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AIDS/LifeCycle benefits, and is jointly produced by, San Francisco AIDS Foundation (Tax ID # 94-2927405) and Los Angeles LGBT Center (Tax ID # 95-3567895), each of which is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation recognized as tax exempt under IRS Code Section 501(c)(3). Donations to AIDS/LifeCycle are deductible for income tax purposes, to the extent permitted by law.
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When you support AIDS/LifeCycle, you support the many national and global efforts of San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and the Los Angeles LGBT Center to improve health and well-being of people who are living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS and to prevent new HIV infections.
Information & Resources:
Annually, more than one million people from across the country and around the world visit San Francisco AIDS Foundation's online resources for HIV and health education, information, and tools.
- BETA Blog - One of the only online resources of its kind, BETABlog.org reports on the latest developments in HIV prevention, treatment, and care, as well as gay men's health and wellness.
- PrEPfacts.org - The Foundation also produces PrEPfacts.org, one of the nation's first and most well-respected online resources for information about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) (a treatment in which HIV-negative people take antiretroviral medication daily to reduce their chances of becoming infected with HIV).
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Since the earliest days of the epidemic, the Los Angeles LGBT Center — the world's largest provider of programs and services for LGBT people – has been providing leading-edge and affordable HIV/AIDS medical care. People travel to the Center from throughout California and four neighboring states for treatment, and medical providers from other countries travel there for training and advice on how best to care for people living with HIV.
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- National HIV/AIDS Strategy - The Foundation and the Center played key roles in developing the first blueprint to end the epidemic in the U.S.
- Ryan White and ADAP - Working closely with a range of national HIV/AIDS organizations, the Center and Foundation were architects of the original Ryan White HIV/AIDS Care Act, and have been key players in its subsequent four reauthorizations. Through Ryan White and the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), they have increased federal funding for universal access to life-saving clinical care and medications, benefiting people throughout the country.
- Housing - In partnership with community and national organizations, the Foundation and the Center, were instrumental in helping expand housing opportunities for all people living with HIV/AIDS, including federal legislation in 2014 that ensured an additional $3 million to help people living with HIV/AIDS get affordable housing.
- Statewide Partnerships - The Center and Foundation provide statewide leadership, in coalition with other HIV/AIDS organizations, to develop legislation like the bill introduced in 2014 to smooth the transition for those whose care is now funded by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rather than Ryan White. Locally, they conduct community outreach to help people learn about and enroll in the ACA.
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The Center's renowned Clinical Research Program conducts research studies and clinical trials that contribute to scientific knowledge regarding the prevention, intervention, and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. The research staff are vital community partners with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, UCLA, USC, UCSF and other institutions.
Aligned with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the Center's research focuses on intervening at every stage of HIV infection. Current projects include:
- New Drug Research – For 17 years, the Center has been investigating the safety and effectiveness of new medicine to address drug resistance, reduce side effects, and simplify drug regimens. The Center's research has contributed to the FDA approval of two new multi-class, once-a-day anti-retroviral medications.
- Biomedical Device Studies – The Center recently completed a trial of a rapid HIV test – a cost-effective, easily administered finger-stick test that can help identify 'acute' HIV infections (early infections that have a higher chance of transmission). This test is now used widely in sub-Saharan Africa and other underdeveloped areas of the world.
- Behavioral Research – The Center is part of a large-scale study of how Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) could reduce HIV transmission to a level where AIDS is no longer considered an epidemic. It is also studying how substance abuse contributes to HIV infection among gay/bi African American and Latino men, who have the highest rates of HIV infection in the U.S.
- Multi-site AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) - First funded by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease in 1983, MACS is the largest and longest-running study of the natural history of HIV/AIDS. The MACS has accumulated vast amounts of crucial data that have contributed immeasurably to the study and understanding of the virus, its treatment, and prevention.
- Academic - The Center is a vital community partner for academic, research-intensive institutions such as UCLA, USC, and RAND. Recent collaborations have focused on substance use in minority MSM communities, and innovative use of technology, such as retention and adherence to HIV/AIDS treatment through the use of mobile devices.


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Real Salt Lake coach Jason Kreis had to do something. Winless in his first three matches as a rookie coach and coaching the only team left in MLS still without a victory, Kreis decided to trade star striker Jeff Cunningham to Toronto FC in exchange for fellow striker Alecko Eskandarian and a 2008 first-round draft pick. Cunningham was the league's leading scorer last year, with 16 goals and 10 assists.
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- Head of Department
David Attwell
- Deputy Head
Stephen Minta
With over forty members of staff, we are one of the largest and most active English departments in the country.
We are also a very international department, with colleagues from Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa and the USA.
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Nicoletta Asciuto
Derwent College D/J/218B
Tel: 01904 323341
BA (UCSC Milano), MPhil (TCD), PhD (Dunelm)
Nicoletta Asciuto joined the department at York in 2016 after an IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (University of Edinburgh). She completed her PhD in English Literature at Durham University in 2015 with a thesis on T. S. Eliot's light and dark imagery in his poetry and drama and she is currently writing a book on electric light and the poetic imagination.
Derek Attridge
BA (Natal), MA, PhD (Cantab), FBA
Emeritus Professor
Derek Attridge was educated in South Africa and England, and has taught in England, Scotland, France, and the U.S.A. Among his research interests are South African literature, Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory, and the performance of poetry.
Derwent College D/J/102
and D/J/019A (Head of Department's Office)
Tel: 01904 323354
David Attwell
BA (Natal), MA (Cape Town), PhD (Texas)
Head of Department
David Attwell joined the Department in January 2006 as Professor of Modern Literature from his role as Head of English at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has published widely in the fields of anglophone African literature, South African literature, and postcolonial studies. His most well-known work is on J.M. Coetzee.
Henry Bainton
BA (Oxon), MA (York), Phd (York)
Henry Bainton's research focuses on the Latin and French literature of the High Middle Ages, and on historical writing in particular. He is especially interested in the interface between literary culture and documentary culture, and in the role of performance across a wide range of textual practices.
Clare Bielby
BA (Cantab), MA (Sussex), PhD (Edinburgh)Grimston House V/X/308
Tel: 01904 323673
Senior Lecturer
Clare Bielby joined the Centre for Women's Studies and the Department of English and Related Literature in February 2017 having previously taught in German Studies at the University of Hull. Her research to date has focussed on political violence, terrorism and gender, and she is particularly interested in questions of subjectivity and narratives of the violent and revolutionary self.
Derwent College D/J/200
Tel: 01904 324717
John Bowen
MA (Cantab), PhD (Birmingham)
John Bowen joined the Department in 2005 from Keele University, where he was Professor of Modern English Literature. His main research area is nineteenth-century fiction, in particular the work of Dickens, but he has also written on modern poetry and fiction, as well as essays on literary theory.
Tel: 01904 659784
S.A.J. Bradley
MA (Oxon), FSA
Emeritus Professor
After retirement from teaching Anglo-Saxon at York, Sid Bradley has continued as co-editor of the Copenhagen journal Grundtvig-Studier, published a book on the 19th-century Danish poet, historian and theologian N. F. S. Grundtvig and articles on Grundtvig's reception of Anglo-Saxondom, and lectured on this subject, most recently in Denmark, America and Ireland.
