London Renaissance Seminar Contributor Award, Winner in the mid-career category, awarded to scholars who have made a significant contribution to research and also in recognition of collegiality, creativity and openness to ideas beyond the mainstream.. 2020 In August 2012, Riley married Jamie Gilbert, whom she had met while they were both studying at the University of Oxford. It was announced in November 2013 that they were separating. [17] The split has been cited as an example of the Strictly curse. [18] She began dating her Strictly dance partner, Pasha Kovalev, soon after the show ended in December 2013. In May 2019, Riley announced that she was pregnant with the couple's first child. [19] On 28 June 2019, [20] Riley and Kovalev married in Las Vegas. [21] On 15 December 2019, Riley gave birth to a baby girl. [22] In April 2021, Riley announced that she was pregnant with the couple's second child. [23] On 5 November 2021, Riley gave birth to their second daughter. [24] I first heard of Rachel Wiley in 2012 when I saw a video recording of “10 Honest Thoughts On Being Loves By a Skinny Boy”. I was in a loveless relationship with a skinny boy at the time and thought, “If she could write something like that, I could find a boy to love me like this.” So I ended my relationship to one day find a better one. I’m still waiting.

However, the marketing of this book of poems was not great. The impression that I got was that this would be a book about being a fat girl. True, Wiley's most famous poem is about that but this book of poetry is so much more and I feel it's a shame the cover or description doesn't do justice. This collection of poems is broad and special, touching across so many topics and ideas. A lot of the poems here have to do with growth, with acceptance, with boldness, with race and faith, with the complicated experience of being human. I think many people could enjoy this book, regardless of their gender or body. Anatomizing the King’s Two Bodies: Regicide and Bloody Passions, Bloody Passions: Extreme Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Portsmouth, Oral presentation. 2015 Two Kings and No Bodies: Debating the Body Politic, The Royal Body conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, Oral presentation. 2012 All in all, this is a solid collection. It's engaging and truthful. Wiley's voice comes across as earnest and genuine. I absolutely recommend this if you're in the mood for some positive poetry. Inscribing Textuality: Milton, Davenant, Authorship and the Performance of Print, Making Milton: Print, Politics and Genre, Renaissance Societry of America Annual Conference, New Orleans, Oral presentation. 2018Eames, Tom (24 June 2013). "Ryan Giggs to appear on 'Countdown' ". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 27 June 2013 . Retrieved 7 August 2022. She and her husband became vegan in 2018. [31] [32] She is an atheist who identifies as Jewish through her mother. [5] [33] Politics [ edit ] Too many metaphors. I get it, it's part of her unique style, but many times it made reading the poems super tedious, and sometimes I felt the metaphors didn't enhance the poem or nouns she was using/describing, but rather it was just something she felt she had to do. At first the metaphors were really powerful for me, later on in the collection I felt they weren't even real.

Knowledge, Doubt and "The Man in the Moon"’, Sheffield Hallam – Bangor Early Modern Studies Seminar, Online, Oral presentation. 2022 CUSO Workshop: Restoration and the Long Eighteenth Century: Concept and Metaphor, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Lecture and the facilitating of a seminar mainly for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers as part of a workshop organised under the auspices of the Conference Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO) network of Swiss Universities.. 2017 Willie RJ. 2015. Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast, "Railing, Reviling and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617: The Anti-Poetics of Theater and Print" Modern Language Review, 110 :526-527 DOI Publisher UrlWillie RJ. Lunar travel and lunacy: reading conflict in Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon (1687) Gélleri G, Willie R. Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World Routledge 9780367524210 Publisher Url Public Url

Private Grief and Public Passions: Anatomising the King's Two Bodies, QMCRLE / CEMMN.net joint Research Seminar (invited speaker), Queen Mary, University of London, Oral presentation. 2016 Willie RJ. 2016. Cary DiPietro and Hugh Grady (eds), "Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now" Modern Language Review, :849-850 DOI Publisher Url

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Kale, Sirin (20 August 2019). "Behind the times? The strange, sad story of rear of the year". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019 . Retrieved 24 November 2019. Also, we all need reminders that our bodies are fine, especially right now, when I can see the years I've spent working on long distance running fade away and seriously, I'm terrified of what it will feel like to go on a run once this ends and realize that I've lost years of progress. Family Ties and Textual Ruptures: Representing Rupert of the Rhine in the English Civil War, Society for Renaissance Studies 7th Biennial Conference, Glasgow University, Oral presentation. 2016 It's really hard to review poetry. Especially if you've always had love/hate relationship with poetry. In many ways, I could relate to the poems about finding peace within your body and I'm so incredibly happy to reach a point where I can read a poem like Wiley's and feel that it does apply to me. Like dang, if this is what growing old is, I'll absolutely take it. She writes about this so fantastically.