Just a few things we’re devouring at the moment⚡️ @markabowles.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @matthew-rice.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
Amélie Doche
@ladoche.bsky.social
PhD'ing: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture at Birmingham City University | Beaujolaise at heart 🍇
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🚨 New Cambridge Element 🚨 "Colour Concepts from a Linguistic and Literary Perspective" by @kpager1.bsky.social, Suzanne McClure, & @ladoche.bsky.social is out now and free to read for the next 2 weeks! https://cup.org/4pIbCqn #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
Want to do a (funded for UK students) PhD with me? If you're interested in games, posthumanism, avatars, affect, embodiment or any of the other stuff I do (or my colleagues do for that matter) take a look! www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #PhDfunding #PhDstudentship #AHRC #DoctoralFunding #GameStudies
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very exciting for this #sharp2025 panel Therapeutic Uses of the Book Amélie Doche, "Immediacy, Self-Help, and 'Feel-Good': Hegemonic Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture'
Wow! I won the SHARP Book History Prize for my last book with Stanford University Press, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History!
If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon! #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social
Printing a broadside at #sharp2025 This is a reproduction of The North Star, 1848 from Frederick Douglas, originally printed about a mile away in Rochester, NY.
Hello everyone! I am attending #sharp2025 and I have permission to tweet the first panels today. Up first is Anastasia Armendariz who is presenting about Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections. If I tweet, it will be in a thread here.
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Fantastic reading at STORIE by @vocebooks.bsky.social in Birmingham. Featuring local writers. Live this thriving literary scene✨ Forgot to take pics during the readings because they were too good so here’s the, ah, afterdrinks 🍻
I was on my boat late last night & thought I heard a scrabbling noise coming from outside. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye & looked up to see a fox had come through my open boat hatch & was climbing into my bed!
Some audio recordings of translations of four of my short poems into French, with thanks to Claire Majola and Amélie Doche jonathandavidson.net/a-commonplac...
A Commonplace – The Everyday Reader
Friends and neighbours have very kindly recorded versions of almost all of the poems by Jonathan Davidson from A Commonplace. And some lovely people have translated some of the poems into languages…
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Today I (Roya) am at @writingwestmids.bsky.social National Writers Conference, where I've already been inspired and informed more than I could have imagined.
This morning's reading😍 "forcing replication based on a foreign (quantitative) notion of research quality into qualitative research communities can be seen as epistemic trespassing: infringing on local principles of proper (non-positivist and non-realist) qualitative research" osf.io/preprints/so...
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I’m truly grateful I got to present my research on feel-good literature, ME/CFS recovery discourses, and neoliberalism for the Gloucestershire Philosophical Society yesterday. Great questions kept flowing at the pub and even into my inbox. A powerful (and needed) reminder that my research matters!
Have you read Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard yet? An intimate #poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Now with limited UK FREEPOST https://buff.ly/3RqRH0R
What a fantastic programme! 👏🏼. Looking forward to tuning in online!
BAAL Health & Science SIG@baal-health-sig.bsky.social · last yr.We are delighted to confirm our #2025 Workshop series: Inequalities, inclusion and innovation. In person @lancslinguistics.bsky.social on 21/03/25 and online on 25/03/25. Plenaries @elenasemino.bsky.social & @fmfederici.bsky.social All welcome: register via website - baalhealthsci.wordpress.com
#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.
2 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.
Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction
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This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
Head of School (School of English) at University of Sheffield
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We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
Toolkit launched to support young women with body image
A toolkit designed to promote a positive body image among young people in Portsmouth has been launched.
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Another great morning of presentations at #QRS2025 day two! A beautiful keynote from Prof. Sarah Neal exploring her use of poetry as qualitative rigour and “amplifying what is already there”. Incredibly moving work!
Had a lovely time giving the keynote at #QRS2025! In it, I shared 3 big hot-takes: 1. Open science is not new (see: the work of feminist scholars for decades) 2. It is not open to all (see: bropen science) 3. Open science could be transformative for qualitative research
