Following lots of collegial folk on Twitter offering to share their successful funding applications, I thought I would write up what I learnt through applying for the New Generation Thinker scheme into a blog post for others thinking of applying. Being a New Generation Thinker has been one of the […]
Daisy Black
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This post comes out of a roundtable discussion held at the 2019 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference. The teacher as problem Like all white men and women, I have benefitted throughout my education from a system which has privileged me and valued my work over others. Any authority I […]
Thanks to technical wizardry, my ‘Unruly Woman’ story show will be streaming *live* from a house concert on: Wednesday the 21st November, 20.00. The stream will be visible from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2_kyzVqgY We will aim to stream from about 15 minutes before the event starts, with some background music […]
He koude songes make, and wel endite, Juste, and eek daunce, and weel purtreye and write. Description of the Squire in Geoffrey Chaucer’s General Prologue, ll. 95-6. Last month a colleague wrote to the Gender and Medieval Studies steering committee asking for guidance for conferences to appropriately handle instances of […]
6751 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Note: I wrote this review as a mini thought-piece back in September and then forgot about it. Since then, we have had Weinstein and Spacey and #metoo. Museums teach us more about the ‘now’ than we may realise at the time. **** My partner […]