Latest posts tagged with #LitStudies on Bluesky
#CFP: "What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture"; University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture, April 2-3, 2027
Deadline: July 15, 2026
Info: champ.ly/6TgMslzZ
#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #materialculture #litstudies
CFP
Scotland Along the New Silk Road
@iassl.bsky.social 5th World Congress
17–20 June 2027, Nanjing
This congress seeks to foster reciprocal understanding & cultural collaborations between Scotland & the diverse voices of the New Silk Road
#litstudies
scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...
CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye
Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
🚨 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026
Abstracts due for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music with @BloomsburyAcad.
We need 350w abstracts on lit/music intersections.
📥 Sub: tinyurl.com/cfcblolitpop... 📄 CFP: iaspm.org.uk/the-bloomsbu...
#LitStudies #PopMusic #CFP
Screenshot of journal article. Title: Subverting Social Order: Recovering the Intelligent Woman Farmer in John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963). Author: Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Abstract: In a 1985 lecture, Australian literary scholar Bruce Bennett said that people associated with farming are commonly regarded as intellectually impoverished. John Naish’s farm novel That Men Should Fear (1963) subverts the literary social order that Bennett described by portraying a farmer who is characterised as highly educated. Naish’s first novel, The Cruel Field (1962), has appeared in recent georgic studies and ecocritical scholarship, and in analyses of the migrant experience and labour systems. In this article, I recover his second novel, That Men Should Fear, and argue that Naish’s characterisation of the farmer as university educated subverts the literary “scale of civilisation” noted by Bennett while enabling insights into a class division based on ownership of farmland. This article centres on Naish’s portrayal of a strong and independent woman farmer at a time when women felt sidelined in Australian literature and society. I argue that Naish’s That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the Australian farm novel by expanding traditional representations of women and class. It also enriches the farmer’s perspective offered in Naish’s The Cruel Field.
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Smyth argues that Naish's That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the farm novel through its portrayal of women and class.
#class #LitStudies #OzLit #OzStudies
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#Toronto #LitStudies
CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye
Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
A dark blue journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Autumn | Winter 2025 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages.
Contents page 1 Editorial Kang-yen Chiu: Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies Megan Coyer: ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country Alison Denham: William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years Katherine Ferrier: The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier Mao Guihua and Zheng Ronghua: Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn Scott Hames: Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination Sarah Harlan-Haughey: Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear Kaiyue He: Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy
![Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour
Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel?
Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances
Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review)
Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review)
Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review)
Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review)
Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review)
Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vmd2oqboco524fhpqdu7pnbn/bafkreic6jkewat3o6orxceacfngef5kw7q2iyduhtmotbhakcz65m2e4ci)
Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel? Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review) Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review) Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review) Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review) Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review) Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review)
Lois Burke: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature, edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review) Scott Lyall: History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, by William K. Malcolm (review) Peter Auger: Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con, by Ronald Santangeli (review) Amy Wilcockson: Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp (review) Hilary Clydesdale: Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life, by Juliet Shields (review) Notes on Contributors
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)
The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
#litstudies
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415
In "Clowns in the Burying Ground," Christopher K. Coffman brings together #Deadheads and #LitStudies, showing how the Grateful Dead drew from the English and European literary canon to explore how creative powers can generate meaning. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/he9xzzZ
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026
Exploring the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work – deadline 30 Nov
#C19th #litstudies
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Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye
Proposals invited exploring literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English in the 20th century
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
Articles Introduction: Dreaming the Daily Darg Corey Gibson Jute mill songs: Mary Brooksbank and industrial tradition in a dying industry Erin Farley ‘And On One Toils, Into The Hill’: Working and Walking in Nan Shepherd’s North East Sarah Leith Labour and (Class) Struggle in James Barke’s Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming with Rob Roy, Marx & Burns Arianna Introna Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place Corey Gibson Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow Kate Wilson James Kelman and the Impossibility of Managerial Souls Joseph H. Jackson ‘Just Get It On The Table’: Gendered Food Labour in Janice Galloway’s Fiction Gina Lyle Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, and Ewan Gibbs
Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025
A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
#litstudies
scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
A head and shoulders portrait in oils of Robert Fergusson by Alexander Runciman (1736–1785). Runciman has painted his friend, a young poet, lost in creative thought. His exaggerated features – huge eyes, full lips – suggest brilliance and intensity.
Robert Fergusson (1750–1774) died #OTD, 17 Oct, aged just 24. Notable for his poetry in both Scots & English, his works include “Auld Reikie”, “The Daft Days”, & “Hallow Fair”. His legacies are broad, from the literary & cultural to the medical.
#C18 #litstudies
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The John Galt Society offers a grant of up to ₤1000 to cover research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Two types of research projects – archival & digital – are eligible. Deadline 31 Jan 2026 – see link for details
#C19 #litstudies
thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...
The cover of The Hero by Lord Raglan. A knight in full armor and a red cloak stands with one foot braced on a stone. He is holding a crown over his own head.
The cover of The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn. In the background stands a mysterious cottage with glowing windows. The cottage is framed in the foreground by various poisonous plants and mushrooms.
The cover of A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by Stephanie Burgis. At the top stands a black metal gate. At the bottom is the silhouette of a bat. The images are framed by branches with red flowers and berries.
Book mail! The new goodies are a dated but still interesting #litstudies #mythology text; a #feminist #witchy revenge tale from Ava Morgyn (take the content warning seriously); and a yummy #romantasy from @stephanieburgis.bsky.social. #booksky #witchsky
A yellow journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Spring | Summer 2025 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages.
Contents Editorial Alessandra Petrina – On the Margins: Early Modern Scottish Writing Allison L. Steenson – ‘Nusquam Audita’: Mary, Queen of Scots, the Hawthornden Manuscripts, and the Union of the Crowns Licia Masoni – Revisiting the Past for Young Readers: Retellings of Traditional Tales in Scottish Picturebooks Manuela D’Amore – Past and Current Trends in Italian Scottish Migration Writings: Time and Memory in Joe Pieri and Anne Pia Gioia Angeletti – The Future of the Past: Revisionism, Theatricality, and National Identity in Three Scottish Plays from the 1970s to 2010 Notes on Contributors
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/1
Spring/Summer 2025
Special issue
Scotland’s Branches: Language, Literature & Culture across Time
Guest edited by Gioia Angeletti & Marina Dossena
Now online free on Open Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social
#litstudies #AcademicSky
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55288
If you enjoy audiobooks read by the author, don't miss @jeffjarvis.bsky.social's engaging history of the magazine.
Learn more: bit.ly/46uQsGd
Find it on Audible: adbl.co/4ocgq7K 🎧📚
#litstudies #mediastudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
profile pic of Dr Fran Brearton
Want another listen of Fran Brearton's excellent Memorial Lecture at our annual conference in Dublin? Thanks to TCD, we have a recording!
"Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940"
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#ModWrite #modernist #modernism #litstudies
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026
This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work
#C19th #litstudies
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Issue 26: Meet the Article, Feeling The Reading: Affective Landmarking and Literary Studies in India by Meha Gupta, The Big Questions: Can our emotional responses become a shared interpretive tool?
Gupta explores what happens when we ask students “how does this text make you feel?”. Digital tools are used to transform emotion from private reaction to shared interpretive tool for parsing controversial literary texts.
#DigitalHumanities #AffectiveLearning #LitStudies
Read: tinyurl.com/2p9jzjhw
Research question for the literary scholars (maybe especially Modernists?). Has anybody done attribution work on Notes & Queries for the 1910-1920 stretch? Trying to identify some contributors who only signed with initials! #litstudies #amwriting
Of all the pieces I have ever written, this one is my favourite. But do not tell the others.
@intellectbooks.bsky.social #lordofthelost #judas #gospelofjudas #romeoandjuliet #shakespeare #postmodernism #intertextuality #metalmusicstudies #metalstudies #litstudies #lit
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Join us in Nova Gorica, Slovenia for the international summer school "Crossing Media Boundaries: Gender and Writing Across Artistic Media" — Aug 27–Sept 1, 2025 🎬📖🎨 + funding opportunities for MA and PhD students from CEEPUS countries
🔗 Info: ung.si/documents/34...
#GenderStudies, #LitStudies
Pretty new here, would love to connect with fellow academics, particularly in #English / #litstudies / #disabilitystudies but would appreciate connections in any field!
Also, any Academic Advisors out there?
#academicsky #academia #highered #higheredsky #academicadvising
Victorianists and Modernists - who is the best literary sad boy?
My vote is for Leonard Bast
#LitStudies #AcademicSky
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #LitStudies #CloseReading
Teaching hivemind, do you have unconventional methods for massive literary survey courses that produce results?
Wow wow wow!!! I am beyond excited to get my hands on this - this is one of my primary interests! #Narratology #CloseReading #LitStudies
Listen, everything is hell, but I made my grad students write book reviews for Global Modernisms class and some of them wrote about YOUR BOOKS and let me tell you that is a true delight!
#litstudies
Reprint of an advertisement for mustard seeds in silver frame. At the top of the image, a row of grey columns that presumably support a banister, and some green leaves. They form the backdrop to: A white toddler with blonde locks and a straw hat with a pink ribbon and bow, dressed in a white dress with a big pink bow, redish tights and black shoes has fallen on the belly at the top of two steps and is pulling a face, bawling. At the bottom of the dark blue, red and yellow carpeted steps, to the front of the image, lie three apples and a yellow box with red writing "Stickney and Poor's Mustard", the lid has fallen off and golden mustard seeds are scattered all over the red carpet. On the middle step another apple.
Gifted by a really wonderful friend - please meet my new accountability buddy.
She keeps me on track with my #litstudies writing on the comedy of stumbling, tumbling and falling bodies, even when I stumble and fumble for words =)
