My book on poetry & suicide isn't out until April with @manchesterup.bsky.social, but you can pre-order it 25% off from @waterstones.bsky.social this week only. The idea of it as a real book is still scary, so I'm reassured by the thought of it in friends' hands.

www.waterstones.com/book/the-poe...

So pleased with the cover MUP came up with for this tough book. In it, Ophelia’s offstage death is an exemplar of the poetry-like ambiguities around every suicide.

Out in April, but pre-order-able now from the usual places & @manchesterup.bsky.social: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191991/

"We need to lead the design of data systems, not the other way round."

📝 A short blog post from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab on last week's QUEER DATA SHOWCASE in Edinburgh. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/quee...

Smiths in York Station looking Pride-ready as I head to Edinburgh today for a talk in this very exciting Queer Data Showcase 🏳️‍🌈 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

🎺Announcing the fantastic lineup of speakers for the Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School in Vienna from July 14-18, 2024 (Part 1)!! 🥁

More info: lnkd.in/ged32uZg

#irishstudies #summerschool

Mini-festival today for PhD students @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social - immediately fascinated in a session on careers outside academia to see some actual (rare) data on this, showing Humanities PhDs are most likely to move into ‘other occupations’.

Looking forward to this first-of-its-kind #QueerDataShowcase in Edinburgh, 5 June - a lovely bunch of artists, academics, and activists playing with queer data in different ways. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-queer-...

Thanks, yes, I’ve been playing Chopin forever but he also remains elusive in a way I appreciate. We’ll see how Valldemossa affects that!

Oh, I love this! Thank you. I’m researching something I’ll write about Chopin and ‘Nothing in her books could make him well’ will be fixed in my head now.

Thanks! Yes, the dialogue between the text and footnotes is hilarious at times. I’m really looking forward to the spooky cell and everything Sand describes so conflictedly!

Preludes to a Mallorcan pilgrimage.