Black Studies in Britain Seminar. London. The 11th of June.

It's free as well, so do join us!

#london #blackstudies #researchseminar

Had a wonderful time presenting at #PrizedTemporalities / #neohistorical #fiction at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social and being in a room with so many clever, interrogative types. Many thanks @carolinekoegler.bsky.social for having me over in Berlin.

'Errrrrm 😬, hi second year's. It's last week of term... Get a load of this... '

University is great because you can just stop a classicist and ask them about paideia.

Nella Larsen's Passing this week... My third years spent 30 minutes talking about the line 'the tea, when it came, was all that she desired and expected' as a way into the novel.

Gossip, class, drag and performance, Irene and desire, Clare and expectations. 👌

A student, directly to my face:

'I can't get behind Yorkshire tea I'm afraid, it's PG Tips for me'

Today I found out the reason that the essays they hand in are anonymised.

Just had a conference paper accepted but don't remember what on, and they haven't named it in the email...

The feeling of not being defensive and at-odds on this platform is BIZARRE.

Oh Colman. Reminder to get a plaid sports coat. 👌

A year on...

Always late to the party.

Oh we're going back in.

'Blue is the color of longing for the distances you never arrive in, for the blue world.'

- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide for Getting Lost