Carly Osborn

Research Fellow at ARC Centre for History of Emotions, on ritual & violence, women's bodies and tragic texts.
Also musing on mixing academia + motherhood.

[Prof Elaine Chalus @EHChalus]

Editors should be doubly understanding right now - be realistic; these are not normal circumstances> Women's research plummets during lockdown - but articles from men increase https://t.co/sjFnJlJJaf

[Mandy Treagus @mandytreagus]

Restoring the ancient Indigenous grain crops

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@mandytreagus 🇺🇸😭📖, maybe? Or 🏘️👧⚰️

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

Hi, I'm a literary historian interested in ritual, violence, and women. You may know me from such hits as 'struggling in the casualised workforce', 'feminist motherhood', and 'humanities evangelist'. My next hit, 'Girardian Theory and Domestic Violence' out when/if I get a grant.

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@IMMAlab Thankyou for this thread, everyone. Motherhood has cost me a lot academically; jobs, conferences, networking. I dream of a future in which our daughters are better supported to be smart working women.

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@AncestryComAu, I've been trying to cancel my account for days, but the loading button just hangs. Can you please help?

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

https://t.co/FD6tYP5lOn

Working Mums - imagine having to leave your kid at home while you leave the planet for a while. She's doing it, and I feel her struggle, and I love her example. 'Playing the long game'.

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

It's a before-and-after book in my life. A modern woman writer (cf. distant Jane Austen) whose sentences cut like rapiers. So clean and elegant and powerful. My own prose style changed forever. And I became an English teacher. #monkeygripandme

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

Twitter makes me feel like if I'm not famous, I'm not trying hard enough. I don't mean Hollywood types, but amazing academics with huge public audiences. I envy them.

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

This is the last photo of Ann Perkins, the teacher killed at Santa Fe. I think we should all look into her face for a moment.
https://t.co/Zo8gBJ5cwe

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@Slate @iamKSealsAllers Thankyou @iamKSealsAllers. I'm a white working mother. This is what I need to hear and reflect on. Love the first-person address: "We did this for you."

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@VirginAustralia Your website is not allowing bookings to complete: the 'yes I agree' button at the end is not selectable. Tried in multiple browsers. Are you aware of the glitch? Will you hold fares for those trying to book now?

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

Me, corralling naked 1yo: It's time for clothes. Look at me and listen. Look at Mum.
1yo: *bends over til she's staring at her own knees*

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@ThinkEmotions Anyone in CHE who knows about 17th & 18thC English and French music, able to briefly consult on CHE game project??

[Cambridge Things @CambridgeThings]

We're excited to announce our new theme - 'Imaginative Things: Curious Objects 1400-2000'. Watch this space for seminar details to follow!

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

There is nothing new under the sun, yet my child pronounces 'watermelon' as 'wubbermelon', and this is new and unparalleled and glorious.

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

Amen. @ThinkEmotions https://t.co/p6bvxR093q

[Guardian Universities @GdnUniversities]

“The most effective thing to do to widen access to university is long-term sustained outreach work”
https://t.co/eWyqzcKAkw

[Dr. Kimberly Alexander @SilkDamask]

2) Detail, portrait of Dorothy Wendell seated at a highly polished table #18thc #sheen by #Copley 1772 #thougthful #reflection

[Carly Osborn @CarlyJOsborn]

@JetstarAirways got a $50 credit after 4 booking failures. Now trying to use that 50 to book another flight - booking failed AGAIN. Come on.