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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · May 15

I'm delighted that Dr Roberta Magnani (Swansea) will be giving our final medieval guest lecture of the year here in Groningen on Monday 26 May. Details as follows, and online attendees very welcome!

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Apr 28

Just a quick reminder of Prof Corinne Saunders' lecture here in Groningen later today - link for online attendees below!

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Apr 11

I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST).

“Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing”

Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Apr 11

I'm delighted to say that on Mon 28 April Prof Corinne Saunders (Durham) will present the 7th Annual MacDonald Lecture at the University of Groningen (17.30 - 19.00 CEST).

“Thinking and Feeling: Love and Loss in Chaucer’s Romance Writing”

Online attendees are welcome! meet.google.com/voz-rogm-jmt

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Apr 5

Wrists still a bit too dodgy to wheel a suitcase so travelling throwback Canadian tourist style with the rucksack with which I backpacked around Europe aged 22 - note Canadian flag 😅 🇨🇦

The Medieval Middlebrow: Rewriting Romance and Reshaping the Literary Marketplace - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Apr 5

After a few months of not being allowed to touch a computer/phone due to tendonitis in my wrists, it's a delight to share photos of this week's trip to Bern to give a guest lecture & Amiens for a conference on emotions & space in romance. Five stars for the company & cathedral spires in both cities!

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Oct 3

Happy to be on my way to Amsterdam today to give a guest lecture and meet new colleagues!
aihr.uva.nl/content/even...

English Literature and Culture guest lecture on 03 October from 17:00—18:30 in PCH 1.05. The talk will be given by Professor Megan Leitch of the University of Groningen.

aihr.uva.nl

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Sep 14

Dutch Duolingo is feeling Dantean today

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Sep 6

After a fantastic conference in Dusseldorf on multilingual medieval text traditions, I'm happy to be heading *home* to Groningen

Sleep, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Interested in sleep and insomnia and how they relate to wellbeing, now and in the past?

Check out this podcast in which Dr Brigitte Steger and I compare the perspectives of medieval Japan and England!

podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sleep-insomn...

Abstracts: Brigitte Steger (Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge): "At night I lie in bed but cannot sleep" - Insomnia and loneliness in early Japanese literature

podcasts.ox.ac.uk

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Aug 1

My new office! And my current mood after unpacking that lot...

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Aug 1

First day in the new job! Groningen looking its delightful best

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Adventures in trying to leave Britain: council system requires new address, has drop-down menu of countries from which I can select THE NETHERLANDS, but still tells me this isn't a valid address b/c it doesn't have a UK postcode.

Sigh. All places are belong to the UK, it seems!

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Jun 11

I've begun packing up my office, and have discovered that I've wildly underestimated how many boxes I need for my books... #academiaproblems

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Jun 3

The view from my Edinburgh accommodation is not so bad... Next up: a rendezvous with the Auchinleck Manuscript!

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · May 3

It's like a never-ending game of bingo that I would really rather stop playing...

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · May 3

Today, a chimney sweep's response to me decamping to the Netherlands for my dream job:

"I would never've guessed that you was a professor. You're far too young and pretty to be a professor."

Sigh. I fear my attempts to show him that this is not a compliment were unsuccessful!

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · May 1

Delighted to announce that this year's Arthurian Literature Derek Brewer Prize winning essay is Ashley Walchester's perceptive ‘A Variant Reading in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1529 Edition of Le Morte Darthur: The Question of Bors’ Threnody'

Many congratulations Ashley!

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Mar 15

Happy World Sleep Day!

In John Trevisa's words, 'slepe is kinde and temperat, it doþ to þe body ful mony profitis and fele.'

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Mar 6

For anyone who missed the event last week and fancies learning more about medieval sleep and wellbeing - in both Europe and Japan - my talk alongside Dr Brigitte Steger is now available on the TORCH Oxford website!

torch.ox.ac.uk/video-record...

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Feb 26

That would be great! I'll send you a message.

Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Feb 26

Glad to be in Oxford for the week, consulting manuscripts for my Leverhulme-funded Medieval Middlebrow project!

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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · Feb 22

A week today I'm speaking @TORCHOxford on research related to my The Medieval Future of Sleep project: medieval sleep strategies, emotions, and wellbeing. All welcome!

Thursday 29 Feb at 5.15 pm UK time, both in person and online:

www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/sleep-...