Derwent College D/J/215A
Tel: 01904 324572
Jonathan Brockbank
MA, MLitt (Cantab)
Jonathan Brockbank has worked short-term contracts for the Department since 1985, lecturing and teaching on various modules including Approaches to Literature, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, Romantics, Seventeenth Century & Victorians. His research interests include Ruskin and Morris, Cold War literature and films; Westerns and Noirs; British Writing between and during the world wars, especially Socialist and Feminist writers; traditional music and song of Britain and the USA, and Godzilla.
Derwent College D/J/215B
Tel: 01904 323356
Trev Broughton
BA, DPhil (York)
Senior Lecturer
Trev Broughton joined the department from the Centre for Women's Studies. Her current research interests include Life Writing in the nineteenth century (letters, diaries, autobiography, biography), and the construction of masculinities in Victorian culture.
Derwent College D/L/147
Tel: 01904 323337
Judith Buchanan
BA (Bristol), DPhil (Oxon)
Judith Buchanan is Professor of Film and Literature. Her research interests are currently concentrated on: Shakespearean performance histories (and presents) on stage, on screen and in other media; silent cinema amongst the other arts; the ways in which cinema and literature reflect and refract each other's mechanisms, processes and cultural charge. She regularly mounts silent film shows through her project 'Silents Now'.
Derwent College D/J/112
Tel: 01904 323360
Matthew Campbell
BA (Dublin), PhD (Cantab)
Matthew Campbell has written widely on poetry from the late eighteenth century up to the present day. He arrived in York as Professor of Modern Literature in 2011 and he teaches Victorian, Modern and Irish literature. Recent publications include a book about nineteenth-century poetry from and about Ireland and various articles and essays on Irish poetry and poetics.
King's Manor K/284
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Michele Campopiano
MA (U. di Pisa; SNS Pisa), PhD (SNS Pisa)
Senior Lecturer
Michele Campopiano's interests include: editing of medieval Latin texts, medieval historiography and geography, cultures and literatures of medieval Italy, Franciscan cultural traditions and relationships between Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. He is a member of the research team 'La création d'un mythe d'Alexandre le Grand dans les littératures européennes (XIe siècle - début XVIe siècle)'.
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Claire Chambers
BA (Newcastle), MA, PhD (Leeds)
Senior Lecturer
Claire Chambers joined the Department in October 2012 after eight years as a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her research and teaching interests include religion and literature; writing from South Asia, the Arab world, and their diasporas; multicultural textualities in Britain; and literary representations of British Muslims.
Derwent College D/J/227
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K P Clarke
MA, MPhil (Dubl), MA (Cantab), MA DPhil (Oxon)
Kenneth Clarke joined the department in 2012 as Anniversary Research Lecturer from Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was the Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Italian. Previously, he taught Old and Middle English Literature as College Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford. His research interests are in Chaucer and the Italian Trecento; Boccaccio; Dante; book history; word and image.
Mary Colson
Derwent College D/L/140
Tel: 01904 324217
Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow
Mary Colson will provide a free and confidential consultation service to help students improve their writing. Mary has written over 50 non-fiction books for children on topics ranging from Einstein, secret codes and the ozone layer to Toni Morrison, sports poetry and Beyoncé. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at UEA, she has written for various publications and literary websites including The Times. She delivers creative writing workshops in schools all over the country and regularly showcases new work at festivals. She also copy edits academic journals in English and French. For her next projects, she is working on a non-fiction book for adults, a children's novel set just after WWII and a script about the slave trader John Newton and the poet William Cowper.
Victoria Coulson
Derwent College D/J/202
Tel: 01904 323348
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer
Victoria Coulson came to York from a Research Fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Her interests lie in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and British literature, in particular narrative representation, and in the material culture of the period.
Derwent College D/L/148
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Brian Cummings
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Brian Cummings joined the Department as Anniversary Professor in October 2012, after teaching at Cambridge and Sussex, where he co-founded the Centre for Early Modern Studies. He works on Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, and also writes on the history of religion, the history of the book, modern poetry, and the philosophy of literature. He recently edited the Book of Common Prayer, and is currently writing on Shakespeare and religion.
Derwent College D/J/101
Tel: 01904 323357
Tania Demetriou
BA (Cantab), MPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
Tania Demetriou came to York in 2011 from a Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. Her teaching and research interests include early modern literature and classical reception, Shakespeare, the history of reading and of scholarship, translation, and the epic.
Mary Fairclough
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)
King's Manor K/275B
Tel: 01904 324968
Mary Fairclough joined the Department in 2012 from the University of Huddersfield. Her research interests lie in the interrelation of literary, scientific and political discourse during the period 1750-1850, in particular eighteenth-century theories of communication, print culture and the public sphere, and the science of electricity.
Derwent College D/J/007
Tel: 01904 324569
Alice Hall
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)
Alice Hall studied at Cambridge and worked at Paris Diderot University and La Sorbonne Nouvelle before coming to York. Her research interests are in contemporary and global literature, particularly the areas of literature and the body, cultural representations of disability, autobiographical fiction, memory, and medical humanities.
Derwent College D/J/001
Tel: 01904 323343
Hugh Haughton
BA (Cantab), MA (Oxon)
Hugh Haughton works in the field of modernism, modern poetry and poetics; the literature of nonsense; letters and life-writing; and twentieth-century Irish literature. He is the author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (OUP, 2007), the first full-scale study of a major contemporary Irish poet, as well as numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.
Tel: 01904 323366
Nicholas R. Havely
MA, BPhil (Oxon)
Emeritus Professor
Nicholas R. Havely has principal research interests in late medieval literature (especially Dante, Boccaccio and Chaucer) and in English-Italian literary relations. He has recently published two edited collections of essays on reception of Dante in the nineteenth century (2011 and 2012) and is currently completing a study of Dante's British Public, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present (forthcoming 2014).
Derwent College D/J/114
Tel: 01904 324571
Adam Kelly
MA (York), BA, PhD (University College Dublin)
Adam Kelly came to York in 2013 after two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research and teaching interests include American literature, contemporary fiction and film, literary theory, and the history of ideas. He is currently writing a book on the aesthetics and politics of sincerity in twenty-first-century American fiction.
Derwent College D/J/021
Tel: 01904 323363
Kevin Killeen
BA, MA, PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer
Kevin Killeen received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London and, before coming to York, lectured at Birkbeck, the University of Reading and the University of Leeds. He has research interests in early modern science, the seventeenth century Bible and its political uses, and in early modern poetry. He is the organiser of the Thomas Browne Seminar.
Alexandra Kingston-ReeseDerwent College D/J/217B
Tel: 01903 323347
BA (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ), BA Hons (University of Sydney), PhD (Sydney)
Alexandra Kingston-Reese came to York in 2016 from the University of Sydney. Her research interests include contemporary Anglophone literature, critical theory, aesthetics, poetry, and visual art. She is currently writing a book on the 21st-century novel and ethico-political disturbances to aesthetic experience.
Kings Manor K/G73
Tel: 01904 324974
Emma Major
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (York)
Senior Lecturer
Emma Major studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, before doing an MA and PhD at the Department of English and Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. She has research interests in debates about religion, patriotism and gender 1740-1860.
