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Selective Affinities Rita Felski’s new work brings literary studies into conversation with more affirmative and democratic forms of critical theory.Literary critics associate the phrase “Frankfurt School” with early twent...

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The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.

In anticipation of World Book Day, I was asked by The Conversation to write about a book that changed my opinion on something. I chose Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman:

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Charli XCX turned Wuthering Heights into a sonic gothic masterpiece This album stands as a musical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel in its own right.

Excited to hear that over 12 thousand people have read my review of Charli XCX’s wonderfully Gothic album, Wuthering Heights. You can read my article for The Conversation here:

theconversation.com/charli-xcx-t...

Just saw Wuthering Heights and it really moved me. I think adaptations should be inventive in their unfaithfulness, and it hit that mark for me.

Charli X-Cixous (this post came to me in a dream)

The last course is very much reminding me of my first ever undergraduate course at Warwick: 'Modern World Literatures'

Teaching wonderful courses this term, including: 'Jane Austen', 'Creative Writing' (focusing on Romance!), and 'Short Fiction Literature' (feat. Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector, Chinua Achebe, Natsume Sōseki, and Han Kang).

I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social

I wrote about Lorde's new album Virgin - great to work with you again, @annalouwalker.bsky.social

Charli xcx - party 4 u (official video) YouTube video by Charli xcx

Charli XCX has released a video for 'Party 4 U', 5 years after the song's release. Wondering if the billboard is a reference to the famous billboard in The Great Gatsby. One of the best love/yearning songs ever written.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=agu2...

It’s wisteria season at Worcester College.

The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...

My article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" is the featured article in the new issue of Modernist Cultures journal ☺️ euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination — Caesura “I’m not fit to be a mother. There’s something else I’d have to do first — to change myself from a doll to a real human being.” With these words, Nora Helmer (Sarah Wharton) leaves her husband Torvald...

Just noticed my Telos article 'The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen’s Women in Adorno’s Modernist Literary Theory' is cited in @leonieettinger.bsky.social's great article 'Rewriting Nora: Ibsen, Gender, and the Struggle for Self-Determination’ caesuramag.org/posts/rewrit...

Many thanks Marie! I'm very glad it's out in the world now :)

My article on Nightwood, (post)critique and wild psychoanalysis is now out! If you're interested, you can find it in the most recent issue of Modernist Cultures: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Currently drafting a syllabus for a new course that I'm really excited about - 'Creative Writing: Or, Writing with Virginia Woolf'

The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ <i>Nightwood</i> | Modernist Cultures Since its publication, literary critics have commonly read Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood as a novel that resists interpretation. Even where scholars have applied, for example, psychoanalytic theory to the t...

Pleased that my article “The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood” is out now in Modernist Cultures journal:

www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

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Treating myself to some avant-garde literature

Brat by Charli XCX is a work of contemporary imagist poetry – and a reclamation of ‘bratty’ women’s art Charli XCX’s Brat can be seen as part of a multimedia tradition of women’s writing that is honest and no longer afraid of being labelled ‘bratty’.

With her BRIT award for Songwriter of the Year, there's been a lot of discourse on Charli XCX's lyricism recently. Here's my piece on why I think Charli can be read as an imagist poet (also featured, the argument that Party 4 U = The Great Gatsby): theconversation.com/brat-by-char...

I would love to! I supervised a dissertation student who read it as a part of research, but that's the only instance in my teaching to date. If I get to teach Modernist Theatre again I would definitely include it on the syllabus.

Thank you! My students are always surprised more isn't written on her, especially once you get beyond Nightwood. I love teaching 'From Fifth Avenue Up' to get them into the groove of her writing before we tackle the prose. And what a fabulous dissertation topic!!!

Thank you Sean! I hope you are well :)

9 years ago today, Charli xcx released ‘Vroom Vroom.’

Excited that my next journal article, "The Limits of Critique? Reading the Wild Psychoanalyst in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood" will be out in the next issue of Modernist Cultures. Expect discussions of (post)critique, interpreting 'difficult' texts, and 'wild-analysis'. @modernistudies.bsky.social

Trying this out. Expect English Literature, Theory, and Snoopy content (perhaps all at once).