I've been sitting on this for a while, but I am delighted to announce that in May I will be joining the Faculty of English at Cambridge as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.
Chuffed to bits, so I am.
@Cambridge_Uni
@LeverhulmeTrust
Over the moon to have been appointed as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Very much looking forward to joining the
@TrinCollCam
community.
So, can't quite believe this is happening, but, "Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health" is now under contract with
@OUPAcademic
!
I'm hugely grateful to my editors, readers, DPhil examiners, mentors, and, of course, my DPhil supervisor for making this all possible.
It's here and I am lost for words. It is such a surreal delight to be able to hold a copy of this thing.
It's a week until the official publication day, so if you are thinking of ordering a copy and would like a 30% off discount code, DM me.
Just finished
@GreatDismal
's 'The Peripheral' and am struck by how rare and heartening it is to encounter a book with a prominent (and bad-ass) trans character whose gender identity, while personally significant for them at times, is not their defining feature. [1/2]
@EmilySteinlight
Mrs Dalloway said she would go to the lighthouse herself to look at the waves with Orlando and Flush, but not till, between the acts, she'd called at Jacob's room of one's own... The Years.
@griffski
Rorschach: 'So, what do you see in this image?'
Horny Internet Time Traveller: 'A face I would sit on.'
R: 'What...?'
HITT: BLOT ME INK DADDY!
Like a lot of trans readers, the Case/Molly SimStim sequences in 'Neuromancer' always triggered rather strong gender-feelings in me, and its nice to see these ambient elements of
@GreatDismal
's work come to the fore in sensitive and thought-provoking ways. [2/2]
Absolutely delighted to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Early career history folk (particularly 'cultural history' types like myself), I'd definitely suggest getting involved.
@RoyalHistSoc
#Twitterstorians
This is what an actual threat to academic freedom looks like (and a clear consequence of the demonisation of gender theory by media and politicians).
Solidarity with the victims and all those who now have to fear violence for simply wanting to teach and learn about gender.
"A witness told the student newspaper that a man between 20 and 30 years old had entered the classroom and asked the [Gender Studies] professor what the class was about. He then pulled two knives out of his backpack, the witness said."
Chuffed to bits that Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health has been Highly Commended in this year's
@BAIrishStudies
Book Prize. My thanks to the judges, and huge congratulations to
@tortietabby
for her well-deserved win!
BAIS Book Prize, 2024
Highly Commended: Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
@lejhouston
, 'Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health' (Oxford University Press)
& Andrew Phemister
@APhemister
'Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War' (Cambridge University Press)
Neil Hannon of
@divinecomedyhq
once complimented me on my bow-tie and said he should wear them more, I agreed, and the following evening he wore one on
@BBCLater
. I'm not saying it was my doing, but...
So thrilled to be featured in this week's
@TheTLS
reviewing "100 Queer Poems", "Queering the Green", and "The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough", a trio of excellent anthologies of contemporary queer poetry.
Very pleased to have spent
#BiVisibilityDay
looking deeply un-straight. Love and solidarity to all those gettin' bi / facing down hostility and erasure.
Nothing like attending a vigil for a child half your age who was murdered for living authentically to make you furious and devastated in equal measure.
Book Launch: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health -
@HertfordCollege
, Wed 10 May, 5pm -
@oxfordirishsem
Oxford friends,
#Modernism
, and
#IrishStudies
types, please join me and the inimitable Prof David Dwan to welcome the book into the world with some wine!
The U of A's newest Banting postdoctoral fellow, Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, plans to build on their prize-winning research at Oxford, exploring the politics of sexual health through a literary lens:
#UAlberta
#BantingFellowship
@UofA_Arts
@UofA_EFS
Huge congratulations, also, to Sarah, whose work was singled out by that vicious, AHRC-bashing ex-journalist a few months ago. I hope this Prize makes clear how valuable her scholarship is for those in Irish Studies, History, and Gender Studies, and for the public at large.
BAIS Postgraduate Essay Prize, 2024:
Sarah Mason ‘Community Nostalgia and Transgenerational Trauma: Reconciling dichotomies from a women’s oral history of West Belfast, 1975-1995’
I feel like 'a dagger' is the most
@zoe_dels
unit of measurement imaginable...
I'm now wondering what
@AoifeLockhart
and
@IanHigton
would use as their signature measurements? A squat and a jort? A piece of beautiful glassware and a VR headset? Kitty and Titch?
A school where I did an assembly and workshop on
#trans
identities and
#GenderDiversity
covered the day in their
#LGBTQIA
+ magazine and I am a) incredibly touched, b) hugely impressed by the talent of their students, and c) blown away by the commitment to
#QueerVisibility
.
To the gentleman who came to the gym at midnight in psychedelic floral-print knitwear to eat a huge bag of popcorn while laughing at people lifting weights: I salute you.