Michael McCluskey
Derwent College D/J/118A
Tel: 01904 323351
EdM (Harvard), MA, PhD (University College London)
Michael McCluskey joined the department in October 2016. He received his PhD in English from University College London (UCL) in 2011. From 2012-13 he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University working with metaLAB (at) Harvard, a digital humanities research centre. From 2013-16 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at UCL. He has an MA in English from UCL and an EdM in English and Education from Harvard.
Kings Manor K/184
Tel: 01904 323920
Nicola McDonald
BA, MA (Toronto), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer
Nicola McDonald has research interests ranging from cannibalism to confessional discourse, from women's literacy to the post-modern middle ages. Her current research encompasses the cultural audacity of Middle English popular romance, and mulier ludens, seeking to inject some levity into our understanding of the complexity of medieval women's lives by studying the text-based social games that women played.
Kings Manor K/G74
Tel: 01904 324986
Jon Mee
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Jon Mee came to York from Warwick after a post as Professor of Literature of the Romantic Period at Oxford. He works across the eighteenth-century and Romantic periods, with a special interest in Austen, Barbauld, Blake, Coleridge, Hays, Hazlitt, Keats, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth, among others. Jon also teaches and writes on Charles Dickens. He has a long-standing interest in radical responses to the French Revolution and has just finished a book called Print, Publicity, and Popular Radicalism in the 1790s: The Laurel of Liberty, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Jon is currently PI on a project called 'Networks of Improvement' that looks at the roles of clubs and societies in the creation of literary culture and the wider circulation of knowledge in the period 1760-1840. A special issue of the Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies related to the project will appear at the end of 2015. He is Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Derwent College D/J/127
Tel: 01904 323346
S.M.J. Minta
BA (Oxon), DPhil (Sussex)
Senior Lecturer
S.M.J. Minta originally specialized in French literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to the development of lyric poetry in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and is currently working on a political biography of Byron, and has recently published a number of articles and essays on Byron and Greek politics.
A.D. Moody
MA (New Zealand and Oxon)
Emeritus Professor
A. David Moody is the author of a 3-volume critical biography of Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound: Poet. A Portrait of the Man & His Work (Oxford University Press). Vol. 1 was published in 2007; vol. 2 in 2014; vol. 3 in 2015.
Kings Manor K/107
Tel: 01904 323909
Linne R. Mooney
MA, PhD (Toronto), FSA
Linne R. Mooney is our Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, and active in both the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies, based at King's Manor. Her research focuses on the dissemination of late medieval English literature in manuscript and early print.
Derwent College D/J/006
Tel: 01904 324219
Emilie Morin
Licence, Maîtrise (Université Rennes 2),
MA (University College Dublin), PhD (Queen's University Belfast)
Senior Lecturer
Emilie Morin has research interests in modern and contemporary drama, twentieth-century British and Irish literature, European modernism and the historical avant-garde.
Riona Nic Congail
BA, PhD (University College Dublin)
Research Fellow
Ríona Nic Congáil is an Irish Research Council Marie Curie ELEVATE Research Fellow. Her three-year fellowship is held between the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and the Irish Department at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra (Dublin City University). Her research project is entitled 'Nation, Migration and Empire: Irish Childhood in Britain, 1841-1921'. Her broader interests include the Irish language, Irish women's writing in Irish and English, and children's studies.
Kings Manor K/173A
Tel: 01904 324992
Alison O'Byrne
BA (Trinity), PhD (York)
Alison O'Byrne has research interests in the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on debates about and representations of the city. She has written articles on the building and representation of Westminster Bridge and on pedestrianism in early nineteenth-century London. She is currently completing a book provisionally titled The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City.
Tel: 01904 323366
Graham Parry
MA (Cantab), PhD (Columbia), FSA
Emeritus Professor
Graham Parry has written a number of books about the cultural history of the seventeenth century, and in recent years turned to the study of the antiquaries of early modern England. He also has strong interests in Victorian cultural life, and is active in Ruskin's Guild of St George, the Pugin Society, and the Sydney Smith Association. In addition, he is much involved in the activities of the York Bibliographical Society.
contact c/o Centre for Medieval Studies
Derek Pearsall
Honorary Professor
Derek Pearsall is one of the founders of York's Centre for Medieval Studies and a Professor here until 1986. He has returned to York since his retirement as Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University in the USA. He is actively involved with research seminars and visiting lectures at the Centre for Medieval Studies, and informally consults with students about their work in Middle English literature and manuscript studies.
contact c/o Department of English and Related Literature
Adam Phillips
Honorary Visiting Professor
Adam Phillips is an author and a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is the author of twelve highly praised books on literature, history, philosophy, child psychology, biography and psychoanalysis. Adam makes three visits a year, during which he gives lectures and participates in seminars, and is available for individual consultation.
Derwent College D/L/141
Tel: 01904 323355
Bryan Radley
BA (Dublin), MA, PhD (York)
Bryan Radley's current work is on cultural identity, genre, and place-making in contemporary Irish-American fiction. Other research interests include theories of comedy and twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature, in particular the novels of John Banville.
Derwent College D/J/222
Tel: 01904 324716
Lawrence Rainey
BA (Valparaiso), MA, PhD (Chicago)
Lawrence Rainey has written extensively on the classic works of Anglo-American modernism, including monographs on Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. He is currently at work on a cultural history of the typist, secretary, or stenographer as depicted in film and fiction from 1890 to 1940, a study that examines nearly three hundred films and novels.
Felicity Riddy
BA (NZ), MA (Auckland), BPhil (Oxon), DUniv (York), FRSE
Emerita Professor
Felicity Riddy has published extensively on a wide range of subjects relating to the literature and culture of England and Scotland in the later Middle Ages.
Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto
Derwent College D/J/226
Tel: 01904 323321
BA, MA and PhD (Santiago de Compostela)
Postdoctoral research fellow, Centre for Medieval Literature
An art historian by training, Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto has extensively worked on the illuminated books made for the kings and queens of Castile (1284-1369), on medieval Iberian courtly culture and on the Classical tradition in the Middle Ages. Her research project at the Centre for Medieval Literature is focused on the study of Late Medieval Iberian historiographical production, paying special attention to the uses of images in the construction of historical discourse, both in terms of the illustration and layout of the preserved manuscripts and in what concerns the imagery evoked while in reading.
Tel: 01904 631484
John Roe
BA (Cantab), MA (Harvard), MA (Cantab), PhD (Harvard)
Emeritus Professor
John Roe's main research areas are Shakespeare, and English and Italian Renaissance literature. His publications include The Poems of Shakespeare (an edition) and Shakespeare and Machiavelli. He has a keen interest in modern American poetry and has also contributed 'John Berryman' to the Continuuum 'Great Shakespeareans' series. An abiding passion is the work of the novelist Anthony Powell, and he is a trustee of the Anthony Powell Society. Following his retirement from York he has taught in Germany at the University of the Saarland.
Derwent College D/J/223
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Richard Rowland
BA (York), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer
Richard Rowland joined the department in 2001, after teaching for more than a decade at the University of Oxford. He has edited plays by Marlowe, Chapman and Jonson, and also works on the reception and reinvention of ancient drama.
