Alex Goody

#CFP: "TOXIC MODERNISM / MODERNIST INTOXICATION"
Adelaide University, JOINT AMSN / MSIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026

Deadline: July 24, 2026

Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

#modernism #envhum #ecopoetics #ecocriticism #sensorystudies

PhD Studentship : AHRC Landscape Award PhD Studentship in the Arts and Humanities at Oxford Brookes University Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Come to Oxford Brookes to do a PhD with myself or one of my fabulous colleagues - really pleased to be able to share this: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !

July 2026, Loughborough University.

www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Can anyone assist Rachele with this awful situation? Seems very poor from UCU.

I’m appalled by this - so sorry 🙃

The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association.

Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.

Who wants to put together a special issue on Severance so I have a place to pitch a thing in a few months?

There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.

pink and blue hearts on a white background with a white heart in the middle Alt: animated pink, blue and white hearts

Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today

UK HE shrinking This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump » Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...

French researcher denied entry to the US because his computer and phone were searched upon arrival and anti-Trump sentiments were discovered in messages he exchanged with colleagues www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪

REF reforms ‘could make it harder for axed staff to get new jobs’ Researchers could struggle to find alternative employment if their previous employers have REF submission rights on their work to date, English scholars warn

It’s an obscure policy detail for anyone outside of academia but deeply unsettling for UK arts and humanities scholars at a time their jobs are increasingly under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-ref...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Cash-strapped Welsh universities given £19 million extra funding Money from Welsh government to be used primarily for estates maintenance and digital projects

The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts

#AcademicSky #EduSky

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):

"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

Head of School (School of English) at University of Sheffield An opportunity for an academic position as a Head of School (School of English) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...

Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester

CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025) The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...

@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
First London Modernism Seminar of 2025
Saturday 1 February
Political moods
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh)
Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg)

Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House
ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...
ies.sas.ac.uk

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...

Black and white photo of Mina Loy wearing a white hat

#ModWrite
@yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Abstracts: 15 February
Articles: 1 July

Applications are now sought for the Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English. Research and teaching specialism in 20th and 21st-C Writing in English. Emphasis on Irish writers may be favoured

University of Limerick

www.ul.ie/vacancies

This is what integrity looks like.

Universities failing academics targeted by online abuse – paper Research found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

Coventry University staff issue strike threat over job cuts The threat over nearly 100 job cuts as the university says it is adapting to a new financial reality.

You may wish to share this story, which indicates potential issues with the way the some post-92 universities are dealing with the financial challenges facing the sector. You may also wish to read up on the ramifications of allowing universities to own subsidiary companies. tinyurl.com/8bbh95kf

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Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities.

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