Rhymes with 'both'. Leverhulme ECF @Cambridge_Uni working on ‘Diasporic Divas’ + ‘Courting Celebrity’ in 18th/19thC Western Europe + the Atlantic. she/her/elle
Now the contract is officially signed I’m excited to share that I’ll be publishing my first monograph ‘Courting Celebrity: Creating the Courtesan on the Popular Parisian Stage, 1831-1859’ with Oxford University Press. Thank you to everyone who got me here, you know who you are!
In her groundbreaking project on Afrodiasporic divadom, Dr @EmmanuelaWroth, Hughes Hall and @LeverhulmeTrust Fellow, traces the conception of the cult of the diva back to eighteenth-century Europe.
Learn more⬇️
https://t.co/qaKNjzdfUR
I do have a question for many of my academic & writer friends on here. How have you been watching all this for the last 1.5 years & counting, & just remained utterly silent except for promoting your books/appearances/blogs? How do you do it? It can't be that you don't see.
If you want to hear about my new “Diasporic Divas” research on the 18th-century Afro Italian singer Vittoria Tesi then please sign up to the below, in person or online at the end of the month!
At the end of a long week, it is wonderful to have this in my hands. Clare Finburgh-Delijanj has been a brilliant editor and @EmmanuelaWroth the most amazing coauthor. Interviewing Eric Ruf @ComedieFr was also the stuff of dreams✨
'This ...signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic and intellectual tools provided by literature.'> The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis https://t.co/ScSSMhglSg
My exclusive for Observer today: For 1st time FOI data from Oxford colleges shows majority of tutorials taught by early career academics struggling to manage on low pay & ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts. FT profs only taught a third of tutorials last year. https://t.co/keg6CvIMnn
“I recognize that the colour of my skin brings me privilege, so until that is no longer the case, I will use that privilege to effect positive change.”
- @FranceskAlbs at the University of Montreal
So excited that @ClareSiviter and my chapter "New Approaches to Women Actors and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century France" has been published in the new edited volume "A New History of Theatre in France". DM me if you would like access to it. https://t.co/E3lzEEbKiz