But, also, a) please stop laughing at me, and, b) can I have some popcorn?
Sarah's project was a recipient of a
@BAIrishStudies
Postgraduate Bursary and is absolutely fantastic. I'm glad it's getting attention (even if it is because someone with zero intellectual curiosity is throwing a shit fit about it...)
"Critically, my project aims to move away from the compartmentalised research of the binaries that have separated the Republican Catholic communities and their Loyalist Protestant counterparts."
This
#NonBinaryPeoplesDay
, I hope everyone, regardless of the label(s) that resonate for them, feels free to inhabit and explore gender in a way that feels liberating and authentic. Oh, and my curse be upon every Tory leadership candidate who's demonised trans people for votes.
@sweatyhabibti
I've always liked that it sort of hovers between adjective and verb. Like, I'm not just passively genderqueer, I'm actively queering gender.
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Please stand in loving solidarity with all those around the world whose lives have been lost or damaged by acts of anti-transgender hate, violence and discrimination.
#TDoR
#TDoR2017
Was delighted to encounter "Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health" among the many fabulous
@OUPAcademic
offerings
@Jack_McNichol
has brought to
@msatweet
.
Enoch's mother, Martina Burke, also took to her feet waving the Irish Constitution around like a red card at the All-Ireland Junior Football Final. She kept accusing the judges of "bowing before the altar of transgenderism."
Happy publication day to "Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities", edited by
@Trillianapher
,
@johnjgreaney
and myself🍾🎉I'm so excited for everyone to finally read the contributors' excellent work and scholarship. Order your library copy here:
@_akpiper
It's often less a case of scholars in the humanities being 'resistant to numbers', and more a case of scholars in the humanities being resistant to numbers being treated as the only valid, valuable, or epistemologically robust form of evidence, right?
@KatyMontgomerie
'The Spirit of Glinner' sounds like it should be the name of an airship that exploded in the 1930s, which, I guess, is an apt metaphor for a dangerous and over-inflated wind-bag who's recently gone down in flames...
It's
#TransDayOfVisibility
No-one owes the world visibility, and it's something many of us can't safely enjoy, but, amid so much hostility to trans life, it feels important to affirm that we exist, have always existed, and cannot be willed or legislated out of existence.
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION👏
"Veni, V.D., Vici: Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health & the Literature of Exhaustion"
by
@lejhouston
in "Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour"
@CorkUP
Discourses of sexual hygiene in Cruiskeen Lawn, The Hard Life, Slattery's Sago Saga
[Inland Empire: Success] This was an extremely prudent impulse purchase, Bratan! Now people can see what a hideously stylish Bratushka you really are!
#DiscoElysium
#HideousNecktie
On my way to teach my first (in-person) tutorials of the term with the English freshers
@lmhoxford
. A day of
#Dickens
, imagined communities, and chosen families awaits.
Turns out my partner has spent years thinking Will Smith was 'shooting some meat-ball outside of school' in the Fresh Prince rap.
Learning is truly a lifelong pursuit.
For the day (and month) that's in it, I want to take a leaf from
@AlisonBechdel
's book, and not only wish
#Joyce
and
#Ulysses
a happy birthday, but acknowledge the talent and sacrifices of all the queer people who made the book possible:
#LGBTQIAHistoryMonth
[1/6]
OR, we could interrogate the socio-economic, cultural, and psychological structures that generate the felt obligation (and, in many cases, genuine financial necessity) to monetise our passions and erode meaningful notions of leisure in this way...
Angela Bourke's fantastic keynote at today's event on the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire was, among many things, an unapologetically personal and situated performance, weaving in its own notes of lament as it charted an oral history of the keen and the scholarship it has inspired.
Absolutely chuffed to have been shortlisted for the final of this year's
@RCPIArchive
Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. Very much looking forward to presenting my research at the College's St Luke's Symposium in October.
#IrishStudies
#SocHistMed
#MedicalHumanities
Very excited to announce the four finalist for this years Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award -
@lejhouston
@ashshalvey
@TrionaWaters
and
@szimme7
. They will be presenting their research as part of the College's St Luke's Symposium on Thurs 18 Oct.
Is absolutely delighted to have been elected to the council of
@BAIrishStudies
. If you are a PGR working in
#IrishStudies
and have any issues or suggestions, please do get in touch.
My sincere congratulations to
@DrMagennis
on her election as Chair. Oh captain, my captain!
OR, hear me out, more needs to be done to prevent Tory councillors from misrepresenting innocuous encounters with trans people in a manner that is seized upon and signal-boosted by a ravenous right-wing press.
She said 'I'll just wipe them on my jeans'. You absolute ghoul.
More needs to be done to protect single sex spaces.
Prisons, changing rooms and toilets.
‘I’m going to wipe my hands on my penis.’
This is threatening and intimidating language.
See my experience in a women’s toilets this week…