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Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies @ UCC, Ireland • Shakespeare on screen • Women in early modern drama • Shakespearean biofiction • Cat-owner, cake-lover, books, plants • she/her
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- Watching the Eliminators on #Gladiators like -

- If you’re heading to see #Hamnet in the cinema, nominated for 8 #Oscars, check out my @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social article about the film, its origins, and the growing trend of #Shakespeare biofiction! #SpeirGorm #SpeirGhorm
- Interested in #Hamnet, this year’s big release headlined by two Irish stars? Want to know more about the film’s origins, #Shakespeare’s life on screen, and the hot trend that is #biofiction? Read my article on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social hot off the (online) press! #PaulMescal #JessieBuckley
- Saw this rook elegantly picking at some damp moss in #Cork city today #corvid #IrishBirds #photography
- Got some research written today, a teaching day, and this is how I’m feeling! #Shakespeare #academic

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- Interested in #Hamnet, this year’s big release headlined by two Irish stars? Want to know more about the film’s origins, #Shakespeare’s life on screen, and the hot trend that is #biofiction? Read my article on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social hot off the (online) press! #PaulMescal #JessieBuckley
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- Make a Bond movie academic: The World Is Not Enough: multinational expansion and market instability in the post-Bond era.
- Folks - I am quoted in National Geographic on #Hamnet #Shakespeare!!! 🤩 It energises me to continue research on Shakespeare biofiction with @kscheil.bsky.social and editing our 50 chapter Shakespeare biofiction Handbook - out with Palgrave in 2026! www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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- Got a ticket to this - quite excited! And it is right in my areas of research expertise too! #biofiction #shakespeare #hamnet
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- Today the University of Galway is hosting the Irish Renaissance Seminar. The theme of this meeting is #earlymodern books 📚 #IrishRenSeminar #renaissance
- Reposted by did:plc:mytsbez377ifyobsum23m6te🚨 Job alert 🚨 NorseMap is recruiting for a new team member: a 3-year postdoctoral researcher with a background in Politics OR Old Norse Viking Studies to lead the 'Politics & Identity' strand of the project. Come and work with us at UCC! my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...
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- The Dragon of Shandon #Halloween parade in Cork city, #Ireland was great fun! Well done to all the makers and performers! #Cork #CorkCity #Halloween2025
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- Saw a Dalek in Bradford and after years of watching #DoctorWho meant that it was cool but also properly creepy!
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- Reposted by did:plc:mytsbez377ifyobsum23m6teWomen have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
- Reposted by did:plc:mytsbez377ifyobsum23m6teIf you're interested in learning more about Richard Burbage's impact on Shakespeare, you might enjoy the piece I've just written for The Conversation @uk.theconversation.com - theconversation.com/richard-burb...
- Today’s movie viewing was “Shakes versus Shav”, an Irish-made short film where #Shakespeare & #GBShaw, in puppet-form, square up to one another to debate the quality of their art and their legacies! #biofiction
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- Enjoying my #biofiction research by seeing @the-rsc.bsky.social Born With Teeth with @ncutigatwa.bsky.social as #Marlowe and Edward Bluemel as #Shakespeare in London. @lizduffyadams.bsky.social
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- Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+Juliet turns thirty in 2026 - celebrate by joining our seminar on the influence, legacy, and reception of this iconic film @saaupdates.bsky.social conference! Register for the seminar on the #shax2026 website by 15 September. #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare
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- #Caturday - Here’s Anita demonstrating one use for her tail: eye mask during a nap
- Reposted by did:plc:mytsbez377ifyobsum23m6teThe Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...
- The 2026 World #Shakespeare Congress takes place in Verona, & @gemmaallred.bsky.social @benbroadribb.bsky.social & I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their 21st-Century Reverberations - come join us! #WSC2026 Register at www.wsc2026.org
- Research this week includes the film that launched a thousand #biofiction imitators - #Shakespeare In Love (1998). So impressed by the beautiful (Oscar-winning) costumes.
- #Caturday - some toe beans on show today
- Bee, caterpillar, and butterfly enjoying the nasturtiums and other flowers today #SpeirGorm #photography #garden
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- Reading #Shakespeare #biofiction plays this weekend for research and recalling some great productions like Dead Centre’s #Hamnet in 2017 #annehathaway #williamshakespeare