Michael Ullyot

Early modernist + digital humanist. Assoc Prof, English, University of Calgary. c.f. @ACriticismLab

[The Fields Institute @FieldsInstitute]

👏Please join us in welcoming Clifton Cunningham as our new Managing Director for Fields Institute Publications!

It didn't take him long to accept the role: "I love learning, I love math and I like people a lot. Why wouldn’t one do this?"

👀 Read more: https://t.co/rW9og1Vzjg

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Published my book yesterday, an adventure 17 years in the making.

It’s on a few subjects: the unexpected death of a Prince of Wales in 1612; the methods of persuading people to imitate examples; the anecdotes that make a biography. @OUPAcademic

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Me, to my 13-year-old: “Like Wayne Gretzky says, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

13-year-old: “Wayne who?”

#facepalm

[Chris Shillum @CShillum]

Congrats and welcome to @ORCID_Org's new Board members: Amal Amin Ibrahim, @Katy__McNeill, Lori Ann Schultz, @ullyot and @whats_names. I am looking forward to working with you all.

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Making headway on my August reading goals. https://t.co/BUuxIyEarW

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The Courtesan's Whisper: bourbon, apricot, cacao, mole bitters. @ Rosedale https://t.co/A5Gc8Ac0pu

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Suddenly it’s summer! @ Peace Bridge (Calgary) https://t.co/vXbKHg1riH

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Call me Old Fashioned, but this is my favourite #cocktail @ Rosedale https://t.co/PQGRSc7rFX

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Sorry, Leonard Cohen, but Wendy Cope has found a cure for love -- two, in fact. @ Rosedale https://t.co/TC572wLJUe

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Zooming at 4:30 a.m. for the @EdCDCS Workshop #AURA_Network Workshop on AI and Archives

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Mixing a Manhattan with Luxardo cherries and Old Overholt rye -- the distillery that makes Old Grandad bourbon and other fine bottom-shelf delights.

#cocktails @ Rosedale https://t.co/jVFNlxBsdB

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

@shedbookstore in Calgary: the tiniest, best curated used bookshop you'll ever visit. By appointment only, and so worth it. @ Sunalta https://t.co/I0wXwWh0p6

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

What constructive, respectful advice. Thanks, @leftbankbookscollective @ University of Calgary https://t.co/hrULpbA4s1

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Lastest #podcast episode posted — on *Richard III*, the 1st of 3 on Shakespeare’s villains: https://t.co/buq1K8WOoa @anchor
#shakespeare #podcast

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Just posted “How to Cure Yourself with Reading”: on treating everything from bad taste to wardrobe crises by reading novels. Episode 6 in my “Open Book” podcast is on _The Novel Cure_ by @susanelderkinUK and @ellaberthoud: https://t.co/XZRP1GFHVp

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Just posted "How to Read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 2-3" to my 'Open Book' #podcast. ⚓ https://t.co/16js6iifcN #paradiselost

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

ABANDON HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER my latest #podcast on “How to Read Dante’s *Inferno*” (Canto 5: Paolo and Francesca) https://t.co/EhqDdEfu4L

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Launching “Open Book”! My podcast for general audiences — or, at least, for anyone who wants to read writers like Jane Austen, John Milton, and Virginia Woolf like an English professor. 3 episodes available now, plus trailer, with more to come each week. https://t.co/4kyfWc8oIO

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Introducing my very own Little Free Library, Charter 103653: featuring Virginia Woolf, John Milton, Amy Tan, Agatha Christie, and other fine random castoffs in a little modernist treehouse. New stock weekly; get 'yer… https://t.co/NfeFmOUWwq

[Michael Ullyot @ullyot]

Road trip! In which I reconfirmed that Alberta's Badlands are not, in fact, bad lands. @ Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park https://t.co/YpgizouooU