Ewan Fernie
@EFernie
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Prof @ShakesInstitute @unibirmingam-formerly Director @E2EShakespeare & Culture Forward-increasingly interested in 19thC Scottish lit-Agent @wolfiegoethe
Birmingham
Joined November 2023
I may be working too hard as I woke musing on the theme tune from The Wombles. Still, 'wombling free'; the Common & the commune; making good use of what's discarded; living in the green world but with a library; the natural silver hair. Reminiscences of a better culture, no?
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We're *thrilled* that Liberty O'Dell represented @ShakesInstitute at @unibirmingham Festival of Innovation, showcasing student work on MA Shakespeare & Creativity to create a vital & viable future for @TheRSC's Warm Hub in Stratford. 👏💐
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It isn’t always, to my mind at least, but this evening ‘the deep blue air’ really is, as Larkin recognised, a mystical window or opening onto ‘nothing’, which ‘is nowhere, and is endless’.
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Just finished reading this. About now & all of us - as individuals & as a society - it is centrally concerned with the complicity & collapse of a middle-aged academic. Mirroring a wildly unmoored but not altogether hopeless condition, it will stay with me. Recommended.
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Thank you to @IqqyKhan & the cast & production team for this ace adaptation of @Sathnam Sangheera's Marriage Material. The long loops of the plotting give a thoughtful poignancy to the humane, often hilarious action. So good to see it come home to the Midlands. Don't miss!.
🎭 Press Night Alert! 🎭 . We can't wait to welcome the press and the public to catch Marriage Material tonight!. Based on Sathnam Sanghera's beloved novel, journey through time with the Bains family from their Wolverhampton corner shop to present-day London, this epic tale spans
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Thanks again to @EnglishAssoc for this honour - & to my fellow fellows for the flattering & distinguished fellowship! . Our subject needs & deserves all the fellowship it can muster. I applaud & I line up with the positive & forward-looking ambition of the English Association.
🌟🥳 Meet our new Fellows, nominated by their peers, they represent excellence in the teaching & learning of English, have an active role in the EA’s mission. Stay tuned, to find out the distinguished scholars & teachers awarded Fellowships this year! Here are some of them ⬇️🌟🥳
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Today’s shoot was a pleasure - thanks to the good offices of the simpatico but ultimately invisible questioner / director. (And he’d have told me had I been doing that with my finger throughout, I’m sure.). Show to be announced in due course. A privilege to work on it.
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A summer evening in Barnard Park, Islington. So important such places exist to promote community: commingling in unity. A much needed alternative to our competitively acquisitive culture. And more moving since this was developed after devastating bombs in WW2.
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RT @TheIronRoom: #Shakespeare This week, guest bloggers from the Friends of the Shakespeare Collection (FoSC), highlight their exhibition o….
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'Though grey do something mingle with our younger brown': I've been freshly struck - I wonder why - by the splendour of Shakespeare's specifically ageing lovers in Antony & Cleopatra. And by how their failure becomes a gorgeous triumph exposing the time-serving powers that be.
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Thanks to the @EnglishAssoc for the honour. Delighted to join the Fellowship alongside Tiffany & others I admire at a conference showcasing dynamic work across the discipline, including @DrSarahOlive’s. Thanks too for recognising ‘Everything to Everybody’ @LibraryofBham.
Two new Fellows of the @EnglishAssoc are members of @ShakesInstitute, Professors @EFernie & Tiffany Stern. Here's Ewan being inducted today at the conference. Particular mention is made of his outreach collaboration 'Everything to Everybody' with Birmingham City Council. 👏🏽👏🏻👏
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The English Association is in a very dynamic & purposeful phase of its distinguished history - it’s about as old as the discipline itself - & I’m looking forward to attending its conference tomorrow, when I am fortunate enough to be being welcomed as a new Fellow.
V. excited about our conference this Saturday! Looking forward to celebrating & reflecting on this year’s amazing work with our members & fellows! + key note on purpose of ❤️poetry❤️ in education @MichaelRosenYes 💫 .Join us !Membership info on website !😊
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Thank you @TheRSC & @factoryintl for press-night Radiohead Hamlet - during much of which I felt rushed into my own hurtling nightmare of the play. 🚇 💀🎭. Amazing to see Ophelia wrestle ‘To be, or not to be’ into her own speech & being too. 💐
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It occurs to me that the shift, after the Reformation, towards 'justification by faith' ameliorates 'the spurns that patient merit of th'unworthy takes' (Hamlet). In this transcendent perspective, our achievements, so often unrecognised & undervalued, just don't matter so much.
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Don’t miss this free exhibition from the keepers of the 🔥 of @E2EShakespeare - @LibraryofBham, home to the greatest public Shakespeare library in the 🌍 .
#Shakespeare A free exhibition by the Friends of Birmingham Shakespeare Collection celebrates romance in Shakespeare’s plays on Level 9 of the library. Featuring posters, photographs, and illustrations from the Shakespeare Collection. @LibraryofBham @ShakespeareBT @EFernie
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RT @ShakesInstitute: Not to be missed! A book signing at the @ShakespeareBT.Bookshop with the remarkable authors helping to shed light on t….
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RT @DalrympleWill: Its taken 18 months & it should have happened long ago, but finally @BBCNews has plucked up the courage to write clearly….
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