Dr Jodie Marley 🔮
@jodielmarley
William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
I really need to get used to having a book out because I'm still not emotionally prepared for someone buying my book from the conference & then approaching me afterwards to sign it. Thank you kind stranger who is no longer a stranger! #BARS2026
Birmingham, I'll see you at the pub tonight after a nap... #BARS2026
in other news, I'm delighted to have been sent the galley of S. Yarberry's latest poetry collection! Their Blake scholarship forever changed mine, so I'm looking forward to these (inspired by Blake) 💫
take care Andy! Just heard from Emma, wishing you a safe & speedy recovery. Here is a beautiful, perfectly shaped cat I saw on a walk the other day
working in Nottingham again for the week in this beautiful weather (til the 30th May). Say hi & let me know if you're about! pictured: weekend tea drinking & not working
was excited & a little overwhelmed to meet two of my biggest academic influences, Profs Jon Mee (York) & Robert Rix (Copenhagen), & have them turn out to be so kind & generous. Jon Mee's keynote (pictured) was, of course, incredible
back from an incredible conference in Copenhagen last week. Networks of Antiquity, organised by @sharonchoe.bsky.social, ranks among my best conference experiences. So grateful for the new discussions & connections made & looking forward to what comes next 💫
had a lovely weekend in Nottingham, where I did my PhD. I have lots of feelings attached to the place, but an overwhelming love for all my friends who live there 🩶🌸
my author copies of William Blake's Mysticism have arrived. I can hold my book in my hands. Truly, thank you everyone who has supported me through the process of publishing this book. I hope you enjoy reading it 💜💫 amazed most of my publication week flowers lasted too!
my contributor copy of the Charles and Mary Lamb Journal has arrived! It features my review of @philiphoare.bsky.social's latest Blake book. thank you John Gilroy & @profjohngardner.bsky.social for inviting me to review 💫
Thank you @bars.bsky.social for approaching me to write a critical response to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein 🪲 not a review, but a discussion of this film's engagement with Shelley's themes & period, the significance of the Latin American Gothic, & other things www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
received another bouquet for the publication of William Blake's Mysticism, from the lovely, amazing @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social!
Publication! My monograph, William Blake's Mysticism, has now been published by Palgrave This book re-examines Blake's reputation as a mystic and covers the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Tysm to everyone who's supported me writing this book 💜🌠🙏🏻 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
rereading Gray in bed with flu & remembered I actually saw the "Baxter House" this spring 🥹
healing weekend in Manchester after the chaos of the last few months. Huge thanks to my friends for taking me out & about ❤️ yes, that's a secret Paul Nash painting hidden behind one of his others at the Whitworth!
Happy birthday, William Blake 🌠 "For every thing that lives is Holy" (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
Winning a Visiting Fellowship with UoG's ASC was one of the best things to happen to me this year. It progressed my new Scottish Romanticism project beyond what I could've done alone; & opened up new avenues of research. I'm now presenting & publishing my new finds And everyone I met was lovely 💜
absolutely wild that Hangsaman was first published in 1951 & yet I recognise every academic "type" in it. Truly Shirley Jackson is a genius
oof true unsure why THIS astro data source ⬇️ has an AA rating Venus in Cancer & IC in the third there does kinda make sense but only in the context of "life purpose is writing about the Sea"
thank you for a delightful talk tonight on your Blake book @philiphoare.bsky.social for @blakesociety.bsky.social (& @johnnyriordan.bsky.social for hosting) many thoughts brewing 🌊
a few days back in Nottingham (where I did my PhD) to see friends before summer ends ❤️