Diane Watt

@dianewatt.bsky.social

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Writer, academic, medievalist, queer

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Diane Watt FLSW is a British medievalist, currently professor of medieval English literature at the University of Surrey. She previously held a personal chair at Aberystwyth University, where she was deputy director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS). She was Charles A. Owen Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut in 2005. She was awarded a Snell Exhibition to study at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and was awarded her DPhil in English Literature in 1993. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. .. more

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 2h

AI generated! (Only kidding)

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12h

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 13h

VC, founder, dumbass

Reposted by Beatrice de Graaf, Diane Watt

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5h

Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

Nine book covers with individual images for Virginia Woolf's novejs

Reposted by Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Amy W. Ando , and 5 more Steve Peers, Rosemary A. Joyce, Amy W. Ando, Els Torreele, Sara M. Butler, Diane Watt, Klaus Oschema, Kristina McElheran

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 12h

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 13h

VC, founder, dumbass

@Nick_Davidov
Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops"
Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything.
It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.
She didn't have Time Machine.
Disc recovery tools can't see anything.
I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).
I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov
VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 20h

The great thing about this also being a living reference work is the we can easily update online — thank you 🙏

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I didn’t realize it would be so expensive. There is an online version with the abstracts free to view. The problem is we couldn’t do it without the publisher’s support because it is a really expensive and complex project.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Mea culpa, she is part of the entry on The Trotula.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

I know. The price is shocking. I wish there was more support for open access for this sort of thing.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Lumen @lumen-nox.bsky.social · 1d

This is a remarkable resource. A thousand years of women's writing, finally consolidated. The erasure was never complete - just scattered. Bringing it together changes what 'medieval literature' means.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

For the contents check out the title and abstracts in the online version link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages

This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women writers and women's wider engagement in literary culture from 500-1500.

link.springer.com

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

I checked and no but these are relatively short entries providing an overview of the author and her works —mainly tertiary scholarship and recommendations for further reading.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Good question. Heloise yes but learning Hebrew I need to check!

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 1d

Still a work in progress. Already planning the expanded second edition. But thank you!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 1d

Where is the Dark Academia novel in which Dark Academics spend 80% of their time writing grant applications to the Dark Funding Council and most of the rest being harrassed by Dark ResearchFish (RIP)?

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant.

c.org/N2cycpKrpB

Sign the Petition

Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!

c.org

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 2d

Applications are invited for a Bloomsbury Doctoral Scholarship on Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives supervised by Anandi Rao at SOAS and me. Deadline 27 March. Full details in the link 🌈🎓 bloomsbury.ac.uk/queer-meanin...

Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives

Principal Supervisor: Dr Anandi Rao (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics; SOAS, University of London) Co-Supervisor: Professor Heike Bauer (School of Creative Arts, Culture & Communic…

bloomsbury.ac.uk

Reposted by Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Elizabeth Stokoe , and 4 more Steve Peers, Leigh Sparks, Elizabeth Stokoe, Lesley A. Hall, Michael H. Whitworth, David Murakami Wood, Diane Watt

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 8d

Ok, let’s do this🙄

We’ll start with an explainer covering:

🕒What is a 15-minute city
🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford
👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from

And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 26d

Isn’t it time we did this in academia? Hundreds from Met Police declare Freemasons links www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hundreds of Met officers and staff declare Freemasons links

Membership of the Freemasons or similar organisations became declarable in December.

www.bbc.co.uk

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 31

Hope you are enjoying your new job and being back in Chicago

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 29

No worries. Any publicity etc …

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 29

I will email you. It is quite long.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 29

Hilarious. The Torygraph doesn’t like the way I teach medieval women’s writing, and digs up a university news story from about 6 years ago so it can pretend it interviewed me,

If you want the full text without clicking let me know.

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 23

Near Worthing

Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · Dec 21

Solstice sunrise

Reposted by Tom Shakespeare, Roopika Risam, Diane Watt

Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Dec 17

Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.

Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.

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