Jon Venn

Rebecca Benzie @BecBenzie Contributions from a range of wonderful scholars and practitioners: @Arifa_Akbar,@CatherineLove21,@KThomaidis @jonvenn,@kath_graham,@FayeRigopoulou @pflonergan,@Dr_A_Hartl,@lisawoynarski @bigbookenergy,@Kasia_Lech,@reid_trish @sarahbartaz,@katejlovell

@BecBenzie @soonamahal @EvelynOMalley @DrBenPoore @noraj_williams @Dr_Kate_Newey @katejholmes @karenjquigley @kath_graham @nphjones @adriancurt Congratulations Bec!

Huge thanks to colleagues, collaborators & pals for your support along the way! A special shout out to: @soonamahal @EvelynOMalley @DrBenPoore @noraj_williams @Dr_Kate_Newey @katejholmes @jonvenn @karenjquigley @kath_graham @nphjones @adriancurt & the fam for all being amazing ❤️

Full of joy and disbelief, I'm excited to share that my book 'Feminism, Dramaturgy, and the Contemporary British History Play' has been published today with @BloomsburyAcad! bloomsbury.com/uk/feminism-dr…

Spent the evening reading Alice Munro: 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage'. It was surprising, expansive, clever, and compassionate: as with nearly all her work. I'm very glad to live in a world in which she wrote.

@DavidPattie So far mainly Roth (I suggested The Human Stain would've been more appropriate, but he gurgled something to the effect of 'too obvious'), though a Cortazar got a slight side-spray.

My baby recently managed , through force of gas and will from the changing table, manage to excrete over my copy of Philip Roth's The Counterlife. I guess this is his first piece of literary criticism.

Tonight, couples are wondering how they can stay in the same continent, people who've made their lives here suddenly under threat. A sharp hard cruelty.

I've also resigned from UKRI's Interdisciplinary Assessment College, following Laura's lead. I simply can't/won't give my review time an organisation operating in these conditions.

@Moranfox I find, knowing that I need to wake at 4.45, my brain decides it must wake every 30 minutes, in pure terror that I'll miss the alarm. The delights of cognitive self-torture.

Horrific. We're watching the slow dessication of a previous luscious literary and art culture, from the snide withdrawal of the barest drip of funding.

@katejholmes And lovely to be in your company, as ever PhD sister, scholarly or otherwise!

Super-chuffed to wake up to see Female Aerialists in This Year's Work in English Studies doi.org/10.1093/ywes/m…. I'm in pretty august company, but particularly pleased to be highlighted alongside my PhD brother @jonvenn

@rebeccawynter Looks absolutely brilliant, looking forward to reading it!

New book! Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective: Faith in Reform | SpringerLink is here! #HistPsych #HistMed #HistSTM #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters

@higgyC Much love in navigating its byzantine cruelties.

About to head to a visa centre to ask them if my wife can stay in the country with me for a few more years so please lend your energy by clapping and shouting “hostile environment go away”

As ever, Amia Srinivasan provides a critical lucidity and nuance that cuts through the tediousness mud of much of 'free speech in universities' discourse. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

From earlier, in the quiet of the park, basking in how we've thought with and though suicide these past two days. My special thanks to the organisers, for curating such a warm and welcoming space. #suicidecultures23

Still in the glow at an extraordinary first day at the Suicide Cultures conference - with a plethora of different disciplinary approaches, exceptional critical thought, and a genuine warmth of atmosphere. A delight to be amongst it all. #suicidecultures23

@noraj_williams I love Nigel, but there was an episode where he spends 10 minutes talking about 'a good jelly and peanut butter sandwich', where it comes down to lots of adjectives and exclamations for 'get nice bread'

@MichaelJLeader Very slightly terrified by how much of my dvd wallet back at home is the exact same.

Had to dig out the DVD for 28 Days Later, which meant unzipping the disc wallet I've been carting around for over 15 years.