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Dr. Shelby Judge
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Lecturer, Derby Uni • researches feminist myth retellings and, mostly unrelatedly, Incels; teaches english literature & media • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social · Apr 7
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but… I SIGNED A BOOK CONTRACT 📖 I’m writing a book about Greek myths & the manosphere and McFarland Press is going to publish it! This is genuinely my biggest dream and it’s coming true 🌙
A white woman with dark hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue and white striped shirt. She is holding a large hardback book and sat in front of a big, full bookcase
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Milton Keynes was amazing! What a fab last show of 2025 for me 🥰
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@shelbyjudge.bsky.social What a fab talk in MK! Thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Here’s something I’m always thinking about: when the Doctor meets Agatha Christie, he says that her books surprised him “once! But it was a good once!”

Which Agatha Christie book do we think it is that caught him out?

#doctorwho #AgathaChristie
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Ohhh we’re cross-referencing 📚
A Caucasian hand holding two books so their spines are visible. One is red and white and the other is black. Both are copies of the Iliad, the former translated by Emily Wilson, the latter by Robert Fagles
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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But you, Achilles,
you have become impossible! I hope
the kind of anger you are fostering
never takes hold of me—you monstrous hero!

—Iliad XVI.36-39. (trans. Wilson)
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Doris Lessing: “A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.”
October 4, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Heaven 🍷 📖
A glass of red wine and a book on a wooden table. The book is MEDEA by Rosie Hewlett
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Glasgow people! This in-person event is happening tomorrow & what better way is there to spend an autumn evening than talking about the inimitable Queen of the Jazz Age, Zelda Fitzgerald 🎷 free, as always 🎷 #glasgow #americanliterature
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In-Person Tea With TLW: Professor Elisabeth Bouzonviller on “Zelda Fitzgerald’s Multimedia Self-Portraiture, from Provocative Flapper to Subdued Clinic Inmate”
Please join us for an in-person Tea with the Transatlantic Literary Women event on Tuesday 11 November. We’re meeting in room 202, 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow. Come and enjoy refres…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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I feel like I can get one (1) thing done a day. Which is GREAT when I have a big thing to do because I can smash it out in a day, but it's less great when I have a small thing and then a bigger thing to do because I do the small thing and then I can't turn my brain onto the bigger thing.
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Beans are a god tier food and I'm glad to see them getting the recognition they deserve 😤🫘
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Celebrity chefs urge Britons to ‘bang in some beans’ to boost legume consumption
Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and major supermarkets want to double amount of beans Britons eat
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Writing a book would be so easy if there was literally nothing else going on at work or in my life
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Happy Halloween 👻
Italic text on a book page: To Mary Shelley You would have loved gel pens, Ziploc bags, and The Cure
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Tea with TLW: Spooky Special! 👻 🔮
Elfin Pedlar Druid Maiden, Worm Queen: The Life and Work of Helen Adam (1909-1993) Corey Gibson Corey Gibson (Scottish Literature, UofG)
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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So proud of the University of Derby students protesting the staff redundancies today 🥹
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🔮 NEW BLOG POST 🔮 There is nothing spookier than the dread witch, Medea... except maybe the way she is treated by all the men around her!

#blog #blogger #classics #classicssky #booksky #Medea #SpookySeason

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Must be the Season of the Witch: Multitextual Medea
‘Of all creatures that feel and think,  we women are the worst treated things alive’  So claims the eponymous heroine of Euripides’ traged...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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New blog post tomorrow on TheShelbiad.blogspot.com 🔮
The Shelbiad.
I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2022. My thesis was 'Contemporary Feminist Adaptations of Greek Myths'. I now research contemporary feminism at the University of Derby. If you are i...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Glasgow people! Join us on Tuesday 11 November at 4pm for an in-person Tea with TLW event, where we'll be joined by the incredible Elisabeth Bouzonviller for a talk on Zelda Fitzgerald! #AmericanLiterature #Glasgow 📚💙

transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/i...
In-Person Tea With TLW: Professor Elisabeth Bouzonviller on “Zelda Fitzgerald’s Multimedia Self-Portraiture, from Provocative Flapper to Subdued Clinic Inmate”
Please join us for an in-person Tea with the Transatlantic Literary Women event on Tuesday 11 November. We’re meeting in room 202, 4 University Gardens, University of Glasgow. Come and enjoy refres…
transatlanticladies.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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"Journal articles are the lifeblood of living scholarship."

...errr, I beg to differ.

The lifeblood of living scholarship is scholars or the scholarly community or...humans.
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Book snapshot 👀
screenshot of a word document with the words #MeToo: Survivors in Greek Myth
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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What does REF mean for ECRs? Come to the BA roundtable on it on the 29th October to learn more!

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Book Tickets – REF and being an ECR: what is it and what does it mean for you?- All Network Members – Zoom
REF and being an ECR: what is it and what does it mean for you?- All Network Members – Zoom, Wed 29 Oct 2025 - The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the human...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Wish I'd seen this article before my own time was wasted by "Matt Wolf"
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Impostor wastes scholars' time—for what purpose? (opinion)
If a (fake) person named Matt Wolf contacts you with questions about your scholarship, beware. Lee Brewer Jones describes apparently falling victim to a long-running fraud targeting academics.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I am so excited to be going back to Scotland next week 💙
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM