Lillian
@hingleytheory.bsky.social
Tutor and Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford.
PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
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PhD on Adorno and Anglophone Modernist Lit. Snoopy, Charli XCX and Kafka Stan.
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Lillian
@hingleytheory.bsky.social
· Apr 14
My article on Nightwood, (post)critique and wild psychoanalysis is now out! If you're interested, you can find it in the most recent issue of Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
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critical theory in a different key...
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Selective Affinities
Rita Felski’s new work brings literary studies into conversation with more affirmative and democratic forms of critical theory.Literary critics associate the phrase “Frankfurt School” with early twent...
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March 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
critical theory in a different key...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
In anticipation of World Book Day, I was asked by The Conversation to write about a book that changed my opinion on something. I chose Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman:
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The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read
For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.
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March 4, 2026 at 10:19 AM
In anticipation of World Book Day, I was asked by The Conversation to write about a book that changed my opinion on something. I chose Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman:
theconversation.com/the-novel-th...
theconversation.com/the-novel-th...
Excited to hear that over 12 thousand people have read my review of Charli XCX’s wonderfully Gothic album, Wuthering Heights. You can read my article for The Conversation here:
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Charli XCX turned Wuthering Heights into a sonic gothic masterpiece
This album stands as a musical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel in its own right.
theconversation.com
February 24, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Excited to hear that over 12 thousand people have read my review of Charli XCX’s wonderfully Gothic album, Wuthering Heights. You can read my article for The Conversation here:
theconversation.com/charli-xcx-t...
theconversation.com/charli-xcx-t...
Just saw Wuthering Heights and it really moved me. I think adaptations should be inventive in their unfaithfulness, and it hit that mark for me.
February 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Just saw Wuthering Heights and it really moved me. I think adaptations should be inventive in their unfaithfulness, and it hit that mark for me.
Charli X-Cixous (this post came to me in a dream)
January 26, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Charli X-Cixous (this post came to me in a dream)
Teaching wonderful courses this term, including: 'Jane Austen', 'Creative Writing' (focusing on Romance!), and 'Short Fiction Literature' (feat. Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector, Chinua Achebe, Natsume Sōseki, and Han Kang).
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Teaching wonderful courses this term, including: 'Jane Austen', 'Creative Writing' (focusing on Romance!), and 'Short Fiction Literature' (feat. Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector, Chinua Achebe, Natsume Sōseki, and Han Kang).
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I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social
Th album explores the idea of being made, or even remade, through experience.
Virgin by Lorde is a layered work of performance art – her smartest references explained
Th album explores the idea of being made, or even remade, through experience.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social
I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social
Th album explores the idea of being made, or even remade, through experience.
Virgin by Lorde is a layered work of performance art – her smartest references explained
Th album explores the idea of being made, or even remade, through experience.
tcnv.link
July 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social
Charli XCX has released a video for 'Party 4 U', 5 years after the song's release. Wondering if the billboard is a reference to the famous billboard in The Great Gatsby. One of the best love/yearning songs ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...
Charli xcx - party 4 u (official video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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May 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Charli XCX has released a video for 'Party 4 U', 5 years after the song's release. Wondering if the billboard is a reference to the famous billboard in The Great Gatsby. One of the best love/yearning songs ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...
It’s wisteria season at Worcester College.
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It’s wisteria season at Worcester College.
My article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" is the featured article in the new issue of Modernist Cultures journal ☺️ euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures
Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" is the featured article in the new issue of Modernist Cultures journal ☺️ euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Just noticed my Telos article 'The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen’s Women in Adorno’s Modernist Literary Theory' is cited in @leonieettinger.bsky.social's great article 'Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination’ caesuramag.org/posts/rewrit...
Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination — Caesura
“I’m not fit to be a mother. There’s something else I’d have to do first — to change myself from a doll to a real human being.” With these words, Nora Helmer (Sarah Wharton) leaves her husband Torvald...
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April 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Just noticed my Telos article 'The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen’s Women in Adorno’s Modernist Literary Theory' is cited in @leonieettinger.bsky.social's great article 'Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination’ caesuramag.org/posts/rewrit...
My article on Nightwood, (post)critique and wild psychoanalysis is now out! If you're interested, you can find it in the most recent issue of Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
April 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My article on Nightwood, (post)critique and wild psychoanalysis is now out! If you're interested, you can find it in the most recent issue of Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Currently drafting a syllabus for a new course that I'm really excited about - 'Creative Writing: Or, Writing with Virginia Woolf'
April 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Currently drafting a syllabus for a new course that I'm really excited about - 'Creative Writing: Or, Writing with Virginia Woolf'
Pleased that my article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood” is out now in Modernist Cultures journal:
www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
@modernistudies.bsky.social
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@modernistudies.bsky.social
The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures
Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...
www.euppublishing.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pleased that my article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood” is out now in Modernist Cultures journal:
www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
@modernistudies.bsky.social
www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
@modernistudies.bsky.social
Treating myself to some avant-garde literature
March 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Treating myself to some avant-garde literature
With her BRIT award for Songwriter of the Year, there's been a lot of discourse on Charli XCX's lyricism recently. Here's my piece on why I think Charli can be read as an imagist poet (also featured, the argument that Party 4 U = The Great Gatsby): theconversation.com/brat-by-char...
Brat by Charli XCX is a work of contemporary imagist poetry – and a reclamation of ‘bratty’ women’s art
Charli XCX’s Brat can be seen as part of a multimedia tradition of women’s writing that is honest and no longer afraid of being labelled ‘bratty’.
theconversation.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
With her BRIT award for Songwriter of the Year, there's been a lot of discourse on Charli XCX's lyricism recently. Here's my piece on why I think Charli can be read as an imagist poet (also featured, the argument that Party 4 U = The Great Gatsby): theconversation.com/brat-by-char...
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9 years ago today, Charli xcx released ‘Vroom Vroom.’
February 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
9 years ago today, Charli xcx released ‘Vroom Vroom.’
Excited that my next journal article, "The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" will be out in the next issue of Modernist Cultures. Expect discussions of (post)critique, interpreting 'difficult' texts, and 'wild-analysis'. @modernistudies.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Excited that my next journal article, "The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" will be out in the next issue of Modernist Cultures. Expect discussions of (post)critique, interpreting 'difficult' texts, and 'wild-analysis'. @modernistudies.bsky.social
Trying this out. Expect English Literature, Theory, and Snoopy content (perhaps all at once).
January 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Trying this out. Expect English Literature, Theory, and Snoopy content (perhaps all at once).