Emma Parker

The canal in Oxford

Image of Drum magazine, South Africa 1959

Anti apartheid cartoon in the left wing newspaper New Age, South Africa 1958

A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement.

Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

“Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?”

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨

📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!

Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

Beautiful cover, beautiful kitty! Huge congratulations team xx

Lucie Elven · Wouldn’t you like to be normal? Janet Frame’s Place There were her nicknames: Nini with the nits at home as a child, Miss Educated in Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Waldo...

‘Janet Frame’s writing is often compared to Faulkner’s, and her family history reads like a Southern Gothic novel. Yet Frame can be an extraordinarily cheerful, funny writer. Language was a source of continual revelation.’

@lucieelven.bsky.social on the novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The original cover of Mrs Dalloway, designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell: abstract curved shapes in black and yellow, with a bunch of flowers just distinguishable.

Today is the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway! Dr Elizabeth Gourd writes on the novel’s relevance to post-pandemic life in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-it-was...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

@ainokash.bsky.social, @joanpassey.bsky.social & @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social I thought you might be interested in this focus on alternative/disruptive forms of knowledge production. Or you might know other great humans who would like to get involved...

"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés

How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.

Great to read my colleague @drdomdavies.bsky.social on three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance theconversation.com/three-graphi...

A Writer Whose Novels Explored the Edges of Normalcy Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for years, Janet Frame was drawn to the inner worlds of people conventionally treated as inside-less.

'Frame refuses to bask in her exceptionalism, her almost miraculous escape. Triumphantly, mournfully, her plots are anti-redemption and anti-assimilation.' Audrey Wollen reviews THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET by Janet Frame for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/books/second...

What a brilliant cover! Well done, clever bean.

My first book is going to print! All being well, it should be out in paperback and OA on March 28. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
If you read it and enjoy it (or hate it!), let me know.

MA Black Humanities | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social.
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!

The banner image for this journal special issue shows an oil painting of trees, blue sky, and a meadow.

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

We are building a Hong Kong Collection at @bristoluni.bsky.social! We now call for donation of photos of HK in 19 and 20th centuries. We'd also love to hear about other materials, such as family letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs etc.

Details of CFP, which can be found here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/.

Details of CFP, which can be found here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/.

Abstracts are due for ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the end of this month, 28th February.

See the following link for more info: blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir....

#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies

Majestic tiger 😍

I loved reviewing these two, fascinating books for #C21Literature, who sorted me out with hard copies AND open access. The dream.

c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social

v pleased to be the Life Writing judge for this. you should submit

This is brilliant! I especially like the 💲💲💲

New in C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings > “Review essay: Gaps, Gutters, and Devolution in Postcolonial Britain” by Emma Parker / @dremmaparker.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/c21... #C21Literature

Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives Published in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

The Introduction to our Australian Research Council funded Special Issue of a/b Auto/Biography Studies, "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives" is FREE access. Take a peak www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun.

Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Our book is out! Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

British culture after empire Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)

NEW REVIEW: Professor Stuart Ward review's 'British culture after empire' by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@manchesterup.bsky.social

Out today in paperback! ⬇️

The last publication in our flagship series 'Studies in Imperialism' of 2024 - British culture after Empire: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182548/

"An engaging and rich conversation"
@jbritishstudies.bsky.social

#StudiesinImperialism

Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere

And also: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l... with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social

First of two Oxford celebrations of our new book, out Dec 2024 with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

This event is 14 Jan at OCLW @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social

The next is 23 Jan at the PoCo Seminar @engfac.bsky.social