Amélie Doche
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Doctoral Researcher @BCUEnglish: Discourses of Value in Contemporary Literary Culture | (Slowly) recovering from ME/CFS | Beaujolaise 🍇
Birmingham & Cheltenham
Joined January 2013
On Narcissism 🧵 Ovid’s myth, written around 2,000 years ago, tells us almost everything we need to know about narcissism. It is nothing new. Narcissus and Echo is not a story about vanity, it is a story about relationship. The wish to be seen without the risk of being known.
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🎤 Join us for the first STORIE of 2026 & another eclectic night of experiments in prose featuring a full line-up of West Midlands-based writers including ELFRIEDE ATWAL, THOMAS GLAVE, SJ KIM & LYZA LAWAL. 🎟️ Please reserve your ticket via Eventbrite, link in bio
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Psychologists have identified a personality trait they call the Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood. It reflects a chronic sense of being wronged, and includes four main components: the need for recognition, moral elitism, a lack of empathy, and rumination. [Link below.]
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Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize: https://t.co/8HBI6Ew69V
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After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.
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« Vingt jours de prison et Nicolas Sarkozy en fait un livre. C’est comme si je sortais un essai féministe parce que j’ai vidé le lave-vaisselle » Le titre de cet article est parfait ^^ @guillemettef @lemondefr
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CHRONIQUE. Dans sa chronique, Guillemette Faure met en lumière les transformations invisibles de notre époque. Cette semaine, l’essor des livres express, à l’instar de celui écrit par l’ancien...
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Now that Slavoj Žižek's "Quantum History" is published, you can listen to a discussion we had with him a few months ago about his engagement with quantum physics https://t.co/005LsH6bqO
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Il y a LE physique et il y a LA physique. D’où deux sortes de « culture physique », aux contenus fort différents, d’ailleurs séparées bien comme il faut dans notre système éducatif. Y a-t-il toutefois moyen de les combiner, voire de les faire entrer en collision ? Nous en
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Catch up on this year's Librarians' Virtual Toolkit: Reading Promotions, with presentations from @Literacy_Trust #NationalYearOfReading2026 @readingagency, examples of regional reader development projects, library advocacy with author Liz Berry and more: https://t.co/0Rs0PgPgJM
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While recently watching The Apprentice, #donaldtrump's origin story, and #Frankenstein2025, I felt both films were about misguided mentorship and how monsters are created. My column Frames per Second in @bsindia. https://t.co/AEmvLL1mDQ
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'The Apprentice' and 'Frankenstein' are deep meditations on misguided mentorship and vengeful prodigies
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🗣️📚 We are delighted to announce the VOCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025—a selection of books we feel have best reflected the depth & range of our shelves here in Birmingham over the last twelve months.
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Je donnais cours en prison aujourd'hui, et je peux vous dire que cette annonce a fait des étincelles ("Qu'est-ce qu'il y connait à la prison, lui?") et c'est vrai qu'on entendra partout parler de ce livre, alors qu'on n'entend quasiment jamais les détenus https://t.co/StOwDvPSzk
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L’ancien président a été incarcéré pendant trois semaines à la prison de la Santé, à Paris, à la suite de sa condamnation dans le procès libyen. Son livre sortira, le 10 décembre, aux éditions...
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‘Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooo much to do Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooooo much to do Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘ https://t.co/gaDqRcMPVl
#PoliticsOfRest
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I had my viva yesterday and passed with no corrections. Hasn't really sunk in yet and can't quite believe it!
Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to not still be editing but very pleased to have it in.
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🗣️📚 VOCE IS THREE YEARS OLD! 🙏 A huge thank you to all the customers, writers & publishers who have kept us alive. We wouldn’t be here without you ❤️
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” Happy Birthday Albert Camus #Albertcamus #birthday #anniversary
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Can festivals transcend borders? My article in Outlook Traveller on how the ritual immersion of Durga idols in the Ichamati leads to a festive transgression of religious and national boundaries. https://t.co/ROKOdBy5lG
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On that bank is India, and on this Bangladesh; so to whom does the Ichamati river belong? A young boy asks his mother this question at the beginning of the 2017
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📣 Job Vacancy 📣 Teaching Fellow in English Literature (0.5 FTE, Fixed Term – Spring Semester 2026) Mary Immaculate College, Limerick The appointee will have expertise in contemporary English Literature. Full details: https://t.co/NIDN5C4Ax5 Closing date: 2pm 18 November 2025
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i am still in shock but I have won a Philip Leverhulme Prize. starting in autumn 2026 for 3 years, i’ll be looking at linguistic justice in schools, particularly in how children and teachers engage in radical, grassroots activism for structural change. 🌸 https://t.co/OVZwEHurxW
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