King's Manor K/G74
Tel: 01904 324986
Deborah Russell
BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (York)
Deborah Russell came to York from a lectureship at Queen's University Belfast. Her research interests focus on Gothic fiction, with a particular emphasis on women's writing and discourses of national identity. She also works on Romantic-era theatre, looking at melodrama, spectacle, and the politics of adaptation.
Paul Sayer
Derwent College D/L/140
Tel: 01904 4217
Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow
Paul will provide a free and confidential consultation service to help students improve their writing. He is the author of eight novels and has also written for The Sunday Times and other publications. He has been a tutor for the Arvon Foundation and was the RLF Fellow at Leeds University, specialising in human geography and environmental studies. He has a particular interest in all nursing and health sciences but is open to writing enquiries on most subjects.
Erica Sheen
Derwent College D/J/206
Tel: 01904 4718
AGSM, BA (London), PhD (London)
Senior Lecturer
Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the Renaissance and in cinema, especially American and European cinemas in the Cold War. After a first career as an orchestral musician, she held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College Oxford, and subsequently taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Sheffield. Her current project is provisionally titled Cold War Shakespeare.
Bill Sherman
Honorary Visiting Professor
Bill Sherman is Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of York. He was Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies (CREMS) from its creation in 2005 to 2011, and Associate Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly from 2001 to 2012.
Sherman's research is driven by a love of archives and other collections, and an interest in how objects from the past (textual and otherwise) come down to us, what they pick up along the way and how they speak across periods. He has published widely on the history of books and readers, the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the interface between word and image and the relationship between knowledge and power.
Derwent College D/J/002
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Freya Sierhuis
MA (UvA, Amsterdam), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
Freya Sierhuis joined the department in 2013 as Anniversary Research Lecturer from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where she was Exzellenzinitiative Research Fellow at the Department of Anglistik und Amerikanistik and Junior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies. Her research interests include early modern English and Dutch literature; literature and religion; intellectual history 1500-1700; the emotions in early modern culture; the work of Fulke Greville.
Derwent College D/J/123
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Helen Smith
MA (Glasgow), PhD (York)
Helen Smith has published widely on material texts, women and print culture, and embodiment. Her research interests are in textual cultures and the history of the book, conversion narratives, early modern women, matter, and things. She is currently writing a book which brings together early modern and modern theories of matter and objects to trace an enduring history of vitalism.
Kings Manor K/186
Tel: 01904 323922
Matthew Townend
MA, DPhil (Oxon)
Matthew Townend's research interests are in the language, literature, and history of Viking Age England; Old Norse poetry; and late Anglo-Saxon literary culture. He is also interested in Anglo-Saxon and Norse medievalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the relationship between philology and literature.
Nick Treuherz
Derwent D/J/201
Tel: 01904 323361
BA (Bristol), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Manchester)
Nick Treuherz's main research interests lie in the European Enlightenment. He is particularly interested in the reception of ideas on materialism and radicalism. He has edited volumes in the Complete Works of Voltaire and is currently working on the critical edition of the Letters concerning the English Nation. He has previously taught at the universities of Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.
Derwent College D/J/100
Tel: 01904 323915
Elizabeth M. Tyler
BA (Yale), MPhil (Glasgow), DPhil (Oxon)
Elizabeth Tyler is Professor of Medieval Literature. Her research and teaching focuses on the literary culture of England from the 9th to the 12th century: that is from the time of Alfred the Great to the time of William of Malmesbury and Geoffrey of Monmouth. Situated at the intersection of literary study with intellectual, social and political history, her work stresses the international nature of English literature and draws attention to the key role England plays in the flourishing of European literary culture across the early and high Middle Ages.
Derwent College D/J/122
Tel: 01904 323334
Geoffrey Wall
BA (Sussex), BPhil (Oxon)
Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer. His current project, for OUP, is a biography of George Sand, the major woman writer of French Romanticism. He also has a strong interest in oral history and is working on a compilation of life-history interviews with political activists.
Derwent College D/J/106
Tel: 01904 323338
Richard Walsh
BA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab)
Richard Walsh came to York from Cambridge in 1995; he has research interests in narrative theory, 20th-century American literature, innovative fiction, early cinema, narratives in new and interactive media, and complexity. He is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies.
contact c/o the English Department
Nicole Ward Jouve
Lic ès-L, Dip Et Sup, Agr de L'Un, Anc EI ENS de Sèvres
Emerita Professor
Nicole Ward Jouve is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of York, has published fiction and essays in English and French, and has research interests in psychoanalysis, spirituality and self-development, and writing family memoirs as well as fiction.
Kings Manor K/173B
Tel: 01904 324978
James Watt
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer
James Watt arrived at York after two years of a post-doctoral research fellowship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has written a number of essays and articles that deal with eighteenth century and Romantic-period orientalism, and which feed into his current book project, provisionally titled British Orientalisms, 1759-1835.
J T Welsch
Derwent College D/J/003
Tel: 01904 324719
BMus (Berklee College of Music, Boston); MAs (Royal Holloway); PhD (Manchester)
JT Welsch joined the department in 2016 as Lecturer in English and Creative Industries, coming from York St John University, where he was a Lecturer and Head of Creative Writing. His research includes twentieth-century American poetry and the contemporary poetry industry. As a poet and scholar, his work is broadly concerned with the relationship between critical and creative practices and the ethics of aesthetic labour.
Derwent College D/J/218A
Tel: 01904 323350
Claire Westall
BA (Warwick), MSc (Bristol), PhD (Warwick)
Senior Lecturer
Claire Westall previously taught in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University. Her research interests include: postcolonial literature and theory, particularly questions of the nation and national identities; postcolonial rethinking of Englishness, Britishness and the legacies of empire; and the economic, cultural and literary consequences of globalisation.
Kings Manor K/191
Tel: 01904 33924
Chloe Wigston Smith
BA (Wellesley), MA (Courtauld Institute of Art), MA, PhD (University of Virginia)
Chloe Wigston Smith specializes in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Her research interests include the history of the novel, gender studies, visual and material culture, women's literature, performance and the Atlantic world. She taught previously at the University of Georgia and Vassar College.
Derwent College D/J/207
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James Williams
MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
James Williams came to York in 2012 from Oxford, where he held lectureships at Brasenose College and Jesus College. His research interests include Victorian and Modernist poetry; Victorian nonsense writing and its influence; poetic form and metre; and the works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
Tel: 01904 323366
Judith Woolf
BA (Sussex), PhD (York)
Honorary Fellow
Judith Woolf's main academic research areas are twentieth century Italian-Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg; life writing, especially in relation to the Holocaust; the relationship between photography and Victorian and Edwardian fiction; and narrative patterns in European literature.
King's Manor K/275D
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George Younge
BA (King's College, London), MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)
George Younge is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature. His research interests extend across the early and central Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the relationship between English, French, and Latin in the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest. Forthcoming publications include essays on the end of Old English, the Anglo-Saxon sources of the Gothic windows at Canterbury, and the impact of the Great War on Medieval Studies.
Lydia Zeldenrust
BA (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), MA (by Research) (Utrecht), PhD (Queen Mary)
Derwent College D/L/146
Tel: 01904 323309
Lydia Zeldenrust is a medievalist whose research often extends into the early modern period. She favours research that takes a transcultural approach and crosses various disciplinary boundaries. Areas of interest include comparative literature and translations, Arthurian literature, romance (especially Mélusine), animal studies, monsters and the supernatural, representations of strong women, the interplay between text and image, and transitions from manuscript to early print culture.
