emma 📖

Currently doing a PhD in nineteenth-century lit 👩🏼‍🎓 Lover of Jane Austen, fantasy and historical fiction 📚 Icon by @nerdastically

[halles-comet]

My favorite thing that I learned about The Importance of Being Ernest is Oscar Wilde faced a lot of criticism in 1895 after it premiered for writing something light and funny when there was war and suffering in the world. like we know common themes are found in art throughout time but so are they in art criticism

[halles-comet]

late 19th century english theatre reviewers, apparently

[ceruleanheaven]

guys i liedddddd 😭😭😭😭😭 i actually want it 😭😭😭 i want it so bad 😭😭😭😭 i want it so bad its ruining my life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[bethfuller]

i love dropping my pen putting my glasses on my desk and rubbing my face like an exhausted divorced academic in the 1980s who is greying and sexily tousled and has been up for hours digging through the yellowed pages of old obscure treatises about etruscan pots

[helenvaughans]

the thing is that everyone does actually want the skill set that comes with a humanities degree but a) they refuse to acknowledge that actual WORK goes into acquiring those skills and b) they want to do it all without actually reading a book

[podcastwizard]

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

[walk-up-songs]

[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in

[statictay]

rereading dracula after reading carmilla for the first time really makes me appreciate carmilla's efficiency in securing a place. dracula had to deal with all the logistics of the housing market meanwhile carmilla just crashed her car on someone's lawn and she got a cushy guest room and a girlfriend out of it. carmilla the woman you are

[roeswater]

[19thcenturyem]

Being chronically ill and in academia is so difficult at times because I'm so passionate about my subject, I love what I do. I want to be a health humanities/disability studies scholar with lived experience - but it's exhausting. That I can relate to biography and essays by sick and disabled and chronically ill people from the nineteenth century, literally word for word. That women's health is STILL ignored, centuries later. I wrote up some notes on Austen's Sanditon whilst listening to a webinar on endometriosis, where others with endometriosis expressed their struggles and had to stop because I got too emotional. Experiences of fatigue being shared made me realise how worn out I am - almost all of the time - and the brain fog. Just exhaustion and my body fighting itself. Bloating, sciatic pain, pelvic pain, bleeding. There's no cure and no funding and most healthcare professionals just don't know. I've tried almost every option there is. I'm tired. I love literature but if I was scientifically inclined I would trade my PhD for an M.D and be *that* kind of doctor who could give people answers.

[19thcenturyem]

Study views like this 😍

SCONUL coming in 10/10 again, a lovely quiet university library makes such a nice change! I love uni libraries over the summer because they feel so peaceful, and I can see all the other students who are working over the summer too (probably also put themselves through grad school)

I think l've mostly finished writing my literature review/little bit of introduction, so the rest of today will be spent editing and flicking through fiction texts to use in my chapter! l'm meeting with my supervisors in a couple of weeks (before I head to the Global Jane Austen conference, and then on holiday to sunny Spain 😎) so I want to get this section sent by Monday! No doubt there'll be edits, but I can start working on my conference paper and the textual analysis in the meantime!

[evilscientist3]

My favourite part of writing professional emails is sending them and immediately running over to my "sent" folder to check I did in fact write "Yeah, I can make a 3 PM meeting" and not "I think you're a big stupid piece of shit and I fucked your wife" somehow

[stormbear]

[19thcenturyem]

I had what my uni call a 'progression viva' today, to examine a chapter of my PhD so far to check I'm on progress! I think it went really well - and thankfully means that I can continue on researching & writing my second and third chapters 🥳✨️

[19thcenturyem]

Am I once again going to make an (academic) comeback??? Who knows.

Hi! I'm Em, a 24 y/o PhD researcher in England! My PhD is in English Literature, specifically focusing on the seaside resort within nineteenth-century literature, and how it is portrayed as a liminal space! I love Jane Austen and victorian literature, and I've recently presented at my first big girl academic conference.

I've also worked as a seminar tutor at a neighbouring university teaching Romanticism & that was a fantastic experience!

I'm a professional yapper, though I need to work on my voice projection 🤣 and in my spare time I love reading, cozy gaming, and all things Star Wars. I also am chronically ill/have chronic pain - I have endometriosis 💛

Hopefully I will be a bit more regular on here again, but you can also find me on Instagram and bluesky under the same user ✨️

[stevenrogered]

Pedro Pascal wins Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for The Last of Us at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards

[heraspeacocks]

Me, after presenting my research.

[shitacademicswrite]

[startrekrenegades]

to all y’all graduating, finishing a semester, thinking about starting school, leaving school, looking for a job, working, resting, improving, or trying every day to do whatever you can to be the person you want to be… I’m so proud of you, and I hope you are proud of yourself. it hasn’t been easy, but here you are, and you’re doing so good. I love you, keep it up, I know you can do this