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Shani Bans

7 months

I came to the UK as an Afghan refugee with no English. Education was - and still is - not an option for girls in Afghanistan. I am proud to say I passed my PhD @ucl with no corrections.🥳

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Shani Bans

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7 months

A huge thank you to my examiners @_erinsullivan_ and Gillian Woods, and of course to my supervisor, Eric Langley.

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Overwhelmed by the response on here. I have no words. Thank you.

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'Recontextualizing Indian Shakespeare Cinema in the West' is out! Thanks to our wonderful editors @ChatterjeeKoel and @EarlyModernDoc for making it happen ()✨

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4 years

Hello Twitter! 🥳 #FirstTweet

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2 years

I'll be chairing a roundtable on 'Early Modern Minds': 19th October 5-7pm @UCLEarlyModXcha . Come celebrate the launch of Prof Helen Hackett's new book, 'The Elizabethan Mind'. In conversation with Prof Raphael Lyne and Prof Kate Hodgkin.

HYBRID EME/IAS book launch: Early Modern Minds

Early Modern Exchanges and IAS are pleased to launch Prof Helen Hackett's new book, 'The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty' (Yale UP). With papers from Prof Raphael

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I'm terrible with Twitter so please accept my sincere apologies if I have missed a question or request from you (this tweet went a tad mad!). Feel free to message me.

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Thank you @acmrs_asu for awarding me the #RaceB4Race Travel Grant to attend the symposium in person! I cannot wait!🤩

Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies

@acmrs_asu

7 months

Rising: A #RaceB4Race Symposium starts a week from tomorrow! This event will be in person in Tempe AND livestreamed—register now so you don't miss a thing! #EMTwitter #Shakerace #classicstwitter #medievaltwitter @ldn_shakespeare @The_Globe

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@conversiontales Last lines of Joyce’s The Dead

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6 months

Dr Eli Cumings (PhD @englishunicam ) and Dr Masuda Quershi (PhD @birkbeck_ETC ) will be speaking about their experience on finishing the PhD. Thursday 25th Feb at 6pm, Zoom ()

EMSOC_UK

@EMSOC_UK

6 months

📣Join us for the first event in our Professional Development series: Finishing the PhD with @elicumings and @MasudaQureshi 📣 The event is free and will take place online, via Zoom, on Thursday 15th February 2024 at 6pm GMT. ⬇️Link to join below

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3 years

This morning was a great example of the importance of bringing undergraduates and graduates into the conversation about pedagogy. Bravo! #LitPOC #ShakeRacePedagogy

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3 years

We did it .... !!!!! @XineYaoPhD @xazzd @jennifirv big thanks 2 the organisers & to my lovely mischievous co-conspirators 🤍 I was nervous as hell but happy to see these cute familiar faces & hear them say amazing clever things

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@DrCLaoutaris @ucl Thank you Chris, this would not have been possible without your encouragement!

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Oh to have the confidence of 1910s Hamlet critics! ... 🙄

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'if like a crab / you could go backward'. Great typo to start the day!

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‘As your guest, I trained myself / To beautify / Our collective trauma.’ - Bhanu Kapil, expressing the inexpressible

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Montaigne on Germans and their wine, ‘they have it better cheape’ 🍷

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Susan Sontag sees through my attempts to write 😬

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'And each particular hair to stand on end / Like quills upon the fretful porcupine' - Hamlet & @wellcomeimages

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3 years

I will be running virtual reading sessions every Wednesday at 6.30pm. Do get in touch if you'd like to join! All members of @RBKingston are welcome :)

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@kinglibheritage

3 years

Reading Friends is a national scheme being run by Kingston Libraries that tackles loneliness and social isolation by bringing people together to read, share stories, chat and have fun. Join in by phone or online. Further info: @RBKingston @MindinKingston

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@EmmaWhipday @ucl Thanks Emma, let's catch up soon x

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3 years

Dear first-generation graduate students... this thread is worth reading 👇🏽

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4 years

'Rivals' from the Latin ‘rīvālis’: a person living on the opposite bank or stream from another, a person who is in pursuit of the same object as another. #academia

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@writerlennon is on 🔥

Dr Wendy Lennon FEA MCCT

@writerlennon

3 years

Delighted to be nominated as a Fellow of the English Association: Wendy Lennon FEA!🎊🎆Thank you to the @EnglishAssoc Also thrilled to join the British Shakespeare Association's Education Committee! @BSAShakespeare What a week! 🎊🎆

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@notrockyhorror @ucl Thanks Richard, let's catch up soon x

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@Dr_Dustagheer @Ardenpublisher @mems_ukc @LondonHistorian @Heather1576 @TraceLarkhall @ShakespearesLon @andykesson @UniKentNews @DuncanSalkeld @ldn_shakespeare @LazarusTheatre Many congrats Sarah, this looks fantastic!

