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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · Jul 14

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 12

It was also amazing to see @19thcenturyem.bsky.social, whose BA dissertation I supervised, present her incredible PhD research on Jane Austen and the ridiculous invalid at the seaside in Sanditon!

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 12

It was great fun! 😃

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 12

Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work

a man is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .

Alt: Tom Hollander’s Mr Collins is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 12

Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 10

A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 10

Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians

A black and white pic of Austen riffing on the Cassandra sketch in pink rimmed shades with her signature and an unlikely quote

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 9

In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jul 9

So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jul 9

Heading to the #GlobalAusten250 Conference at Southampton bright and early to meet these brilliant people and many more! (If you are too and want to be added to the starter pack let me know!)

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Jun 24

Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous?

Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?

You can buy / request it for your library here:

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · May 19

You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · May 12

2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · May 12

Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐

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DukeCarge @ clairobscurpt2 @dukecarge.bsky.social · May 11

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · May 9

Yes!! Think of all the history they’re missing out on if they don’t know Britney’s first albums!

Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · May 9

I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️‍🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)

a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Apr 21

I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂

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Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social · Apr 1

Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Image of article on a laptop screen with a tiny Doc Holliday doll in the foreground looking on approvingly.

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jan 16

Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩

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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jan 7

Yes please, it will be lovely to see you!

Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · Jan 7

I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025

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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · Dec 31

Finally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰

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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · Dec 31

My 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!

A green background with covers of the following books on it:
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M Lavery
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous by Andrew McInnes and Rita J Dashwood
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah
Les Misérables adapted by Marcia Williams
The Seasons by Jo Sinclair
A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat
À cinq heures nous serons tous morts ! by Charles Jeanne.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Dec 31

I wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

www.routledge.com

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · Dec 17

Fire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!

Joel Kim Booster @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social · Dec 17

Wow so so honored. I loved reading this!! The one tid bit I have never really talked about that only a few people have picked up is that Howie is Jane, but a lot of Charlotte’s arc is also built into him as well. The rice queen character was our Mr. Collins, but a lot of it was cut.

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