Michèle Mendelssohn

Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of English Literature on jobs.ac.uk!

Come be our colleague @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk !

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...

Oxford English Faculty English Teachers’ Conference 2026

Calling all teachers of English! Our Teachers' Conference is taking place on 7 Feb from 11am - 3pm.

The FREE online event features lectures, info talks, and a panel discussion.

Registration is now OPEN. Please share!

www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

Currently reading #TheYearILayMyHeadInWater by @laurajhall.bsky.social and remembering the ecstatic joy of swimming under the stars last winter in #Helsinki, bobbing up against the backdrop of twinkling city lights.

An Irving Penn portrait, from 1947, of the hulking Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his chic wife, Dagmar, seems made for the coldest days of winter: www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

We're hiring!
Come work with us @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @bkhistoxford.bsky.social !!!

Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP968/p...

Trading firm XTX donates £26mn for maths research at UK universities Billionaire Alex Gerko says Britain is missing out on top academic talent

This is good. If anyone wants to do something similar in humanities and social sciences give me a shout
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#NewStatesman #CelebrationOfLife

Rest in peace #RachelCooke, a writer I admired on the page for a long time. I only met her once and in our brief chat she radiated such warmth, intelligence and puckishness. What a blessing she was.

Signature image for the "Translation" seminar; black letters on a purple background.

Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...

“We have the brightest and the best. Let’s keep it that way.”

@rupahuq.bsky.social MP and academic stands with UCU members voting for fair pay, secure jobs and a stronger future for higher education.

Vote. Share. Mobilise. We can do this.

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Black-and-white printed image of crowd of people overlaid with CFP announcement that says "Movements and Migrations Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25 July 2026 New proposal deadline 21 November 2025"

📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them." 🔥

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

Zadie Smith called it “essential reading.”
Next Tuesday (25 Nov), discover the extraordinary 'The Third Reich of Dreams' in a seminar with Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum.
📍 Wolfson College
Free and open to all
Register: shorturl.at/dHVbc
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

🕯️ Santanu Das, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at @ox.ac.uk, @engfac.bsky.social, highlights the essential need to acknowledge the millions of men of color who served in WW1, placing their stories back in history.
#PLPEXPeditions

Utopia. 🌈
It's an important topic to think about in this troubled moment.

Today, come join @duncanbell.bsky.social & Astor Visiting Professor Douglas Mao @ox.ac.uk for a conversation about this timely, timeless topic.

Huge thanks to @mpblanco.bsky.social for her organisational masterminding

Pudlo PUDLAT - Winds of Change Vents de changement (c) Roland Plumar

I fell in love with Pudlo Pudlat's "Winds of Change/ Vents de changement" in the Baud/Jacot collection of Arctic print and sculptures.

Now the collection has a new home!

ARCTIC WORLDS: From Alaska to Nunavut
Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, until 3 July , 2026
musee.boulogne-sur-mer.fr

Workshop: Learn how to write an abstract! ❄️

Join us at 12:00 EST (17:00 BST / 18:00 CET) on Sunday 29th June and learn how to make your abstract sing.

Can’t make the live session? We’ll send a link to watch the recording out to everyone who RSVPs. ✨

RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSF...

A Dispatch from POLAR X: Telling True Stories About Women at the Poles - Julia Flynn Siler It was sweltering in Paris over the weekend of Polar X, an inaugural workshop and symposium at the Université Paris Cité which brought together scholars, artists, and writers from around the world to ...

Fantastic coverage of our #POLARX conference about #women and #extractivism at the world's poles by New York Times bestselling author and journalist @juliaflynnsiler.bsky.social

juliaflynnsiler.com/2025/06/16/a...

POLAR X WORKSHOP & SYMPOSIUM WOMEN'S NARRATIVES OF POLAR ENCOUNTERS, EXTRACTIVISM AND EXPLORATION FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT

Very excited to be attending the Polar X workshop online today and tomorrow, organized by @mendelight.bsky.social and Cécile Roudeau, focusing on gender and extractivism. Grateful to colleauges who make space for hybrid gatherings! polar-x.weebly.com

Tereific to have you speaking on the roundtable and as a facilitator, Sarah! Thank you for generously sharing your work and insights.

Management's threat to make £140million of cuts at the University of Edinburgh is shocking.

Yesterday, we heard from branch president, Sophia, on the questions this announcement has raised.

The Scottish govt must call on university management to halt these devastating cuts.

Interested in polar archives?

A workshop on establishing a Polar Archive Network is set for 17–18 March 2025 at the @scottpolar.bsky.social (Cambridge, UK & online) to shape a Polar Archive Network & draft a SCAR action group proposal.

Register by 28 Feb: scar.org/scar-news/ar...

A message from @ducuuo.bsky.social 📢

We're calling on university management to rule out the use of compulsory redundancies 🔥

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.

Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

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YouTube video by Rab Equipment Odyssey of Loppa: traversing an arctic peninsula | Trailer

Still vicariously feeling #TheaKopalaRøhme and #LisenStrøm's calm exhilaration as they ski Norway's remote arctic peninsula. Just one of the brilliant films on show at this year's @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 👏👏https://youtu.be/5aE9ygwf7Oo?feature=shared

Presumably they did some "blue sky thinking", too.