College Football: Ohio State vs University of Central Florida
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Et in Arcadia McNulty: Dominic West in Butley by Simon Gray
The imposing frame of Dominic West bestrides the stage. Hard-drinking, philandering, playing futile and vaguely malicious games with colleagues in …
Lad Culture = Loser Culture: Elizabeth Rogers on the Lad Culture Report
This is part of a series in response to a report on Lad Culture in British Universities. Previous posts in this …
Missing the Point: Views from Inside the Field
What is it that people just don’t get about your field? I’m interested in hearing about the single thing that …
The Joke’s Wearing Thin: Nikki Rivers on the Lad Culture Report
This is part of a series in response to the publication of the Lad Culture Report, which began with a …
All Up In Their Space: Glosswitch on the Lad Culture Report
This is part of a series in response to the publication of the Lad Culture Report, which began with a …
That’s What She Said: The Lad Culture Report
The Lad Culture project, undertaken by Dr. Alison Phipps and Isabel Young of Sussex University, has just produced a report …
The Luxury of Surprise: Gender and Online Abuse
Content note: The following post mentions misogynistic threats of violence. The other day a fellow academic threatened to smash …
We (Don’t) Need To Talk About Females
I’ve spent quite a bit of the last few days crossing out the word “females” and writing “women” in its …
Why Study Shakespeare?
This article is based on a lecture given to the students of the Southern New Hampshire University Shakespeare course in …
