime short stories taken from ‘Dark Tales’. Available to listen to now on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/…

@biiilyedwards Congratulations, Billy - fantastic news.

Some career news. I'm delighted to announce I've joined BBC Radio 1 in a trainee role. I'm extremely excited to get going! 📻🎵

@NoreenMasud Delighted to hear this!

holy fuck. HOLY FUCK💔

@BGavurin @LeverhulmeTrust @unibirmingham Amazing news, Billie. Congratulations!

@prince_yikes Congratulations!

@biiilyedwards Thanks Billy - really kind of you to say.

@RobLloyd91 Thank you & thanks for all the assistance and fantastic lectures and more, much appreciated, loved them all!

Got 73 for the dissertation so shall be graduating from Cardiff University with a first. I'm pleased, worked really hard on it. Thanks to everyone who took part! Will find a way of publishing it so you can all read it

@WTunska @BobEaglestone @alexandrakreese Congratulations, Wiktoria!

Delighted to say that I passed my viva two days ago! Many thanks to my examiners, Claire Westall and @BobEaglestone for a great discussion and very generous comments on my work, and to my supervisor, @alexandrakreese, for all the support and mentorship over the past few years!

An all-time favourite

@liamglewis @CUEngCommPhilos @cardiffuni Looking forward to meeting you, Liam. Congratulations!

I'm pleased to share the news that from September 2024 I will be Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Cardiff University. I'm looking forward to working with brilliant new colleagues and students in Wales as part of a quartet of new lecturers! @CUEngCommPhilos @cardiffuni

Some Monday reading for y'all - @RobLloyd91 and me in @SensesofCinema on the place of Wales in global cinema + a crash course in Welsh horror and thriller history sensesofcinema.com/2024/feature-a… @FilmHubWales @ArtsSceneWales @WalesArtTweets @ImageWorksCDF @CUEngCommPhilos

It was such a pleasure to co-author this essay with my fabulous friend and colleague @alixbeeston - very proud of it, and delighted to have the chance to write about @LeeHavenJones' Gwledd in this context (because it's really great).

@biiilyedwards I’m sure you’ve done very well, Billy. Congratulations on getting everything finished.

Last deadline passed, essay all in fine. Outside taking some deep breaths. I am a terrible panicker. Sure I have done really well.

@daniellehelen32 Congrats!

The profile update has happened, so that means there's news to share - my thesis corrections have been approved!! The news came through while I was on holiday in Mallorca, and I feel v lucky to have been in such a beautiful place to mark this moment.

Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction. nyer.cm/S5dyJIE