Episode Description
Elly McCausland works for the Ghent University as a teacher and a researcher. Furthermore, she's an author and a public speaker. A woman of many talents, then. She was born and raised in Cambridge, and ended up in Denmark, Norway and, as of today, Belgium. We discuss British spatial politics, children's literature, ecocriticism, gardening, tart versus cake, Roald Dahl, favourite words in English and Dutch, nominative determinism, Taylor Swift, intentional fallacy, winkel versus winkle, and more. Her new book, 'Bake It Off', comes out on 2 October 2025, closely followed by 'Swifterature' (A Love Story: English Literature and Taylor Swift) on 4 November 2025.