Professor of Literary Linguistics an all that. Now at https://xitter.cf/t.co/4O0UhV4iV9

Nottingham and Sheffield
Joined August 2013
Gone to Bluesky. You should too.
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We are hosting the annual @babelzine Lecture at @UoNEnglish on 12th November Henry Normal: ‘Poetry, Comedy and a Greater Truth’ Free admission but strictly ticketed - sign up here: tinyurl.com/NormalBabel
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We are hosting the annual @babelzine Lecture at @UoNEnglish on 12th November Henry Normal: ‘Poetry, Comedy and a Greater Truth’ Free admission but strictly ticketed - sign up here: tinyurl.com/NormalBabel
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If you teach literature in the language classroom, come to this in Nottingham! Deadline for papers 16 Feb.
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By one of my colleagues! By, it’s a great book! Buy it!
The Literary Lifeline is now out! Here's the author's dog and cat pondering who's going to paw over it first 🐾 Bloomsbury.com/literary-life…
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Always a joy to talk to @EddieNestorMBE on @BBCRadioLondon . Wide ranging this morning: grammar, voice, tone, AI, accent prejudice, Marxist analysis of western society!
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Here for @UoNEnglish at Eurovision? We’re over at Bsky
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Today is our conference for students of English Lang/Lit at @UniofNottingham To the StylisticsMobile!
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I am accidentally in Newcastle and listening to their cup celebrations. Quite nice to see joy on the faces of fans of these smaller clubs when they occasionally win a trophy. Fair’s fair: congratulations NUFC on equalling the achievement of the mighty #Boro
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Last chance to book your A-level English students in for our Lang/Lit conference on 1st April here in Nottingham. This is the venue englishandmedia.co.uk/confer…
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Done that lecture, finished that paper, Irish stew has been in for a while, just about to do a soda bread. Here’s a trad playlist of the diddle-ee-dee for St Patrick’s day. Is it too early for a Guinness? open.spotify.com/playlist/2L…
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Teaching A-level Lang/Lit within a day’s ride of Nottingham? Bring your merry band of students to this! Booking now @EngMediaCentre for 1st April. Only £20pp and we’ll feed you too and hand over some free swag englishandmedia.co.uk/confer…
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My lovely UG student is investigating differences between GCSE & A-level English Lang curriculums & reasons for the decrease in students studying Eng Lang A-level. If you teach A Level students (of any subject) could you ask them to complete this survey? shorturl.at/ghgXI
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In association with @EngMediaCentre - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (yes, really) for the UK’s first ever student conference for A-level Lang/Lit. Cheap as chips! And a great line up. Book here: englishandmedia.co.uk/confer…
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Initial symposium to book submission: 10 months. One reviewer said the timescale was ‘wild’ and they were not wrong! Thanks to our brilliant contributors. Out with @EdinburghUP later in the year
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This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @shefenglish Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/head-o…
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In association with @EngMediaCentre - come to Nottingham on April Fool’s Day (no, really) for our student conference for A-level Lang/Lit englishandmedia.co.uk/confer…
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Surely not ChatGPT / OpenAI complaining they have been the victims of copyright theft and plagiarism? The category of situational irony is not ‘deep’ enough to do justice to the self-imploding singularity of this.
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