Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...
'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong
BACLS Edited Collection Prize 2024 Winners
We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info
Attention @bacls.bsky.social members. We recently launched the BACLS 'Work in Progress' Group, where members can get collegiate and supportive feedback on academic work. If you have work to submit or want to act as a reader do get in touch! Not yet a member? Visit our website to register bacls.org
I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
"When Hannibal tells Clarice he ate that guy’s liver with 'some fava beans and a nice chianti,' that is a metaphor for eating figgy pudding and eggnog with a big Christmas ham. Movies are filled with metaphors and symbols; you just have to look for them."
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
Really looking forward to reading it!
Woo hoo!!! Congratulations Denise!
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
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Solidarity with the @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library who are on strike this week and next. I've been going to the library for over a decade, the staff are the ones who make it the space it is - they need to be respected and, importantly, paid enough for the all the work they do
“Physically, you’re bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories are the same.” I Interviewed Dev Hynes about moving back to Ilford when his mum got sick & how it inspired the incredible album Essex Honey www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Faber paperback edition of Waiting for Godot with STAGE MANAGER'S COPY / NIGEL written on the cover in pencil
End of Act 1 of Waiting for Godot: beneath 'CURTAIN' someone has written the capitalised words, in pencil, 'INTERMISSION / DO LEAVES'
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours!
Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇
Please sign 👇
Please circulate 👇
If anyone feels it's important to be exposed to 'views they find offensive', they can just look at Twitter for ten seconds. Universities have more serious work to do www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
ENGLISH LIT JOB! A rare beast spotted in the wild! Come work with us! I’ll provide snacks!
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
A rare thing to see in the wild these days: a Creative Writing lectureship (fixed term) at the University of East Anglia vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Cover image for MFS 71.1. Features two black and white abstract human figures against a vibrant yellow, read, and blue background.
Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues.
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline: 30 May. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
For the sake of 10FTE jobs, UEA are still pressing ahead with compulsory redundancies. Some of these folk are friends & colleagues in my department. This doesn’t have to happen & is an enormous error of management #SaveUEA
This looks excellent, and is available open access too!
