Kate Nankervis (she/her)
@womanofclouds.bsky.social
PhD student in Romantic Literature 🖋️ Thinking/writing about clouds, climate, affect, and ecological consciousness ⛅ PGR Representative @bars.bsky.social
Had a lovely time listening and learning about volcanic sublimity and coping with climate catastrophe last night with @bars.bsky.social 🌋Excellent papers from @dilarakalkan.bsky.social @katlion.bsky.social and Chloe Melvin! And huge thanks to our wonderful chair @davidhiggins.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Had a lovely time listening and learning about volcanic sublimity and coping with climate catastrophe last night with @bars.bsky.social 🌋Excellent papers from @dilarakalkan.bsky.social @katlion.bsky.social and Chloe Melvin! And huge thanks to our wonderful chair @davidhiggins.bsky.social
This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Volcanic Romanticism (30 Oct 7pm UK time)
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
Presentations from Dilara Kalkan, Katerina Liontou, Chloe Melvin, and Kate Nankervis on aspects of the Diodata Circle, weather, climate, and volcanic sublimity
Free tickets on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️
Reposted by Kate Nankervis (she/her)
Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reminder that I am chairing an online event tomorrow night on 'Volcanic Romanticism'. Featuring talks by @katlion.bsky.social, @womanofclouds.bsky.social, Dilara Kalkan, and Chloe Melvin. You can register for free at the link below. @bars.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
www.eventbrite.com/e/bars-digit...
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In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
Returned to Harewood House one last time before the Austen Meets Turner exhibition closes. What an honour to have played a small part in this extraordinary display. Today, I explored the incredible walled garden!
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Returned to Harewood House one last time before the Austen Meets Turner exhibition closes. What an honour to have played a small part in this extraordinary display. Today, I explored the incredible walled garden!
Today’s my final day working with the wonderful YSC team @rigb.org I can’t believe how quickly 3 months has flown by! It’s been an inspiring, enriching & rewarding experience. If a little exhausting at times 😅 I’ve learned more than this word limit allows…🙏 Now to get back to that PhD thing!
September 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Today’s my final day working with the wonderful YSC team @rigb.org I can’t believe how quickly 3 months has flown by! It’s been an inspiring, enriching & rewarding experience. If a little exhausting at times 😅 I’ve learned more than this word limit allows…🙏 Now to get back to that PhD thing!
Reposted by Kate Nankervis (she/her)
💜Grateful to be part of #BARS2025 Romantic (Un)Consciousness at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 💜Inspiring panels both in person & online—deep gratitude to the amazing organizers: @drcleoocy.bsky.social @zooeyziller.bsky.social @womanofclouds.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
💜Grateful to be part of #BARS2025 Romantic (Un)Consciousness at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social 💜Inspiring panels both in person & online—deep gratitude to the amazing organizers: @drcleoocy.bsky.social @zooeyziller.bsky.social @womanofclouds.bsky.social
I wrote a little blog post for @rigb.org, all about the institution's history of artistic experimentation! Even managed to get a sentence about clouds in 🌦️...
It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out.
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out.
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
Art and science working together: the Ri’s experimental history across culture
Science and art have always been intertwined, and often met right here at the Ri.
www.rigb.org
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I wrote a little blog post for @rigb.org, all about the institution's history of artistic experimentation! Even managed to get a sentence about clouds in 🌦️...
It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out.
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
It's a 4-minute read so please do check it out.
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...
Reposted by Kate Nankervis (she/her)
After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!
September 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
After a brilliant day of papers and a monograph workshop at our PGR & ECR conference, Trinity College let us see some of their collection in the Wren Library, including PB Shelley’s famous register entry from the Hotel de Villes de Londres!
Wending my way back to Kings X & reflecting on the last two days. What an enriching, thought-provoking time we’ve had at #BARS2025. All thanks to the wonderful Romantic people of the world (truly, folk travelled far & wide!) More to follow but for now: team William or team Dorothy?
September 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wending my way back to Kings X & reflecting on the last two days. What an enriching, thought-provoking time we’ve had at #BARS2025. All thanks to the wonderful Romantic people of the world (truly, folk travelled far & wide!) More to follow but for now: team William or team Dorothy?
