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 AHRC and BBC’s New Generation Thinker scheme into a blog post for others thinking of applying. Being a New Generation Thinker has been […]
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So, my book, Play Time: Gender, anti-Semitism and temporality in medieval biblical drama,has gained a very pretty three-dimensional form! But rather than simply blowing my own trumpet (which I do regularly enough), I want to make like the Chester Mrs Noah, and acknowledge community rather than the individual. I am making […]
What began as a mad Facebook post on (what turned out would be my last, for a time) commute home from Wolverhampton to Sheffield became reality, as professional and new storytellers from across the world generously donated their time, skills and tales to form a festival of modern and ancient […]
The problem with a radio broadcast is that it makes it sound as though the presenter is the source of all knowledge. Objectively an audience knows they are not, just as we know Sandi Toksvig, queen of intelligence though she is, is not really the source of all the world’s […]
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 have […]
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 […]
More stuff will come here time, when I have time to write it…