Violet Banerjee, PhD

Most days I #amwriting, either environmental history (#envhist) or #historicalromance. Sometimes I go to the beach.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Today I realised I am a part of two discrete online communities: one to whom I send accidental phallus pictures and one to whom I don’t.

[jo bourne @jobourne]

Obviously, I am not the only one going . . . "What?"

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

@SketchesbyBoze The Dresden Files have that blend of magical and prosaic life.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Fun plot possibilities! English legal history provides many opportunities of #HistoricalRomance heroines to inherit property: https://t.co/JaB8HMAdIO

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

It’s 2023, so time again to will into existence a #HistoricalRomance between James Brindley and the Duke of Bridgewater.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

It was very fun to see Olivia Dade’s tweets about writing Shipwrecked and then finally be able to read the book for myself! 😊

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

@_AdeleBuck Maternal

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

I learn that the Russian state had a monopoly on the export of white gyrfalcons--which meant that they were mostly owned by kings--and immediately plot a romance featuring Pashtun herder in possession of a white gyrfalcon and a dark secret. #HistoricalRomance #WritersBrain

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

When you have raspberries for breakfast, at least you know what you’re going to be doing for the rest of the day.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Shanghai Sharebike Chronicles: I was nearly startled off my bike when, while braking, the handlebars dipped forward an alarming three degrees.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Shanghai Sharebike Chronicles: very impressed by the woman who passed me on her bike while belting out an aria.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

I woke up tired and stressed out from yesterday, but then I was reminded that the word ensorcel existed, and things have suddenly become better.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

I have a feeling this doesn’t end well.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

@AcademiaObscura I am working on a Sunday and in lockdown in Shanghai. So yes. Absolutely finishing before the apocalypse hits.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Yesterday my office phone sported a bright LCD display. Today it is dark. I guess it’s time to feed Moloch again. How else to fix a landline?

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

It's Kant week in my team-taught Intro. to the Humanities course. Some of my key thoughts while reading:

1. Kant, who hurt you? Is that why you write this way?

2. Let me unpack this sentence... Wait, no. Nope. Life's too short.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

Shanghai Sharebike Chronicles: Today I felt the bittersweet twinge of riding the perfect sharebike--no strange sounds, shaky handlebars, or loose brakes--and knowing I would never find its equal again.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

I do enjoy the word “tupping.” It tastes like mead in my mouth.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

“Our beloved sister’s soul now rests inside this cat, c.1860-1880.”

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

When you’re an aspiring footballer.

[Violet Banerjee, PhD @VioletBanerjee]

One of my students wrote "reading is like a waltz for your mind," and I melted inside. 🥰