Final preparations for Tuesday's lecture! I am so lucky that I get to deliver this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture - and at Craiglockhart (and online) out of all places! If you are in Edinburgh, do come say hello - you can sign up via the link below

Just finished my first full rehearsal for this and I am buzzing! There are still some tickets left for both online and in-person attendance, just use the link below. And if you're joining us in Edinburgh, let me know and we can organise a FWW meet-up ahead of the lecture? I'd love to meet more ECRs!

Almost the final call if you want to attend the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture by @juliarsct.bsky.social nect week on Tuesday 11th November! There are a few tickets left for either in person or online attendance and you can access them through the eventbrite in the message below. 🗃️

The Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture will be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social next week! There are still some tickets left available to attend either in person or online. So if interested, check out the Eventbrite link in the quoted message. 🗃️

Quick reminder that this is 3 weeks today! Please sign up if you haven't already - in-person and online.

Briefly emerging from my maternity leave bubble to invite you to my lecture in 11th November about what (French) poetry did during the First World War. You can register to attend in-person or online via the link below

Not a story I tell very often, but my first contact with French poetry, which I now study for a living, happened through Black Sabbath. I had just turned 15, it was the year before the last at school. I skipped a few days and when I came back the literature teacher said I had missed an assignment...

Having a blast at Back to the Beginning, Black Sabbath's final gig! And since today is all about celebrating the birth of Heavy Metal, you can catch me talking about the genre and the First World War here ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk/podcast/heav...

@frenchstudies.bsky.social conference looked a bit different for me this year, but left with so many ideas of where to go with my project on the tirailleurs sénégalais! Also, I have to say SFS were a 10/10 for being inclusive and accommodating my heavy pregnancy!

Book proofs and indexing finally done and this baby is now back with the editor for printing! Hoping for a publicatin in early 2026 🤞

Very excited for the @frenchstudies.bsky.social conference next week, where I'll be presenting my new project about poetry by tirailleurs sénégalais! Here is a teaser in case you're there and want to come to the Coloniality and Commemoration panel (4.6) on Tuesday!

Out of everything that is wrong with the academic publishing industry, surely the fact that T&F's paper can't even handle highlighters is one to be complained about...

Been dying to write about Nakamura's gig at the Paris Opening Ceremony and about rap galsen about the tirailleurs, and now it's finally happening! Not that my brain is in any capacity to do it, but having fun anyway!

In spite of myself, I seem to be engaging quite a lot with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - currently writing my third piece in this area 😱 two of them were edited by Ann-Marie Einhaus and Catriona Pennel, and I can't thank them enough for their support!

Finally went to see I'm Still Here. It is a beautiful portrayal of how the military dictatorship in Brasil invaded households and impacted families. This is a film to bring ppl together: if you are pro-family/conservative, you are on our side: to protect families is to fight against dictatorships!

This was just such a wonderful event in the end. Hopefully the audience got as much out of it as myself, @juliarsct.bsky.social & @amfoster.bsky.social did!

Heading home from this and it was amazing! It is a privilege to be able to discuss Chris's work but we also covered some serious historiographic questions. Meeting up with friends to talk about Star Wars, History and writing and still being able to call it work? Definitely a win!

Very much looking forward to this next week! We'll be talking writing practices, archives, and positionality - with a reflexive freedom that only a galaxy far far away allows! Public historians and those interested in historiography, this one is for you! SW fans welcome, of course!

Delighted to announce that today is my first day as a postdoctoral research associate of the TACTICS project at Lille! The project focuses on antiracist strategies in the US from the 19th c. to the present. You can learn more about it here: ceraps.univ-lille.fr/recherches-e...

Let's see if this network can work its magic. I know someone in France doing a translation MA English-French, and he needs to complete a 1-month unpaid internship in an English-speaking country this summer, not necessarily related to translation, but in the general cultural/academic sector. Leads?

Heading back home with nearly 7.5k archive photos and a warm and fuzzy feeling having seen so many friends and colleagues! That's a wrap on my 2 weeks in Paris - next up I'll be presenting my research at Derby Quad's Research Cafe in January!

Exactly one year ago today I passed my viva. Today, I'm back on campus and at La Contemporaine for the first day of a new research project, thanks to the @asmcf.bsky.social Early Career Award

As I wait for the Eurostar, I'm reaping the first rewards of having taken the plunge and moved here from the other place... thank you @sjvigneault.bsky.social for the book recommendation!

Taking advantage of the full day on trains to finish this baby! And if you are wondering about all the tabs, don't forget that Ann-Marie Foster and myself will be in conversation with @chriskempshall.bsky.social about this book in London on 26/03/2025 www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...

