Dr Alexandra Paddock

Medievalist with extras. Med Eng Lecturer @ Keble, Oxford. Research on animals, environment, attention and reading. Editor+PI of Ten-Minute Book Club. she/her

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

At the Oxford Weston Library today for the Vice-Chancellor’s showcase (Community Partnership shortlist)! Come talk to me! @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @TORCHOxford @LitHits1 @KebleOxford @KebleOutreach

[Keble College, Oxford @KebleOxford]

Dr Alexandra Paddock, Keble Lecturer in Old and Middle English @engfac has been shortlisted for the 2024 Vice-Chancellor's Award for her initiative - the 'Ten Minute Book Club' 📚
https://t.co/wKEGxmQ7ip

[Faculty of English @engfac]

Amazing news and very well deserved! 👏👏👏🥳 If you haven't come across the Ten-Minute Book Club yet, you can explore all 4 seasons on our website: https://t.co/DEcn7u5X99

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

Ten-minute book club has grown from just a playful spontaneous idea to a multifunctional platform full of the incredible work of Faculty, teachers of English, schools, students and readers. I’m grateful to everyone involved— with each new season I learn so much!

[TORCH Oxford @TORCHOxford]

The brilliant Ten Minute Book Club @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @aa_paddock @ShepherdBarr has been shortlisted for the @UniofOxford VC Awards: Community Partnership. @minderoo @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities 4 seasons of fabulous books!
https://t.co/cmp02ArttR

[TORCH Oxford @TORCHOxford]

The brilliant Ten Minute Book Club @engfac @EngFac_Outreach @aa_paddock @ShepherdBarr has been shortlisted for the @UniofOxford VC Awards: Community Partnership. @minderoo @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities 4 seasons of fabulous books!
https://t.co/cmp02ArttR

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

At @bodleianlibs Oxford Literary Festival Hub earlier today with the first of "Ten Minutes with LitHits" @EngFac_Outreach @engfac in the Space for Reading. 1.40-1.50pm all this week: different texts each day! So much insight from attendees on our selection from The Awakening!

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

DTA the 8th and final episode of TMBC s4! @engfac https://t.co/1rFcw7im9q this ground breaking 1808 novel The Woman of Colour follows mixed race heroine Olivia Fairfield & her navigation of British upper class at the end of the 18thC, intro by DPhil Aditi Upmanyu! @TORCHOxford

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

In this dying dark of Michaelmas season, I’m delighted to present TMBC s4 ep7, Prof Nick Perkins introducing Hoccleve’s Complaint (with audio!) https://t.co/Cm8lic0rlH @TORCHOxford @MedEngOxon @ClerkofOxford @HoccleveSociety @Medievalists @BLMedieval @engfac @ClerkofOxford

[Faculty of English @engfac]

And it's open! Prof Marion Turner's #Chaucer exhibition @bodleianlibs Weston Library is now open until April 2024. 'Chaucer Here & Now' explores the many creative responses to Chaucer & asks why this medieval author still fascinates so many people today. https://t.co/eiT3x7YLQ3

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

TMBC S4 Episode 6 is funny, dreamy, witty medieval lyric 'Mon in the mone stond ant strit', beautifully introduced by Ayoush Lazikani, (Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250) https://t.co/sQYJJUY2SD @engfac @TORCHOxford @OxHumanities

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

@CazzerT98 thank you for this fantastic piece!

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

https://t.co/19HvfUvGjW in Week 5 of #TMBC season 4 current doctoral candidate Caroline Taylor pursued questions of women in colonial imagining in Aphra Behn’s The Widow Ranter @engfac @TORCHOxford

[Caroline Taylor @CazzerT98]

My entry for Oxford’s @engfac Ten-Minute Book Club is live! Follow the link to read more about Aphra Behn’s critique of colonialism in ‘The Widow Ranter’

https://t.co/EUs3vkcnJE

[Jon Moses @jm0ses]

My letter in the @guardian today addressing some misconceptions about the @Right_2Roam debate.

https://t.co/fdWz3ZiWn9

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

thinking about the little fox in the fellowship of the ring 🦊

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

Ten-Minute Book Club S4 episode 4 has arrived https://t.co/xZ3sKHEOGk! Santanu Das
@engfac and All Souls College takes a deep (dark) dive into one of D.H. Lawrence's very last poems #tmbc
@TORCHOxford

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

Thanks for the RT @ellekeboehmer! @writrsmakewrlds is such a crucial project for the Ten-Minute Book Club conception and curation (and has also informed sister-project @LitHits1 work too)!

[Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer]

@writrsmakewrlds

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

Ten-Minute Book Club week 3 is up! @tinsmush of @StAnnesCollege and @engfac brilliantly introduces the literary work of writer and leader Ndabaningi Sithole, who wrote the first Zimbabwean English novel. https://t.co/Czrgx2Oe4H #tmbc @TORCHOxford

[Dr Alexandra Paddock @aa_paddock]

We’re at the end of season 4 week 2 of @engfac TMBC, and Dr Oindrila Ghosh’s delicate animal-orientated reading of Hardy’s poem, ‘Afterwards’ https://t.co/ePG475eGnJ Coming to week 3 this weekend, the literature of Ndabaningi Sithole. @TORCHOxford and @minderoo project funding

[Faculty of English @engfac]

So exciting! The new season of the Ten-Minute Book Club launches TODAY! Read an extract from 'Beautiful Joe: The Autobiography of a Dog' by Margaret Marshall Saunders, the Canadian bestseller written in first-person – or ‘first-dog’ – narrative. #TMBC