Heather Milligan

📣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'

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Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

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!

Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue

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

05:33 Sun 1 Mar - L 100% 2 凸 ••• https://nation.cymru/feature/why-isnt-the-greens-growing-success-reflected-in-media-coverage/# • Reform UK • Conservatives • Liberal Democrats SNP •Greens • Plaid Cymru Frequency 69 60 40 45 20 14 13 4 Reform UK Conservatives Liberal Democrats SNP Greens 3 Plaid Cymru Number of items led by an opposition party on BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten. Cardiff University, CC BY-NC-ND < >

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!

Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

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 research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

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!

English majors were mocked for years. Now they're gaining momentum in the AI job market. For years, English majors were mocked as useless. Now, AI is giving them some momentum in the job market, while computer science grads get disrupted.

"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...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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.

Excerpt from forthcoming article, reads: '...exhaustion novels underscore the violence and precarity of oil extraction and even anticipate a future post-Peak Oil; but while actual oil production continues largely unimpeded, that future shows little indication of arriving anytime soon. The irony of exhaustion as an aesthetic mode is that more energy—including fossil-derived energy—is being used than ever before. Instead of generating more exuberance, contemporary culture is increasingly defined by exhaustion, and often in ways that lack a critical impulse: in the creative malaise of endlessly repeated remakes, franchises, and cinematic universes; in burnout culture and the fatigue of long Covid; and in the rise of generative AI to replace human creative outputs, collectively resulting in limp, uninspired productions. If Ezra Pound’s demand of modernism was to Make It New, the driving force of contemporary culture might be to Make It Again—Fredric Jameson’s “nostalgia mode” in hyperdrive.'

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

If there were such a thing as a dream fixed term gig, it’d be this — right?

Adapting <i>Wuthering Heights</i> Explore the article collection: Adapting Wuthering Heights. Published in Brontë Studies.

To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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- Yes
- Not yet
- Yes
- There isn't a word to describe workplace morale right now

the settlement process is already extremely complex, lengthy, and expensive; these proposals to make it even more difficult to settle in the UK are cruel

please take the time to respond to the consultation, which closes tomorrow

Official statement from Bangor University Debating and Political Society, rejecting Reform UK’s demand that they be allowed to address the society.

I’m really proud of Bangor University students today. Very much in the spirit of Penrhyndeudraeth lad Bertrand Russell, when he said that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from an association between us”, when invited to debate Oswald Mosley.

Strongly endorse this call. Please do this today!

Also, be careful when filling it in, as the survey is framed in a heavily biased way, and much of it is poorly designed. But if completed with care, this can really make a contribution to pushing back on the government's hostile agenda.

Job opportunity: Impact Associate, University of Nottingham - Researching Designs in Nottingham Museum’s Indigenous North American Collection - British Association for American Studies We’re seeking an Impact Associate to join the Dept of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham to support the AHRC Impact Award Accelerator-funded project Reconnecting Stories:…

⚠️ 12th February is the deadline to apply for the role of Impact Associate at University of Nottingham, working with the Indigenous North American Collection.