Dr Corrina Readioff
Literary detective & long 18th-centuryist. Honorary Research Associate at the University of Liverpool.
Currently working on early modern whales
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- Reposted by Dr Corrina Readioff***DEADLINE EXTENSION TO THE 2 MARCH*** We are extending the deadline for applications for the #BSECS-BECC award to the 2 March. £400 to support research using Birmingham's extensive #18thC resources held across the city @unibirmingham.bsky.social #skystorians www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffA Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffAI is killing the arts, academia, literature, music, photography, film and the internet. I wholeheartedly detest it.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffThe headlines in this article in the Economist (UK) are great—better than almost any newspaper in the US
- The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffA German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffAlex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWe have made the decision to formally close our X social media account. Once a vibrant platform to promote the interests of authors, we feel X is no longer a trusted place for balance, community support, and reliable information.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffI just chaired a discussion for BBC radio on The Last of the Mohicans, Indigenous futurities, and US settler colonialism with some awesome people, including academics and Indigenous authors, that should drop soon. Stay tuned! Related to this adaptation, which I advised in its early development.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWe're calling for submissions to the Black Archive from disabled authors and authors of colour, who we know have been underrepresented in the range. Please spread this as widely as you can, as we want it to reach as many eligible authors as possible. Thank you. obversebooks.co.uk/blackarchive...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffIssa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffNew in the Cambridge Elements series, and free to read and download until 15 January: The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charity Recovering the Digital Archive by Hilary E. Wyss. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #History #DigitalHistory
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffIn our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffTHERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
- The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffDo any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffOh heeeey. I've just seen that my two research articles on Mary Hamilton in this volume are now available via open access (pre-print versions) on @uoyopenres.bsky.social research repository! At time of initial skeeting, they were still embargoed. Go get 'em! (or, as ever, message me for PDFs). (1/3)
- It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffAS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????
- Reposted by Dr Corrina Readioffit’s St Lucy’s day, so you know what that means — time for the best John Donne poem
- Strong contender here for world’s stupidest, most offensive and poorly considered definition of womanhood. Anyone this ridiculously uneducated and thoughtless has no place being a fellow of the Royal Society.
- This is appalling. If it doesn’t include trans women then it’s not including all women.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffAdmiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWe’ve grouped our primary source collections under historical themes! “Slavery and Abolition” contains 19 collections, totalling over 695,000 images. They document Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and opposition to it. Explore this theme at britishonlinearchives.com/themes/11/sl...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffGreat culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffI saw something say that AI was making undergrad degrees useless and I can't ignore the fact that tech bros and billionaires want everyone else to not attend college to ensure the populace loses critical thinking skills and push them out of the ability to overtake them.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffNow available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲
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- Reposted by Dr Corrina Readioff"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?" A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro -> www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffGet set! Our #StAndrewsDay sale is days away! Browse our books and top-up your shopping lists... edin.ac/32O7hNr
- This is appalling: the jury system is a fundamental aspect of the British approach to justice, ensuring that individuals are judged by their peers & not just by a legal professional. Essentially, it keeps justice in the hands of the people
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffCan anyone remember a time when there wasn't an ongoing “crackdown on benefit fraud”? The entire basis of the benefit application system is that you, as a claimant, are probably lying.
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffI’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffVaccines don't cause autism Pass it on
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffGoogle defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
- Does anyone have any good recommendations for scholarship summarising popular perceptions of the British East India Company & nabobs in Britain in the 1780s/90s? It’s not my specialism but I’m stuck on a paragraph in my research project until I can find a balanced & reliable appraisal
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffIt's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffYou're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffThis government has not taken a single meaningful step to tackle the causes of the horrendous inefficiencies in the criminal justice system, instead rushing to dismantle trial by jury. Legal professionals have offered numerous alternatives to address the backlog. Ministers are not listening.
- Kind of feel like this kind of removal to a fundamental right should be getting more attention. The whole foundation of the justice system in this country is that people are judged by their peers
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffThrilled to announce the completion of phase II of the #ElegyInTranslation project: 55 early #19thC #translations in Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh: www.thomasgray.org/texts/poems/... #ThomasGrayArchive #c18th #DH #TEI
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- Really great thread here on why film producers should stop casting Heathcliff as white (because he isn't white in the book)
- When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffThis week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffIt's so stupid for me to get pissed about this, but I still remember the radical shift when Advil went over-the-counter, when I was a freshman in college— I was wrecked by cramps, non-functional, & suddenly, this cheap miracle fixed it all in 20 min
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffPixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same. Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffSo, uh, I'm quoted in the @nytimes.com today in an article about C. S. Lewis and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Cool! 🦁 🧙 🚪 . . www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/b... . . #lionwitchwardrobe #CSLewis #NYTimes #fantasy
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffThinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWill the RW media remember the driver and conductor of the Huntingdon attack, and how many lives they saved, the next time train companies try to eliminate staff and they strike, citing passenger safety?
- Reposted by Dr Corrina Readioff'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWe need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books. 👇 drb.ie/move-over-fo...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffGiveaway! 🎉 We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark. Want to win a copy? Here's how to enter: 1. Like this post ❤️ 2. Repost 🔄 🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct 🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:
- Makes you wish Alexander Pope was alive today to ridicule the whole tasteless monstrosity in scathing satirical couplets…
- Good news for Tolkien enthusiasts! (the obviously AI “photo” within the article is decidedly creepy, but still) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWe’re so impressed by this visitor’s quill-and-ink portrait of Dr Johnson! Try your hand at writing (or drawing!) with a quill in our exhibition 'Desks, Drudgery, and the Dictionary'. Blots, smudges, and creativity all encouraged. www.drjohnsonshouse.org/visit
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffWhy would you admit this? Also, British food has been spicy forever - The Forme of Cury was written in the 14th century! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_For...
- Potatoes (a main ingredient in both the “traditional” Sunday roast and fish & chips) only arrived in the British Isles from South America around the 1580s, & didn’t catch on as a popular food until the late 18th century; which is also about the same time curry arrived in the UK
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffLooking for inspiration this weekend? Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 brings world-class authors & fresh new voices to the heart of the city. Enjoy books, authors, and the power of stories. Explore the programme: lpoolcouncil.info/3W8CEuA Don’t miss it! #LivLitFest25
- Reposted by Dr Corrina ReadioffPLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
