*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
lithub.com/what-was-los...
Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.
interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerou...
#bisexual
this is very good
This new paper by @zeitzoff.bsky.social looks at the evolution of tactics in the environmental movement in the US, finding that repression has a substantial affect. Read all about it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well that's it: Film Studies and Modern Languages programmes to close at Leicester Uni. Sad and wrong. Every day, the UK becomes a little less outward looking.
📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details.
If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.
continuing the canine theme in my new research, I'm looking forward to presenting on home turf at Loughborough for the MSA–BAMS 'Weird Modernisms' conference in July on the topic 'Modernism's Mad Dogs'
@moderniststudies.bsky.social
@modernistudies.bsky.social
Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?
If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.
Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.
Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention
*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*
RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),
Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second
looks fantastic, look forward to reading!
Raises some important issues but also ignores the fact that many Humanities staff outside the magic circle are facing redundancy. They are naturally willing, indeed desperate, to apply for entry-level Oxbridge posts. The situation is grim. 1/2
A new study by researchers at Cardiff University shows a massive broadcast media bias (including by the institutionally transphobic BBC) against the Green Party and others and disproportionate coverage in favour of Reform…
nation.cymru/feature/why-...
This is why in higher education you should not let your curriculum be driven by 'demand.' You need give students the precious opportunity to discover the things they don't already know they will be excited about.
biggest solidarity to the Department ot Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh): heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/04/d...
please sign their petition and send them any support they need, this is part of a UK-wide attack on languages education!
A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic
great state-of-the-field essay on cli-fi, I can see this being very useful for teaching the genre
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
There's so much great (peer-reviewed!) data hanging out at @post45data.bsky.social for people to explore and play with! 100 years of major prizes (and the judges)! Everyone who went to Iowa Writers' Workshop (and who they studied with)! All NEA lit awardees! The Canon of Asian Am Lit! So much more!
"it's time for ideas, people, and critical thinkers to flourish. That means that, after years of mocking, English majors are finally getting recognized for their usefulness."
www.businessinsider.com/ai-job-marke...
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We have until March 6 to comment on whether there should be one million more satellites in orbit or thousands of mirrors that reflect light back at Earth Jesus Fucking H Christ on a Pogostick
I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.
ooo I have an article forthcoming in MFS about oil fiction & exhaustion aesthetics ...
Please consider sending an abstract to this panel
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World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons
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I'm also looking at other project opportunities outside of the CFP. Please repost if you can!
Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying.
#books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram
Cops arrested a man who opposed a data center being built because his went ever so slightly over his allotted speaking time www.404media.co/man-opposing...
Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave
