Michael H Whitworth
@profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
Anirudh’s Sridhar’s Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality, has just been published by OUP, a monograph derived from the doctoral thesis he wrote under my supervision from October 2017 to April 2020.
Congratulations, Anirudh!
Congratulations, Anirudh!
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Anirudh’s Sridhar’s Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality, has just been published by OUP, a monograph derived from the doctoral thesis he wrote under my supervision from October 2017 to April 2020.
Congratulations, Anirudh!
Congratulations, Anirudh!
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
I found my out-takes reel from April 2020. My phone was balanced precariously on top of a guitar stand, which didn’t exactly help my concentration.
September 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I found my out-takes reel from April 2020. My phone was balanced precariously on top of a guitar stand, which didn’t exactly help my concentration.
It was a huge pleasure and privilege to visit Howard Hodgkin’s former studio today, and to hear his his partner Antony Peattie and his assistant Andy Barker talk about him, the studio, and his working practices. I hope the studio can be preserved. #OpenHouseFestival
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was a huge pleasure and privilege to visit Howard Hodgkin’s former studio today, and to hear his his partner Antony Peattie and his assistant Andy Barker talk about him, the studio, and his working practices. I hope the studio can be preserved. #OpenHouseFestival
They look to be outside what’s now The Grand Café on the High Street in Oxford
September 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
They look to be outside what’s now The Grand Café on the High Street in Oxford
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
I’ve been intrigued by the prospect of a history of the idea of progress ever since I heard @smillermcdonald.bsky.social was writing it, and I was very pleased to be invited to the launch in Oxford last night.
August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I’ve been intrigued by the prospect of a history of the idea of progress ever since I heard @smillermcdonald.bsky.social was writing it, and I was very pleased to be invited to the launch in Oxford last night.
I’ve only just realised that today is the publication day of the Letters of T. S. Eliot volume 10.
(Blackwell’s have some huge reductions on some of the earlier volumes, btw.)
(Blackwell’s have some huge reductions on some of the earlier volumes, btw.)
July 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’ve only just realised that today is the publication day of the Letters of T. S. Eliot volume 10.
(Blackwell’s have some huge reductions on some of the earlier volumes, btw.)
(Blackwell’s have some huge reductions on some of the earlier volumes, btw.)
The power of a warning!
July 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The power of a warning!
Went to London, saw the sights
July 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Went to London, saw the sights
Port Meadow, Oxford, this morning
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Port Meadow, Oxford, this morning
I’m very lucky that my college library can afford the new Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf. Enjoying them already.
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I’m very lucky that my college library can afford the new Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf. Enjoying them already.
Dr Kanta Dihal (@drdihal.bsky.social) being warmly introduced by Dr Laura Ludtke (@ladyelectric.bsky.social) before her excellent keynote at #BSLS2025, “A Mythology of AI.”
April 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dr Kanta Dihal (@drdihal.bsky.social) being warmly introduced by Dr Laura Ludtke (@ladyelectric.bsky.social) before her excellent keynote at #BSLS2025, “A Mythology of AI.”
Post a warning
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Post a warning
Not only did they pirate me, they pirated one of my dad’s rare-groove classics
March 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Not only did they pirate me, they pirated one of my dad’s rare-groove classics
Still buzzing from yesterday’s matinee gig by Tim Keegan and the Personals, a launch party for new album Vide Grenier. Great songs, lovely relaxed musicianship, warm atmosphere.
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Still buzzing from yesterday’s matinee gig by Tim Keegan and the Personals, a launch party for new album Vide Grenier. Great songs, lovely relaxed musicianship, warm atmosphere.
Port Meadow, Oxford, at lunchtime
January 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Port Meadow, Oxford, at lunchtime
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
We go live to Sheila’s doorstep:
January 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We go live to Sheila’s doorstep:
Specifically the “Devil’s Kitchen” above Llyn Idwal
January 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Specifically the “Devil’s Kitchen” above Llyn Idwal
The gap between the two masses above reception broke up that side of the building and made them look more solid in a pleasingly mountainous way
January 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The gap between the two masses above reception broke up that side of the building and made them look more solid in a pleasingly mountainous way
But the standout, thanks to the 2024 @modernistudies.bsky.social Ephemeral Modernisms conference, was the Roger Stevens building at Leeds University, with its multiple doors into each lecture theatre and confusing levels that blur into each other
December 30, 2024 at 10:48 PM
But the standout, thanks to the 2024 @modernistudies.bsky.social Ephemeral Modernisms conference, was the Roger Stevens building at Leeds University, with its multiple doors into each lecture theatre and confusing levels that blur into each other