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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nearly didn’t update the feed because I have been laid low by the midterm plague but yesterday we started our penultimate module on Cymbeline!! I didn’t have a fun song for this one but I did make everyone watch the trailer for Cymbeline (2015) which is wild

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This song is about Pericles TO ME, ok

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello I am back from the mountain of grading I did over the break with more semester posting. This afternoon we started in on our new module: Pericles. I opened the lecture by making everyone sit in silence and listen to the first verse and chorus of Through Me (The Flood) by Hozier

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just become a university lecturer they let you do whatever you want when you get down there

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Actually Timon is NOT a downer I got to spend 45 minutes today talking about Apemantus and dogs and early modern animal studies!! The system works

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Next week we start Timon of Athens!! kind of a bunch of downers in a row. Whomp Whomp

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

King Lear module officially over (as of tutorials tomorrow) which has flown by v fast. BUT im gonna make the kids look at the weather extremes in England’s little ice age database in class tomorrow! Fun fun

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Guys king Lear is really sad actually.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Back on live posting my teaching semester because it’s literally all I’ve got going on: just finished the lectures of my introductory module for my ecocrit Shax course and VERY excited to get the ball rolling with Macbeth tomorrow.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just saw Eddie Izzard’s one woman Hamlet! A feat of memorisation, and genuinely gripping? Hamlet???? A play I have seen and read about a hundred times?? What a legend.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Catch me in the soho alley explaining the Bowels of the Leviathan

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Went to the globe and called it my wife, went to the pub nearby and called it my mistress, but Les Miserables is perhaps the one that outdoes them all.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Among all my New York and London theatre going I simply HAD to return to the number one love of my life: Les Miserables

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I love giving out As!!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!!

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

COMEBACK OF THE CENTURY GO KNICKS GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Exciting and also rough to be in New York City out on the streets before it gets melted to the ground (positive) or melted to the ground (negative) anyway go Knicks

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Brought snacks for students’ final tutorials with me today which means that I personally ate five ANZAC biscuits in one sitting

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Painstakingly scheduling 16 hours (40%) of research time into my week to actually visualise how much my teaching load is eating it

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Also I got to talk about my favourite guy, Autolycus, for like 15 minutes. Which is maybe too long but also not long enough.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My lectures are done for semester 1! Finishing off with a last lecture about the winter’s tale. What a treat it has been to teach these plays. Next semester I’ve got a syllabus packed with more romances and weird tragedies and I can’t wait to get stuck in.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/05/2026

pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral scene individable, or poem unlimited

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

As part of the Alice Griffin Fellowship, students in our Comedies and Tragicomedies course will get to hear @lyntribble.bsky.social lecture on The Winter’s Tale next week, and she will present again in our departmental seminar on her work on cognitive ecologies! Such a treat.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Hugely enjoyed the Alice Griffin public lecture by @lyntribble.bsky.social on Shakespeare as Reviser and the Merry Wives of Windsor this evening at @aucklanduni.bsky.social — fascinating insights on the role of boy players and scenic effects in Shakespeare’s dramaturgy. Can’t wait for the Arden 4!

Opening slide of Prof Tribble’s presentation, titled “Shakespeare as Reviser: The Merry Wives of Windsor” featuring an image of horned performers.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Anyway my lecture series on As You Like It concluded today!!! Got to talk lots about my favorite guy and best friend, Jacques.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Duke Senior calls the deer native burghers of the desert city. So the deer work for the bourgeoisie. (Is this anything)

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I bring a sort of “??” “Hmm” “CITATIONS” vibe to my grading comments that students don’t really like

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Changed flights to avoid literal cyclone, airport entirely overrun, 5 flights somehow scheduled to depart from the same gate at the same time, no sign of plane due to depart in 20 minutes. I love travel.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Another joke!!! (Shax mafia pls call off the hit)

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just kidding!!!!! Of course!!!!! The 12 also includes some duds.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Coocoo bananas that by the end of this year I will have taught on 12 plays by Shakespeare (and a couple by some Other Guys). That’s like pretty much all the good ones.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Winter's Tale

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Yeah it feels like a thin line to walk! Esp bc I find the messaging from the administration is v different to the student engagement side of things. I like this idea of getting them to get to the realization point themselves. Very cool

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is great! Keen to do something similar for my course next semester… although I do also get the vibe that students are sick of these conversations too? But aren’t we all

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Finished my first round of lectures for semester 1 (all on A Midsummer Night’s Dream)! Tried to psychically project into students’ hearts my deep well of affection for the mechanicals. Love u guys

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Gen AI ys coole yf you reallye fuckinge hate water

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

LOOOOVE being an AI hater. Greatly enjoy being a ~dissenting voice in institutional debates. Adore being the only person from the school of humanities in any room where AI is being discussed and watching everyone’s eyes dart towards me like I’m a dog on a chain

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Some updates: This week I graduated with my PhD and go to wear a very very silly hat!! (See pictured with my inimitable supervisor Kate Flaherty) Then I flew straight back to NZ where a couple of weeks ago I started my Lectureship at the University of Auckland. Lots going on!! All a bit mad!!

Me walking across the stage with my thesis title projected in the background.

Pictured straight after the ceremony with Dr Kate Flaherty, both in our regalia!

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Exhibits at the state library of Victoria are absolutely incredible. Very very exciting to see a copy of topsell’s four footed beasts IN THE FLESH!! Love these freaky guys.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Again: I am very pad at posting but I am out here doing things I swear.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This week i am at the @anzamems.bsky.social conference in Melbourne! On Tuesday, i attended the wonderful PG/ECR palaeography workshop (decided I love Bâtard). Yesterday I presented my paper on prophecy in Shakespearean romance (it went well thanks!) and the brilliant keynote by Leah DeVun.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I am unfortunately a hater at heart but!!! Critical engagement is important and attention is a kind of love!!! Keep making bad theatre everyone

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I do love going to see independent theatre but what I REALLY love is debriefing with friends afterwards about everything we hated

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Amongst all the horrors I am happy to announce that I submitted my PhD thesis yesterday evening at approximately 5:30pm. She weighed in at about 200 pages and 80,000 words xxxxxxx

Picture of a screen with pixelated fireworks that reads “congratulations on submitting your thesis!”

Title page of a PhD thesis titled “materiality and re-enchantment in Shakespearean romance”

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

There is currently a trend of folks designing themselves a “personal curriculum” of books to read and think about, usually culminating in a reflective/analytical piece. This tells me that the kids yearn for the humanities seminar.

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s officially spring!!! 🌺 🌸🌷 so I have to submit my thesis before I’m incapacitated by my yearly debilitating hay fever

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I have just submitted my short video presentation for this awesome symposium! Join me to chat predators, and check out the awesome program of presenters. 🐻🐺

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Not to complain about things that don’t matter but I’m already on the brim and I just paid $7.60 for a large black coffee that is the size of a medium anywhere else

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barbara taylor @ohwowbee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

That being said I would love 40 pages of people giving me praise before any piece of work I have printed thank you

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