Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
08.12.2025 11:55 β π 340 π 54 π¬ 26 π 21
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelleyβs Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelleyβs works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleysβ continental travels and ...
π²'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'π²
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR π doi.org/10.1080/1050...
25.11.2025 08:42 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
More from the University of Derby picket as it marches through the city. @ucu.org.uk
03.12.2025 12:17 β π 29 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
UCU picket line at the university of Derby's Β£75m Cavendish building.
Great picket at the University of Derby today as they fight back against massive cuts outside their new Β£75m building in the centre of the city.
03.12.2025 12:16 β π 8 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Too many boards and presidents appear to believe that the value and legitimacy of their university resides in the brand when it, in fact, resides in knowledge and judgment, which in turn resides in the faculty and academic staff.
02.12.2025 13:57 β π 559 π 126 π¬ 15 π 19
Derby University is sleepwalking into a disaster - as the UCU has exposed
The Canary speaks to the UCU chair at Derby University - as staff prepare to take strike action over redundancies
Derby University is in chaos and management caused it.
π» 265 redundancies proposed
π» Nursing & early childhood studies at risk
π» Staff pushed through a rushed, unfair process
Show your support for staff and students on strike from tomorrow.
www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...
01.12.2025 10:00 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 0 π 0
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
20.11.2025 15:50 β π 57 π 47 π¬ 0 π 2
Reposting as it's #NationalTreeWeek π³
New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"
'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'
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27.11.2025 09:19 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Poster for the seminar, featuring a ocean waves on a blue background.
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
25.11.2025 09:40 β π 24 π 16 π¬ 0 π 0
& grateful to @bars.bsky.social for a Copley Research Award which supported the beginnings of this research π
25.11.2025 08:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelleyβs Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelleyβs works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleysβ continental travels and ...
π²'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'π²
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR π doi.org/10.1080/1050...
25.11.2025 08:42 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
To Be Forever Known: The BrontΓ«s and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of BrontΓ« poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
Submit an abstract for our BrontΓ« Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 π€
14.11.2025 16:13 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
14.11.2025 12:16 β π 19 π 19 π¬ 0 π 0
Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to Β£2500.
13.11.2025 17:45 β π 14 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
In our Ozymandias era π«
13.11.2025 16:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok π
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
13.11.2025 16:29 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
12.11.2025 18:22 β π 75 π 23 π¬ 11 π 3
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
π¨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
12.11.2025 12:15 β π 59 π 77 π¬ 0 π 4
TODAY π Join us at 6pm (UK time) to celebrate the latest volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, including The Cenci, The Mask of Anarchy, & Julian and Maddalo, to name a few! Free tickets are available below through @bars.bsky.social π
12.11.2025 11:28 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions β poetry and essays β and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
07.11.2025 16:04 β π 18 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions"
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
06.11.2025 16:58 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Artwork in black and white featuring a lone fir tree growing out of rocky ground
Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily BrontΓ«, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
04.11.2025 05:30 β π 636 π 92 π¬ 0 π 6
A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
27.10.2025 13:18 β π 10 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0
The full @qmucu.bsky.social list provides an important overview of UKHEI now π
UK HE shrinking share.google/w6kDES0FwUrx...
17.10.2025 08:13 β π 3 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - rom: Vol 30, No 1
It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference π www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1
18.10.2025 11:37 β π 11 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
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Join us in our mission to make a Wilder Derbyshire where people and wildlife thrive together ππ³πΌ
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We are a group of conservation scientists working on applied research at the interface of social and ecological systems. Our vision is a nature-rich and just world in which everyone can thrive. iccs.org.uk
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vch-home.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
RENEW is a five-year partnership programme to develop solutions to one of the major environmental challenges for humankind: the renewal of biodiversity.
www.renewbiodiversity.org.uk
Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Defend DMU!
ucu@dmu.ac.uk
Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Green Party Member
Adores Snails π
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
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http://linktr.ee/hoodcp
Academic and author.
Research on symbols, shinkansen, the JAL123 plane crash, death studies, disaster movies - with focus on Japan.
Also author of three novels so far & writing books about Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Recovering Course Director (22-25). Research unit lead. RHS council; SHS; EHS.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic'. He/him.
Conservation charity bringing everyone together for the love of trees π³
UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
βVirtue is a currencyβ - Elizabeth Inchbald. English DPhil studying virtual currencies and the aesthetics of debt in 18th century drama, University of Oxford
Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ecological Justice πΏπ
Promoting inter-species, inter-human and inter-generational equality
β¬οΈLearn about our project!
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Environmental humanities scholar and ecocritic. PhD from Rachel Carson Center. Tresoar Fellow. Likes literature and the Wadden Sea. She/zij.
www.waddensealiterature.com
Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-studies-history-theory-interpretation
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
he/himβtextual technologies enthusiastβAssociate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of Englishβco-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org βalso https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
Strategic Research Development Manager (Research Growth) @ University of Nottingham. Occasional Research Professional columnist. Bureaucratic realist. Soft Order Muppet. Runner. Blog at socialscienceresearchfunding.co.uk
