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DrDeclanKavanagh.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies. Queer literature ✍🏻 disability studies. Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2024)📚EDI co-officer BSECS. Views my own, not employer’s.
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What you yucca-in at?

My new very tall yucca
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Started reading The Shining today. Really can relate.

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Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

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So Kemi Badenoch, no longer content with attacking queers, is now attacking straight people. Love this for her.

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When I read the headline about Kemi on maternity pay I was like “pretty weird but probably talking about the burden on business”. Then you realise she’s talking about statutory maternity pay? A payment mainly known for shocking every new parent with how crap it is? Proper “hello I am mental” stuff.

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The art of paragraph writing: a case study in what not to do. #Duffield

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I do think a by-election is called for if an MP jumps ship from their party. People voted for an MP because they voted for that party. Now their MP isn’t of that party and it’s a five year term.

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OK so no one is applauding a lecture on 18thC prose forms but I love that Rooney is going there #Intermezzo

top of the room talking about eighteenth-century prose forms.
Every pair of eyes fixed on her. Voice very clear and low-toned.
Contralto. Not another sound in the place. When she was fin-ished, they all broke out in applause, what, two hundred of them, more, and she smiled and nodded, used to it, probably. Sheer charisma. Made him want to say: I know her. Ex-girlfriend of mine. So embarrassing, imagine. Think she's interesting on the
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Rooney’s new one is very Joycean or maybe Woolfean, actually.

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DrDeclanKavanagh.bsky.social
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies. Queer literature ✍🏻 disability studies. Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2024)📚EDI co-officer BSECS. Views my own, not employer’s.
543 followers710 following922 posts