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May 3, 2017

Lancaster Castle

Back in February, as part of the Embodiment and New Materialism conference in Lancaster, I was part of a drama workshop which took place in Lancaster Castle. It was somewhere that I’d been intending to visit for a long time, but had somehow never got around to it. So over the Easter break, we all…

April 2, 2017

Embodiment and New Materialism Part 2

Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. Having already blogged about the first day of the conference, I thought it was time to share my recollections of the second.…

March 28, 2017

Embodiment and New Materialism Part 1

Over the weekend of 25-26 February 2017, I attended a conference in Lancaster which looked at new materialist approaches to the pre-modern period: ‘Embodiment and New Materialism in Premodern Literature and Culture 1350-1700’. The first day of the conference was held in the lovely city of Lancaster itself, at Lancaster Castle and the Storey Institute.…

March 24, 2017

Academics with chameleons

I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but I have noticed the hashtag ‘academics with cats’. Cats are a big thing on Twitter. Personally, I’m not keen on cats – they interfere with the birds and shrews in my garden and leave behind unpleasant deposits that threaten my children’s health. So I’ve started…

March 18, 2017

Happy Marking Day

I have a confession to make… I quite enjoy marking. There. I said it aloud. I know we all moan about marking – grading papers is laborious and can take up a lot of time, especially if you have a lot of students. But actually, there are several aspects of it that I enjoy. One…

February 12, 2017

Patricia Fumerton on Moving Media

At the end of January, I happened to be down in London for a Historical Association committee meeting, so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to go to the London Renaissance Seminar in order to hear Patricia Fumerton talk about ‘Moving Media, Tactical Publics – The British Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England’. I was…

February 4, 2017

Singing Across the Channel

In early January, I was privileged to be invited to speak at the singing across the channel workshop at the University of Kent. I travelled down the morning before the conference, passing through King’s Cross Station on the way. Now, I must have done that before, but I can’t remember ever noticing the architecture in…

January 14, 2017

Oxford Seminar

Back in November, I was privileged to be invited to give a paper at the Oxford University Early Modern Britain Seminar Series. It was a truly amazing experience, not just to give a paper in such opulent surroundings but also in the questions that were raised about my research – as someone who researches mainly…

January 7, 2017

Blended Learning Essentials – Embedding Practice Week 3

Frustratingly, this course is giving me all sorts of ideas that I would love to put into practice but I can’t because the course I teach on isn’t mine. I just hope that by the time I have a post in which I can run my own course and apply these ideas, I haven’t forgotten…

January 6, 2017

Singing Across the Channel Conference, Canterbury

Next week, I will be singing and speaking at the singingacrossthechannel conference in Canterbury. I’ve now finished writing my paper and I’m really looking forward to it, as it gives me the opportunity to carry out an experiment in ballad singing that I think will be quite useful. I’ll tell you more about it soon. The…