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Cat Watts

@catchantwatts

Medieval French / Fanfiction, videogames, comic books, social media / PhD student @Newnham_College @Cambridge_Uni @oocdtp / (she/her)

Joined June 2018
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This is a legacy account - academic queries can find me at my institutional email I post memes and tunes at @gauvain4president on insta
For anything academic (chats, collabs, and anything I can help with or promote as MML representative), drop me an Institutional Email For your totally unscheduled memes and tunes, I'm over at @gauvain4president on insta
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Online Medieval French Seminars starting tomorrow at 5pm BST and then fortnightly throughout the summer. DM or email me if you'd like to be added to the mailing list.
Image from Dr Miranda Griffin (@MirandaHGriffin)
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Our next session will take place on Thurs 10th June, 5pm BST. Rebecca Courtier @BexCourtier will speak on 'Revolutionary Love: Radical Poiesis: Cultural Reversals in French Literature'. Register now @ cammedsem.co.uk! #medievaltwitter
Image from Cambridge Medieval Literature and Culture Seminar (@cammedsem)
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To clarify: I love my PhD, it is easily the cushiest job I have ever had, three years' steady employment? In this economy? Yes please. But it is a 30 hour wage and we need to acknowledge that.
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Shout out to uni departments offering ongoing flexible employment you're the real MVPs
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love when a society has a reduced membership rate for students of "only half a day's wages"
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your friendly reminder that a fully-funded UK AHRC PhD student makes £7.66 per hour if they work a 40-hour work week (which is why I Don't Do That)
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you're allowed to work 10 hours a week which takes it up to £10.22 an hour, which is why I'm not remotely ashamed of having a (better-paid) second job despite being a "fully-funded" "full-time" student
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reached the stage where I send invites to study sessions with this song and no further context youtube.com/watch?v=j97_y_z0…
Magic To Do - Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording)

Magic To Do - Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording)

Track 1 of the Pippin 2013 New Broadway Cast Recording soundtrack. ...

youtube.com
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the most radiant glorious launch of #tgqs finally made me cry in the last five seconds. congratulations on such a wonderful resonant book❤️@chantermestuet and @aspencerhall have seen to it that you can even read some of this important scholarship for free bit.ly/TGQS-final
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined...

routledge.com
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also if i was gonna accidentally wear flannel to any academic event I guess this one's the best one
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I think I like reviewing! It's just being nice to someone and attentive to the things they care about for five hundred words.
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"multitasking isn't really possibl-" i'm waiting on the phone to the bank, reading for a review, and chatting with a friend with music on. i'm too powerful.
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Publication day for this lovely thing: boydellandbrewer.com/9781843…
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anyone else having a fight with #outlook today? I haven't been able to import contacts lists from Google Docs, Word, or Excel (in various .csv formats) that worked up until Tuesday
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7am may be civilised for rowers but it is not civilised for phd students
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just got really angry bc/ SOMEONE had all the books I needed out of @theUL . checked my loans. it's me. I've got the books I need out of the UL. I give up.
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