The summer seems a long way away now, but very much looking forward to presenting a creative-critical paper titled 'The Phoenix Speaks: An Eco-Creative Response to an Old English Allegory' at the Leeds IMC (@imc-leeds.bsky.social) next year #IMC2026

Submitted my paper abstract for next year's Leeds IMC 🤞.

PowerPoint done ✔️ Paper printed ✔️ Now for the packing... 🙁 #IMC2025

... and speaking on a round table about the franks casket #IMC2025

Looking forward to the Leeds IMC next week! I'll be presenting a creative-critical paper in one of the medieval ecocriticisms panels... #IMC2025 @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Made a bit of time this morning to prepare my paper and handout for this:

Proofs! Nearly there with this long-in-the-making creative-critical piece:

Very much looking forward to our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session on rereading and retranslating Old English creatively and collaboratively... #IMC2025

This new postmedieval article of mine will blend creative translation with critical commentary, transposing elegies into riddles to compose more-than-human lyric voices which flow across boundaries of self and other, man and woman, culture and nature, internal and external worlds.

For anyone who does want to brave the 9am start, I'll be talking about collaboratively rereading and retranslating OE w/ Carl Kears, Ophelia Hostetter, Denis Ferhatovic and Lisa Weston!

Happy to receive one of these. Not so thrilled to be in the 9am post-disco slot 😂.