Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at Queen Mary University of London @QMUL @QMULSLLF

London, England
Joined March 2018
Off to a great start at @QMULSLLF @QMUL_HSS study day, Creative Visual Methods: Practice Outputs & Engagement led by @bringyourownsun & @rach_randall. Workshops coming up from @filmstudiesff & @andreabcdeffff. Here's Ru Danreuther, BLOC Venue Manager, showing the brilliant venue
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A fascinating research seminar at @QMUL_HSS @QMULSLLF @QMULCompLit from Richard Mason on Freinet and institutional psychotherapy, and from Jean Duffy on Dubuffet's art and experimental 'jargon' texts. And some beautiful slides too!
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Check out this brilliant new issue of @ParagraphEUP on Difficulty's Knots: Disturbance, Untimeliness, Risk, edited by @QMULCompLit's @kasiamika1 & Richard Mason. With fantastic, cross-period articles & an open access intro from Kasia & Richard --> euppublishing.com/toc/para/4…
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Congratulations👏to our v own Hannah Scott Deuchar who's won a @BritishAcademy_ @LeverhulmeTrust SR Grant for her project The Arabic Typewriter: Towards a Global History. Read early work from this brilliant project on 20thC Arabic culture, politics & tech: tinyurl.com/4ku7r9ps
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To read more about Hannah's terrific research, check out her @QMULSLLF @QMULCompLit page at qmul.ac.uk/sllf/comparative-…
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Really looking forward to talking with @HollyERyan about my book on Wednesday next week (details below). All are welcome! @ModLangQMUL @QMULSLLF @CRoLACqmul @SLASLatAm
Join Dr Rachel Randall for the launch of her book PAID TO CARE: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture on 20th March at Queen Mary University of London. More details here: qmul.ac.uk/sllf/modern-langu… @rach_randall @HollyERyan @UTexasPress @QMUL
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Wishing Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslim staff, students and alumni in our community. 🌙
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Are you free over lunch on Thurs 4 April & in London? Come to @QMULSLLF's exciting research seminar, 'Pedagogy, Psychotherapy & Creative Practice in 20th-C France', 12.30-2pm. With Prof Jean Duffy @EdinburghUni & Dr Richard Mason @QMUL sign up: tinyurl.com/59djab6b Plz share!
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With discussion of major figures in the worlds of pedagogy, psychiatry and the arts in 20th-century France, including Jean Dubuffet, Frantz Fanon, Élise and Célestin Freinet, and François Tosquelles. It promises to be a brilliant afternoon, all welcome.
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Make your masters dream a reality with scholarships worth up to £4,000 🎓 Find out more at our Masters Open Day on Thursday 21 March (on campus and online) 👉 bit.ly/42YS72M
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Are you a school, college or 6th form with students in Years 10-13 interested in taking languages, literature, linguistics or film at uni? @QMUL has some great FREE ONLINE Taster Sessions coming up. eg Comparative Literature: 20 March 5-6pm. Sign up! --> qmul.ac.uk/sllf/outreach/
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Tagging in case of interest to any students at @newhamsixthform @ClaptonGA @LewishamCollege @newhamcollege @Leyton6thForm @StepneyAS @StokeySchool @sns_library @CFGSchool Come and join us at @QMULSLLF, we're a lovely bunch, honest!
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Parts of an essay I wrote for @BritishAcademy_ @HEPI_news report, 'The Lives of ECRs', picked up by @timeshighered. How to get in & get on in academia? But crucially, how to get OVER a PhD? Hell, it's tough. But it needs money, support, honesty & time timeshighereducation.com/new…
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Brilliant @playingpoetry_ workshop for the Serious Literary Play module kids @QMULCompLit led by fantastic @cassettewitch & @antoshwojcik We played as footwear, lived + died in poem-games, we word boggled, we writhed...We pondered choice, play, literature. BIG THX 2 Nick & Antosh
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Fantastic postdoc opportunity at QM! From 2024-2026, a new project on peer research and young people aims to generate toolkits and resources for academics to recruit, train and meaningfully collaborate with young researchers and their intermediaries (such as teachers).
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Calling all secondary schools and colleges! Are you looking to diversify your GCSE and A Level English Literature curriculum? We’re offering 100 schools and colleges access to set texts by BAME writers, teaching resources, CPD and more, all free of charge. Applications now open.

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Did you catch @QMUL Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture, Kiera Vaclavik @kieraqm on In Our Time @BBCRadio4 @BBCInOurTime, talking all things Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, and how we read and write the experience of childhood? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w7f…
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Looking forward to the launch of Adhira Mangalagiri's 'States of Disconnect: China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century'. Tonight 5pm Senate House! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/states… @QMUL_HSS @QMULSLLF
Tomorrow, 5pm at Senate house, looking forward to launch of an exciting and important new monograph by @QMULCompLit colleague Adhira Mangalagiri ‘States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century'. A Book Discussion ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/states…
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Based in London? Go to this book discussion, featuring some of my favorite people: the author, Dr Adhira Mangalagiri (QMUL), in conversation with Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford), Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE), and Professor Francesca Orsini (SOAS) ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/states…
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