Excited to say I have a new book chapter out in 'Nationalism and Royal Women in Early Modern England', part of the Queenship and Power series from Palgrave Macmillan. My chapter explores the anti-Scottish nature of Elizabethan propaganda on Mary Queen of Scots. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Mary was a prolific writer who enjoyed producing poetry.

To celebrate the imminent exhibition of Mary Queen of Scots' last letter at Perth Museum, I wrote an article for @uk.theconversation.com about my PhD research into Mary's writing - have a read for my top 5 things you should know! ⬇️ theconversation.com/mary-queen-o...

Had a lovely time today at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social presenting on James’ use of his mother in his English succession 👑 Main takeaway from the day? My aggressive hand gestures whilst presenting…

Great opportunity for queer working-class writers in Glasgow! Deadline tomorrow!!

It's me! After handing over the reins of SGSAH Digital Curator to the wonderful Isabella Shields I can still be found in spirit on the SGSAH Research website as the Featured Researcher for May 🌞 👑

"Woman" is now legally classified as "broodmare," I'm sure this will have absolutely zero long term consequences for reproductive healthcare down the line. After all it's not like anti-trans agitation is part of a far wider far-right, explicitly natalist movement or anything, right?

I wish universities would 'start to ask questions' about how many academic 'leadership' roles they can afford! The proliferation of vice/deputy/pro/associate 'leadership roles' over the last 10-20 years has been quite extraordinary.

Fantastic time at #RSA25 in Boston! Over the moon that my panel ‘Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies at the Jacobean Court’ was a success! So grateful to @emilyhay.bsky.social and @glonsber.bsky.social for their excellent papers - both will also be presenting at @kingjamesconf.bsky.social ! 👑

Had a wonderful time speaking at #RSA2025 this morning alongside @cvspragg.bsky.social and Gabriel Lonsberry on our panel “Keeping Up Appearances: Royal Bodies in Jacobean Britain” (even as a Marian interloper!) 👑

@sgsah.bsky.social is advertising for my replacement as Digital Curator (and for a new Blogger)! Apply to get experience working as part of a great team and to fulfil all your wildest nosey 👃 tendencies in learning about what SGSAH PhD researchers are up to! ✨

'Only 37 per cent of PGRs say they have had the chance to teach or demonstrate, according to the survey, published on 5 December, which received responses from PGRs at 57 UK and four Australian universities.' 1/2

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Here’s a provisional clanjamfry of scholars, novelists, bodies and poets involved in Scottish literature and present on Bluesky. Feel free to comment if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EEXPcA

🚨Calling all Scottish teachers🚨 I've been working with Scottish Book Trust to research the benefits and barriers to using Scots in the classroom, and we want to hear from you! Please complete and share the survey 👇 surveymonkey.com/r/SBT-Scotsi...

Out now: Women Writing Socially In Academia. A joy to be a part of this, and an excuse to write about being annoyed at Taylor Swift in an academic context. It's a belter. Please share widely, order for your libraries and enjoy the compassionate solidarity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The new issue of Scottish Literary Review is out now on Project Muse! There are some excellent essays here by Emily Hay on early modern Scottish women writers, Craig Buchanan on the Sobieski Stuarts and Nuri Batuhan Luleci on Irvine Welsh. Also a bumper crop of reviews 👇 muse.jhu.edu/issue/51851

Brought in 2024 with a 1000-piece Tudors jigsaw puzzle 🧩 My favourite part is obviously Mary making an iconic appearance, but for some reason she’s in demure white rather than martyrs red here 🪓