Ana Parejo Vadillo

I’m giving a talk about Victorian depictions of orchid collecting including imperial adventure fiction and satires of Joseph Chamberlain. This Wednesday 27th November at Birmingham uni. Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/orchid-jo-em…

Dear friends, I am now veryverso@bsky.social

As I told @lexfridman, we are rapidly moving towards oligarchy. Our economy has a greater concentration of ownership that at any time in history. A few large corporations control what is produced and the prices we pay. The same thing is happening with our political system.

This is what smallpox looks like. RFK Jr. wants to eliminate the smallpox vaccine. Good luck everyone. This is what you voted for.

English researchers also contribute significantly to the economy. CCCU's English dept is the victim of the deeply skewed HE 'market' : young people flock to other depts which are bulging at the seams with English students, while this excellent dept is allowed to sink

Check the stats before you dismiss this vital subject that trains its students in the essentials: communication skills, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. Its great strength is that it doesn't lead straight to one career - it leads to many.

and salaries for English grads are some of the fastest-rising in the country, 4th to be precise. English grads are CEOs, work in finance, the civil service, business, as well as in the creative, cultural, education, and heritage sectors.

The data relating to careers for English graduates tell a very different story to the comments generated by the story. Rates of graduate employment for Arts, Humanities, and Social sciences students are within 1% of Science grads,

In case @telegraph readers are interested, this is a response to the story re @CanterbruyCCUni's decision to close its excellent English dept.

El próximo sábado 16 de noviembre hacemos doblete en la Región de Murcia hablando de "La camisera de Manchester" de Margaret Harkness y las New Women. Mañana: en @librostraperos con la editora Anaís Toboso y el traductor @GonzaloGMontoro; MU Tarde: en La Montaña Mágica, CTGN

Este sábado 16 tenemos cita con Margaret Harkness y el patrimonio literario europeo inédito, en @librostraperos (Murcia) a las 12h, y en librería La Montaña Mágica (Cartagena) a las 19h. Me acompañarán la editora de @ChamanEdiciones Anaís Toboso y el escritor Alberto Lucas 👇

Stay with us in Lviv for a month to work on your documentation project. You’ll take part in our programme of institutional visits, internal seminars, public-facing events, and meetings with cultural workers and academics who are chronicling the ru war and Ukrainian resistance.

In Delaware today #USAElection2024

Michael Field’s _The World at Auction_ is so apt for our times!

(Don’t forget to vote!)

Tomorrow! Poetry Nouveau: Michael Field and the Art of the Book - Delaware Art Museum delart.org/event/zoom-tal…

@DrSarahParker @UDelaware We would love to have you here!

All set for ‘Queer and Beautiful Books’ with me and Mark Samuels Lasner! Come if you are in the Delaware area. #MichaelField @UDelaware

If you are around tomorrow ⁦@UDelaware⁩ come to see me speak on Queer and Beautiful Books with the marvellous Mark Samuels Lasner #MichaelField ⁦@birkbeck_arts⁩ ⁦@BirkbeckC19⁩ ⁦@birkbeck_ETC⁩