Such a treat to be sharing more on my current work on Romantic clouds 🌧️ ☁️⛅️🌩️ Live from #BARS2025 !!
#BARS2025 begins with ecological and climatological (un)consciousness
@womanofclouds.bsky.social discusses the cloud poetics of William Wordsworth and John Constable
@womanofclouds.bsky.social discusses the cloud poetics of William Wordsworth and John Constable
September 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Such a treat to be sharing more on my current work on Romantic clouds 🌧️ ☁️⛅️🌩️ Live from #BARS2025 !!
Cirrus display for the first day of my internship @ri-science.bsky.social. Can’t wait to spend summer working at this incredible institution ☺️
July 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cirrus display for the first day of my internship @ri-science.bsky.social. Can’t wait to spend summer working at this incredible institution ☺️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."
🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."
An aspirational approach to planetary futures - Nature
The Nature Relationship Index offers a new way to measure and engage human aspirations to shape a better future for people and all life on Earth.
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."
🌱"Transformative progress towards a better future must appreciate, build on and empower people’s aspirations towards the fair and just sharing of benefits and burdens within and across societies, with future generations, and with the rest of life on Earth."
Oxford clouds hit differently
June 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Oxford clouds hit differently
I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨
June 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨
Just a woman in her beloved landscape reading about women and landscape, thinking about identity (my own and theirs) in relation to landscape. Happy Friday! 🌳🌾🌿
June 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Just a woman in her beloved landscape reading about women and landscape, thinking about identity (my own and theirs) in relation to landscape. Happy Friday! 🌳🌾🌿
Reposted by Kate Nankervis (she/her)
There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.
May 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.
Reposted by Kate Nankervis (she/her)
Solidarity to the folks who walk to work and are erased by Bike to Work Week.
May 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Solidarity to the folks who walk to work and are erased by Bike to Work Week.
It was a privilege to hear @titachico.bsky.social speak about her work on meteorological instruments & literary devices in the 18thC this afternoon ❄️ leaving with lots to think about ☁️
Today is the day! Join us at 4.30pm in the Huntingdon Room (King’s Manor) for this year’s Copley Lecture! Professor Chico’s lecture, ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09’, will be nothing short of Brrrrrilliant ❄️ #thegreatfrost #eighteenthcentury
We are delighted to announce that our annual Copley Lecture will take place on Tuesday 13 May at 4.30pm. Please join us to welcome Professor Tita Chico who will present ‘The Great Frost of 1708/09: Thermometers and Representations of Climate Disruption’. The lecture will be followed by a reception 🥂
May 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It was a privilege to hear @titachico.bsky.social speak about her work on meteorological instruments & literary devices in the 18thC this afternoon ❄️ leaving with lots to think about ☁️
Last night I spent a a magical evening at Harewood House ✨exploring the NOW OPEN Austen & Turner exhibition. A fascinating exploration into the lives & legacy of these two important artists. It was an honour & delight to contribute in some small way. A very proud @cecs-york.bsky.social moment!
May 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Last night I spent a a magical evening at Harewood House ✨exploring the NOW OPEN Austen & Turner exhibition. A fascinating exploration into the lives & legacy of these two important artists. It was an honour & delight to contribute in some small way. A very proud @cecs-york.bsky.social moment!
Stratocumulus overhead ☁️ and fair weather to follow… Red sky at night still doing its job 🌅
May 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Stratocumulus overhead ☁️ and fair weather to follow… Red sky at night still doing its job 🌅
With academic futures looking more uncertain, the alt-ac career path is ever more important for PhDs and ECRs. I’m excited to learn more at this roundtable in September!
📣Announcing another fantastic event taking place ONLINE at the BARS Conference this September! The Alt-Ac Careers Plenary Roundtable brings together a range of experienced speakers to explore career paths beyond traditional academia.
Where could your research take you? Join us to discover more!
Where could your research take you? Join us to discover more!
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
With academic futures looking more uncertain, the alt-ac career path is ever more important for PhDs and ECRs. I’m excited to learn more at this roundtable in September!
Spending my Sunday with this fascinating book 🌥️I can’t believe I didn’t find this earlier on in my research…😌
April 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Spending my Sunday with this fascinating book 🌥️I can’t believe I didn’t find this earlier on in my research…😌