Denise Wong

Congrats Katie! 🎉

Celebrating 100th Funded Project

Proud to share our poster in the #AHRC @ukri.org & @dfg.de showcase 🎉 To celebrate 100+ funded UK–Germany collaborations, projects shared posters — incl. ours! Explore them all here 👉 www.dfg.de/en/research-... or view ours here 🔗 www.dfg.de/resource/blo...

Just finished my first novel by Kitamura and am about to be bereft, unable to read any of the other books I packed for this long-haul flight

Good luck Katie!! And hope Sweden was still magical! 🍰🐰

Latest article up in the @c21literature.bsky.social Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring–Summer 2025) issue is Kathryn Hume on Ben Aaronovitch's _Rivers of London_: 'Magic and Power: Ben Aaronovitch’s Multi-Level Approach' c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/9... ✨✨✨

So much ❤️ for @kdclewin.bsky.social's upcoming book #TheWritersRoom on Netgalley!

‘Literary, sharp & utterly addictive'

'An interesting & compelling book for other writers and literary fiction lovers’

'A gem of a book that I will be gifting'

Pre-order @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social: bit.ly/44Ncr8Y

Nadia Georgiou is also giving a paper at the @palapoeticsling.bsky.social 2025 conference. Hear her talk on: "Posthumanism and the digital: multimodality and cyborgization in Calvin Kasulke’s Several People are Typing and Olga Ravn’s The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century".

“Bookworm, Cliché, Deadline…” And Other Unexpected Etymologies The world of books has played a notable role in the history of English vocabulary. Book itself is one of the oldest words in the language: boc in Old English (with the o pronounced as in go). It wa…

Do you know the etymology of “cliché”? It will surprise you...

How does it feel to be made redundant?
How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process?

This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour.

Out next week.

Printed sign announcing the BACLS (British Association for contemporary literary studies) What Happens Now? Conference 2025 at the University of Stirling, on a green pinboard with a landscape painting in the background.

Photograph of a part of the BACLS WHN25 conference programme, showing the plenary roundtable and workshop: The Century at 25.

Photograph of a buffet spread of sandwiches, wraps and fruit.

Photograph of a deer in a grassy field between two trees.

Some @bacls.bsky.social #WHN25 Stirling conference snapshots in anticipation of the @c21literature.bsky.social roundtable: The Century at 25, which I‘m a part of with @alicebennett.bsky.social , @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social @olihaslam.bsky.social . There’s a conference deer 🦌!

Thank you all for a fabulous panel today!

Get in touch with your review essay ideas if you're interested in writing for C21!

Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...

always time to join the union
excellent from @qmucu.bsky.social's Zara Dinnen

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

🔊C21 are excited to be commissioning a series of new review essays! Check out the suggestion of topics and titles in this thread and get in touch via email or DM our review editors (@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social) if you’d like to review any of these recent publications!📖

We have a brilliant new issue for you! Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2025) is now available: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i.... There are new articles on peripheral readings of poetry, the Scottish Network Novel, the new sub-genre of up-lit & reviews. Plus more articles coming soon! #OpenAccess #AcaSky

Cover of C21 Literature Spring 2025 issue featuring three vintage wall clocks on a wall, the logo of the journal and issue details

New issue of @c21literature.bsky.social, Volume 12, Issue 1 (Spring 2025) is out now! Featuring articles and reviews on #C21Literature writings

Read it here: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1419/i...

@bacls.bsky.social

I reviewed Carolin Gebauer's Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel. Check out the Spring issue of C21 Literature below:

The Scottish Network Novel While critical celebrations of the stylistic and thematic diversity of contemporary Scottish fiction are commonplace, few critics have attended to the implications of that diversity for formal analysi...

Delighted my article on The Scottish Network Novel in @c21literature.bsky.social is now up! Open access and everything! I'm pretty pleased with this one. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

🙌🏼 so looking forward to reading this, congrats Huw! 📑

“Bullshit” Jobs and Ticklish Comedy: Humor and Sadness in the Contemporary Workplace Novel In a 2013 article and later in a book-length study, David Graeber introduced the term “bullshit jobs” to describe the proliferation of a category of job “that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, ...

Posting this before the pleasure of a new publication turns to shame and embarrassment about its inadeqacies. My article '"Bullshit" Jobs and Ticklish Comedy: Humor and Sadness in the Contemporary Workplace Novel' is out now in _Contemporary Literature_ cl.uwpress.org/content/65/2....

Excited to get to talk about my first (and forthcoming) monograph at #issn2025 tomorrow! 📖 Thank you to @edinburghup.bsky.social for supplying me with these wee cards 💥

Editorship of <em>C21 Literature</em> C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings is the journal of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS). The journal is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publica...

📣 🚨 C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings / @c21literature.bsky.social seeks a new editor! Join a leading journal in 21st-century #LiteraryStudies. Term starts May 2025.

📅 Deadline: 22 April 2025.
More info: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/
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🗓️💻 Tune in online next Wednesday evening at 17:00 CET/ 16:00 GMT for Dr Nadia Georgiou's talk: 'The Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital (PPFD) Research Project: Methodology and Case Studies' to learn more about our research! Click here to register ➡️ events.teams.microsoft.com/event/91bfee...

📢Our research project on 'Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital' is officially live! 💻📚📱 Stay tuned for upcoming events and new publications –exciting things to come! 👀

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

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

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