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Skirt: Thrifted, Shoes: borrowed, Top and jacket: T.J. Maxx
Before you judge me too harshly for this outfit, you have to take a look here and here. Maxi skirts and buttoned up denim jackets can be done well. I had good intentions. Also, am I always inspired by the same bloggers? I think so.


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Jade's Band T-Shirt of the Day – It's a Two-Fer!
It's Friday, so I decided to showcase TWO bands today. First, Distant Lights from Austin, Texas. I've seen them a total of…well, ONE time, I think. Riverside Warehouse. Couldn't even give you the date. But the guys really impressed me, both with their talent and with how super-cool they are. What I remember the most, though, is that this was the first rock band I ever saw that has a cello soloist. And Jon Dexter ROCKS that thing! He plays keyboards, too…and I spent a little time chatting with him after that show. I believe he told me he's a cellist-for-hire. And with vocalists with names like Gabriel and Gaelan, how can you go wrong??
As a special bonus…I also wore my Flood the Masses hoodie (yes, I still wear those indoors, even though it's hotter-than-Hades outside!) These local metalheads have two shows I KNOW about coming up…next Saturday night at the Riverside Warehouse…and they're playing Knights of Thor Fest on July 9th. Come see them at both!


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Phnotipic and molecular features of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Recife - PE / Avaliação imunofenotipica, estudo do indice de DNA e de alterações moleculares em celulas blasticas de pacientes portadores de leucemia linfoide aguda diagnosticados na Fundação Hemope
Mariana Rezende Bandeira de Mello
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a disease that occurs primarily in children (75-80%) and represents only 20% of adults leukemia. Some c1inical and laboratorial research have focused on stratifying patients into various risk groups based on known prognostic features that play a critical role in directing therapy for ALL. We have studied biological characteristics of ALL (adults and children) of patients attended on Hemope Foundation from March 2004 to March 2006. The immunophenotyping at diagnosis was perfonned by a dual color two stage protocol. Expression of each antigen studied was measured by mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) by flow cytometry using the Paint-a-gate software. RT-PCR was perfonned to detect specific molecular alterations. We analyzed 49 patients: 18 children (:S 18 years old) and 31 adults. Eleven were T ALL with median age of 19 years and 38 were B ALL (7 pre-pre B, 15 common, 13 pre B and 3 without c1assification) :with median age of 29 years. Concerning gene rearrangements, BCR/ABL was detected in 5 patients (4 BCR/ABL p190 and 1 BCR/ABL p210), E2A/PBXl in 2 patients and AF4/MLL in 2 patients. TEL/AML1 couldn t be found in any case examined. Hyperdiploidy was observed in 5 patients. The percentage of cells in phase S showed a large variation, but did not differ in children or adults nor between B ALL and T ALL. Our results show that the antibodies used were sufficient to c1assify the cases. The quantitative approach was able to disclose better the maturation abnonnalities of the leukemic blasts. The frequency of hyperdiploid cases was similar to that found in the literature. The proliferation rate was variable but had no relationship with age and ALL type. The molecular aberrations were associated with specific ALL subtypes, as already described in the literature. Even so, the frequency of BCR/ABL in adults was diminished
flow cytometry citometria de fluxo diagnostic acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnostico leucemia linfoide aguda
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Liona Boyd
- Profession: Classical guitarist, composer, songwriter and singer
- Age: 63
- Hometown: London, England
- The car: 2012 Kia Rio
Notable achievements
- Many of her 23 albums went Gold and Platinum
- Her playing was featured in the 20th Century Fox film, A Walk in the Clouds, which won a Golden Globe Award for best musical score
- Her best-selling autobiography In My Own Key – My Life in Love and Music included a chapter on her eight-year love affair with former prime minister Pierre Trudeau
- In 2012, received Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal; awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario; holds five honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge, University of Toronto, Simon Fraser University, Brock University and the University of Victoria
- Won The Vanier Award and is a five-time winner of the Guitar Player Magazine poll for best classical guitarist
- In 2003, she was diagnosed with musician's focal dystonia and left the stage for six years before returning to the recording studio in 2009
- Walks the runway March 21 in The Heart and Stroke Foundation's The Heart Truth Fashion Show as part of Toronto Fashion Week
- Releasing a new album this fall called The Return…to Canada with Love
- Upcoming appearances include Calgary on April 6-7, an ALS Canada Fundraiser in Ottawa on May 11 and a Gala Fundraiser with Christopher Plummer in Toronto on May 23
She's best known as "The First Lady of the Guitar."
Five-time Juno award-winner Liona Boyd has dazzled audiences at packed concert halls as far away as Tokyo, New Delhi, Edinburgh and Havana.
Amid her hectic concert schedule, the classical guitarist, singer, and songwriter has a new CD coming out this fall. The Return…to Canada with Love pays tribute to her Canadian roots; it includes performances by icons such as Jann Arden, Serena Ryder and Randy Bachman.
Despite Boyd's success, she hasn't let fame go to her head. At home in Toronto, she doesn't own a car and prefers to take public transit; at home in Palm Beach, she drives a modest, small car: a 2012 Kia Rio.
Why did you buy a Kia Rio?
For the last 10 years, I drove a Lexus LS 430, which my former husband had given to me as a birthday present.
It came with me to Palm Beach. Last year, I decided it was a little big for my garage because my garage is not too wide and I have two bicycles in there. And it was a gas guzzler. So I bought a little black Kia Rio.
I think it's much more ecologically responsible to have a small car because I really don't drive much. I walk everywhere.
I did check out a few other cars before settling on the Kia and decided it was perfect for the tiny amount of driving I do, which has mostly been up to Jupiter to see or stay with my girlfriend Olivia Newton-John. The mileage today reads 828 miles so I haven't even driven a thousand yet.
That Lexus had a few adventures. I moved that car so many times around the continent. … I was sad to see it go because we shared so many adventures. I bashed it a couple of times. I had it repaired. I was always very careful with it.
When I lived in Santa Monica in 2010, I had a routine. Every Sunday morning, I'd get up early and I would wash my car. You should have seen the grime that came off my car! It was always filthy around L.A. It would be black – it just shows what you're breathing.
In Florida, I have my rags and paper towels and nothing comes off! It's absolutely clean. I was shocked! It doesn't get dirty. It's a lower-maintenance car.
It's a cute little car and I love it. My Kia has a lovely sound system, too. My new album sounds fantastic on it. I listen to it all of the time.
It's cute and small. I decided I don't need this big car. I don't need it for a status symbol. I have a house in Palm Beach instead.
It's not that I don't appreciate the aesthetics of a very beautiful car. Some friends of mine invited me to the Ferrari weekend here and it was nice, but it was noisy and I certainly wouldn't spend that amount of money on a car.
What would you spend it on?
A house. I love to travel. A new guitar, for sure.
I don't want any more jewellery. I don't want material possessions as much. Having an escape from the winter has been really delightful.
Liberace told me to "invest in yourself," not in stocks or material things like cars. Basically, I've invested my money in my music. I funded this complicated and ambitious new album, which took me two years. I paid for everything on my last 12 albums. I've paid for my own music videos. I'm not an artist who relies on government handouts. I put my money into my career.
