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Dr Jen Baker

@jendeavour.bsky.social

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Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · Aug 6

Join me online with the Viktor Wynd museum on 26th October, 8pm (GMT) for a talk on "Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child" 👻🖤

LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too; check out The Last Tuesday Society!

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Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom

This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 17h

#Lisbon, baby!

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#Lisbon baby!

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 1d

If you're still filling in your spooky calendar, join me at Viktor Wynd Museum’s The Last Tuesday Society (8:00 pm London time) for ghosty children on Sunday 26th October.

If you can’t attend the talk in real time, ticket holders will have two weeks to view the video!

Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · Aug 6

Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom

This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Glenside Hospital Museum @glensidehospmuseum.bsky.social · 17d

Did Victorians believe heavy drinking caused spontaneous human combustion?

Dr Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is going to enlighten us on this rather unusual subject, on Thursday 16th October at Glenside Hospital Museum, and we can't wait!

Tickets here: glensidemuseum.org.uk/introducing-...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, I could trawl out real data of the "worth" (employability / economic, since that's all they care about) of an English (and similar) degree(s), but I know the value goes *way* beyond their bullshit metrics.
But if anyone else wants a starter pack: universityenglish.ac.uk/the-value-of...

The Value of English

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 2d

Ha ha! From the party who spelt "Britain" incorrectly on their campaign products 🤣🖕🖕🖕

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 2d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 3d

Returning to work on the monograph after a (fairly significant) hiatus and various bouts of random new discoveries and research tangents:

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

All of them!

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SuzyQ @suzyqfit4u.bsky.social · Nov 17

Family includes everyone! ❤️

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endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social · 4d

Loved the production of Troilus & Cressida at The Globe, and was pleased to have contributed an essay to the programme!

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essay in the programme on the play in the context of the Global Renaissance

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

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Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

That cat's so life-like! 😉🖤

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

Catching up with #Strictly and my long-standing girl crush on Elizabeth Corday / River Song / Alex Kingston fully reaffirmed 😍

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

Mwahahaaaaaaaaa 🤪🤪🤪

Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 4d

Made a break through!

And now doing what I have never done before in my years of jigsawing- I have divided the remaining pieces into *shape* categories rather than colour/image 😱🤯😉

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Scarlett Butchers @scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social · 5d

Picked up these beauties by @icysedgwick.bsky.social after the Fantastic Folklore event on Friday. The TBR list is getting unreasonable 😅

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

Loving the BBC Radio 2 cast episode of #TheWeakestLink 🤣🤣
Comedy Gold.
#Duckette

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

Willow has decided to help with the jigsaw problem by lying on a load of the stray pieces so I don't have to see them 🙄

Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

Having only really known the bigger Zeppelin hits, I was very surprised at all the LoTR references when "Ramble On" was played on the radio recently and I accidentally found myself listening to the lyrics 🤣
"Did he just reference Gollum?!"

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

OMG THANK YOU. I am not an expert on him by any means but we did dissect one of his anthologies (especially the introduction) in my tales of terror class to think about the variations in "approaches" to anthologising...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 5d

Trapped in jigsaw purgatory.

Was all fun and games until I got to the ceiling and now ready to throw it across the room 😁

Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

New reads 🖤
#Spooktober

Photo of Noah Angell's "Ghosts of the British Museum" and E. Jay Gilbert's "Haunted: The Ghost Stories and folklore of the British Isles" on a grey halloween pumpkins blanket

Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 6d

Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, in rehearsal for 1968's "Darling of the Day". Some photos just leave you going "Awwwww." This is one of them.

Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, rehearsing in 1968. Vincent stans with one arm round Patricia, the other raised. Both are in mid-song.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Sorry, was waiting until I finished them all to comment. Hers was definitely my favourite, probably followed by the Le Fanu-ish one by Hurley (Mr Lanyard's Last Case) but some of the others...hmmm

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