Dr Andrew McInnes

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #American #Contemporary #WillEskridge Will Eskridge (b. 1976) WOOLLY BAT SHINE, 2022 Acrylic on wood

Never mind if my 20 year old self is impressed or disappointed by me now - I’m disappointed in HIM - he should live with people he actually likes! And work harder at university! And think about getting a summer job! Come on, guy!!

ALSO, I would LOVE Lee Child to write a Romantic Era thriller - Byron Said Too Much - in which Byron brawls across Europe righting wrongs and wooing men and women and writing poems

I would LOVE to go to this! (But won’t be able to 😢 BUT maybe *YOU* could get there!?) An Evening with Lee Child hosted by Wordsworth Grasmere at Tge Daffodil Hotel, Wednesday 28th October, doors open at 7 for 7.30 start

My run over recovery film watch continues with a rewatch of School of Rock - this time, I noticed how much of an asshole Dewey Finn is at the start of the film which had been obfuscated in earlier viewings by Jack Black’s huge charisma - still, a delight! A classic get the band together film 🖤

Not me bouncing in my chair that (a) this cat exists, and (b) the scientists who described it for the first time in scientific literature kept its local name.

Good for Sally Rooney and all the other people who objected to it. "Data centre opposed by author Sally Rooney has planning overturned on climate concerns." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

University departments that are doing away with research-led teaching and getting their academic staff to teach on broad, non-specialist modules instead are effectively deskilling their workforce.

What a nice surprise - my contributor copy of Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr Volume 41 2026 arrived. Belinda wants me to read it all in one go! #18thcentury #irishstudies

Call for Papers – A World of a Thousand Cuts: Forests, Wood, and Industrialisation Across the Globe in the 19th and 20th Centuries 6-8 July, 2027, hosted by the University of Turin Proposal Deadline: 30 November 2026 niche-canada.org/2026/09/17/c... #envhist #foresthistory #globalhistory

The Do-Over is Groundhog Day meets Ferris Bueller’s Day Off set on the main character’s worst Valentine’s Day ever - can she escape the nightmare by switching from a passive people pleaser to every parent’s nightmare teenager!?

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #FineJewellery BATS CHARM BRACELET, ca. 1950 Gold and black enamel

Coming soon...

Putting in a plug for a colleague's book in OUP's Very Short Introduction series global.oup.com/academic/pro...

RIP 847 years ago Hildegarde von Bingen, abbess, mystic, theologian, musical composer, astronomer, pharmacist and doctor, and among many other things inventor/discoverer of the sacred language “Lingua ignota”, who died #onthisday in 1179 CE. (Pictured, her conception of the world as a "cosmic egg")

I once wrote a paper about the supernatural in Jane Eyre, and guys, Jane Eyre can totally be read as a fantasy novel in which Jane herself is a fairy changeling trying to survive and adapt as a human. Despite being accosted by ghosts in the Red Room, and that witch from the attic.

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #DavidVanorbeek David Vanorbeek (b. 1968) CHAUVE-SOURIS, 2005 Sculpture, various metals

Literary Studies go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

Got my urn copy of Kate Scarth’s brilliant book I blurbed 🖤🖤🖤

Hello, this is the social media account for The Oxford Marlowe editorial project (Oxford UP). Please find out more about the edition and its related DH projects here: research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/ This account will provide updates about our research activities and upcoming events.

I’m a sucker for a Seventeen-style quiz, but I found this one—that I heard about on the Secret Life of Books podcast—genuinely intriguing. Among different types of readers, I am a *listener*: does this explain everything about me?! readerbank.org/experience/i...

First condensation on the windows for months. Autumn is here, my friends. 🍁🍂

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BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

The new issue of Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr is out now and open access (not sure if this is temporary or not). Use the link below to view the special anniversary issue. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

Nadja and Laszlo, The Human Music Group have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

The timeline seriously needs cleansing (thanks @faineg.bsky.social) so here’s a young Green Heron with some very good “hair” and big grippy feet #birds 🌿

Leading a creative writing workshop on Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) in Special Collections at Kent, writing objects and subjects big and small. Wed 28 Oct, 2pm until 4pm, Templeman Library. Email D.kavanagh@kent.ac.uk to reserve a place. #CreativeWriting #GulliversTravels

OMG! 👻👻👻

Götterdämmerung imagines apocalypse as hinging on populist disinformation (in Hagen’s manipulation of the Gibichungs), violence against women (in Brünnhilde’s various humiliations), & a willing blindness to climate shocks (from destroying the world ash to refusing reparations to the rhinemaidens)

I've been awarded an #AthenaeumAward by @rcsofficial.bsky.social, to facilitate my exciting new research project! It's about a long-standing #Dundee Singing Competition:- Silver and Gold: Leng Medal Memories karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/02/16/s...

This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯

My research project proposal "Buying on (informal) credit", where I will use 18th century petitions in order to unravel the everyday practices of the early modern Swedish credit economy, have been accepted by the Swedish Research Council!!! Feels absolutely unreal. My first big research project.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social

I love Merry and Pippin, only MY version of them. The first time I read LotR as a kid, I thought M&P were girls for about 100 pages! Then I realized they were guys & I felt disappointed. Decades later, rereading bc the movie was coming out, I decided "They're women if I want them to be!"

some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses