UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department

Book now for our @mcrlitfest.bsky.social events in partnership with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and @newwritingmcr.bsky.social – featuring Douglas Stuart and Tayari Jones 📚

Encountering Biblical Bodies: Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women Join us for an informal research cafe and exhibition viewing of Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women.

Join @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social for a research café discussing an exhibition of artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series.

📅 Mon 16 Mar
⏰ 4.30-6.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free – Booking required

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounteri...

A quick reminder that we'll be joined by Joe Davidson tomorrow for a special talk hosted by the EACW Radical Formations and Cultural Materialisms research group. We'd love to see you there!

Another @newwritingmcr.bsky.social event on Tue 24 March @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - Neil Rollinson & Jon Doyle discuss their powerful new novels The Dead Don’t Bleed and Communion.
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. 📚✨https://buff.ly/N9bIDBC

In Cambridge later this month? Exciting Critical-Creative work showcase from EACW's @jamespaz.bsky.social 🎉🔽

A fitting pick for International Women's Day also! #IWD

It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook

Tonight! Come immerse yourself in all things Seamus Heaney with @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social before the rugby starts! Tickets here or on the door: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-heane...

Can’t wait for Joe P. L. Davidson's upcoming talk at Manchester next week!

‘After the Burning Age: Green utopianism, climate catastrophe, and retooling the apocalypse’
📍 Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, 11 March 4-6 pm

In the meantime, worth revisiting Joe’s blog for the Sociological Review:

Manifestly worth making time to visit the Glass Corridor Gallery on UoM campus for this exhibition over the next few weeks ✨ Really excellent!

Wednesday, 4th March, 5-7pm

CSSC PhD Roundtable and Q & A

Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester

All welcome!

Today - Join us! 🔆

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

Research Show and Tell: EAC 'Empire and After' Cluster | Events at The University of Manchester Please join us for a 'Show and Tell' by researchers affiliated with the 'Empire and After' EACW research cluster, showcasing new and developing work.

Reminder! 👀
Next week - a Show & Tell seminar from EACW's Empire and After cluster - focused on colonial and #postcolonial writing and film. Researchers will be sharing exciting new and developing work.
📅 4 March
🕑 2pm
📍 University Place 2.217

WHITE RIVER CROSSING: Ian McGuire in conversation Join us to hear Ian McGuire discuss his new novel, White River Crossing, a cinematic story set in the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness.

We’re back @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on 3 March to hear EACW’s Ian McGuire discuss White River Crossing, his gripping new novel set in the sub-Arctic wilderness.
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. 📚❄️

A bumper week for events is coming up...will we see you at the shop?

Monday 2nd: @mackeza.bsky.social with Super Nintendo
Tuesday 3rd: @uomenglish.bsky.social's Ian McGuire with White River Crossing
Thursday 5th: Michael Stewart and Katherine Clements
Friday 6th: Nicholas Allen with Late Heaney

Queer feminists for peace: Queering Women, Peace & Security book launch Launch of Jamie J. Hagen's book Queering Women, Peace and Security book, with artist Sarah-Joy Ford, followed by a reception.

Hey Manchester! Join us Friday 20 March, at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the public launch of my book Queering Women, Peace and Security, with artist Sarah Joy Ford, followed by a reception.

🥂Free & open to all! Please RSVP here: bit.ly/4kDipk4

@uompols.bsky.social @oupprimary.bsky.social

TONIGHT - Join us @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social to celebrate Rebecca Perry’s debut novel May We Feed the King!
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4, or free with book purchase.
In partnership with UoM’s @newwritingmcr.bsky.social - don’t miss it! 📚✨

TALK: ‘Alternative Ecological Futures’ Weds 18 March, 4–5pm (Sam Alex A113) with Dr Robert Spencer and Prof. Allison Carruth author of Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025). 🌍📚 buff.ly/cJcXnbO

Research Show and Tell: EAC 'Empire and After' Cluster | Events at The University of Manchester Please join us for a 'Show and Tell' by researchers affiliated with the 'Empire and After' EACW research cluster, showcasing new and developing work.

What else are we working on? 👀 Join us for a Show & Tell from the Empire and After cluster, showcasing new and developing work by our researchers. 4 March, 2pm, University Place 2.217. A great chance to see what’s brewing in the department!

Just 5 mins away from the desk each hour can reset body and mind. Visit Sam Alex for an immersion in 'Mossworlds' - emerging from research by Dr Aurora Fredriksen (@uomseed.bsky.social), EACW's Dr Anke Bernau & Dr Ingrid Hanson, with their wider team and collaborators.

Join us to celebrate the release of 'May We Feed the King', CNW graduate Rebecca Perry's debut novel.

📅 Tuesday 24 February
⏰ 6.30-8pm
📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
🎟️ £4 (or free with a copy of the book)

Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/may-we-fee...

Looking forward to hearing ‪@naoisemurphy.bsky.social‬ reading from this newly published gem! 25th March, 4pm, Sam Alex A115 - join us!

A copy of the book Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns by Naoise Murphy. An orange cover with a painting of Powerscourt Waterfall by Mainie Jellett.

The book is out, it exists in hardback, and I'll be talking about it in three different cities over the next few months! 🧵

Research Show and Tell: EAC 'Empire and After' Cluster | Events at The University of Manchester Please join us for a 'Show and Tell' by researchers affiliated with the 'Empire and After' EACW research cluster, showcasing new and developing work.

What else are we working on? 👀 Join us for a Show & Tell from the Empire and After cluster, showcasing new and developing work by our researchers. 4 March, 2pm, University Place 2.217. A great chance to see what’s brewing in the department!

What a delight it was to get to hear the brilliant @profkfh.bsky.social speak about how her wonderful new book came to be at today’s @uomenglish.bsky.social research seminar, in conversation with my dear colleague Dr Fred Schurink.

Today’s the day! 🎉 We're in Sam Alex SG.16 4–5pm for an EACW research seminar 'The Sweet Taste of Empire' - @profkfh.bsky.social in conversation with @fredschurink.bsky.social on sugar, empire and race. Join us!

Thanks Liz! Hope you can join us next time 😀

Gabriel Clark delivered such a riveting performance in The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me tonight at the Hope Mill Theatre & it was capped off with an extraordinary post-show conversation on art, activism & queer history with @uomenglish.bsky.social Dr @mbpearl.bsky.social. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