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‘The very perception of some spaces as being too soft might even be related to the harshness of the worlds we are organizing to challenge.’ - @SaraNAhmed ’s ‘Against Students’ is worth reading

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4 years

'I daydreamed about a living situation stable enough to accommodate a dog and my own furniture' - this short piece is worth reading.

Emily is writing a book

@EtheHerring

4 years

Some personal news that some of you may find surprising (spoiler alert: I quit my job). Why I Am Leaving Academia - by Emily Herring

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Round of (virtual) applause for @ProfFarahKC 's lecture 'Shakespeare, Race and Performance' 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 So incredibly eloquent and informative. It's recorded and well worth watching!

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@The_Globe

3 years

Our very own @ProfFarahKC shares her #ShakeRace research in a lecture on #Othello , #RomeoAndJuliet and early modern preoccupations with race. Shakespeare, Race and Performance is at @MuseumofLondon & livestreamed tonight 6pm: #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2021

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'Sometimes I am apt to doe anything, and other times fit to doe nothing: What now is pleasing to me, within a while after will be painfull' - Montaigne #Mondays

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@samsonaws @angela_mcshane @ucl Thank you Alex

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@respinosa1564 Many congrats Ruben, can’t wait to read it! 🥳

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@Frangipancesca @ETreharne @gregmw4 Congratulations Fran - what a beaut!

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@ClareGS87 @DrNHetherington Congrats Clare, that's a real beauty!

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'Night unsettles phenomenology, mist disturbs ontology. Shadow reinforces the distinction between being and appearance, mist blurs it. Thing or veil, being or non-being, that is the question.' - Serres's Hamlet

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@writerlennon @ShakesInstitute @respinosa1564 @_erinsullivan_ @DrCLaoutaris @Team_English1 @BSAShakespeare @EnglishAssoc Congratulations Wendy! Cannot wait to celebrate with you 🥂

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When the citation is x5 the sentence word count😑

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Ocean Vuong:

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@will_tosh Happy Birthday Will! Hope you’ve had a spectacular day ✨

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4 years

Thanks @SRSRenSoc for taking this important step in fixing the pipeline. Please circulate this to current undergraduates and almuni!

Renaissance SRS

@SRSRenSoc

4 years

To address the under-representation of people of colour who research the Renaissance, the SRS is introducing a Scholar of Colour MA Bursary. In this first instance, we will be offering three bursaries of £2500 each. Apply by 1 May

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@amy_lidster @routledgebooks @loughnrv @SRSRenSoc This is amazing - congratulations! 🥳

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@JoseAPerezDiez @LeedsUniEnglish Many congratulations José 🥳

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@DrCLaoutaris @EnglishAssoc @ShakesInstitute @WmCollinsBooks @EDACS_UoB @ArabellaPike @artsatbham @BordersAlliance @SAAupdates @BSAShakespeare @LiteraryHalcyon @TheSohoAgencyUK Many congratulations Chris, it is wonderful to see you gain recognition for all your hard work and incredible achievements.

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Shani Bans

@shani_bans

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@1623theatre @1623learning @QueerLadyM @OthellosSister @Angelica_Play Thank you, I've followed these excellent recommendations and check out the miniseries on Youtube! 👍🏽

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@will_tosh @SceptreBooks @eleanorbirne @pew_literary @The_Globe Congratulations Will 🥳 I cannot wait to get hold of a copy!

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@HarryMcCarthy This has to be witchcraft! Also very useful - thank you so much :)

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@notrockyhorror Many congratulations Richard! 🥳

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@becimay 🎾💀

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@notrockyhorror Many congratulations Richard! 🍕🥳

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@Frangipancesca Me too, I started it this weekend and already I know it's going to be one of those collections that I will need to keep revisiting! Hope you're keeping well too Fran :)

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@HarryMcCarthy @SAAupdates Congratulations Harry! 🥳

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@jesslcotton @CambridgeEng Ahhh congrats Jess! 🥳

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@HarryMcCarthy Thanks Harry, this is sweet of you (😳); I really enjoyed your blog post from a while back on the Globe website, would love to discuss it in further with you some time!

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@FlorenceHazrat Many congrats Florence! 🥳

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