My Thesis is Slaying Dragons
To-do lists were never really my thing until I started my PhD. However, the various parts of academic life started competing for attention to the point where I could no … Continue reading
Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
Midnight releases, broken sales records, cosplaying wizards: the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was a flashback to the summer of 2007, when Harry Potter and the Deathly … Continue reading
Writing for a wider audience: ‘The Oxonian Review’, Oxford’s Graduate Literary Magazine — Graduate Projects in the Humanities
You might have wondered what kept me from contributing more regularly to my blog these past months. Well, in January I took over as Editor in Chief of the Oxonian … Continue reading
Review: ‘George and the Blue Moon’ — The Oxford Culture Review
In 2007, Lucy Hawking teamed up with her superstar physicist father Stephen to write a popular science trilogy for children. The George series, aimed at readers aged 8+, turned out … Continue reading
Review: Tom Stoppard on text and performance — The Oxford Culture Review
How much “Shakespeare” is there in a Shakespeare play? A facetious question, perhaps. But it’s a question that is peculiarly specific to the theatre — how much of the author … Continue reading
Review: ‘The Marriage of Kim K’ — The Oxford Culture Review
The Marriage of Figaro, and Kim Kardashian. If this combination sounds incongruous, it is perhaps because of the cultural value attached to opera in the twenty-first century, fitting into a … Continue reading
Review: ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ — The Oxford Culture Review
Twenty seconds was all it took for the Sunday matinee of The Phantom of the Opera to sell out, after Milk & Two Sugars Productions announced this last-minute addition to … Continue reading
The Martian, NASA, and Potatoes
It’s been a while since this originally came out, but I never published it to my blog. In November, I was interviewed by my friend Dan O’Neill, who is a … Continue reading
Fan-fiction: fictie van een grote fan
Armada Ernest Cline In 2011 kwam, volledig uit het niets, een boek over games als nooit tevoren: Ernest Clines debuut Ready Player One. Het dystopische verhaal, dat zich afspeelt in … Continue reading
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