Sun sets on #BARS2026 🌅 I had the best time meeting friends old and new. So many great panels presenting important research during a time of global/sector crisis. And a huge plus is that BARS really is the best most welcoming bunch for PGRs!!!

Conference nerves finally give way to excitement! I’m at #BARS2026 this week!! Very excited to be presenting on the Queer Austen panel and reconnect with familiar faces 🫶🏼🏳️‍🌈 Grateful to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association for the travel bursary that allowed me to attend!

Spent some time at Glasgow Zine Library today reading Austenian sci-fi parodies 🚀👽🪐

mini haul from Glasgow Zine Fest!!! History Time Zine by TIMEInverclyde LGBTQ+ Youth. How did they know I am obsessed with The Public Universal Friend???

Can't believe I am starting to write the introduction to my thesis today !!! It is actually really hard to put into words the context/framework of ideas you have been thinking and writing about for 4+ years 🤯

📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers! If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!

Happy Burns day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 My dad was part of a Burns Club and would address the haggis every year. As I little girl I remember looking through his copy of Robert Burns: The Scottish Bard. I never found his book when he passed away but I hope he loaned it to someone who is using it tonight!

A huge thank you to everyone who cane to @rrrjournal.bsky.social ‘s annual conference! We heard fantastic papers that kickstarted conversations about archival method, material culture and sexuality and gender studies. A huge thank you to @bavs-uk.bsky.social for providing generous event funding!

And a massive thank you to our keynote speaker Dr Michael Shaw (@glaikitscone.bsky.social) who delivered a paper on ‘Queering Scottish Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century’. It was a real treat to learn about Michael’s research in local archives and to reflect on queerness and national idenity

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

The article is adapted from my essay that was a runner up for the 2024 Keats Shelley Essay Prize last January. One of my favourite days of my PhD so far was the prizegiving at the John Murray House in London! Nice full circle moment ☺️

Shakira from Love Island x Judith Butler, lmao I love it 🙌🏼

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Thanks everyone who came to hear my paper on 'Jane Austen and Scotland' at Stirling's Eighteenth Century Studies Group! We had some interesting discussion about Austen, race, and English depcitions of the Scottish in 18th c. literature. Also reflecting on adaptations like this 2023 Mansfield Park

“For someone who’s never read Pride and Prejudice, I would desribe it like Love Island on a stately home.” - Harris Dickinson, Audible’s new Mr Darcy Just the most recent of 100s of instances of people comparing Austen and LI (including Helen Warner + Horrible Histories!)

Charli XCX on Lord Byron - interesting! Excited to see this film (Erupcja)

My time as Glasgow Zine Library's funding intern has come to an end! I am so grateful to @sgsah.bsky.social for offering paid internships for PGRs. The team at GZL were so welcoming and attentive to my development needs (I leave the role with a PVG, 420+ hours of experience, and SO MANY ZINES)

RRR Journal is now accepting abstracts for our 2026 Conference! I’m thrilled to be hosting at my home institution as the journal's incoming Editor in Chief. With generous BAVS funding, we’re also offering travel bursaries up to £100 for eligible PGR & ECR delegates. 📅 Abstract Deadline: 22 Sept

A mad dash to Chawton House to see the new Sisters of the Pen exhibition before my flight! Beautiful! Grandison is on display! First editions everywhere!

Goodbye to #GlobalAusten250 from myself and 3D printed Jane, who will now watch over my desk side eyeing my writing 👀

joking (not really) but here is a funny excerpt from Austen's juvenile work Lesley Castle c.1792 to help us reflect during this hopeful time......

I was honoured last week to be a highly commended runner-up for the 2024 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize! The prize giving was held in the historic John Murray Publishing Rooms (a joy for any Austen scholar), and presented by this year's chair of judges, Tom Holland.

I am delighted to be shortlisted for the 2024 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize! I wrote about The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a queer adaptation of Frankenstein. You can read all of the shortlisted essays here: keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...

I am very lucky to be doing some digitising training today at the Glasgow Zine Library with their amazing archivist, Nic 👩🏻‍💻 All as part of my @sgsah.bsky.social internship! 🙏🏼

And something interesting for the book historians!

I have a research interest in the intersection between amateur theatricals, gender, and costume/crossdressing, so it was really interesting to read about Irish soldiers crossdressing in their DIY performances abroad.

We followed Tom’s recommendation to go see the Republican proclamation at the National Museum for free, rather than pay to see it at Trinity College. The museum had a brilliant exhibition about Irish soldiers

absolutely adored my wee weekend away in Dublin, where there was a literary figure waiting for me at every corner/bridge/cathedral/bar!! 🇮🇪

Amazing