Mike Bowden

PhD Russian / Comp Lit @UniversityLeeds

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@McLarenSte You don't get free kicks for being a fucking wimp. Feels a bit of pressure from a stronger player and throws himself to the floor. Embarrassing. Anyone saying this is a free kick is a fucking idiot.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

"Incomparably much easier" 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣

[Jess @bookish_jess7]

Uni life

[John Penniman @Historiographos]

I will never recover from this student email.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@Svetka_in_Troy "questions were for Magicians and women. They were bolder about not knowing." Wonderful line. Powerful story, Sveta, thanks for sharing

[David Hering @hering_david]

This new translation of Proust is unconventional

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@SarahHudspith Thank you :) I didn't really want to, my family pressured me into it 😂

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

Officially not-that-kind-of doctor 📜

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@fyodor76 Thank you :)

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@diane_otosaka Thanks Diane :) Congrats on Dreams and Atrocity, it looks like a fascinating collection.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

I've heard that sometimes, if you stand on the Great Wall of China, you can see the moon.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

Bivol uses an aggressive, front-foot style so that he can set up the counterpunch... technical mastery #BivolZurdo

[Hallie Rubenhold @HallieRubenhold]

Only a handful of people will truly appreciate how horrifying this is.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

That girl... makes me wanna be a better man.

[Daniel Callcut @danielcallcut]

Bernard Williams writing about the internet (2002).

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@FearfulJoycuit @kgmkenny Also, Dostoevsky's short story 'Bobok' is about a man lying on top of a marble coffin in a cemetery listening to the dead as they talk to each other.

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

Gal-angel of History

[David Hering @hering_david]

To commemorate Walter Benjamin’s birthday, here’s the time I bought a piece of ginger that looked like the angel of history

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

In case anyone was wondering how the post-PhD job search is going, I've just created a new gmail subfolder called 'Rejections'.

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

My supervisors reading my thesis drafts

[Mike Bowden @MJBowden87]

@chantalS_T Congrats Chantal!