Look who popped over! The wonderful @lusignanmermaid.bsky.social (a former PhD student of mine, now doing great things as a Leverhulme ECF in Oxford), with a copy of her book #Motherhood and its Spaces in #Medieval #Romance! A must read! Thank you, Kirsty, and big congratulations! 🎉❤️

Look what arrived! Actual physical copies of my book! It’s so pretty 💕 As with any academic book, this has been quite a while in the making and wouldn’t have been possible without the support and expertise of so many amazing people. Thank you!

News! The submission deadline for www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... has been extended to 15th Jan! It would be amazing to see you there and hear about the brilliant watery research that you're doing. My sessions are 134, 162, and 174 - please join me!

Meet my new (& newly landed in my postbox) friend, Medieval Twitter in PAPERBACK!!! Get your own fine flippable friend from @archumanities.bsky.social for the low(ish) price of £29.95 👉https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781942401957/medieval-twitter/

Another call for abstracts for our sessions at the UArctic Congress in May. It's on the Faroe Islands and I'm really excited! Deadline for abstracts 15/12/25 medieval.ox.ac.uk/uarctic-cong...

If you’re interested in Environmental Humanities, the Arctic, medieval lit/hist, or indigenous populations, submit an abstract for my sessions at the UArctic Congress in Torshavn in May! Sessions 134, 162, and 174 www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca...

Spread the word about this brand new Masters in Public Environmental Humanities with me and The Greenhouse crew in Norway. For those outside of EU, registration is in second half of November, so don’t miss it!

Copyeditors are wonderful!

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

Thank you, Rachel and the amazing GMS community. This was an brilliant experience, as was the whole wonderful conference.

I just made my very first edit to @wikipedia.org in Fran and Lucy’s #MedievalWiki workshop @themamoconf.bsky.social #DigitalSkillz

My proposal has been accepted for the New Chaucer Society congress in Freiburg next July! Who all else is going, #MedievalSky?

MAMO is this week! I’m so excited for so many amazing papers and workshops reflecting on how medieval research interacts with the modern world.

I’ve started my PowerPoint for my ECR plenary at GMS in a few weeks 😂 🧜🏽‍♀️ Disclaimer: there are no actual mermaids in the paper. Yet. @medievalgender.bsky.social

I read a lovely book and wrote about it in the fantastic Medieval Feminist Forum: scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol60/is...

Perhaps naively, I believe that most people think they are doing the right thing within their value system. But bloody hell, Starmer, give your head a wobble. You’re sorely testing this belief right now.

Feeling the love for my Catholic homies atm.

I’ve braved the @socmedfem.bsky.social gathering and there is not a single person I recognise. Going to drink my pint quickly and go find pizza. Social anxiety core.

On the train to @kzooicms.bsky.social and I think I’ve sat on the wrong side to see the lake. Actual woe.

@kzooicms.bsky.social Quick Q: how often are the shuttles from downtown to campus? Thanks 😊

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝 Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out! 🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

Today’s mission: trying to find out if Chaucer ever went to Northumberland.

Very excited to share that registration for the 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World (MAMO) conference is now open! 24-26 June, London. Over 100 speakers will present on the reception of the medieval world across a variety of panels, keynotes, events, performances. Take a look: themamo.org

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

I submitted my monograph manuscript (again) today. I hope that I’ve cracked it this time. Who knew that writing books is pretty hard work?

Bibliography Q: do I list authors with two last names under the first or second last name? So, does Caroline Walker Bynum go in W or B? I seem to have done it both ways and need consistency.

So many lovely faces on screen for the launch of @laurakalas.bsky.social and Roberta Magnani’s wonderful new book, Women in Christianity in the Medieval Age 💕

Flights and hotel booked for #kzoo2025 @kzooicms.bsky.social ! Eager much?! 😂

I’m going to make my children badges that say “I own a coat and mum did tell me to wear it.” But if I can’t convince them to wear a coat, they probably won’t wear the badges.

Can anyone else simply not work with music on? I am formatting footnotes, so thought I’d pop Spotify on, but my brain just can’t do it. I have to work in silence.

This is not a drill!!! 25% off the hardcopy and 50% off the ebook if you order from @archumanities.bsky.social site 👉 Code ARC24 for 25% off hardcopy 👉 Code EPB50 for 50% off ebook Discount valid till end of year! Run, don't walk, etc www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195...

MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish

In romaunce as we rede…

So, who’s going to #kzoo25? #ICMS25

I’ve just had an article published and they sent me author copies! Surprise book post is even better when you’re in it ❤️📚

Got myself some brogues to be a proper academic! Simon says they should be brown, though, so maybe I’m not quite there yet 😂

What wonderful conferences are happening in the next academic year to do with Middle English romance and/or the sea? I want to use my research budget wisely, meeting new colleagues and learning exciting new things! #medievalbluesky #LeverhulmeECF

Hoping for the 'heatwave' to continue, so you can splash into our panel and workshop on Blue Medievalisms @IMC_Leeds on Monday afternoon.

Incredibly excited that I’ve been awarded a Leverhulme ECF to do research on Intersectional Identities and Migration by Sea in Middle English Romance with Marion Turner at Oxford. I can’t wait to get started!

I'm having an exciting #academicpublishing week. I received page proofs for my upcoming article in Studies in Philology, and Lauren Sisson and I have submitted the manuscript of our edited collection Motherhood in the Medieval World to Brepols! #medievalbsky #ECRlife

My @LeverhulmeTrust ECF application has been submitted and now there is nothing to do but wait and hope, but not be too hopeful! #ECRlife #medievalbluesky

Reading pre-submission feedback that refers to my application as “an extremely engaging and effective case” and feeling a bit giddy but also trying not to get my hopes up. Must continue to assume that I will fail! #ECFapps #ECRlife

So emotionally drained this week, but I can't wait to share my CFP for my Politicised Nostalgias workshop! Should be going on our website soon so I'll have a proper link for you. But here's a little teaser of what I'm looking for! Lots of scope for you to think beyond that too.

I would really love any tips or advice for my Leverhulme ECF application. I think it's pretty strong, but it can be stronger! Looking for those incremental gains, please 😘 #medievaltwitter #ECRchat

First rejection of the new year in my inbox today. No British Academy postdoc for me. Oh well. On to the next!

It’s one of those days where going to the Post Office and rearranging the plants on my desk is going to have to count as productive, because I haven’t done anything on my to do list so far.

Trying to decide if I can justify two back to back conferences this summer, which I’d have to self fund and be away for over a week. The mum/wife guilt is intense.