Now that the ink is dry, it’s a great joy to announce that my book is officially under contract with the good people of Cornell University Press. I’m really elated and honoured to be writing for a press that has done so much for the study of Petrarchan lyric in early modern Europe. More soon!

W. H. Auden.

Ginzburg at Oxford.

Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!

Tomorrow I’ll be in Cambridge giving a talk at the Cambridge Lyric Network (Classics Faculty, 4.30pm). The topic is “Petrarchan Lyric and the Intellectual History of Memory: Dispatches from Early Modern Spain”. Come say hi!

New book out by my colleague (& PhD supervisor) Emma Gilby - on Descartes & the non-human, offering an ecocritical reassessment of Descartes' work & a timely discussion of how his work might help us navigate environmental crises today. Free to download for two weeks! 🌍 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellowship in History 1500-1800 University of Oxford - Oriel College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT630/s...

Today’s working spaces.

Today! Come join us at 4:30!

If you’re attending RSA this week, Pablo García Piñar has put together a very exciting panel on disability, bodily deviance, and poetry in the early modern Hispanic world—Do join us! I’ll be talking about the veteran poetics of the Dutch Revolt #RenSA24 #RSA #SRBHP

These are some crazy acknowledgments

Esto está ya casi...

Aldana, entre Dios y el insomnio.

🚨JOB | Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College | @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social | The Chichele Professor will play a leading role in researching and teaching Medieval History within the Faculty of History | Closes 3 March www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

Sharing this again because, in my experience of being a union branch leader during a massive, year-long onslaught of redundancy consultations, no one ever brought up the problem of the cost allocation death spiral. I wish I'd had this information in my arsenal. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...

[reposted] The storm has broken at Cardiff University. Solidarity to everyone who is going to be affected by leaving the university, or by remaining as part of a substantially weakened workforce. Please join a union.

CFP for the 'Sleeping Well' @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social end-of-project conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Taking place 9-10 June 2025 at JRRI, Manchester. Details on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel... Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!

Around Oxford, this morning.

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

Si no habéis leído aún _The Melancholy Void_ de Felipe Valencia, aquí quizá encontréis razones para hacerlo: www.revistaatalanta.com/index.php/AR...

Quote and tell me: what book are you currently reading which you’d recommend? I’ve been reading Colin Burrow’s Imitating Authors (OUP, 2019). Burrow re-introduces imitatio so lucidly that you’re left asking yourself how on earth you had not realised some of its conclusions before. A great book!

Hello historians! I would like to mention that I have this initiative called the Iberian Colonial Repository, where I am gathering primary sources from archives that are not available online. If you have sources about colonial LatAm from previous projects collecting digital dust, please DM me

I’m really excited about my lecture today.

New milestone: we're 110 now!🔥 Let me know if you want to be added.

We're now 86 strong and growing––Iberianists and Latin Americanists, medieval to contemporary, in literature, culture, film, and history. If you want to be added to the starter pack, give me a shout!

Introducing myself to fellow early modernist and poetry types in here (and waving hi to some longtime friends: hi! hi!) by putting the word out that Amphion has now been published and is out and about in the world! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

of the many successors that emerged from the transformation of the Roman West/ Twitter, some failed quickly (Post/ Ostrogoths), others became insular & technocratic (Mastodon/ Visigoths), yet more became decadent (Threads/ Byzantium), while still others adapted & thrived (Bsky/ Franks) #medievalsky

If you see this and want to join, give me a shout!

I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg

I’m putting together an Iberian & Latin American Studies (literature, film, and history) Starter Pack for those of us migrating from the other site. I’ll be updating the list as more join! go.bsky.app/FQXc4sg