Dr Rhonda Mayne
Academic in modernist literature & culture: Virginia Woolf, feminism, social class, dance & performance.
Senior Executive Member, Steering Committee, British Association for Modernist Studies.
Website: sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/home
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- Dance has long operated as a social language: who moves, how, and where matters. These questions shape reputation well beyond Regency Britain — and well beyond the ballroom.
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneRomanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
- Delighted to share that my article, “‘I Had Hoped to Have Dancing’: The Dance Motif, Memory, and Social Aspiration in Mrs Dalloway, 100 Years On,” is out now in The Modernist Review — open access. modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/i... #VirginiaWoolf #Modernism #BAMS
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneToday, St Brigid’s Day, marks three years since Ireland’s first public holiday named after a woman. It’s a chance to celebrate the vital role women play in Irish culture and history. Discover St Brigid's story on the @dib.ie dib.ie/biography/brigit-br…
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- Many thanks for sharing. I’m delighted to be part of this issue of The Modernist Review. #VirginiaWoolf #BAMS
- For the first #ModWrite Monday in February we are pleased to share #TheModernistReview58! Our first issue of 2026 celebrates the 34th Anuual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/t...
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneI am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneThis reminded me of when I went to London to read for the Irish Literary Society and called in at the wrong super-posh hotel. The manager looked at me and rushed out to check what I was up to: I told him and he replied. "I can assure you, sir, there will be no poetry reading in THIS hotel tonight!"
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneMoney, Modernism & Inflation in The Great Gatsby
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneIs there anything better than unfolding a really cool old map? (Pencil for scale) #skystorians @nlireland.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneLooking for a new challenge in 2026? Join SUP and support not-for-profit academic publishing. We have three vacancies for editorial board members. Submit your application by Monday 2 February 2026 sup.ac.uk/news/editorial-boar…
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneI have long enjoyed writing to my literary heroes. No more so than as a romantic book-mad 20year-old, pre library employment. Muriel Spark was quick to recommend the library as a source for her further reading faves to save me 'dipping into my dole'. How I treasure this letter #libraries
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneHannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda Mayne'There has been progress in the diversity of texts on offer in the GCSE English literature curriculum, but uptake in schools is still low with just 1.9% of GCSE pupils in England studying books by authors of colour, up from 0.7% five years ago, according to a report.' 1/2
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneA 3 year JRF at Magdalene and Notre Dame in Irish Studies – sounds like a pretty great opportunity for someone.
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneOur latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February. www.bl.uk/services/res...
- This piece made me think of Virginia Woolf, a voracious, eclectic reader for whom reading and writing were deeply intertwined. She forged originality by orchestrating the disparate voices she read—history, biography, novels, classic Greek tragedy—on the page itself.
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MaynePenultimate new episode up now. The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch, with guest Ian Patterson in Socratic dialogue with @unamccormack.bsky.social Nicky Birch and me. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/256...
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneNew Book! Brooke Newman's The Crown's Silence 'The book reveals that by 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire, the British crown had become the world’s largest buyer of enslaved people, buying 13,000 men for the army for £900,000." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda Mayne🔊 There's 1 week left to apply for open positions at BAMS, including 5 roles on our committee, and 3 postgraduate representative roles. To apply, see here bams.ac.uk. For an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneLooking forward to this semester‘s @qubhistory.bsky.social seminar series which starts this Friday! Drinks and snacks provided as usual. All welcome!
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda Mayne"Her life—that was the only chance she had—the short season between two silences." ~ Virginia Woolf, ‘The Voyage Out’ (1915) #Painting, Frank Weston Benson, 1909.
- A compelling piece. What lingers is the Woolfian absurdity of it all: the Library could receive women’s books, while the women who wrote them were timed, restricted, and refused entry. The petition speaks in a professional register, from women doing serious work without institutional trust.
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneDr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneCome along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment. Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s... #18thCentury #18C #18thC
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- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneIrish fiction debuts to look forward this year from Neil Tully, Ana Kinsella to Colin Morgan
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneJoin us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social Prof. Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneOn #PublicRadioBroadcastingDay, a look back to the BBC’s first daytime Women’s Hour (1923–24), when women on air discussed everything from infant welfare to journalism. Read more: womenshistorynetwork.org/early-radio-... #WomensHistory #RadioHistory #GenderHist
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- This is beautifully observed. Orwell’s Januarys—frozen ground, vile winds, earth “like iron”—don’t offer easy consolation. They ask us to wait. Winter passes, spring returns, and in that simple sequence there’s a kind of steadiness when so much else feels unsettled.
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda Mayne"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneThe ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.
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- Appreciated the opportunity to speak today at #NWIMS15 on Woolf, working-class women, silence, and narrative form. Thank you for the questions and the generosity of the exchange. #virginiawoolf #modernism
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneThu 29 Jan: "Coaching for success: transforming leadership and career development in higher education" (online-only), 11.30 - 13.30 GMT An interactive training session for ECRs exploring coaching, mentoring & leadership in academia. Register free here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/19a341...
- Reposted by Dr Rhonda MayneJob alert! Interested in a career in libraries? We're looking for our next Graduate Trainee Library Assistant to start in September 2026. A great introduction to the profession and a fascinating and friendly place to work. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ835/g...
