Dr Fergus Edwards
@drfergusedwards
Lecturer in English at UTAS | ultrarunner | he/him
Any resemblance to actual PhD research I may be conducting @UTASEnglish is entirely coincidental. (Image: @Russel_Herneman)
What's so funny about research? 🥸 The awesome Til Knowles is talking with a new generation of humour researchers: what are we working on, why, and how? 🤓 While I'm really proud to be talking with her for ep.1, I can't wait to hear the ep.s to come open.spotify.com/episode/1BGLbL…
From the new seasons of Andor and Black Mirror, to The Narrow Road to the Deep North – May’s must-watch TV proves time flies when your options are this good. @jegildersleeve @drjessicaford @GaunsonStephen @drfergusedwards @latrobe @RMIT @UniofAdelaide @UCNZ @UniversitySA…
This month's streaming recommendations @ConversationEDU - including Last One Laughing UK, which is *specifically* designed to demonstrate competing theories of humour 😂 (Odd bonus fact: the French version begins with a clip from the Australian 🤷) theconversation.com/feuding-mob-fa…
Looking forward to chatting with @helenshield on ABC Hobart at about 21:10 tonight, about why things - like #LastOneLaughing - are quite so funny... 😂 youtu.be/-HeAAhlNNgw?si…
he most read Arts+Culture article on @ConversationEDU from @UTAS_ over 2025 YTD 🙂 The most read article from @UTAS_ from any section over the past week 😀 10,000+ reads since Tuesday 😂 Not bad for a first article 🤣 theconversation.com/were-hardwired…
Just seen that @TheNewDailyAu has picked up my article, and I do like the wording of their front page link! thenewdaily.com.au/life/entertain…
Who doesn't love to have jokes explained to them? Thanks to the Honours students @UTASEnglish, who are enjoying the extended, twelve week version...
Ten comedians, one room, last comic to laugh wins. But what makes comedy – and not laughing – so funny? @drfergusedwards @UTAS_ theconversation.com/were-hardwired…
What's so funny about #LastOneLaughing? My first article for @ConversationEDU: theories of humour, definitions of comedy, and why Lou Sanders didn't even get to her set-up line 🤣 Appropriately for a programme with @jimmycarr, there's a Czech involved theconversation.com/were-hardwired…
Party's over... Next year's going to be fascinating though 😀
The 2025 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
Three runners on loop three; even a Fun Run looks unlikely, but with John and Tomo out the party might keep going a little longer...
Beginning Loop 3. #BM100
The major festive period for ultra trail runners began ten hours ago, and it's not going to last the full sixty hours at this rate...
The first two runners have finished Loop 1 in 9:44:55 and 9:44:57. #BM100
A new publication! 🥳 The entry on Stoppard's 'Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth' is now live at the Literary Encyclopaedia 🐶💀, 🚗🦉🧙♀️ I was helped by two very generous editors; thanks to them both! litencyc.com/php/sworks.php…
Accidentally beginning 2025 with a new article: a book review of Condren's 'Between Laughter and Satire' in the European Journal of Humour Studies 🤓 europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/v…
Well this was very pleasant... Thanks to everyone @UTASEnglish who helped me celebrate, in person or in spirit, and congratulations to Dr @philippa_moore and my fellow graduates!
The Invention of Love review – Simon Russell Beale is perfectly cast in Tom Stoppard revival whatsonstage.com/news/the-inven…
Super excited to share that my public address during my fellowship at @UTAS_ is now available as an essay. To cite it: The Writer as an Agent of Change. (2024). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 24(1). openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/…
It's been a great start to #AMSN6 being hosted here @UTAS_ on a delightful day here in Hobart...
My review of Conal Condren's 'Between Laughter and Satire: Aspects of the Historical Study of Humour' has been accepted by the European Journal of Humour Research... 😀 ...thanks to Dr Beatriz Carbajal-Carrera, @AHSN, and the EJHR, for their support while I've been writing it!
It's unexpectedly emotional to hold a physical copy of your (🥳passed without corrections🥳) PhD thesis... ... I might not have had the degree conferred yet, but it's almost time to celebrate these beautiful objects with my HDR colleagues @UTAS_ passed(😜) and present 🍻
American Courtney Olsen has reset the women’s 50-mile world record by 8 minutes and 22 seconds while running an incredible average pace of 6:39 per mile. irunfar.com/courtney-olsen…