William Bateman

PhD on D. H. Lawrence, Travel Writing, and Literary Impressionism. // Interests: literary modernism, literary impressionism, and arts of place. // Views my own.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Today I passed my viva (with a few minor corrections). Thanks to my examiners Max Saunders and Howard Booth for some constructive and probing discussion. Thanks also to Rona Cran for chairing (and for encouraging my efforts as an undergraduate!)

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@AkvileStuart Thanks! Yes - definitely! 👍

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

This is my tweet to say I'm leaving research for a job in professional services at the University of London. I've become a functioning human being as a result of the exceptional teachers, mentors and friends i have had at Birmingham so all i can say is thanks - for everything.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Here are a few pictures of me and my best friend:

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

I am the mouse

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

"How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, meetings, calls, activities, both personal and corporate." V. Woolf - The Waves (of dread at being linked in)

[The State of LinkedIn @StateOfLinkedIn]

What a belter

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

This is how the PhD ends, not with a bang but with a Dr.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@DrRexFerguson Cheers Rex! 😁

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Today I passed my viva (with a few minor corrections). Thanks to my examiners Max Saunders and Howard Booth for some constructive and probing discussion. Thanks also to Rona Cran for chairing (and for encouraging my efforts as an undergraduate!)

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Thanks also to everyone in the English Department at Birmingham who has supported me over the years (directly or indirectly). I am grateful to you all.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@N_J_Westwood Congratulations! 🎉🎉

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@AkvileStuart Congratulations! 🎉

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@matthewmoor3 @drnjwaddell @EDACS_UoB Of course! :)

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

I submitted my thesis! Thanks to my supervisors @drnjwaddell, Andrew Harrison, and Andrzej Gasiorek for all of their generous advice and encouragement. Thanks also to all the great people in @EDACS_UoB who directly (or indirectly) supported me in getting here.

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

THE END! "Bombast and Sesquipedalian Words: Translation, Mistranslation, and the Epigraph to The Waste Land" - Check the full thing out in @modcultures 17.1 alongside research by @sean_d_k, @patty_argy, and @WBateman95 reviewing @NeoLawrencian. DM me for access 👀

[Dr. Deepti Gurdasani @dgurdasani1]

PM just asked about disproportionate impacts on poorer people who may not be able to pay £60-120 for a test, and then lose pay by self-isolating without enough financial support. PM just says that we are 'underestimating the willingness of people to do the right thing' Shameful

[Sean Ketteringham @sean_d_k]

My article on Etchells and architecture in @modcultures is out today! Particularly fun to be in amongst some brilliant work by @RuthieClems on Eliot and translation, @WBateman95 reviewing @NeoLawrencian, & @patty_argy on Joyce and Nijinsky https://t.co/wD9iA6FJWV

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

I want a big pink foam finger that has BLAST printed on it. I'll accept my design concept is somewhat limited at present but (being fair to me) I am limited by my own technical abilities. To make this dream viable I need 250 investors. I imagine a BLESS sequel will follow.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

And so ends a 10 hour quote checking marathon. My conclusions are: I suck at reading and copying down what I read.

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

@GreenBowlerHat Of course not! :)

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Bless - Cheap, Sour, Already Open - Wine

[William Bateman @WBateman95]

Today. Blast D. H. Lawrence. Blast my thesis. Blast Boris Johnson. Blast the neo-liberal university. SENSATIONALISM. FUSSINESS. MIDLANDS PAROCHIALISM. Blast this one organ man.