What does a Rio say about you?
I'm cheap. Small is beautiful. I just think the Kia is very cute.
When did you learn to drive?
I didn't learn to drive a car until I was 34, which was very old to learn to drive.
I never had a need to drive. I had boyfriends, parents, or taxis who would drive me places.
In the Trudeau days, he'd send the Mounties to get me. Many times I'd be met by RCMP. I didn't need a car when I was travelling because promoters would pick me up and look after me.
When I first learned to drive a car, I was living in Vancouver and my girlfriend said 'This is ridiculous! You're 34 and you don't know how to drive a car?' So, she said, 'We're going to driving school.' We went and I couldn't stand the first hour of the driving school! … I wanted to get back to playing my guitar so I asked for my money back and walked out of the driving school. I got a private tutor and, in a week or two, I learned to drive a car.
Then I came back to Toronto and I was given a white Pontiac 6000 STE for one year by GM. It was the only car I'd known so I ended up buying it from them and my mother drove it until last year. I got it in the '80s and ended up giving it to her.
What's your best and worst driving memory?
I've driven thousands and thousands of miles all over the country. We used to drive every single summer all the way from Toronto almost non-stop down to Mexico in the late '60s. We had a Volkswagen bus originally with no air conditioning. We'd camp and sleep in the bus when we were teenagers.
Once I decided I would take a big trip from San Francisco down to L.A., I looked on the map and it's one straight highway so I couldn't get lost. I got lost about four times.
Route 1 is spectacular; it goes through Big Sur, Monterey Bay, with fantastic views of the Pacific Ocean. I was so proud when I managed to pull up to my friend's house in L.A.
That's my only big road trip on my own. With managers and agents, I've driven thousands of miles across Canada. I've driven a lot in Europe – the Amalfi coast is always my favourite. It's pretty hard to beat.
The scariest drive I had was across Alligator Alley. I stopped and some creepy-looking guys came out of a truck towards me at night, around 2 a.m. It was scary. I just sped away. My girlfriend was in another car watching me and she said you escaped with your life – those guys were coming after you!
Your Kia must stand out in Palm Beach among the high-end cars?
In Palm Beach, it's wall-to-wall luxury cars. They like to cruise them around. I guess it's a huge status symbol.
My gift to the world is my music. I'm more passionate about that than any material possession. The guitars come and go – even husbands come and go – one has already gone. But my music is the driving force of my life. I'm not attached to one particular guitar or one particular car.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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UTEP's Tucker Named C-USA Spirit of Service Award Winner
April 2, 2013
Konner Tucker, who completed his college eligibility as a member of the UTEP basketball team this season, was appointed one of 12 Winter Conference USA Spirit of Service Award winners on Tuesday.
The C-USA Spirit of Service Award is designed to recognize the community service efforts of the league's student-athletes, based upon significant community service, good academic standing and participation in their elected sport. The Spirit of Service award is presented three times throughout the season, with these honorees representing Conference USA's winter sports: men's and women's basketball, women's swimming and diving and men's and women's indoor track and field.
Tucker, a graduate student pursuing his Masters of Leadership Studies, played in 25 games for the Miners this season with 22 starts. He ranked third on the team in scoring, averaging 10.1 points per game. He rated among the C-USA leaders in free throw percentage (first, .918), three-point field goal percentage (10th, .397) and three-point field goals made per game (tied for 11th, 2.0). Tucker scored in double figures in 14 games.
The Fort Worth, Texas native also completed 18 hours of community service for the 2012-13 athletic year, including volunteering with the 50/50 raffle (raising money for UTEP's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee) and speaking to children at St. Clement Elementary School and Sierra Elementary School.
The other Winter Spirit of Service Award Winners are Ariana Jackson (East Carolina women's basketball), Mikhail McLean (Houston men's basketball), Erica Woods (Marshall women's basketball), Justin Pinkston (Memphis men's track & field), Lilian Nwora (Rice women's track & field), Alisha Filmore (SMU women's basketball), Ance Celmina (Southern Miss women's basketball), Allie Evans (Tulane women's swimming & diving), Taleya Mayberry (Tulsa women's basketball), Amber Jones (UAB women's basketball) and Kayli Keough (UCF women's basketball).
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Do I need to waterproof my basement if I already have a french drain?
My basement flooded for the first time since we lived here and I was now told that I should waterproof my basement. I am uncertain if waterproofing will do anything due to my french drain. For example, along the entire perimeter of the inside of my basement there is a 2" or so gap/drain between the foundation walls and the floor (this being the french drain). Now correct me if I am wrong, but if the water table under my house rises above the depth of the foundation (which I am assuming is what happened in this case), wont water enter the basement through the french drain, making it pointless to seal the concrete floor since it will come in anyway?
Another way to think of it is as follows: Think of a cardboard box (resembling a basement foundation), now dip the bottom in a pot of water. The water will seep through the bottom and sides into the box (as like an unsealed basement being flooded). Now if you were to "waterproof" the inside of that cardboard box and dip it in water, it will keep the water out. But now cut slices along the bottom perimeter of that sealed cardboard box (as similar to my french drain) and dip it again, and water will leak back in through those slices. I figured this would be a good analogy of my question. Am I correct on my assumption of the need NOT to waterproof the floor and walls, or do I just not fully understand the workings of this and DO need to waterproof?
I also understand that waterproofing or sealing cant hurt, however, I dont want to spend the money or entire weekend + (a large basement) doing the job unless it is absolutely necessary.
I agree that sealing the concrete probably won't improve the situation. Does your drain have a sump pit and pump? Does it drain far away from the house? How about your gutters?
we wtrproof bsmts &, other'n possible structural damage to the footer, maybe you don't need to,,, eg, we've just had 500yr rains here in ga - some homes flood'd & no amt of bsmt wtrproofing'll ever help those folks as they live in dry lake beds when we get torrential rains.
you've got a ' SLOT DRAIN ' which isn't connected to a sump, gravity drain, OR mechanical discharge ( pump ),,, a TRUE french drain's a pipe-under-floor system according to most who sell/buy/bld 'em,,, far's treating hydrostatic wtr, you may need some laterals under the floor
' Am I correct - assumption - do I just not fully understand the workings of this and DO need to waterproof? ' WHATTA QUESTION - i vote the latter :wink: ' - ok, we'll go 1/2 & 1/2 :laughing: but absolutely necessary ' is your call,,, its going to be tough to edumacate yourself 'cause most every waterproofing ' inspector ' will be a salesman,,, there aren't many who personally watch a job & actually know ' zen wtrproofing ' ! good luck !
Thanks for your input. I know probably the correct thing to do it to waterproof anyway, and I'm not trying to get out of my "homeowner duties" by not doing it, but it'll be a BIG project to do so and its a pretty large basement, so it'll take a lot of sealer. I'm just trying to get other opinions to see if I should, or save the little money and time I have and not do it.
just remember water runs downhill & a sump only means ' collection point ',,, its really fairly easy to engineer a system,,, my 5 guys can get 100' done in 2 days usually & that's w/5gal bkts :thumbup: & 1 bosch brute,,, that's breaking the floor, digging the trench, placing bedding stone, filter cloth, 4" slotted ads corrugated hdpe pipe, cover stone, vapor barrier, & cemento :laughing: have noticed if their native language is english, it will usually take longer :mad:
btw, we ONLY use zoeller pumps ( m53 ) & NO float ( ping-pong ball ) switches - ONLY the slide float on the stainless steel guides !
