Will Rossiter

‘A lot of people know I did two degrees: one in engineering, one in law. But while I can’t remember how to do parallel integration, I can remember how to fix a broken computer—which I learned on my apprenticeship.’
So Badenoch’s capacity to remember some things & not others determines her HE policy?

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature | MEMOs Assistant Professor -- Italian Renaissance Literature -- Department of Italian Studies

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature:

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Many thanks Liz!

Cover of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain, ed. by Belle, Raimondo and Francesco.

Contents page of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain. 1/2

Contents page of Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain. 2/2

First page of Rossiter’s contribution to the Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain volume.

Delighted to have this splendid volume arrive in the post today. Am humbled to be in such learned company. Hats off to @mbelle4912.bsky.social, Riccardo and Francesco on doing such a sterling job of bringing this all together.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our CfP – we're delighted by your abstracts and can't wait to put the program together!

Registration link coming soon ... keep yer eyes peeled 🥰🥰

You’ve seen the Call for Papers for our second annual conference (if not, check it out below) but now it’s time for conference teasers! Each image relates to one of the activities we’ve got planned for attendees… can you guess what they are before we release the schedule? Let us know your thoughts!

Case studies | 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.

Congratulations on all receiving A-level English Language, Lang & Lit, Literature results! 💫 And to all their teachers ! We commend the fantastic opportunities that study of these subjects offer 🥳. Find out what English studies brings ! englishassociation.ac.uk/case-studies/

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The English Association congratulates every student who has received results for an A-level in English. 👏🏽
English remains a v. popular A-level choice, the 5th most popular A-level-
*not always well-known as entries split across the 3 qualifications – English Lit, English Lang, English Lang & Lit.*⬇️

Opportunity to join the editorial team of The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory | 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.

Could you be the next editor of our journal, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory?
@oupacademic.bsky.social #criticaltheory #culturaltheory #literarytheory

Take a look and apply: englishassociation.ac.uk/opportunity-...

BIG NEWS! We, the MEMRN committee, are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference. Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the University of East Anglia and online for three days of panels, social events, workshops, networking sessions, and adventure in the historic city of Norwich. The Call for Papers and details on how to apply to speak at the event are available via the MEMRN website and our social media. The deadline for submitting an abstract is Friday 12th September. We look forward to seeing you there!

BIG NEWS! We are delighted to share the dates for our second annual in-person Winter Conference.

Join us from the 14th - 16th of November at the @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and online. The Call for Papers is available via the MEMRN website and our social media. We look forward to seeing you!

We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November. Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including: * History and politics * Philosophy and theology * Literature, drama, performance culture and music * Latin and vernacular languages * Art history, architecture and archaeology * Manuscript studies and book history For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy.

We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme). The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE. All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday 12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered. Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.

Only the Beyondest get the big bucks. It’s curious that institutional deficits often correspond inversely to a sudden growth in the number of £100k roles, the sum financial total of which tends to map that deficit almost exactly.

Ah, ofc. “After a thorough review it transpires that we are spending far too much money on paying our staff, which constitutes one of our major outgoings.” A classic.

Yes. If it’s cheap to run it can’t be making any money. As you say, without the low-cost courses they create the death-spiral.

In what sense? Eng Lit seminars require a room. How astonishing. Presumably they are using an SSR metric.

I daresay staff responses to redundancy plans will now be collated via AI, which in its usual obsequious, fawning, Uriah Heep-like way will misrepresent if not invert those responses.

And so dangerously amnesiac. Likewise Arts&Hums subsidising sciences & business — and how the idea of a university was promoted at such times — but when Arts&Hums need support they’re on their own.

I’m sorry Liz. The terrible short-term thinking that produces such decisions cannot conceive of the recruitment oscillations that a dept of 60 years’ standing has seen. It’s what got us all in this mess: Subject X is popular now ergo Subject X will always be popular. Subject Y is not, ergo is over.

Over 1000 signatories in 36 hours!

Let's make it 2000 by the weekend 👇

Please sign 👇

Please circulate 👇

So random “free speech campaigners” now get to determine our syllabi? This explains the recent FOI request re trigger warnings. It would be nice to say unis should reject such nonsense but the threat of fines cf. Sussex means Uni Execs are scared. Primarily this is a stick to beat Arts&Hums. Again.

I’d like to be optimistic about the relatively small turnout but I live in Norfolk and have read all the FB and local paper comments on the event, as well the comments on Pride, which took place simultaneously, and the huge support for the former & hatred of the latter is almost total, depressingly.

Also even if 3/4 others are involved it doesn’t result in a penalty beyond “poor academic practice” (at best) & marking the essay as if the AI bits weren’t there. This ignores the ruinous effect on essay structure, which reduces the mark further, and the wild variety of usage in terms of AI volume.

Assistant/Associate Professor of Medieval History (1100-1500) - University of Tenn, Knoxville job with University of Tennessee Department of History | 37862790 The Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track professor of medieval history (1100-1500).

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

Yes, the HE branding motto genuinely is “Keep it simple, stupid”. I really am expecting to see an institution using Beyondest now.

Awesome new tenure-track position posted at Middlebury: early modern Mediterranean art history plus digital art history/digital humanities/data #dh #dah #earlymodern

apply.interfolio.com/170982

Oh dear god. They’ve given them all the same campaign. The same resoundingly empty word. It’s actual madness. Is there a word for something that is hilarious, enraging, and deeply saddening at the same time? And which university is using that word as its new branding campaign?

The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible. We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds). The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners. The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University). To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The EA's response to the Department for Education's Writing Framework | 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.

The new Writing Framework from the DfE marks a significant moment in the conversation around writing pedagogy in England. Its publication invites considered reflection—not only on its specific content, but on the broader values & assumptions that underpin it. englishassociation.ac.uk/the-eas-resp...

Keir Starmer urged to honour pledge to embed speaking skills in England’s schools Alastair Campbell and children’s author Michael Rosen among advocates calling for oracy to be in curriculum

We are signatories to this important letter organised by @voice21oracy.bsky.social
“calling on him to establish oracy as a core part of Labour’s revised national curriculum & make it the 4th ‘R’ in education, alongside reading,writing & arithmetic. “
www.theguardian.com/education/20...