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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nothing like cutting it fine.... revised book MS submitted less than 24 hours before my first student meeting post-sabbatical.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting ready for this evening's launch of 'Dropping in and Out' at Alpha-nova & Galerie futura, Berlin: www.galeriefutura.de/en/dropping-...

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

5 y.o. accidentally summarising part of my book in a bath time conversation: 'when there are new people, will we be the olden days? And what will there be new about the new olden days?'

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excited about this upcoming exhibition in Berlin on which I've worked with colleagues at UdK : www.galeriefutura.de/en/dropping-... @torchoxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @stcatz.bsky.social

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Dropping In and Out – A Response to Uncertainty – alpha nova & galerie futura

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Super excited to see my collaboration with Pegasus Young Company coming together today as part of the Past, present, future fest at the Schwarzman Centre @ox.ac.uk @stcatz.bsky.social

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Delighted to have submitted the MS of 'Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit' - a collected volume of translations of the work of Alain Viala, appearing with Legenda very soon. @gemmatidman.bsky.social @mroussill.bsky.social and Emma Herdman have been the BEST co-editors I could have hoped for!

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Another schoolday, another costume... this one was a little bit freaky on the school run.

A child standing in front of a window, wearing a gold and blue Egyptian death mask, and wrapped in white bandages.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Draft MS submitted 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Let's hope readers are kinder than 4 y.o.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Brutal analysis from 4 year old: How many pages do you have? Is it more than 100? (yes, 316) Who is going to READ the book?

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Well, what I am learning from proofreading 280 pages of myself is a) I can't spell dialogue, and b) my favourite phrase is 'it is worth noting'.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I have just read my whole book. Which means I have a whole book. (still awful notes). Not QUITE ready to submit the MS by Easter as I had hoped (see above re: notes), but I'm pretty pleased!!!

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

*adds Bluey to acknowledgements*

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Three working days til Easter hols. Only the intro to draft: just need to turn about 5000 words of notes into prose then the WHOLE THING will exist as a document. School drop off. Deal with Monday am emails. Settle down to write. 11am, phone rings. School. 4 y.o. has suspected ear infection. Noooo.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I have 76,000 words in 6 chapters which I have now reworked into something vaguely coherent following the reading of AMAZING colleagues, and though I still have to write a conclusion and introduction, and there are (MANY HORRENDOUS) notes to sort out, I finally feel as if this is actually A Book.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This project has been VERY slow due to the busy lives of the editing team, BUT we just put it all into one document so we're *so* nearly there and it's going to be FAB!!!!

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

That would be brilliant, thank you!

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

OMG I would have loved to hear this but I'll be ferrying children around. Are you/have you published on this?!

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Out of office - for annual leave, then SABBATICAL - now on 🎉

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

7 y.o. reading out random phrases from ancient French phrase book for me. "j'ai une cartouche de cigarettes à déclarer. C'est pour mon usage personnel." "Pouvez-vous changer mes chèques de voyage en francs suisses....?"

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Really wonderful event this evening @stcatz.bsky.social with Corinne Jaber & Atri Banerjee in conversation with Pablo Mukherjee about their project to bring Karthika Nair's Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata to the stage.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Nottingham too.... What a sad state of affairs. Thoughts with colleagues there.

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📣 New WPH Editor Wanted We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates. Post from Dec 2025–Nov 2027 Deadline👉10 Nov 2025, 5pm 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...

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New WPH Editor Wanted

There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 10 November.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Coloured pen and glued paper on translated extract from Voltaire's Micromégas. By Eva, aged 4. Would definitely cut the mustard in some art exhibitions. Title suggestions sought.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Today I finished a (very bad) first draft of the final chapter of The Book. There is a LONG way to go (intro, conclusion, much redrafting, sorting out the horrendous mess that is my footnotes), but this still feels like a milestone.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Cried when I dropped each of my children off for first day or nursery (2019, 2022). Cried today on dropping little one off for the last time, before school in Sept. Will doubtless cry then too. Luckily most of these occasions are in weather where sunglasses are (just about) acceptable!

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Today was an INCREDIBLY early start for my first flight since pre-pandemic and first solo trip abroad since pre-children (2018!!!!). Off to Berlin to talk about the fragmented career trajectories of female artists and authors.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's got worse, it now just says 'WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY?!?!'

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

SOMEWHAT last minute writing of French Studies paper (I'm only joining you all at #SFS2025 on Weds), and as you'll see, this really is work in progress...

A shot of a computer screen reading:
CONCLUSION

WHAT???

NB COULD END WITH??

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The hill I will die on is the hyphenation of eighteenth century (or any other century) when used as an adjective. Brought to you from mid-Finals marking frustration as I systematically circle this error even though the students are never going to see the scripts.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Oh hang on, and two PhD milestone vivas.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Teaching DONE for the academic year. Only an outreach session, committee meeting, end of year report meetings, finals scripts, and two last-minute conference papers (Bristol and Berlin) to deal with until I can get back to The Book.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

SUPER excited to have been awarded a grant from the Humanities Cultural Fund to work with Pegasus youth theatre to devise a piece based on my research into Imagined Futures! 🎉

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I think this cheeky intruder digging up our roses is telling me to stop rewriting reading lists and go to bed.

An image of a fox in a flower bed looking at the camera.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This day 40 years ago. Plus ça change...

A newspaper front page from 22 Mat 1985, with the headline 'Closure threat faces some universities'

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'm hoping they are not mutually exclusive....

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I thought Christmas was peak unicorn. I was wrong.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Reaching crunch time for deliveries where a package arriving at any one moment could be a) cheese/alcohol for 40th party, b) unicorns (etc) for 4 y.o. bday, c) tiles/fittings for bathroom refurb. Apologies if we serve you unicorns or grout on Saturday....

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Trying to be cool but really quite excited to be giving a workshop here today!

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Next 2.5 wks: RADA workshop, 3-day collab visit, running a school fundraiser eve, running 10k race, my 40th bday & (large) party, 4y.o. bday & party inc. unicorn/rainbow cake construction. PLUS run up to Finals (revision, mocks, panic) & normal teaching/mtings/admin. And still having building done.

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 24/04/2025

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

6 y.o. just called my tablet 'the essay thingummy' and this is a sad reflection of its current heavy (exclusive) use for essay and exam marking.

Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Setting challenges for 6 y.o.: 'Can you get to the top of the hill in 30 steps?' 'i bet I can do it in fewer.' So proud!

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Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Quite frankly, whoever decided I should be a) mid building work, b) planning another renovation project, c) planning a (big) 40th & (smaller) 4th bday party within 3 days of one another AND d) starting crazy exam term with an appointment committee & two big engagement projects should have rethought.