Dr Robert G. May

The official class Twitter feed of Dr Robert G. May, Associate Professor, Department of English, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

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#ENGL100 students: If you ever go to Dublin, you can visit Oscar Wilde’s childhood home at 1 Merrion Square, North. Wilde's parents moved there a few months after his birth, transforming the house into a cultural destination for Dublin artists and writers: https://t.co/H0239ZoBAw

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#ENGL100 students: Oscar Wilde was the subject of a series of infamous court trials centred on accusations of sexual impropriety involving his friend Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde’s ordeal is a reminder of how far we’ve come in battling LGBTQ+ stigma: https://t.co/GdWAQMzIpk

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#ENGL100 students: Before the 2002 adaptation, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was adapted for film in 1952 in a British production directed by Anthony Asquith. Watch the trailer here: https://t.co/cpLV6gKETI

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#ENGL100 students: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was adapted for film in 2002, starring Reese Witherspoon as Cecily, Colin Firth as Jack, and Rupert Everett as Algernon. You can watch the trailer here: https://t.co/E1gqmtRdyI

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Congratulations to @MargaretAtwood on the publication of a new edition of her seminal first novel The Edible Woman, almost sixty years after its initial appearance in 1969. We’ll be studying The Edible Woman next winter term in #ENGL161!

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Doc Friday: What is a close reading, and how do literary critics use close-reading strategies and techniques to analyze literary works and arrive at determinations of theme? Find out in “Close Reading,” a document on Dr May’s Web site: https://t.co/IzKjYsqMmn

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#ENGL100 students: Here is an insightful essay on Twelfth Night by the British academic and literary critic Catherine Belsey, posted on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Web site: https://t.co/azDkLfoX5b

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#ENGL100 students: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC has an excellent and informative Web site devoted to Shakespeare, his life, and times: https://t.co/5axEii7Jl7

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#ENGL100 students, here is an excellent virtual tour of the Globe in London, a modern-day theatre built to the same specifications as Shakespeare’s original Globe: https://t.co/UfscsY9lPI

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#ENGL100 students: William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was adapted to film in 1996, starring Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia and Ben Kingsley as Feste. Watch the trailer here: https://t.co/zMibILRA5o

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Doc Friday: What do you have to cite to avoid plagiarism? What do you not have to cite? How do you know the difference? Find out in "Avoiding Plagiarism,” a document on Dr May’s Web site: https://t.co/LkUqN82ZQ0

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You Are Invited: Book Launch and Reading, featuring poetry by Sadiqa de Meijer and Laurie D. Graham, and fiction by Liz Johnston and Aga Maksimowska, with Nancy Jo Cullen. Friday 22 May 2026, 7.00 p.m., Novel Idea (156 Princess St.).

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#ENGL100 students: Did you know that Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who wrote “Big Water,” is also a filmmaker and musician? You can listen to some of her music on her official Web site: https://t.co/haY9K1VEvl

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#ENGL100 students: Here is a great interview with Jhumpa Lahiri, author of "Interpreter of Maladies," from Literary Hub: https://t.co/WBUsnSRdXn

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#ENGL100 students: If you enjoyed Haruki Murakami’s short story “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning,” be sure to check out his excellent novels. Here’s a guide: https://t.co/Y2tG3ZtPJT

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#ENGL100 students: Did you know that Margaret Atwood invented a device, called the LongPen, that enables her to sign autographs across great distances? Find out about it here: https://t.co/AvUQLrW87R

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Doc Friday: In addition to being a potential departure from Academic Integrity, using AI tools inappropriately in an academic setting has several drawbacks. Find out about some of them in “AI Drawbacks,” a document on Dr May’s Web site: https://t.co/4LT6ngxoff

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#ENGL100 students: Canadian writer Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, perhaps the world’s most prestigious award for writing. You can read more about Munro on the Nobel Prize Web site: https://t.co/xasXE2FRX7

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#ENGL100 students: Here’s an interesting 2008 video from PBS featuring Chinua Achebe, who reflects on his best-known work, the novel Things Fall Apart, fifty years after its publication in 1958: https://t.co/MuW0Cnf3ps

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#ENGL100 students: It’s always fascinating to hear an author read their work out loud. Here is a recording from 1959 of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” one of the few surviving recordings of her voice: https://t.co/z9dPbTpvcI