Chris Cusack

Love Vintage's French "Folio"-adjacent design. www.gallimard.fr/collections/...

Programme for the event, featuring David Fleming, Niamh NicGhabhann, Rebecca O’Regan, Joseph Curran, Jay Roszman and Cat Porter

Fans of early 19th century Irish history! Gather round! We have a lovely event on @ullibrary.bsky.social on 22 Jan (next week) on the world behind the Ordnance Survey maps - free and all are most welcome. Just book your place via this link & tell your friends! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Excellent, congratulations!!

Putting it out there!

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Cover of The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature, a collection of essays I co-edited with Bridget English and Matt Reznicek. The cover shows a water colour of mourners carrying a coffin towards a ruined church, with a man looking on in the foreground and two windswept, rather Beckettian trees in the background.

WELL HELLO THERE

Love Ulver!

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

Promovendus: literaire cultuur onder jongeren | Radboud Universiteit Als Promovendus in literaire cultuur onder jongeren werken bij Faculteit der Letteren? Bekijk hier de vacature!

Wil je promoveren op jongeren die wél lezen in tijden van digitalisering en ontlezing? Ik zoek twee promovendi binnen mijn Vidi-project 'Anatomy of the #Bookish'! Solliciteren kan tot 1 maart.

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"This map shows pre-colonized North America, depicting the approximate territories of Indigenous peoples prior to European colonization." https://www.thecollector.com/maps-resources/pre-columbian-north-america-map/

🗃️ Time to rewrite immigration history with Native history in mind. The US was founded on the conquest, dispossession, removal, exploitation, or genocide of Native people. Denial of that fact generated counter-myths: empty land, waste land, Manifest Destiny—and the slogan “nation of immigrants.” 🧵1/7

I miss the days when expensive academic books were at least well-made, rather than crappy print-on-demand units that have weak bindings, use terrible paper, and smell weird.

I definitely think we need more books like that!

English academic friends: @deborahlam.bsky.social and I have been gushing to each other about how much we love THE POCKET INSTRUCTOR for teaching inspo. are there any other good teaching exercise collections out there that we've been sleeping on? i have Showalter and Collier

Thomas Jones · So Ordinary, So Glamorous: Eternal Bowie The cliché is to call Bowie a chameleon, but he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through...

David Bowie would have been 79 today. Here’s something I wrote about him back when he was 65. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Can I get back to you on that?

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

I'm also interested in @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social's Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, but haven't been able to have a look yet! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Not as hands-on as the Pocket Instructor, but the MLA Options for Teaching series is also useful! And Bloomsbury have a range of useful pedagogical texts (in addition to Collier), e.g. Making Poetry Happen and A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers.

Amazon, aristocrat or democrat? Women and Irish politics in the age of revolution

We are delighted that Catriona Kennedy will give the @ssnci.bsky.social annual lecture on 'Women & Irish politics in the age of revolution'!! It will be held @nlireland.bsky.social on 22 January. For more see
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Winter Papers Submissions

One of the best literary journals anywhere, outside and in, is @winterpapers.bsky.social. Their open submissions period for the 2026 issue is 14-28 February. Everything will be read and replied to early August. The editing is excellent: acute & sympathetic. Have a go! winterpapers.com/submissions

That's the one I'm currently reading (after careful consideration!). So far, I think it reads quite well. I think this was done before they became a translation machine?

Thank you!

Thank you! And that's definitely praise to be proud of! I love her work.

Finalising the syllabus tomorrow. Give me all your suggestions!

Too many ladders starting.

Georgina Laragy at TCD would be the person to talk to for Dublin. You may be able to find other useful names here: docs.google.com/document/u/0.... For NYC, Sally Raudon at Cambridge might be of interest?

Definitely going to give Origin of Symmetry a spin. Been a while.

The song's much longer than I remember.

Cheers! I know the hack, but even that no longer always seems to work. It appears to be an intensifying feedback loop, so everything will only get worse... Time to bring back proper encyclopedias, I suppose.