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Installing basement recessed lighting
Finishing basement and have a few questions...
1. Have already bought recessed cans. Commercial Electric brand. I have now read a few places that these are junk. Why exactly and should I return them? Need to know know before I paint them black.
2. I plan on installing 12 lights on new 15A circuit using 2 switches one for left side of basement one for right (6 x 6). This is OK yes? Both switches will be in same box. And will be only thing on this new circuit.
3. Assuming I am running hot lead from main panel to switch box...there is no fancy wiring that needs to be done correct? 14/2 black to black, white to white except at switch correct?
wiring sounds good. Wondering why your going to paint the cans though. The amount of heat generated will likely just melt it and make your basement stink or start a fire. Probably not a great idea.
The black will absorb a lot of the light given off by the bulb and result in a darker than planned area.
Just use a black baffle trim. I would NOT paint the cans
Black baffle trims make a light colored ceiling look like swiss cheese.
I am painting the outside of the cans black because the basement ceiling is going to be painted black. I don't want shiny metal cans to stick out like a sore thumb in an otherwise black ceiling.
Isn't that what the recessed part of recessed lighting is supposed to address? :confused
Ok my basement has only joists above, there will be no ceiling tiles installed and no drywall. I am leaving the ceiling "as is" however I will be spraying it flat black. Including all ductwork, pipes, wires, etc. I'm sure you have seen this at your local bar or pub.
I have seen this done before in basements and it looks fantastic, plus I will not have to lower my ceiling and I will still have access to everything.
Yes the lights will be up in between the rafters, but I don't want to see that bare metal look at all. If lights are installed they will get the black treatment anyways, so I figure I spray them first. I bought Heat Resistant BBQ paint in flat black to match.
can we get a picture when you're done? be interested to see how it looks.
Also, if it is all exposed the wiring isn't allowed to be NM wire, so there is something "fancy" that needs to be done. (I believe metal wrapped electrical wire is good, I forget the technical term and someone far more knowledgeable than I will be along to give you the deep technical answer shortly)
This is from Article 334. There are also more sections that apply.
(A) Type NM. Type NM cable shall be permitted as follows:
(1) For both exposed and concealed work in normally dry
locations except as prohibited in 334.10(3)
Probably have not seen too many recessed cans at the pub like that. They seem to prefer track heads.
Not that I often remember nights in the pub. I mean not that I often go to the pub. Lol
The BBQ paint should hold but clean the cans off well. Halo and Juno back in the day used to ship the darn things with a light oily coating on them.
Maybe don't paint the thermal cutout switches on them if external.
ahh i get it now too, cool idea and good call on the bbq paint. I'd be interested to see the finished product as well. And on a side note it still allows you ceiling access for the future :)
Why not just install a metal j type box and spend the extra money on the new LED lights. I just installed them in a new kitchen and you don't need a whole recessed housing. Also led's don't pull hardly any current and don't get hot. Just a tip. Good luck
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Small Delights (v)
Monday, 31 March 2014
The cherry tree continues to delight not only me but bumble bees and yesterday several peacock butterflies.
A small posy of spring flowers from the garden are looking particularly delightful in my Blue of Devon jug. This little jug was a Christmas present and I love it so much that I think I must start a collection of Blueware.
A cluster of 'day's eyes' among the cherry blossom petals.
An improvised plum and almond tart made with leftover puff pastry and some frozen September plums. The filling is the same as the one used in this tart. Small, but delicious.
Three particularly nice cards for Mothering Sunday yesterday from my offspring. The freesias were from Tom, there was wine from George and chocolates from Katie. I knew there was a good reason why I had three children.
And here is March's sampler. This March has truly marked the beginning of spring. Here's to more of it, bluebells in the green woods, long evenings, bright mornings and lots of sunshine.
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Knit Kit
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Non knitters might assume that all you need to knit are sticks and yarn. That's true up to a point but when I decided to become a proper knitter last year I discovered that there are several other items necessary to knitting happiness. I realised I would need some sort of container in which to keep those items, something that could be thrown into my knitting bag and which would open easily and allow me to find what I needed without having to turn the entire contents out first.
It is the perfect size to hold all my kit which consists of;
A tape measure
A row counter. This Clover row counter is much easier to use than ones which fit on the end of your knitting needle.
A Grössenskala von Stricknadeln or, as I like to call it, a needle gauge.
Crochet hook for fixing dropped stitches
darning needles (in the green bullet) for sewing in ends
Thin thread for lifelines (useful when you are knitting a lace pattern)
Lots of stitch markers
Small tin to keep stitch markers in to stop them messing up the rest of my stuff
A set of dpns (because I am going to make some socks soon)
Instructions for Kitchener stitch (because there is no way I will ever commit it to memory)
Leftover yarn (not essential at all)
Yarn for the socks I am going to make soon. Two pairs.
This tin was perfect. It is 13cm by 20cm and 4cm deep. It's one of four in a set.
It is the perfect size to hold all my kit which consists of;
A tape measure
A row counter. This Clover row counter is much easier to use than ones which fit on the end of your knitting needle.
A Grössenskala von Stricknadeln or, as I like to call it, a needle gauge.
Crochet hook for fixing dropped stitches
darning needles (in the green bullet) for sewing in ends
Thin thread for lifelines (useful when you are knitting a lace pattern)
Lots of stitch markers
Small tin to keep stitch markers in to stop them messing up the rest of my stuff
A set of dpns (because I am going to make some socks soon)
Instructions for Kitchener stitch (because there is no way I will ever commit it to memory)
Leftover yarn (not essential at all)
In my knitting bag I have my yarn and needles, the pattern I'm following and a small notebook and pen although I think these last two could also go in my tin.
What do you have in your knit kit? Is there anything vital I have forgotten?
Yarn for the socks I am going to make soon. Two pairs.
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Lots of Pictures of Cherry Blossom
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Knitting news ~ I finished the shawl I begun in December. It's Ravelled here. I'm wearing it now and loving its usefulness.
Labels: knitting , Spring , the cherry tree 24 comments
A Jolly Nice Chocolate Cake
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Searching for a chocolate cake recipe which didn't require seventeen ingredients including 625g of sugar I turned to my trusty Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium (first published in 1950) and found this recipe, simple yet rich enough for a birthday cake. Blimmin' easy to make too. I iced it with chocolate buttercream which brought the sugar total to around 335g. Then I added an entire box of Maltesers, so, yeah, more sugar. It hit the spot though, celebratory but not excessive. It's called rich chocolate cake but compared with modern recipes it is far from rich.
There's a lot to like about my old 1960 edition of The Good Housekeeping Cookery Compendium. The recipes are straightforward, well written and well tested. Ingredients are few, familiar and easy to buy. My mum has a well worn copy and as a child I used to pore over the pictures of cakes (there are lots) for hours thinking how beautiful they were.