On my way to Paris thanks to the generosity of @asmcf.bsky.social and their Early Career Award. I do encourage all ECRs in French to apply next year!

Let me take this opportunity to remind you that FWW Studies, a journal of @fwwsoc.bsky.social, is always looking for interesting new submissions.

Dear BlueSky, please hook me up with cultural historians of health, environment, and science. Animals, bodies, collections, medicine, natural history. Thank you!

Vous l'attendiez toutes et tous (ou pas), le 1er pack #ESR #HelloESR pour se retrouver, se reconnecter et dire tout le bien que l'on pense de l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche 🇫🇷 Je sais que j'ai oublié plein de monde, n'hésitez pas à me demander pour que je vous rajoute go.bsky.app/AtMn3Ti

There is another starter pack focusing on #FWW historians! A bit of overlap with the one I created, but some different people as well, so make sure to check both of them out!

This is such a wonderful database! It fills me with hope to see other paths out there, and I can't wait to further explore it!

The historical journal "Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales" is on Bluesky ! Please follow our news on this account.

as they say on football-transfer-market twitter 🚨🟤Here we go! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Not sure if this had been made before, so here it is! go.bsky.app/JqWTGYN Message me if you want to be included or removed, and make sure you share it with your Bluesky network!

A starter pack for French Studies: go.bsky.app/KLzQfpg

So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined. If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2

I send the original to @mjcrockett.bsky.social yesterday saying we should write a rebuttal though neither of us have time, and then VOILÀ!! We need MORE of this! MORE responses from academics, more shaming, more fighting against the broligarchy's shameless grift on universities!

Today was outlining day for book 1.5 (still about my thesis, but a different discipline and language to book 1), and I had two ways of getting inspired: read historians I admire and looked at how they outline their work, but also wrote my book as a literary short story 1/

Post novo no blog Ferramentas para Doutorandar ! O conjunto de ferramentas para doutorandar de hoje é, na verdade, algo para se pensar só no fim do doutorado: elas vão te ajudar a transformar sua tese em livro. ferramentasparadoutorandar.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/c...

Yesterday I got rejected from a job I really wanted. Today I submitted my book manuscript. I will probably get more whiplash concussions from academia than I did from rugby.

wo of my favourite colleagues + Star Wars? It was not hard to say yes to this.. though tbh we will be discussing the more historiographical aspects than actual #StarWars (I WILL be wearing a Star Wars t-shirt though!). Do come along and listen to the wonderful Chris!

Temos post novo no blog: alguns conceitos de gestão de projetos que você precisa conhecer durante o doutorado para conseguir se comunicar com administradores acadêmicos das agências de fomento e financiamento. ferramentasparadoutorandar.wordpress.com/2024/10/25/5...

Aproveitando o grande número de brasileiros que agora estão por aqui para divulgar um post novo no meu blog! Ta se sentindo perdido depois da tese? Aqui eu tenho cinco ferramentas para te ajudar! ferramentasparadoutorandar.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/c... #phd #AcademicChatter #doutorado

Surgery recovery done right!

Artigo em portugues saindo do forno! Como história digital desafiou cânones da Primeira Guerra mundial? 👉 periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/lo... if you want to know how digital History helped challenge poetic canonicity during the 100th of the #FWW, I'm sure Google Translate can help you 😁

The latest issue of First World War Studies is out now! after last volume's legal-political special issue this is a range of fascinating cultural history approaches covering advertising, ballet, music hall & poetry in the US, France, the UK & the Sinai/Negev! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/1...

In bed for a while and SO glad that Tolkien's poems have gotten here to keep me distracted! Also delighted to see that my conceptualisation of "poets under fire" (the idea that war poetry is characterised not by being in harm's way but by feelings) is shared by other scholars!

It's this beauty's birthday today and when mummy is away the cat will play - by climbing the Sandman volumes that prop up daddy's computer... I'm sure @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com will appreciate this alternative use of his work 😻 happy birthday to the sweetest Violet

Inky fingers as I prep these babies for my "3d poster" at the @WarEphemera conference! If you're in Newcastle for the conference today and tomorrow, come and say hello and test some #FWW writing instruments! Also, what ink should I bring for the dip pen?

Had a lovely time at the School of Advanced Studies' Digital Humanities Research Hub learning about #LancsBoxX from Vaclav Brezina! Can't wait to test it on a corpus of French poets of the #FWW!

Happy World Poetry Day! Joyeuse Journée Internationale de la Poésie! I am so lucky that my job is reading poetry! Et si vous voulez fêter cette journée et le Printemps des Poètes avec moi, venez à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre ce dimanche!