Senior Lecturer @lborouniversity, executive editor @CWEvelynWaugh. Biographer, textual editor, fond of digital humanities. Views my own: most stationary stolen.
Loughborough, England
Joined August 2010
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Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
I did a google image search for men next to potholes and put them all in a montage.
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Happy but belated news that Oli Tearle was on BBC3’s ‘The Listening Service’ over Coronation weekend talking about the role of the Poet Laureate: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lkj… @lboroenglish (he’s too modest to plug it)
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
⚡️Call for Papers: Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship⚡️ sites.google.com/view/estsle… Deadline for submissions: 18 June. This online symposium will take place on 27 October 2023
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
Inaccurate but also kind of true 😂
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Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
Who out there is researching and writing on the African American Homegoing, which includes a) funeral programs, b) repast, c) funeral songs, d) eulogies, etc❓ Holla at me; let’s talk #AcademicChatter #rp
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
Does anyone in Oxford have an office/similar private space that I could make use of in a couple of weeks time for about half an hour? I have an unexpectedly online interview which I’d rather not do from college accommodation if possible!
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
📣 Are you a Early Career Researcher in the Midlands, researching #health/#medicalhumanities? We (🙋🏼♀️ & @_jadefrench) are seeking 10-minute papers to showcase exciting #methods being used in ECR research as part of a @BritishAcademy_ funded symposium🧵
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
Hello BAMS members! Please look out on Monday for an email about elections. We're delighted by the level of interest - 8 candidates for 6 staff positions, and 6 candidates for 2 postgraduate positions. The election will run from Monday 16 Jan to Monday 6 Feb.
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
You’ve heard of elf on the shelf… – at Oxford, England
ALT Black and white photo of a seated James Joyce rather badly photoshopped onto a photo of a blue Rolls Royce!
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
A reminder that this event is taking place on Zoom LATER TODAY. See you there! @modernistudies @msatweet
On Wednesday 14 December at 5pm GMT, we will host a Zoom-based event at which Peter Howarth and Robert Volpicelli will speak on the topic ‘MODERNIST CIRCUITS’.
Please register to receive the Zoom link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist…
@modernistudies @msatweet #poetry #modernism
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
If you are thinking of applying to join us as PG rep, we hope this gives you an idea of what a great opportunity it is! I promise you won't regret it 🙂
Our PG reps have posted their annual representative dialogue ahead of NWiMS and the committee elections! If you're interested in applying for the PG rep role, don't hesitate to get in touch!
modernistreviewcouk.wordpres…
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
A few years ago @DecafB
Dr Oliver Tearle and I talked about treasonous mince pies and bleak midwinter for the School of Poetry @lboroenglish podcast.
Listen again here. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
My mate @sswithinbank92 is brilliant. Check out her play, Bacon, and get nominating
.@WhatsOnStage Awards are open and we'd love if you'd consider nominating us in these categories:
🥓Best Performer in a Play - Corey Montague-Sholay and William Robinson
🥓Best New Play - Bacon by Sophie Swithinbank
🥓Best Off West End Production - Bacon at @finborough
🏆🥓🙏
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
Knowledge is Power: Class, Community and Adult Education opens TODAY! Centrepiece was a magazine produced by adult education students between 1973-78, the poet Connie Ford was a contributor. #adulted @john_holford @mssLakeside @bbcemt @FiveLeavesBooks @LeftLion @NottmCityOfLit
ALT Centrepiece: Magazine of the Nottingham University Adult Education Centre, Issue 1 (1973) University of Nottingham Collection, Periodicals Not 5.J2.2
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
My new book is out today. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences: sup.org/books/title/?id=3498… @stanfordpress
ALT Book cover showing stack of fluttering pages along with the title Reader's Block.
Dr Barbara Cooke retweeted
On Sunak and humanities degrees: it struck me today while writing about Marvell, who died in 1678, that almost as soon as Sunak leaves office, however evil his policies, people will forget who he is
