@dougbattersby.bsky.social
Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine
9 September (Online)
Register here (free): tinyurl.com/y529huhs
Please join this online launch event for Ulrika Maude's Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025).
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
'The Black Country' is a painting by by H. Warren from 1869. It depicts a black-and-white industrial landscape dominated by chimneys that emit black smoke and fires in the background. A few small figures can be seen amidst the smoke.
CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies
Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social
Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26.
Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4
Picture is of a flyer for Bloomsbury's Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series. Flyer depicts five book jackets, followed by the series blurb, a list of published titles and a list of forthcoming titles. Series blurb reads: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across the medical and health humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations, to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience. Published titles reads: Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 by Douglas RJ. Small Available open access Medical Humanities and Disability Studies by Stuart Murray COVID-19 and Shame by Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal & Arthur Rose • Available open access Relating Suicide by Anne Whitehead Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction by Caitlin E. Stobie Forthcoming titles reads: Forthcoming titles: Critical Neurodiversity Studies edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Dr Louise Creechan & Anna Stenning Autism and the Empathy Epidemic by Janet Harbord
Lots going on in our 'Critical Interventions in the Medical & Health Humanities' series! Some fascinating proposals under consideration and some excellent books in production. Please do reach out with any questions/ideas for the series that you may have! www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...
05.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0The Close Reading Archive is a tremendous gift to our discipline -- thank you to Scott Newstok for this incredible work.
www.closereadingarchive.org
Alongside other varieties of wonder, it's a thrill to see @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and my forthcoming book here.
Delighted that Troubling Late Modernism has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize!
If it's in your wheelhouse I'd be very grateful for a review (& can ask OUP to send out a copy)
universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
@univeng.bsky.social
Oxford folks – I’ll be giving a talk, “Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Brontë, Eliot, Hardy,” next Monday (12th Feb). Do come along! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa5...
05.02.2024 10:38 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0A final reminder about our exciting panel on Modernist Fiction & the Health Humanities this Wednesday!
Please register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...
Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...
Welcome @dougbattersby.bsky.social whose wonderful first book was just shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize!
#lit #modernism
