Shahira Hathout, Ph.D.

Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell

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My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review

"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!

From the Caribbean to Caledonia: Two National Bards in Conversation Scotland's current Makar, Peter Mackay, and the former Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison, exchanged poems, stories, thoughts and much laughter at Ellisland Farm, once home to Robert Burns and h...

🇯🇲 FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO CALEDONIA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

On a sun-kissed Autumn’s afternoon on the banks of the River Nith two National Poets sat down to chat about Rabbie Burns, Bob Marley, Dante’s Inferno, the Gaelic and Jamaican tongues, and much more. #poetrypodcast

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How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

Good article 🌿

What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time The first dialogue readers encounter in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a conversation between a wife and husband who have been married for twenty-three years. Mrs. Bennet is all aflutter abou…

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
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book cover, hills and palm trees are pictured, they are in flames

New book review by Sarah D. Wald.

In Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate justice and speculative futures in latinx cultural production, David J. Vázquez discusses anti-racist and decolonial environmental politics across contemporary Latinx art, literature, and film.

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"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/

Q&A with Françoise Vergès on Decolonial Feminism - Edinburgh University Press Blog Françoise Vergès reflects on the space she wanted to create and help to hold open for feminists and workers of colour.

📚 New on the blog

Françoise Vergès reflects on the space she wanted to create and help to hold open for feminists and workers of colour.

Delve into the post here:

Why I Wrote No is Not A Lonely Utterance Some thoughts shared on launch day!

It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

"We must, believed Serres, be in constant motion to establish a reciprocal give-and-take between ourselves and others, in the process ceaselessly altering our understanding." Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres' "Hermes" series. lareviewofbooks.org/article/revisiting-michel-serress-hermes-series/

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide.

The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

‘Nous réclamons le droit à l’opacité’: Glissant and the Ethics of Human Rights Benjamin P. Davis talks to Usha Natarajan about Ben's book on the inspirational Caribbean poet, Édouard Glissant. What we can learn from Glissant about human rights? What does Glissant mean by the 'right to opacity'? Is it necessary and possible to know the Other? How do we 'choose our bearing' and engage in ethical academic and legal praxis amid neoliberal institutions that are in varying degrees complicit in genocide, famine, violence, and suffering?

Explore Human Rights with Benjamin P. Davis & Usha Natarajan! They delve into Édouard Glissant's insights on the 'right to opacity' and ethical practices amid challenging global issues.

📚 Explore 'Choose Your Bearing': https://edin.ac/3JIcRne
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Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine continues to unfold, the number of murdered Palestinians has now surpassed 46,000 civilians, half of which are women and children. This number includes o...

"Satire in the Time of Genocide: a diffractive reading of Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) through Israel’s gendered settler-colonial practices in Palestine"

Fifty free copies can be downloaded through this link:

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Book Review: Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene 9th September 2025 Dr. Shahira Hathout, York University, Toronto Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, ed. Peter Adkins (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (2024) …

My review of Peter Adkin's edited collection, Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, is now published in @modernistudies.bsky.social # 57 and can be accessed here. Thanks to the wonderful editorial team!

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The Modernist Review Issue #57 8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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Book Review: Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene 9th September 2025 Dr. Shahira Hathout, York University, Toronto Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, ed. Peter Adkins (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (2024) …

First, we have @shahirahathout.bsky.social's review of Peter Adkin’s edited collection, Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
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"A new Banksy has appeared outside the Royal Courts of Justice building in London.

The art shows a judge hitting a protestor on the ground with his gavel.

The mural comes two days after almost 900 people were arrested at a protest in London against the ban on Palestine Action."

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

Working on various drafts of this piece helped me see and make at least my own writing anew 🖤

UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action | Common Dreams "Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children's lives," said one Metropolitan Police officer.

"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children's lives," said one Metropolitan Police officer.

The working of truths: Stebbing’s debate with Schiller - Synthese Synthese - According to the standard account, early analytic philosophy clashed with Pragmatism when Moore and Russell attacked the James-Schiller theory of truth from 1908 onwards. While recent...

My new paper on Susan Stebbing's early debate with F.C.S. Schiller on the Pragmatist theory of truth has just been published in Synthese. #philsky

(Free access using this link: rdcu.be/eEdDT )

Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work* Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod

Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030

Free, open access German/English edited book, Literature and Botany. "This volume explores the deep connections between literature and botany, examining how plants shape cultural narratives, ecological thought, and human imagination." vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

I'll be delivering the 2025 Social Sciences Annual Lecture at @uniwestminster.bsky.social on Sept 15. If you would like to attend but are not affiliated with the university, please kindly drop me a note and I'll see what I can do.

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Poster with the workshop call text and abstract submission guidelines. These can also be found on our website.

Abstract submission deadline is approaching (Sep. 1) for our Ghost of Empire in the North Sea workshop. Read more below or on our website where you also find a submission link (You have to scroll down below the introduction text on the website). www.uis.no/en/research/...

What was Jane Austen’s best novel? These experts think they know Six leading Austen experts have made their case for her ultimate novel, but the winner is down to you.

I really loved writing this about Austen’s best novel and hope you love it (and the novel) too!

Please vote with pride and prejudice for Pride & Prejudice!!

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Brilliant and terifying article (with interesting use of Gothic imagery)

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Leadership in a Time of Monsters: Responding to Contemporary Challenges We live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters.  Marked by profound global...

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