yesterday I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! thank you so much to my examiners @keeblearin.bsky.social and @davidhering.bsky.social for such a great experience! 💫

yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis ✨

institutions cannot afford... unpaid research? until that 'low quality' research becomes lucrative or impactful and then universities will gladly take credit for if it...

I had a great time speaking to some wonderful undergrads about their work decolonising the curriculum, their enthusiasm makes for some great start of term listening ✨

computer, play Tempest by Ethel Cain, loud enough to kill small mammals

I loved recording this with @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, talking about my research and theorising about whether Jane Eyre would be classed as trauma fiction if it were published today.

there's a spider that lives in a hole in my study that comes out when i play ethel cain

girl not now

I had the pleasure of interviewing @paddy-brennan.bsky.social for this episode - a really fascinating dive into food consumption and self-starvation in Irish fiction from Edna O'Brien to Sally Rooney.

i still think about the perfect pen i had when i was seven years old, it was a scented gel pen and its deep blood red ink smelled like cinnamon

you search for vintage bloomers one time a year ago and ads will follow you for the rest of time

what doesn't get talked about enough in the student using AI conversation is that most of them don't really know what it is despite using it, you explain the issues with plagiarism, copyright, the environment, the way it will make your brain atrophy, etc and they are often really shocked

My review of Briony Hannell's brilliant book 'Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr' is now available in Feminist Media Studies ✨ @femmediastudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

i wrote about slop nataliejwall.substack.com/p/a-theory-o...

Can't wait to present my paper exploring online reading communities and emotion-based literary critique at this conference!

I'm sad I couldn't join in person but super excited to give my paper at @officialbaas.bsky.social today!

i guess keir starmer’s dad really was a tool maker and his son was his biggest project

the supreme court ruling actually makes me ill transphobes are absolute freaks and a danger to women, to hell with you

noooo babe I love your freakishly big and square sheep, the normal ones scare me

For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...

Natalie Wall, from @livunienglish.bsky.social, takes a look at the enduring appeal of 'trauma porn' novel 'A Little Life' in today's @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/ten-years-of... #BookSky

for @uk.theconversation.com i explored why A Little Life is seemingly more popular than ever even a decade after it’s release

I’m fascinated by the secondhand trophy economy on eBay. Who is selling old trophies? More to the point, who is buying a trophy someone else won in their under-12s football tournament? Who is the person with a shelf of other peoples trophies? Need to chat.

it’s been over a year but i still regularly think about those nasty wet splatty fireworks on the Harkonnen planet in Dune 2

working on a theory that people like to read A Little Life for the same reasons people liked to watch Jackass

“it was a roman salute!!!!” - someone who didn’t know what a roman salute was eighteen hours ago

was thinking about what 2025’s big manufactured insecurity will be and i think it will be hand ageing, there will be many creams available and some weird procedures, maybe hand filler, and if you don’t get it you’ll have mitts like the crypt keeper

last night i had a sip of guinness and immediately felt it in my shoulder blades what is in that stuff was it the iron going where it’s most needed

dusted off my substack for the new year and started a series on perfume open.substack.com/pub/nataliej...

big shoutout to The Process, love trusting in you

the cold plunge people… something up with them

had a dream where i was served something called the ‘motley breakfast’ which was just a full english but the sausages were knitted and the hash browns were purple

cut myself on a rogue piece of foil and didn’t realise i was bleeding until it smudged in my book, on the plus side i now have a book about a vampire complete with real bloodstains

rizzfinder general

i have few kind thoughts about gladiator 2 but i am glad the monkey from pirates of the caribbean is still getting work

im such a ‘retire to my chambers’ type of gal, when the going gets tough i retire to my chambers, if anyone no one has got me i know my chambers have me

Hades is setting a trap in the English department basement I see

frankincense and myrrh elf bar

when im in a big zoom or teams call that ‘take control’ button calls to me like a cursed amulet

sure, i guess