Catherine Quirk, PhD
Dog mum. Senior Lecturer in Drama. Coffee lover, writer, actor, director, (digital) theatre historian, Victorianist. Language learner. Likes &c my own. she/her. 🌈
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDVery pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDWe should not shy away from understanding the underlying message of all this, & so much else in the media: that it ought to be socially acceptable to be able to pick a marginalised group and hate them, to make yourself feel good. No. It ought not.
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- “Who wrote this, Ibsen? Stop talking!” and other things I shout at the TV when I’ve clearly been spending too much time with work…
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDBritish Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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- I’m so tired. Must be all the taking I’ve done. Image: a Home Office X post saying “Britain welcomes migrants who contribute to our economy and society. High earners, entrepreneurs and skilled frontline workers like NHS staff will be fast-tracked to settlement - rewarding those who give, not take”
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDThe first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDFor our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks. Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDDickens is going to Denmark! Will you go too? CFP deadline: 4 January Conference: 13-16 July in Aarhus on ‘Thinking Dickens’ dickenssociety.org/home
- Thread of all HE threads 👇 Super depressing, but sort of nice in the midst of it all to know that you’re not alone in this experience…
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDTOMORROW - join us!!!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Never thought I’d be boycotting a work Christmas Carol concert, and yet here we are. UK HE really needs to sort out its priorities 🙄
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDone of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDTHIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDNEXT WEEK - join us!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
- If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!! We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDCall for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too! Abstracts due April 26 Articles due December 26 #Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic Please share!
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDJoin us at the end of the month for David Coates’ paper on Amateur Theatricals 🖤🖤🖤 Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social Free, online, all welcome!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Happy Nope-vember to all who celebrate!
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDIf you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDOur first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social! Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDInterested in the history of Seven Dials or London or the 1920s and 1930s? I'm doing some walking tours of the Dials with @stanfordstravel.bsky.social on Sat 15 Nov. There's loads to see, but Seven Dials is so small you don't need to walk far. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/songs...
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDOur @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!
- First up is: 29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Calling all c19 theatre and performance folks - you don’t want to miss this!
- Our second seminar is: 27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #EHU19SeminarSeries
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDThe full line up for our 2025/2026 #EHU19SeminarSeries is available to book now in the thread below! Join us for a free, online, and friendly discussion about cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century studies!
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDWe are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm. Free! Online! All welcome! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDYou can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Fascinatingly, most of the things in the replies to this are…things I’ve not seen 😂
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDJob alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDThe English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
- I wonder if Carney had to crowd-fund his trip to the Women’s Rugby World Cup final, or if it was just the team who needed to do that…? 😒
- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDEvery day, I find myself wishing that our new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Organizers in Crisis, was already out in the world, because I think it could really help people right now. Preorders really make all the difference in terms of helping a book become widely available.
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- battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: -the little sigh as a dog puts their sleepy head on your knee -the first bar of the overture in a hushed theatre -discovering the coffee pot still has another cup in it -rereading a good book -the smell of a fireplace on a crisp autumn day
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDBe generous. Now be more generous. Share your privilege. We need creative professionals to step up & volunteer to mentor a young person who doesn't have the connections or financial backing to believe they could access a creative career. Sign up to mentor in 2026 👉 www.arts-emergency.o...
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDDoing this talk tonight at Guildford Fringe - if you’re interested in suffrage histories and theatre histories then it’ll be the perfect way to spend a blustery evening away from the news… guildfordfringefestival.com/events/deeds...
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhD'Nigel Farage has hit out at universities for “poisoning the minds” of students with what he said was a “twisted interpretation of history” in his speech on the opening day of the Reform UK conference.' 1/3
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- Reposted by Catherine Quirk, PhDGlasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...
- Typo du jour: A Doll’s Hose (Close runner up: 1789 as date of first performance) #AmWriting #TheatreHistory
- Today an actor told me that they’d felt safe as a queer person in my rehearsal room when they hadn’t been used to feeling that way. And honestly that’s the biggest win I’ll ever have in my entire career. Thank you to all who came to our Frankenstein: I hope you felt just as safe with us!
- I’m currently working on a musical with some of the beautifulest music I’ve ever heard: why do I have Avril Lavigne in my head? (Relatedly, last chance to see the English-language world premiere of Beom and Lee’s Frankenstein! A few tickets left for today’s shows: www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/franke...)
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- Be like Chloe (and their mum): get your tickets while you can! 💚
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- Hey UK-based (and willing to travel) theatre folks! If you’re not spending your life savings and every last drop of energy in Edinburgh this August, why not come to Liverpool(ish) and experience a musical theatre world premiere?
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