
Emma Whipday
@EmmaWhipday
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Writer of books and plays. Senior Lecturer @NCL_English. AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. Repped by Chris Wellbelove. She/her. Intro to OWC Measure for Measure.
Hexham, England
Joined September 2011
I am SO RIDICULOUSLY proud that my new intro to Measure for Measure for @OWC_Oxford is out today!! I became obsessed with this play as an A Level student – 18 years later, Shakespeare's exploration of power and female silencing is discomfortingly relevant in a post-#MeToo world.
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RT @clarebucknell: With Thomas Jones, I’ll be hosting a new Close Readings podcast for the @LRB this year, Novel Approaches. Each month, jo….
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RT @JaneSymons1: If it weren't for a supermarket security guard persuading a woman to make a complaint against Pelicot for up-skirting, his….
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RT @OskarCoxJensen: Lovely to be on tonight's @BBCFrontRow with @KateGarnerMusic talking (and singing) music hall! .
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Actor Simon Russell Beale, songwriter Kate Garner and Rufus Wainwright on his Requiem
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RT @LuciaOC_: I am so unbelievably honoured to say that The Lasting Harm has been longlisted for the Gordon Burn, one of my favourite liter….
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RT @Nnedi: This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in sc….
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RT @OskarCoxJensen: VOTE! A vote where all the candidates are decent human beings! Seriously world, please vote in the Crime Fiction Lover….
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Welcome to the Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2024! Based on nominations from our readers, the shortlists have been formulated. It's time for everyone who loves crime fiction to choose the winners. As in...
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RT @ProfKatyShaw: New report adds to a growing body of @NorthumbriaUni @NewWritingNorth research that suggests creativity is becoming t….
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Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class
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RT @OskarCoxJensen: Well! It's a hell of a list, a hell of an honour – please vote!.
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Voting is now open on the shortlisted entries in Book of the Year, Best Debut, Best in Translation, Best Indie Crime Book, Best Author and Best Crime show
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RT @EarlyModernDoc: Women's histories are a source of comfort to women. I am passionate about preserving this vital resource for future gen….
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Looking forward to this - so lovely to get the opportunity to celebrate our Playing and Playgoing volume, and to think about it in conjunction with the Rose!.
Mon 4 Nov @ 6.30pm online.PLAYERS & PLAYGOING AT THE ROSE. How did an early modern player perform a virginal girl, a shamefaced blush, a 'dead likeness', or Othello’s trance?. Join Dr Emma Whipday & Dr Simon Smith in conversation to find out. £5/£8 -
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RT @AdamBienkov: Running tally of all the kinds of 'working people' we've heard about in the coverage of this week's Budget. - Buy-to-let l….
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RT @DrOwenEmmerson: Here is the sizzling new trailer for the brand-new BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Lig….
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RT @exitthelemming: “I wanted all woman victims of rape – not just when they have been drugged, rape exists at all levels – I want those wo….
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Woman who was sedated and raped by her then husband says she is driven by ‘determination to change society’
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RT @PiersTorday: As someone lately of this parish recently said : “The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowi….
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RT @HettaHowes: Can’t quite believe the lovely reviews for Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife in the Sunday Times and the Observer today…feeling ver….
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