Sam Bailey

Disability and the Gothic Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

▪Deadline for abstract proposals: 11 March 2026
▪Submit to genderandcreativity.oup@gmail.com

Please share with scholars working on gender and creativity across all global regions, disciplines, and historical periods.

More about Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice: academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

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We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Gender and Creativity' section of the Gender Justice project for @academic.oup.com. This section is edited by Dr. Paulina Bronfman, with Madelyn Detloff serving as General Editor for the overall project. Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZI-0...

Hand raised in fist. Oxford Intersections, Labour and the Economy.

We’re commissioning articles for Labour and the Economy in Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context—a fully online, peer-reviewed project for short-form interdisciplinary research.

🔗 oxford.ly/3MIKE46

Hand raised in fist. Oxford Intersections, Legacy and Memory.

We're seeking articles for Legacy and Memory in Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context. This online, peer-reviewed project publishes short-form interdisciplinary research. Learn more about how you can contribute: oxford.ly/4qGbZ5x

A banner depicting a hand holding a pencil and writing on a notepad. It reads: 'On the OUPblog: "How to write an interdisciplinary abstract" by Sam Bailey'.

It is not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive, and is derived from having read a lot of interdisciplinary abstracts on just about every topic under the sun while working on Oxford Intersections this past couple of years.

Look out for more Future Authors Forum events coming in 2026!

How to write an interdisciplinary abstract The purpose of any abstract is to summarise your article’s content in a way that will help potential readers decide if they want to read your work. An abstract usually runs between 150 and 300 words a...

Here's a blog post on 'How to write an interdisciplinary abstract' I wrote following the successful launch of @academic.oup.com's Future Authors Forum in October last year. It contains eight tips for writing effective abstracts for interdisciplinary research articles in the Arts, Hums, & Soc Scis.

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes?
I...love it?

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

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Announcing the winners of the inaugural First Book Prize for early career researchers - Oxford University Press The First Book Prize aims to support early career researchers by providing fully open access and hardback publication for their first monograph.

Winners will also have their work published in hardback, ensuring their research reaches a wide audience both digitally and in print.

Here's a link to apply for this year's prize (bookmark to stay updated): oxford.ly/49danu3

Here's a list of previous winners: corp.oup.com/news/announc...

A banner that reads: Early Career Researcher: First Book PrizeOxford University Press proudly announces that submissions for the annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers will be open between 1-31 January 2026.Explore the information page for submission details.

Oxford University Press @academic.oup.com is pleased to announce that the First Book Prize will open for submissions in Jan 2026. The prize offers up to 10 early-career researchers the opportunity to publish their first academic book fully open access on Oxford Academic, with the full OA fee waived.

Delighted to see this article in publication!

"The publisher or distributor cannot force an account to carry the book...The truth of the matter is that **most** books don’t get shelf placement."

This is SUCH a great primer on book distribution for authors.

Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention.

Title page: Low-Carbon histories for zero-carbon futures, by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, and Hiroki Shin, in the Journal of Historical Geography

‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

screenshot of three tiers of prices for the WonkHE festival. the comercial rater is £1,250 + £252 VAT + £10 booking fee.

"Oh, maybe I'll go to this UKHE 'festival' as that seems the only way the minister will say anything about the sector she's in charge of (even if it's in conversation with the regulator that has been proven to be unfit for purpose and not with staff)"

Fucking hell.

100% agree with your #1. Other top picks are:

1) Bibliography doesn’t list any books by the publisher to whom the author’s proposing their book

2) Vague claims that this (academic) book will be of interest to ‘the general reader’. Who is this general reader? Are they in the room with us right now?

Sections currently accepting submissions are:
- What is Gender? Why & how does it matter?
- Gender, Economies, & Work
- Gender, Health, Mental Health, & Care
- Gender, Home, & Family
- Gender, Religion, & Culture
- Defending Gender

Submission link in post above. More info about the project here:

Please consider submitting an abstract to the wonderful Gender Justice project, led by Madelyn Detloff! We're open to proposals for interdisciplinary research articles on the concept of gender justice, however you choose to define it, authored by scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

So much fun working with the @kingsartshums.bsky.social marketing team and the Globe on this ‘Top 5 Shakespearean Film Adaptations’ (and got to live out my inner TikTok star!)

If you’re on Instagram - give the original a like too! — www.instagram.com/reel/DL4nTOC...
#Shakespeare #skystorians

Professor Venus Bivar - Embedding humanities in the environment Venus Bivar, Associate Professor of Environmental History, discusses her career and the importance of embedding the humanities in the environment.

Academic lead for the Hub, Venus Bivar, was recently interviewed about what the Humanities can teach us about climate change: www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-...

Please reach out to Gabriella if you're interested in writing a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research article on food and drink for Oxford Intersections @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

The cultural history of food and drink is a particular passion of mine so it's a joy to be publishing in that area.

Here’s to other forms of bilingualism instead

Our PGR Network are hosting a conference 'Disability within Environments: disability studies perspectives' on 17th September 2025. The call for papers is live with a deadline of 12th June. Please share with your networks

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the turtles, for today is their special day!

To celebrate World Turtle Day, here are two turtle-y amazing illustrations from 'Our Reptiles and Batrachians' by M.C. Cooke, published in 1893.

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#WorldTurtleDay #TurtleDay #RareBooks

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Are you an Early Career Researcher looking to publish your first academic book? Join our digital workshop for personalised feedback on your book proposal from experienced OUP Editors and ECR peers. 📖
Spaces are limited. Share this opportunity with a friend!
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I love Kapunka Vegan: maps.app.goo.gl/ADrcawm4VsED...

What a miserable day to be trans in the UK. Not a single trans person was allowed to make a representation to the Supreme Court. Not one. And we are the group who will pay the price.