Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present edited by @dianagbarnes.bsky.social & @katieebarclay.bsky.social explores how letters have served as powerful tools for expressing, performing & shaping emotional experiences across cultures & historical contexts https://bit.ly/3IZVdhG

Look what the postman delivered today: Emotions and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury 2025) www.bloomsbury.com/au/emotions-...

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Delighted to report that my article on Mme de Sévigné’s letters has been published in special issue on Forum for Modern Language Studies edited by Valentina Gosetti and Giulia Torello Hill. And it’s Open Access. academic.oup.com/fmls/advance...

Correcting proofs of my article on letters, emotions and separation for the excellent volume on Letters and Emotions edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social all DONE!!

Last night I was honoured to receive a prize for my 2020 essay “Animal-human compassion: structures of feeling in dark pastoral”. Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 4.1 (2020): 183-208. This was my response to the emotional devastation of drought and fire in 2019.

Each year my father makes a birthday card for me. Here’s this year’s. Reckon I’m 19 or 20 in this snap.