Medievalist with extras. Med Eng Lecturer @ Keble, Oxford. Research on animals, environment, attention and reading. Editor+PI of Ten-Minute Book Club. she/her
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Dr Alexandra Paddock, Keble Lecturer in Old and Middle English @engfac has been shortlisted for the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Award for her initiative - the 'Ten Minute Book Club' 📚
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Amazing news and very well deserved! 👏👏👏🥳 If you haven't come across the Ten-Minute Book Club yet, you can explore all 4 seasons on our website: english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-…
The brilliant Ten Minute Book Club @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @aa_paddock @ShepherdBarr has been shortlisted for the @UniofOxford VC Awards: Community Partnership. @minderoo @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities 4 seasons of fabulous books!
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The brilliant Ten Minute Book Club @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @aa_paddock @ShepherdBarr has been shortlisted for the @UniofOxford VC Awards: Community Partnership. @minderoo @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities 4 seasons of fabulous books!
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And it's open! Prof Marion Turner's #Chaucer exhibition @bodleianlibs Weston Library is now open until April 2024. 'Chaucer Here & Now' explores the many creative responses to Chaucer & asks why this medieval author still fascinates so many people today. english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…
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My entry for Oxford’s @engfac Ten-Minute Book Club is live! Follow the link to read more about Aphra Behn’s critique of colonialism in ‘The Widow Ranter’
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My letter in the @guardian today addressing some misconceptions about the @Right_2Roam debate.
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thinking about the little fox in the fellowship of the ring 🦊
ALT “A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. ‘Hobbits!’ he thought. ‘Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree. Three of them! There’s something mighty queer behind this.’ He was quite right, but he never found out any more about it.”
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So exciting! The new season of the Ten-Minute Book Club launches TODAY! Read an extract from 'Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog' by Margaret Marshall Saunders, the Canadian bestseller written in first-person – or ‘first-dog’ – narrative. #TMBC
We’ve had this in the works for some time so I’m thrilled to kick off season 4 of the @engfac Ten-Minute Book Club with Dr Lauren Cullen on the “first-dog” Canadian novel, Beautiful Joe @TORCHOxford english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-…
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This summer we are celebrating the meaning of gifts, exchanges & the stories we tell about them.
This comp will be in partnership with @bodleianlibs Gifts & Books exhibition @UniofOxford.
Each entrant will receive an e-book special edition anthology!
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ALT Man gifts lady a book image, with text "Competition now open" over the top.
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Delighted to hear that Speculum has made four excellent articles in Critical Race Studies and LGBT+ studies freely accessible to protest the vicious attacks on these disciplines in the US -- and that this also applies to my contribution, forthcoming in the next issue.
ALT The list of five articles made freely accessible for the next six months. Pamela A. Patton, "What did medieval slavery look like? Color, race, and unfreedom in later medieval Iberia"; Katharine Breen, "Personification and Gender Fluidity in the Psychomachia and its Early Reception"; Anna Wilson, "Petrarch's Queer History"; Mohamad Ballan, "Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada"; and "Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages: 500-1300", by me
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This week's Ten-Minute Book Club explores 'The legends of #Mermaids: In folklore, anonymous Ballads, and the work of Rivers Solomon and Monique Roffey'. Includes an intro by Prof Diane Purkiss & links to further resources #TMBC english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-…
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This week the Ten-Minute Book Club explores a speech from ‘The Book of Sir Thomas More’, attributed to #Shakespeare, with intro by Emma Smith. "It reminds us that playwrighting, a term originally coined as an insult, suggests not ‘writing’ but ‘wrighting’" english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-min…
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Never miss the great stories from the Ten-Minute Book Club courtesy of @engfac @aa_paddock @OxHumanities @TORCHOxford
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‘The Cock and the Jasp’ from Morall Fabillis by Robert Henryson
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4-year Career Development Fellowship in English at Keble College, Oxford. Please spread the word! keble.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/
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It was a delight to do this, based on @ERC_TIDE research and commissioned poems by poet Sarah Howe.
Next instalment of the @LitHits1 and @engfac colab Ten-Minute Book Club! Ben Jonson's 1609 opening for a new LDN Shopping Arcade (really) with Sarah Howe's stunning imagining of the voices of Chinese ceramic collections, introduced by Prof @rentravailer english.web.ox.ac.uk/ten-min…
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We're are very happy to announce a new season of the Ten-Minute Book Club! The first instalment explores The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, one of the earliest detective novels. #TMBC #TeachEnglish english.web.ox.ac.uk/article…
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This week's instalment of the Ten-Minute Book Club is 'It Can’t Happen Here' by Sinclair Lewis, a novel which explores implications of creeping fascism and far-right ideologies. Read an extract plus intro by @chelsea_haith. #TMBC #bookclub english.ox.ac.uk/article/it-…
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The Ten Minute Book Club: @engfac Piers Plowman is one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, surviving in many manuscript versions, and preceding and possibly influencing Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. @UniofOxford @OxUniStudents @TORCHOxford
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Satan: His Methods and Malice Baffled by Hannah Allen. The Ten Minute Book Club. @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @OxUniStudents
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The Ten Minute Book Club: It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
@engfac @TORCHOxford @UniofOxford @OxUniStudents
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