Chris Cusack

@livunipress.bsky.social @drreznicek.bsky.social

Sorry for your trouble—The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature - Books Ireland This is not the best book for late night reading in bed. Its subject matter – death, dying and the dead – are not conducive to sleep. But for the rest of the

A very generous review of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature in @booksireland.bsky.social! Delighted the book’s making its way to readers. booksirelandmagazine.com/sorry-for-yo...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Publishing this week. Really thrilled with the result.

As the prospective editor of a leading international journal in the field of neuroscience and civil engineering I'd love to publish your work.

I love how this reads as if Ralph Vaughan Williams’ was intent on reviving the dead villagers and creating an undead horde of zombie folk singers.

A book on a desk. The book features the title The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature and the names of its editors. The cover image is A Funeral Procession (1900), by Charles Alfred Mills.

A page of the book with the title ‘Why do you bring your dead bodies littering here?’ The Corpse and the Comic Gothic in Romantic-era Irish Women’s Writing.

My contributor’s copy of this fine collection arrived today. Thank you to the editors, @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social, Bridget English, and @drreznicek.bsky.social, for including me!

“The apocalypse is cheaper than therapy”

—a student in my course on the end times

Promotional graphic for a book. The LUP logo is placed in the top left corner. The book cover for The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is placed on the right of the image. White text reads 'Interrogating representations of the corpse, this collection offers new perspectives on death in Irish literature.' The background is taken from the book cover, and is a grey washed version of the drawing of a sparse tree.

📚 Recently published | The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is available now!

This is the first book to centre on the figure of the corpse in Irish literature, and it ranges from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.

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Love Vintage's French "Folio"-adjacent design. www.gallimard.fr/collections/...

Programme for the event, featuring David Fleming, Niamh NicGhabhann, Rebecca O’Regan, Joseph Curran, Jay Roszman and Cat Porter

Fans of early 19th century Irish history! Gather round! We have a lovely event on @ullibrary.bsky.social on 22 Jan (next week) on the world behind the Ordnance Survey maps - free and all are most welcome. Just book your place via this link & tell your friends! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Excellent, congratulations!!

Putting it out there!

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Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, a collection of essays I co-edited with Bridget English and Matt Reznicek. The cover shows a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.

WELL HELLO THERE

Love Ulver!

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

Promovendus: literaire cultuur onder jongeren | Radboud Universiteit Als Promovendus in literaire cultuur onder jongeren werken bij Faculteit der Letteren? Bekijk hier de vacature!

Wil je promoveren op jongeren die wél lezen in tijden van digitalisering en ontlezing? Ik zoek twee promovendi binnen mijn Vidi-project 'Anatomy of the #Bookish'! Solliciteren kan tot 1 maart.

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"This map shows pre-colonized North America, depicting the approximate territories of Indigenous peoples prior to European colonization." https://www.thecollector.com/maps-resources/pre-columbian-north-america-map/

🗃️ Time to rewrite immigration history with Native history in mind. The US was founded on the conquest, dispossession, removal, exploitation, or genocide of Native people. Denial of that fact generated counter-myths: empty land, waste land, Manifest Destiny—and the slogan “nation of immigrants.” 🧵1/7

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

I definitely think we need more books like that!

English academic friends: @deborahlam.bsky.social and I have been gushing to each other about how much we love THE POCKET INSTRUCTOR for teaching inspo. are there any other good teaching exercise collections out there that we've been sleeping on? i have Showalter and Collier

Thomas Jones · So Ordinary, So Glamorous: Eternal Bowie The cliché is to call Bowie a chameleon, but he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through...

David Bowie would have been 79 today. Here’s something I wrote about him back when he was 65. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Can I get back to you on that?

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

I'm also interested in @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, but haven't been able to have a look yet! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Not as hands-on as the Pocket Instructor, but the MLA Options for Teaching series is also useful! And Bloomsbury have a range of useful pedagogical texts (in addition to Collier), e.g. Making Poetry Happen and A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers.

Amazon, aristocrat or democrat? Women and Irish politics in the age of revolution

We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see
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Winter Papers Submissions

One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions

That's the one I'm currently reading (after careful consideration!). So far, I think it reads quite well. I think this was done before they became a translation machine?