Dr Ellen Ricketts

Lecturer at University of Hull - modern and contemporary English and American literature

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

Had the best day at the #radclyffehall90 symposium today! Woolf cocktails, resting butch face, and pockets as the new closet in queer theory were all hot topics. Huge thanks to @DrJanaFunke @DrSarahParker @E_C_English and everyone else who helped to make this a great day.

[British Association for Modernist Studies @modernistudies]

BAMS Postgraduate Training Day 2016 https://t.co/CAXcgkwLPG https://t.co/Zsq3G6nwgK

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@craggyBG Hello! Great to meet you too. Thanks for helping to make it such a good day. Good luck!

[British Association for Modernist Studies @modernistudies]

BAMS Postgraduate Training Day: Research Skills for Modernist Studies https://t.co/V9TICwLmcG via @modernistudies

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@LiveableLives Fantastic! I'll be there

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ Yay!

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ No worries! I can email with more info. This is totally my jam. I have ALL the books!

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ @richmondbridge Fashioning Sapphism explains all in accessible way. Faderman worth a look but has been critiqued.

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ @richmondbridge That's right. Not identity until 1920s. Overlapping discourses/contexts invoked prior. Doan rules on this.

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ In UK it took until 1920s for 'lesbian' to have connotations it does now. Earlier use in France though. Try Beaudelaire.

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ Try Emma Donohue 'Passions Between Women' and Martha Vicinus 'Intimate Friends'. Also Laura Doan but I can't find exact ref.

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

Quote of the conference from Elizabeth Wilson: 'It's quite disturbing. Radclyffe Hall looks rather like my father. ' #Lesbianlives2015

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

A very Ellen day in London: BAMS exec meeting followed by a visit to the Welcome Exhibition at the Institute of Sexology!

[Pete Orford @DrPeteOrford]

Best course outline ever, via @kylejasmin and @AcademiaObscura: http://t.co/EOp8lWRITD

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@eyorksbirding @MattRCrofts @EmmaButcher_ @Janine_Hatter "masturbation for 30 years"...does that mean continuously without stopping?

[Lisa Downing @ProfLisaDowning]

My inaugural lecture: "Selfish Women and Other Inconvenient Deviants". This is my poster girl. http://t.co/Wu2fJiTb51

[Dr Ellen Ricketts @EllenRicketts1]

@EmmaButcher_ looks like Stewie from Family Guy in drag.

[Foyles Bookshop @Foyles]

Don't worry @Waterstones - we had one too. #happenstothebestofus