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Matthew Creasy

@matthewcreasy.bsky.social
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Academic at the University of Glasgow, working on / teaching James Joyce, Children’s Literature, Stevenson, Decadence. Parent. Cat Owner. Fool.

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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Removing you from pie-making duties….
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently I don’t know how to spell Argyll
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vivid red of a mountain ash / rowan tree in Argyle
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My general preference is for simplicity, but I’ve come round to it (especially now I’ve won).
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Day 4 and I finally beat my daughter at this boardgame (after 5 attempts). Definitely didn’t dance round the kitchen shouting ‘you lose!’
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Day 3 of playing my daughter at this bloody boardgame until I win and no end in sight
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just over 2 weeks to go for this fully-funded PhD on long 19th-century France - projects welcome on history, literature, culture, music, medical humanities, clothing and more.
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/ #victorian #bookhistory
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Mudie's Library Online
Mudie's Library Online Catalogue - UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, University College Dublin
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Includes our course on Fantasy literature and culture: www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti....
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University of Glasgow - Study - Visiting students - International Summer School - Our courses - Fantastic texts
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GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Announcing our final keynote speaker for GIFCon 2026: Jeff VanderMeer! #FantasyConference #KeyNoteSpeaker #GIFCon #GIFCon2026 #JeffVanderMeer
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent' A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗 www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
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‘I am feminine, morbid, perverse’
Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) was a more engaging memoirist than a writer of fiction. But although he produced several volumes of autobiography over the course...
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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat.... More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin.... Do share widely!
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
What's that, the four of cats, you say? ..
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's like we made our card game just for you!
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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social! Book your free ticket👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/cinemarc-t...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is what you’re listening to whilst you count down to the new Taylor Swift album, then?
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested). euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
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Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project
‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Oh that’s *your* pigeonloft on top of University Gardens
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Just wanted to say thanks for a wonderful event yesterday. (Sorry I had to leave early). The people I met, talked to and played with were lovely and a lot of that is linked to the amazing work you do in building a fantastic sense of community - thank you!
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is just click-beeth
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Nope - universities just can’t afford to keep the lights on at the moment.
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@drdouglassmall.bsky.social you may like this, then…
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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I've caved and created a substack where I'll post bloggish things in relation to my critical edition of George Moore's 'Confessions of a Young Man' every Monday for the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...
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Judge a book by its cover?
Blanched Moore
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Oh no - this is horrible news. Such a lovely and kind man.
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Went to get my photograph taken - my current profile picture dates from 18 years ago. Don't think I've changed much.
Left side of image shows writer's old profile picture; right side of image shows writer's current profile - an aging man, strangely reminiscent of a figure from the Lord of the Rings movies
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The funny thing for me now is I didn't use half of the thoughts I put together in the blog for the introduction (you can get hold of the published book here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...). So the posts are a window back into that weird period during COVID where I was trying to formulate my ideas
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man is out with @themhra.bsky.social‬ and I've been posting links to some blogging I did back in 2021, as I drafted the introduction, including this long-ish ramble about the word 'perverse' mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/perv...
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Perverse
I've been putting off writing this post for a bit now. When I started this blog, I explained that I hoped to use the exercise of writing abo...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Along the same lines - here's a blog post asking 'Who was George Moore' (in case you don't know who he is - or indeed why you should read my critical edition of his novel 'Confessions of a Young Man'): mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/who-...
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Who was George Moore?
Previous posts discussed the plot (such as it is) and the autobiographical origins of  Confessions of a Young Man. So I'm hoping it is obvio...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
During lockdown, I started assembling material for the introduction to my critical edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man on a blog. I'll post a few links here, in case anyone is interested or wants a preview: mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/what...
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What is 'Confessions of a Young Man'?
In this post, I'll provide some basic information about Confessions of a Young Man - what it contains and what it is about. In my next post,...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I think I went to school with the one on the left in the first picture ...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it... www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Saturday afternoon game of #forbiddenpsalm and it is *not* going well for my warband (‘The Meaty Fights’). Emma the Demon and Red the Question have been downed. Daughter’s warband (‘The Guardians of Steve’) are doing better round the other side of the house, tho
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Last Venetian lions (for now).
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Still more Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Still more Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
More Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Venetian lions. A thread
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Last Venetian lions (for now).
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Still more Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Still more Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
More Venetian lions
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Venetian lions. A thread
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Rookie mistake
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Back at my favourite depiction of department meetings…
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ore what?
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