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But they aren't beautiful are they? They're terrible. Pick up any baking book published today or read any baking blog (I mean a proper baking blog, not this one) and you will see how the standard of cake decoration has soared. I don't just mean in terms of design and artistic taste but in skill too. The snowman cake below is clearly botched and the marzipan fruit dreadful. But I love them for their rubbish decoration, they're attainable aren't they? Yep, I could definitely make a snowman cake like that.
We are constantly being told perfection is what we should be striving for, and I don't just mean in our cakes but in our homes, our bodies, our faces, our hair, our lives. But how do we know what is perfect? Who is making the rules?
Maybe bloggers are helping make those rules. Maybe the little snippets of their lives that they choose to show on their blogs create an impression of a perfect life being lived in a perfect world. I once had an email from a reader who said I was everything she wanted to be. Flipping heck! I thought, or words to that effect. But perhaps she meant she wanted to be imperfect, that she didn't want to be made to feel her house, her cooking, her family had to be perfect and that I was showing her that it was ok to be a jolly nice chocolate cake rather than a perfect chocolate cake. I hope so.
Talking of perfection, my cherry tree is taking its time to reach it, I was clearly over optimistic when I said it would be in full bloom by the end of last week. Maybe it too has decided that jolly nice will be just fine.
Labels: birthdays , blogging , cake , cookbooks 40 comments
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
We have had a dismal winter, it's been relentlessly wet and grey. For the first time I have longed for winter to be over. Usually I enjoy it but lack of proper wintry weather has made it seem longer than it actually has been. But spring is most definitely early this year. Below are links to my cherry blossom posts over the last four years. Today it is poised on brink of perfection. By the end of the week I am confident she will be at the pinnacle of pinkness and of course I will be back with more photographs.
7th April 2010
18th March 2011
25th March 2012
19th April 2013
Labels: simple pleasures , Spring , the cherry tree 16 comments
Ingredients For A Sunday
Sunday, 9 March 2014
1. Sunshine and flowers. Lots of both.*
2. Gin and tonic. Just one.
3. Roast chicken. Two if you have teenage boys.
4. Bread and butter pudding.
2. Gin and tonic. Just one.
3. Roast chicken. Two if you have teenage boys.
4. Bread and butter pudding.
5. England v Wales at Twickenham. It's an important match. May the best team win. As long as it's England! Scotland, you were robbed yesterday.
* If you look at this post from 21st March 2012 you will see spring is twelve days earlier this year.
Labels: flowers , rugby , simple pleasures , Spring , the cherry tree 22 comments
Friday, 7 March 2014
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead"
AA Milne
Today I am declaring winter dead.
Labels: flowers , poetry , Spring 26 comments
Shrove Tuesday
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
We are a bunch of heathens in our house. A catholic education (chosen for its proximity rather than its faith) has had little effect on my children, if anything it has strengthened their disbelief. However, the church year has a strong resonance for me. Doing a thing because it is the right time to do it, doing that thing as an expression of spirituality speaks to me of a balanced life, a deliberate life whether it is a life of faith or not and that is a positive thing. I may not believe but I embrace the opportunity lent brings for reflection, restraint and silence.
But mostly I embrace the opportunity it brings for eating pancakes. Religious festivals with food attached are my favourites. So later this evening we will be tucking into the pancakes I made this afternoon. Rolled up with sultanas, sugar, butter and lemon juice. Meanwhile Katie is complaining about having to sit through an Ash Wednesday mass tomorrow.
My March read for The Year in Books is A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor. It's my first Elizabeth Taylor and so far I am enjoying it.
Labels: Books , church festivals , lent , pancakes , the year in books , traditions 30 comments
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Joshua Lawrence Eagle, an 18-year-old resident of Poplar, pled guilty to burglary.
Sentencing has been set for Dec. 18. He is currently detained.
In an offer of proof filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura B. Weiss, the government stated it would have proved at trial the following:
On Jan. 26, Eagle broke into his ex-girlfriend's house, which is within the exterior boundaries of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, stole jewelry and an Ipod Touch, then hid in a closed-door wooden cubby beneath the bed after hearing someone arrive home.
The ex-girlfriend's father is a police officer. He had just finished qualifying for firearms when he returned to his residence. He walked by his seven-year-old daughter's room and noticed the mattress rise and fall.
Thinking she clandestinely adopted a puppy in his absence, he opened the door to a storage space under the bed. Instead of a puppy, he found a full-grown man hiding inside.
The ex-girlfriend's father called two law enforcement officers. They arrived and searched Eagle, finding three rings that belonged to the wife and an Ipod Touch belonging to his daughter. The ex-girlfriend's father stated that Eagle did not have permission to be in his home.
When interviewed, Eagle disclosed he used his ID card to get into the back door to the house. Photographs show a broken, splintered door frame around the lock. While Eagle claimed he initially entered the house to "get his stuff back," he admitted he began looking around and took three rings and an Ipod Touch. Eagle stated that the Ipod Touch was not his and the ladies' rings were not his either.
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I totally thought there was no way Ian would see him again too theres lots more Rollo in this book than in the past ones and I LOVE it!
Are there enough people who have finished this book that we can start a discussion thread where we don't have to spoilerize everything? LOL Although it does feel naughty and fun to highlight those and read them
I just finished it. How how how am I going to wait for the next book to come out? I can't believe the way she left this book hanging. This is worse than any of the others. Argh!! Someone share my frustration!!!!
It's as though DG was being pressed to hurry and finish the book.
I'm a latecomer to the series (I am on the last few pages of Dragonfly in Amber I'm reading them AND listening to the Davina Porter unabridged recordings (LOVE hearing the different accents!) so that is slowing me down a lot.
Anyway, I was wondering if we ever learn what Frank did during his time while Claire was "missing" I learned a bit of his reaction to her being pregnant and the whole "time travel story" in DIA but I wondered if we ever hear it from his perspective.
So, I'm bumping this old thread to say that I just finished EitB. Now I want the next one dammit! In my quest to find it (I know it's not published yet) I dug up the old Outlander threads here and also checked out her site where I found out that the next one will be called "Written in My Own Heart's Blood" and that Diana links to a page with excerpts!! here. Just thought I'd throw that tidbit out for you sharks if you hadn't found it already.
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I have been wanting to leave for quite some time now, but am scared to because my boyfriends mother and him, as well with the rest of his family are trying to take him from me. I gave up working to take care of my son, I live with his father who is the main tenant on the lease, I'm am second. I haven't left because my son is all I have. I watch him 24/7 and his father helps when he gets off work between the hours of 6:30 to 10. Need some advice???
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There are pro bono (free) legal organizations but these are under-staffed and slow. Check out the State Bar of Texas website for the ones in your county. You are in Humble. I don't know if the 3 law schools in the Houston are would take your case since they only take easy cases for the law school students. But their cases are free.
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Air Force Academy investigating "human relations incident"
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - The Air Force Academy is investigating what it calls an alleged "human relations incident" that happened at the academy's preparatory school.
Academy officials said they could not provide more details about the incident because it is an ongoing investigation.
An academy spokesperson says officials became aware of the alleged incident on Thursday morning and an investigation was immediately launched.
In a news release, the spokesperson says that the Air Force and the Air Force Academy stand for respect and dignity for every individual and that it takes all such allegations seriously.
The academy says the people involved in the investigation have been suspended pending its outcome.