Ben Doyle

Let's Get Free

Throwback pre-evening out listen open.spotify.com/album/7gXuEl...

Love Ire & Song

Bit of a throwback for the commute today: open.spotify.com/album/5OwsAU...

This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD.

The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1

Representing the New AI in Film and Television The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities tha…

Just giving another shout out to 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television', available in paperback now! www.bloomsbury.com/representing...

Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?

Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!

Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
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Just starting to arrange meetings for #MSA25 in Boston in a couple of weeks. If you're in town and want to talk publishing or research, let me know!

A raft of new titles announced in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/cr... - if you work in the area, please do get in touch as I'd love to hear what you're up to!

Hot on the heels of my last, please join me in welcoming the brilliant Ulla Kriebernegg as our new series editor for the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social series 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life'
www.bloomsbury.com/series/bloom... - Ulla, welcome aboard and I can't wait to work with you!

Really sad to see the wonderful Kate de Medeiros step down from her role as series editor for our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' series. Kate, thanks for all of your hard work, energy and vision, you've been a DELIGHT to work with.

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Image shows the full jacket spread for new Bloomsbury book 'Listening In'.

Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

The British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist Is here! 📚

Africonomics by Bronwen Everill

Sick of It by Sophie Harman

The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith

The Golden Road by William Dalrymple

The Baton and the Cross by Lucy Ash

Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson

Find out more 👇

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Theory Across Disciplines Surveying the extraordinary scope of contemporary theory, Jeffrey R. Di Leo brings together contributors from around the world to speak to the ways in which the…

The first book from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new innovative multidisciplinary series now published: 'Theory Across Disciplines' brings together key scholars to examine how theoretical concerns from a range of disciplines operate within their respective fields. www.bloomsbury.com/theory-acros...

Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial : AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

"UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost"
www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

Thanks so much for the repost - desperate to get word out on this as I really think it'll be so useful for teaching as well as for advanced theory folks.

I'm honoured and excited to be a part of the REF's Main Panel D as a 'User Expert', as announced today. Looking forward to getting stuck into the role over the next few years! 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-...

Jane Austen in 50 Words What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and 'delicacy', or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence'?…

Publishing next month, for the Austen fan in your life (or for you, if you're the Austen fan in your life!): www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary…

Less than £18/$25 for the most comprehensive overview of literary and cultural theory on the market. All 472 pages of it! Eminently suitable for classroom use so please do add it to your Theory 101 reading lists today! www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary...

Helplessly Hoping - 2005 Remaster

This morning's mood...reflective:
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Well that's summer definitely over...

💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

Really sad to see this - a very interesting press with some really nice Lit Studies books.

Resisting Big Tech How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial “intelligence” prompt how we think?…

Now published both in paperback and ebook (and available for free Open Access), 'Resisting Big Tech' advocates for the de-Googling of life and the need to foster truly communal spaces, online but especially offline. Could it BE more timely?! www.bloomsbury.com/resisting-bi...

Another year of the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship - time to get your applications in!

Image shows a hand holding the book The American Sentence. The paperback jacket is navy blue, with the outline of a pen nib in lighter blue, with the title and author name - Ira Nadel - embossed in gold on it.

Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...

Critical Neurodiversity Studies This landmark volume for neurodiversity studies introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies. Bringing together schol…

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field.
www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol 19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

disgraceful decision to suspend the flagship widening participation initiative in the humanities at Bristol

please sign and share this letter to oppose this

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Baby Dijon · Album · 2025 · 12 songs

Today's commute listen: open.spotify.com/album/3hKlec...