@ellierycroft.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialThat everything early modern was all dark and oak wood and not painted colourfully and lit by abundant candles which reflected off metal plates.
@ellierycroft.bsky.social"Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can." (3/3)
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialOne day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there): (2/3)
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialDuring the tech bros' relentless pushing of AI for their own enrichment, at the cost of humanity's impoverishment, hold on to this- the preface from Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem: "In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. (1/3)
@ellierycroft.bsky.social"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has/ And these are of them." Some of my favourite lines of Shakey.
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialTo adapt yesterday's trend, do you all have an obvious favourite photo of your cat? Because I sure do, and this one gets printed out for the front of every homemade birthday/father's day/mother's day card we make for each other in my family.
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialPleased to announce a new publication in this truly excellent volume patiently edited by Katie Walter. Think I can officially say I'm a 'late medievalist' as well as 'early modernist' with this one! Plus pictures!! Just what is Joseph up to in that corner? Find out in '(S)pacing Faith'...
@ellierycroft.bsky.social#nationalpoetryday and this one caught me a few years back: a rich world of relationships, spaces, and paying attention to what and where we are. 'Attention' by Nick Laird published in the New Yorker in 2023.
@ellierycroft.bsky.social@ellierycroft.bsky.socialCould all the warmongering old white dudes just die now and hand everything straight over to Gen Z/Alpha?
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialWorking from home = Weleda Skin Food iykyk
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialUnbelievable work... And I'm so pleased this is being supported by British Academy/Leverhulme.
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialLove a festschrift almost as much as I love the scholarship of @lisahopkins.bsky.social
@tracelarkhall.bsky.socialReposted by @ellierycroft.bsky.socialDelighted to learn that Sir Thomas Middleton, LM in 1613, had a jester
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialVery happy to wait! 🙏🏼
@ellierycroft.bsky.social@sally-barnden.bsky.social if you're reviewing for Shax Survey and able to get a plus one, count me in?!
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialDamn - just missed this at BOV. I have no idea why I didn't get tickets... I love the company's work and actually chaired a post-show talk for Paradise Lost a few years back. I think two years of reviewing Shakespeare has fatigued me - kicking myself now though!
@chrismillard83.bsky.socialReposted by @ellierycroft.bsky.social“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialReporting this! 😄
@ellierycroft.bsky.socialMessage for 'the news': more new cats, less new catastrophes please, thank you.