Jane Ford
@janeford.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
It's up! You can book! My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May! 'Transformations of the Gothic' Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Thrilled to be giving the keynote for Teesside University's MA English Literature Graduate Conference, what a great lineup! Message me for the Teams link if you'd like to join us. @janeford.bsky.social @drsallybd.bsky.social @scmc.bsky.social @robbhawkes.bsky.social @bradders953.bsky.social
Pre-ordered @clarepaterson.bsky.social’s book on Annie Besant a while back. Lovely surprise on my doorstep this morning - can’t wait to read it!
Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg. @vpfa.bsky.social
On 22/6 I’m taking part in the Richmond Aquathlon to raise funds for My Sister’s Place—an amazing charity supporting people affected by domestic abuse. It’s not a long event but feels pretty epic to me 😅. If you can spare a few pennies I’d really appreciate it: justgiving.com/page/jane-fo...
Jane's fundraiser for My Sisters Place
Help Jane Ford raise money to support My Sisters Place
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A few images of, and comments about, our Community Curated exhibition at Preston Park. Please do take a look & leave a comment to let us know what you think! www.deliberateink.org/blog-deliber...
Community Curated: Preston Park Exhibition — Deliberate Ink
On the 7th of April this year, we installed a small (but hopefully impactful!) exhibition featuring some of the protest posters created by our brilliant participants.
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Just finished Rachel Holmes’s biography of Eleanor Marx—equal parts outrage (on M’s behalf) and awe at her brilliance. It’s a book that will stay with me for a long time.
Went to the Women in Revolt exhibition with my lovely mum and it was epic 🔥
Lovely to receive the latest edition of @victstudies.bsky.social which features my review of Meg Dobbins’s excellent volume, “Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature”.
It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!
Delighted to be presenting a research paper as part of Anglia Ruskin’s Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Print Culture series. Please do come along if you can and check out the schedule here: nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/s...
Seminar series: Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’
This semester, we are continuing with our series of talks on the theme of ‘Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’. These talks will take place on MS TEAMS and a calendar invite will be sen…
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A reminder of the great lineup for Teesside University's English & Creative Writing Research Seminar Series ... next up we have PhD student Georgia Dalton from Northumbria University presenting on grassroots theatre and the women's liberation movement. Wed 15th Jan at 2pm UK time on Teams
My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press! academic.oup.com/book/58989 It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.
Looking through some old family documents and found my great, great grandmother’s apprenticeship contract from 1876. She worked in enamelling at Minton pottery and earned 2 shillings per week.
Today was the first day of our Level 5 “Representation and Cultural Identity” student conference. We were blown away by their amazing papers and thoughtful discussion. Ridiculously proud of them ⭐️
Final workshop of the first phase of our “Deliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org
Read Orbital with the ISS live feed on in the background & feel like I’ve had some sort of out of body experience. Incredibly sad that it’s over 😭 @samharveyauthor.bsky.social
At present, we are analyzing the manufactured funding crisis & austerity in the neoliberal British higher ed system. We will soon publish an open letter calling for robust & creative public alternatives to the current order. Stay tuned! 🙌
Labour set to ditch pledge for free university tuition, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer said his party was "likely to move on" from its previous policy of scrapping fees.
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Spent a really special hour exploring artefacts relating to the history of women’s suffrage on Teesside as part of Teesside Archives’ Sisterwood series. Thanks so much for organising this!
Our very talented PhD students @smdsmith.bsky.social & Liv Bird are organising TU’s English & Creative Writing Research seminar series. Check out this fabulous line-up & msg j.ford@tees.ac.uk to be added to any of the Teams invites. @drsallybd.bsky.social @bradders953.bsky.social @scmc.bsky.social
Still buzzing after y’days being human workshop on Memorialising Middlesbrough’s Women. The participants had loads of amazing ideas and co-produced this stunning visualisation capturing their discussion on gender bias in public art. @beinghumanfest.bsky.social @drsallybd.bsky.social
If you’re interested in @RachelReevesMP decision to replace a portrait of Nigel Lawson with one of Ellen Wilkinson, do sign up for our Being Human fest event. It’s about the memorialisation of women like Wilkinson in Middlesbrough beinghumanfestival.org/events/memoria… @beinghumanfest.bsky.social
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North East people, I’m running this event as part of Teesside’s Being Human festival hub. Please do share - it’s totally free and should be a fun and interesting: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/memor...
Memorialising Middlesbrough’s Women
Ellen Wilkinson was elected Labour MP for Middlesbrough in 1924, the only woman voted in during the general election that year. Throughout her life ‘Red Ellen’ was active in securing the rights of wom...
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Delighted to say my book, Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, is officially released today! 🧛Book reviews editors, I’d be delighted to arrange review copies. Also 20% discount code for anyone considering asking their academic library to purchase.
Author copies of my book have arrived! Many mixed emotions but delighted to see it in print, finally!
So delighted that Teesside are going to be a Being Human hub! You can see a preview here. Full details revealed in Oct! www.beinghumanfestival.org/news/2024-be... Congrats @drsallybd.bsky.social
2024 Being Human Festival Programme Preview
From Parisian vaudeville entertainment, to Punch and Judy with a twist, discover some of what's coming up this November as part of Being Human Festival 2024.
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