Category Archives: Twitter

Blurb – Grace Kelly

Posted on May 15, 2015 by englishpgcfp

Superbly succinct, here is Grace Kelly’s Twitter shaped blurb: Grace Kelly – W.B. Yeats and Jorge Luis Borges, ‘infinitely in geometric progression’ #engpgconf2015 (click the birdie) And blurbs, unlike bios (see below), can be sent right up to the conference … Continue reading →

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Blurb – Matthew Alexander

Posted on May 7, 2015 by englishpgcfp

@textualsilence – Accused of ‘adolescent prurience.’ Deemed to be antiporn. Just what is the point of DFW’s ‘Big Red Son?’ #engpgconf2015  (click the birdie) If, like Johann and Matthew, you can keep below 126 characters, your ‘Twitter Shaped Blurb’ will feature … Continue reading →

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Blurb – @JohannBattaglini

Posted on May 7, 2015 by englishpgcfp

@JohannBattaglini – King Arthur’s reign in the English Prose Brut: historical account or (and?) romance narratives?  (click the birdie) A fantastic effort for our first ‘Twitter Shaped Blurb’ from Johann Battaglini, who has managed to come in at a concise … Continue reading →

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Twitter Shaped Blurbs

Posted on April 28, 2015 by englishpgcfp

We thought it might be fun to run this one again for those PGs presenting papers at the English Postgraduate Conference 2015. All you have to do is to craft a  140 character ‘blurb’ that can be tweeted/blogged in the … Continue reading →

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