Julia Lajta-Novak

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This was really fun to do - and hopefully it's fun to listen to! If you wanna hear me chat about Ireland's spoken word festival "Lingo", give my episode a listen!

Call for Poetry Films: The next Vienna Poetry Film Festival, which will take place April 7-10, 2026, at Künstlerhaus Vienna, is looking for your poetry films!

Deadline: December 15, 2025 #poetryfilm

IV.2 Staging the Self in Spoken-Word Poetry IV.2 Staging the Self in Spoken-Word Poetry was published in Poetry in the Digital Age on page 467.

Our PI's contribution "Staging the Self in Spoken Word-Poetry" has just been published in
@poetryda.bsky.social 's 'Poetry in the Digital Age. An Interdisciplinary Handbook'
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
@julialajtanovak.bsky.social

Music and Literary Imagination: The Creative Impulse of Sonic Vibrations in Dub Poetry Music and Literary Imagination: The Creative Impulse of Sonic Vibrations in Dub Poetry was published in Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst on page 57.

"Music and Literary Imagination: The Creative Impulse of Sonic Vibrations in Dub Poetry" by our Postdoctoral Researcher Rachel Bolle-Debessay has just been published in 'Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst' @poetryda.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

How does it sound when poetry performance researchers talk about their work? If you want to dive into this listening experience, feel free to check out our podcast 'Poetry Off the Page': poetryoffthepage.net/popcast/

Wenn das "lyrische Ich" öffentlich aufschreit Oder: Wie Spoken Word Poetry das Persönliche und das Politische verbindet

Unsere PI Julia Lajta-Novak @julialajtanovak.bsky.social beschreibt für @derstandard.at, wie Spoken Word Poetry das Persönliche und Politische verbindet; als Literaturwissenschaftlerin schreibt sie: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

With less than a month to go until ‘Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe’, it's time to meet the team! 🙌 We are so ready to welcome poetry performance scholars, practitioners, enthusiasts (and you!) to our conference in Vienna!
See you there! #PoPAroundtheGlobe 🌎🎤 See less

THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS LIVE‼️ We are so looking forward to the very fascinating, very international panels at “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” Conference. Check out the complete schedule at popconf2025.univie.ac.at. Wish to attend? Register at tinyurl.com/popglobe. #PoPAroundtheGlobe

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT!📢🎉
Join us in celebrating poetry from around the globe at Literaturhaus Wien on June 13th! Want to know moree? Head to popconf2025.univie.ac.at! Wish to attend? Register FREE at tinyurl.com/verseon. Limited tickets 🎟️, get yours soon!
#PoPAroundtheGlobe

Unsere Vienna Lit Book Group featured auf Radio Ö1!

Spoken Word Poetry: Kann Lyrik die Welt verändern? Der Gedichtvortrag als Akt der gesellschaftspolitischen Intervention

Mein Artikel zu spoken word heute im Standard-Blog der Jungen Akademie.
(Ist find ich immer sehr spannend, die Leser*innen-Kommentare bzw. Diskussionen zwischen Leser*innen unterhalb anzusehen...)
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

FALTER Radio Hintergrundinformationen zu aktuellen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklungen in Österreich und Europa.

(FT) #Hörtipp | Frantz Fanon und die antikoloniale Gewalt.

Bis heute berufen sich soziale Bewegungen auf Frantz Fanon – von “Black Lives Matter” bis hin zu pro-palästinensischen Gruppen. Der prominente amerikanische Autor und Journalist Adam Shatz hat eine Biografie des Rebellen Fanon verfasst. 1/

(Not sure where I found this, but it's a great image)

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John Cleese.

The Call for Papers for our conference “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe”, to take place in Vienna on 13-14 June 2025, is LIVE!🌍 (See below!)

Please help spread the word!

Deadline for Abstracts: 20th Dec 2024. For any questions, write to us at popconf2025@univie.ac.at
#PoPAroundtheGlobe 🎙️✨

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

Thrilled to announce our 3rd project conference: Poetry off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research. 13-14 June 2025, Vienna/online.
For cfp, see popconf2025.univie.ac.at please help spread the word!

CfP Alert! 🎤 Our special collection titled 'Intersecting Practices and Traditions in British Poetry Performance', published by OLH and edited by Prof. Andrea Brady, Prof. Peter Howarth, and Dr. Helen Thomas is still accepting submissions! ✨Can't wait!

I am delighted - and relieved! - beyond belief that my application for tenure has been accepted and I can now call myself "Associate Professor" (as of March ... Assoc. Prof. Dr. Julia Lajta-Novak - Acknowledgments

What it takes to get an ERC Consolidator grant:

NewCulture on Instagram: "Happy International Women’s Day! 👯‍♀️🫶🏻 This Women’s Day, we are abandoning all arbitrary rules, societal expectations, and expiration dates ‼️ on womanhood! Therefore we a... 28 likes, 21 comments - newculture_vienna on March 7, 2024: "Happy International Women’s Day! 👯‍♀️🫶🏻 This Women’s Day, we are abandoning a..."

Look what Poetry Off the Page researcher Shefali Banerji produced for International Women's Day!

PhDivas Podcast https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-welcome-letter-to-the-new-adjunct-faculty-members-who-will-be-laid-off-in-december

Ha, interesting thoughts about how (not) to respond to a keynote...

Kristin Eichhorn on LinkedIn: Die Geschichte vom Feierabend Soll die Arbeitskultur in der Wissenschaft wirklich eine andere werden, dann braucht es andere Vorbilder – also nicht nur Menschen, die gehen, weil die…

Soll die Arbeitskultur in der Wissenschaft wirklich eine andere werden, dann braucht es andere Vorbilder – also nicht nur Menschen, die gehen, sondern auch Menschen, die sich der Überarbeitung verweigern und trotzdem noch da sind.
Ein paar Gedanken zum Feierabend. #IchBinHanna

Poetry off the Page Podcast Listen to Poetry off the Page Podcast on Spotify. In the “Poetry Off the Page” podcast, scholars talk about exciting developments in British and Irish poetry performance. This podcast is part of the p...

Poetry buffs!
The "Poetry Off the Page" research project has recently launched the first 2 episodes of a new podcast which sheds light on current critical work on spoken word. Follow us on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/1S4T6cC...

How interesting - these short formats are becoming increasingly relevant. Could you perhaps add some information on the kinds of books that you envision as the subjects of these short monographs? English-language only? American poetry? ...

Poetry is good for mental health, study shows Reading, writing and sharing poetry can help people cope with loneliness or isolation and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression, a new study shows.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

A screenshot of the Poetry Off the Page blog

Poetry performance researchers!
We proudly announce the launch of a new international blog with a focus on theory and methodology:
poetryoffthepage.univie.ac.at/blog/
Guest contributions cordially invited. Please spread the word! #spokenword