
Sophie Oliver
@sophieolive
Women’s writing, modernism, feminism, fashion | Lecturer @livunienglish | AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker | writing at TLS & elsewhere
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21-03-2011 15:44:39
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‘Boy with a Pearl Earring’, my first Essay for BBC Radio 3, airs tonight! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… I discuss Gucci, gender fluidity, cavalier poetry, lovelocks, Aphra Behn, & designer Harris Reed. I’ll be channeling the cavalier aesthetic to celebrate, & I hope you will be, too.


Find Fashion Stories 👔👜👗 from BBC Radio 3 Arts and Humanities Research Council feat @shahidhabari on handbags, Tom Smith on uniforms, @jadehalbert A&H Uni Huddersfield on Droopy & Browns, Lauren Working on cavalier style, Sophie Oliver @livunienglish on a modernist corselet bbc.in/3w4amFQ


I’m really delighted to say that an excerpt from my novel AN ANIMAL SEES ITS DEATH is now up 3:AM Magazine. This section takes place in Tasmania in the early 20th century, and concerns, among other things, a gold watch and a Tasmanian tiger. Big thanks to Andrew Gallix for this

Join us Teesside University on Fri 20 May for the Spring ’22 Northern Modernism Seminar, featuring @DrKatieCoops @Jane_M_Ford & Derek Attridge northernmodernismseminar.wordpress.com/future-seminar… TU Research @TeesUniLib @GreenBowlerHat Sophie Oliver JulietteTB Prof Claire Warden British Association for Modernist Studies Andrew Frayn TU English & Creative Writing


How can museum objects help audiences talk about their gender? How does this kind of counter-storytelling open up the museum to diverse gender stories? If you have thoughts, sources, experience it would be great to hear as my project with National Museums Liverpool develops…

Touchy sounds, audible feelings: new materialists, feminists & hedonists, Julie Rose Bower makes asmr art you will ❤️ the Design Museum


This week’s The TLS, featuring @ianground on Wittgenstein’s notebooks; Carolin Duttlinger on Kafka’s drawings; Rory MacLean on Budapest; Emily Barton on Mieko Kawakami; Sophie Oliver on fabric; Toby Lichtig on Jarvis Cocker - and more



Can’t wait to see this exhibition of women poets’ clothes co curated by Sophie Oliver English Department Centre for New and International Writing southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

Research by Dr Sophie Oliver (Sophie Oliver) from English Department reveals literary icon Virginia Woolf’s playful side, in newly unearthed poems ✍🏼📝📚 Full story 👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/01/16/poe…



‘Are they good poems? It’s the wrong question.’ Wonderful essay on Woolf by Sophie Oliver in this week’s TLS.