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Noreen Masud

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Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️‍🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈‍⬛ rep: @mfredturner

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 1d

will go on bigging up greta but in future will just stfu about malala

Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 1d

feeling bad now about being a bitch about malala. a kid becoming the sole breadwinner for her entire extended family and friends - yeah, you can see how certain theories of change seem like the only option www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine your sole mission for the second half of your life being to somehow rehabilitate your legacy by securing peace in the Middle East, and then the combatants saying, “oh yeah we would, if it wasn’t for specifically you”

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 2d

The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 2d

hurry

Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 2d

what are you going to call them

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 2d

OMG! HI!!!!!!!!!

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone know of any good scholarship on John Fletcher's The Elder Brother?

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · 5d

We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 5d

Now I’m falling asleep and she’s calling a cob

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 5d

danger
fire risk

Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 6d

🙏!

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Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the books I mention in the latest Ask the Host episode!

A great autumn selection, with books from

@scratchbooks.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social
@dauntbookspub.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 6d

I should have specified - fiction/poetry/creative NF!

Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 6d

recommendations of Polish authors who are writing/wrote in English - ie not translated from Polish into English? (Yes, I have Joseph Conrad, thank you!)

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 8d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn