If you’d like to know a little more about some of the words I explore in my new book Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words (to be published by Virago in the United Kingdom on May 25th and by Viking Press worldwide on August 29th), you can listen to me chatting to Michael Rosen on BBC Radio Four’s Word of Mouth programme.
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On gibberish
With apologies for the long silence on this blog, here’s a link to a new essay of mine on the history of gibberish. It runs from Old English to the present day, featuring medieval lullaby carols, the Chester shepherds’ play, Tudor songs and more.
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I’m off to the University of Sussex tomorrow to take part in a workshop on Middle English Literary Theory: Keywords and Methodologies, organised by Katie Walter and James Wade. I’m giving a short talk on two words of Middle English literary theory, poesie and poetrie. This talk builds on an earlier blog post on the same subject.
My blog and me
This is the text of the talk I’m giving this afternoon at an Oxford Academic IT #OxEngage panel on ‘Blogging and Digital Scholarship’. I was asked to talk about why I blog and the relationship between my blogging and my research and teaching.