Dr Jen Baker
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
- Reposted by Dr Jen Baker🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
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- I hope to fuck this is some sort of temporary glitch 😳
- @thomasgermain.bsky.social Are you aware that Google Books has effectively stopped working - the material is still there, but all search functions no longer seem to work, making fresh access impossible. Can't find any reportage on this but it seems a major story with huge implications..
- Have absolutely lost the plot. Chapter should be max 15k, and is currently totting up at *checks*... *checks again*... 38.5k. And no, it can't be two separate chapters. Time to kill a significant number of darlings.
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- Nooooooooo 💔💔😭 #CatherineOHara you Queen. Sleep well.
- Raging against the overwhelming number of bloody birthday card options that say "Mum" "Mummy" or even "Mammy" but not the correct appellation: "Mom"
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- What a shockingly short-sighted, lazy, mercenary way to avoid investing in the essential resources of TAs, human tutors, libraries, pastoral care, community learning and more, and putting money in the pockets of destructive inequitable corporations Absolute bullshit. I hope parents resist.
- We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it. AI can help us do that. Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
- Shout out to fellow academics who also spend their days researching & writing abt weird, sickening & horrendous historical things. Reading the most heinous deeds, thinking you are all detached, and objective, and then suddenly you pause: "hmm I wonder why I feel so sick / sad today" 🤔
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- Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor! Deadline Monday 9th March. Annual honorarium of £200. More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
- Reposted by Dr Jen BakerThe British Library’s PhD placement scheme for 26/27 is now open. My team are offering an exciting placement aiming to raise the profile of our illustrated newspaper collection: www.bl.uk/services/res...
- I notice reaction videoson youtube to RATM *Killing in the Name of* seem to be on the increase... 👀 Also seems a good time to revisit Foos *The Pretender* music video... 👀
- DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION .... 👀👀😠😠😵💫😵💫 SHIT... DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION, DON'T READ THE COMMENTS SECTION ...Okay but just this ...👀👀😡😡😱😱 Ad infinitum
- Dinner this evening courtesy of Red Hot Mamma in Stratford. The takeaway box was a particular highlight!
- Reposted by Dr Jen BakerThe cast and crew of ‘HAMNET’ dance to “We Found Love” by Rihanna to celebrate the end of production.
- Turns out I wasn't and expended a lot of energy at multiple moments trying not to audibly sob. At one point I was biting my scarf. We had dinner reservations afterwards and was trying my best to pretend my face was not a blotchy mess. I thought Jessie Buckley was outstanding.
- Ready...I think #Hamnet
- Ready...I think #Hamnet
- Watched the final last night but very late as we had had guests round. Really enjoyed it but was fine emotionally. Just watched last 10mins again and now uncloaked and am an emotional mess 😭😭❤️ #TheTraitors
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- Fucking hell. Seemingly an AI production, fake author 😡😡
- My heart 😱😱😱 #TheTraitors
- Annnnnd finally... Reading log: Book#4 of 2026 - Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (2004) wasn't sure I would ever finish it! 44 hours of listening! First half was a bit slow, but very much enjoyed the footnotes & certain passages/ storylines overall. Too long for teaching, I fear
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- Mornin'
- Grrrr James stop with fucking eye rolling 🙄🙄🙄 #TheTraitors
- Ooof this a tough, funny, and I hope in the end rewarding watch on BBC iplayer.
- Warwick Winter Graduation. Looking forward to seeing some English and Comparative Literary Studies PhDs, MAs, and a few UGs walk the stage today. Many congratulations to them all! Also enjoy floating about in my robes and floppy hat once again 🥰
- Sorry but I was ahead of the curve and already had Blue Monday like last week and decided to finally get my productive shit together.
- Holy fuck! The prices for Cynthia Erivo's 'Dracula' 😱😱 this is just for a midweek performance. And yes, I know there are ways to get cheaper tickets etc, but wow. Not for the Every Man!
