The MHRA's Simon Rodway features in this article: one of the Editors of our Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, with a book of his own coming out in the new year π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
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Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Often very useful reading of the state of play in English studies in the UK bsky.app/profile/them... - although isn't AI beginning to demonstrate increasing relevance to the field? "Weβre people, not robots" - but aren't robots being developed, via Large Language Models, into readers and writers?
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Project MUSE - What to Do for English Now
'What to Do for English Now' by Robert Eaglestone β Open access in the latest volume of the Yearbook of English Studies. A call to arms to defend a subject in crisis. Please read and share!
#EnglishStudies #EnglishCreates
muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/arti...
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Another event for Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11 is taking place next week (4 Nov) at the University of Turku β also live on Zoom, for those who couldn't make the London event.
Read our interview with the editor & translator here: www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/07...
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Lovely event in London last week to celebrate the launch of Jewelled Tortoise vol. 11, the first English translation of Finnish novel Mirdja.
Translator & editor pictured here, along with Stefano Evangelista, one of the General Editors of the series. Thanks to @uclssees.bsky.social for hosting!
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π£ The Yearbook of English Studies is out!
Edited by Richard Adelman, it features a new cover, a Foreword and Introduction, eleven articles and a special Open Access piece by Robert Eaglestone -'What to Do for English Now'- exploring the relevance of English Studies today.
π shorturl.at/OaISQ
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Other scholarly publishers! Please get in touch if you'd be interested in offering a discount on your humanities publications to members of the MHRA. Several generous publishers have already signed up, but we'd love to have more on board. Help us increase membership while driving sales of your books
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Tomorrow!
Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman'.
Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@themhra.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**!
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Abstracts due 24/11.
Full details can be found here:
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Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman
A special Director's event with Eva Buchwald and Viola Parente-ΔapkovΓ‘
Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-ΔapkovΓ‘.
ποΈ 23 October at 6pm
π UCL SSEES
β‘οΈ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@themhra.bsky.social
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New WPH Editor Wanted
There's an opening for one of the two postgraduate editor positions on the journal Working Papers in the Humanities: applications close 10 November.
π£ New WPH Editor Wanted
We're looking for a second postgraduate editor for our online journal 'MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities', launched in 2006 and aimed at early-career researchers and postgraduates.
Post from Dec 2025βNov 2027
Deadlineπ10 Nov 2025, 5pm
π www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/10...
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π The latest issue of the Modern Language Review is out!
Articles by Kirstin Gwyer, Eric Weiskott, Andrew Hadfield, Kathryn Robson, Victoria H. A. White, Dora Osborne & Book Reviews.
π www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Access via @projectmuse.bsky.social π muse.jhu.edu/issue/55393
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Front-cover of the book.
π£ A new volume is just out in our New Translations series!
'RamΓ³n MarΓa del Valle InclΓ‘n, Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War', translated by Elizabeth Drumm.
All info π www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
09.10.2025 14:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'A Call from the Wild'
Barbara Burns speaks to Laura Linares (@lauralinares.bsky.social), whose book 'Translation Landscapes: Contemporary Galician Fiction in English' recently appeared in the Legenda series Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures.
π www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
01.10.2025 10:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
'Midnight on the Western Front'
Barbara Burns speaks to Elizabeth Drumm, whose edition of RamΓ³n MarΓa del Valle-InclΓ‘nβs 'Midnight: Astral Vision of a Moment of War' has just been published in the MHRA New Translations series.
π www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/09...
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Event poster for 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' with a painting titled 'After breakfast' by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1890.
Please join us for the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-ΔapkovΓ‘.
ποΈ 23 October at 6pm
π UCL SSEES
β‘οΈ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@themhra.bsky.social
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Hit me up if you'd like to review any of these!
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These recent books from our Texts & Translations imprint are available for review! If you're interested in reviewing one and you have a journal to write for, do get in touch π
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π The latest book in our 'New Translation' series is out!
'Carl Sternheim, A Chronicle of the Early Twentieth Century', translated by Fred Bridgham.
All info π www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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'For it is autumn I love most of all, that time when everything withers and dies, blossoms and wilts, glows and pales in the same blink of an eye. When youβve lived through autumn youβve lived through life.'
β from Mirdja by L. Onerva
#autumn π
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Cover of Italica, Volume 101, Number 4, Winter 2024
Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian
Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.
πLooking for a new book to read? Italica Vol. 101, No. 4, includes a review essay and 10 book reviews. π
- @iciberlinpress.bsky.social
- @undpress.bsky.social
- @uclpress.bsky.social
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Very excited by this! Great that this fabulous novel is being republished with the care and attention that it deserves! #sabinebaringgould
10.09.2025 06:43 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Event poster for 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' with a painting titled 'After breakfast' by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, 1890.
We are pleased to invite you to the book launch of 'Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman' by L. Onerva, translated by Eva Buchwald with an introduction by Viola Parente-ΔapkovΓ‘.
ποΈ 23 October at 6pm
π UCL SSEES
β‘οΈ Free and open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
@themhra.bsky.social
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We're having a book launch for Mirdja in October, come along if you're in or near London! The editors/translators will be talking about this wonderful novel, perhaps reading some passages. It's gonna be fun π
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Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.
π Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship.
The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works.
Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026.
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Apply 1 Septβ1 Oct 2025
Info π www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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'The Eloquent Picture'
Barbara Burns talks to Andy Stafford, whose book 'Photo-texts From Below: Collectivist Dispatches from the 21st-Century French Margins' has just been published in Legendaβs Visual Culture series.
π www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/08...
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