How’s it going, Bluesky?

Thank you! It’s nice to see you here!

Thank you, dear Susan!

The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy du…

It's publication day! My second book on literature, political economy, and collective value is now available.

All of you BlueSky newbies have really cheered me up. I’d been hoping for your arrival for a very long time.

Hello, new followers! I'm bad at social media, but I'm excited to make so many new connections. I'm an educator and scholar based at Uni Hamburg. I focus on 18C and 19C British literature (but I'm really a 'generalist'). I'm into economic literary criticism and new formalism. I also teach EFL.

I’m nervous about the US election. Lauryn Hill in Hamburg cheered me up last night.

Blue sky, seagulls, rippling water.

North Sea today.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #685,868!

Manuscript sent off. Thank goodness I can now stop using MS Word...

On my Mastodon feed today. Might buy this t-shirt after doing one of my usual paranoid backups of my files onto my two external disks.

Flower (pansy) thriving despite growing in concrete. It’s purple and yellow.