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Robbie Moore

@robbiemoore.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.

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more mr. nice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 4d ago

ummm actually the bride of frankenstein is also a doctor. she and viktor met storming out of a conference after realizing the entire panel was in the tank for medical ethics. you're thinking of frankenstein's monster's wife, the frankensteins' monster

Elias Greig@eliasgreig.bsky.social · 4w ago

The sheer depravity of this — whatever has been or will be done to the statues of Lachlan Macquarie — it will never be enough. From Barry Corr's Surveying the Wild Abyss (2026)

The final enactment of Macquarie's triumph took place in the yard of St John's church at Parramatta on 28 December 1816. The Gazette provided a particularly unctuous account of this pioneering model of social engineering. The structure of the feast revolved around gender, hierarchies and a free meal. Aboriginal people, broken into subjects and chiefs, formed a passive foil to the Governor and his entourage. These divisions were reinforced with the awarding of brass plates to the 'chiefs' and presents to the various guides. Mrs Macquarie played an appropriate second fiddle to her husband, arriving to see the stolen and hostage children from the Native Institution paraded before the 'chiefs'. The Governor and his wife were no doubt suitably touched by the tears of Aboriginal women 'at seeing the infant and helpless offspring of their deceased friends, so happily sheltered and protected by British benevolence'.
Elias Greig@eliasgreig.bsky.social · last mo.

Job-Ready Graduates joins multiple other barriers to entry for poor and disadvantaged students to tertiary education at a time when inequalities of wealth and access are accelerating rapidly. This is the opposite of what the party of organised labour should stand for — it's a travesty.

Nearly 20% fewer lower socioeconomic students studying law as Pocock calls to scrap Morrison-era job-ready scheme

Experts say the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme has instead had a ‘devastating impact’ on the very people higher education needs to serve

theguardian.com

becimay@becimay.bsky.social · last mo.

In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year

Robbie Moore@robbiemoore.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thinking about creating a literary theory class where you read Moby-Dick over the length of the semester, with theory readings attached to particular chapters. Except there’s too many options to pair with “A Squeeze of the Hand”.

alice@alicebennett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

the word coward and the word coda have the same etymological root in the word “coe” or tail, and it’s for this reason that if your book has a coda instead of a proper ending then you’re a big wimp and you’ve bottled it