Reposts from Manchester folk would be very much appreciated! @grizonne.bsky.social @joeravetz.bsky.social @nblascsok.bsky.social @scatterbones.bsky.social @naoisemurphy.bsky.social @cpchem.bsky.social @helenlist.bsky.social @sflayzell.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @gylph.bsky.social 🙏

Today’s task. Finish the intro to the Ali Smith essay collection. Need to stop reading and get writing!

Please share! 👇 Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress" is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de ☝️ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicConference #EnglishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #FUBerlin

‘Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders’ So it’s now clear that commitments of global companies to inclusion & equality was conditional-they drop the gender/pink washing so easily. It’s always about profit & patriarchal power!! jrnl.ie/6616454

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social

“How does anyone do anything if they’ve lost their bearings, and their bearings are in the machine?” —in an interview with Anna Russell in the @newyorker.com, Ali Smith discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” & her new novel, GLIFF www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...

THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK The Bottle Imp special issue Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918 “With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…” A 🎂 🧵… 1/9 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...

I have been appalled & disgusted by the silence of academic colleauges on the genocide in Gaza (but not surprised). So I expect little from them. For everyone else who cares about knowledge, humanity & truth, this is an powerful film on the scholasticide perpetrated by Israel youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE

The South Asian Literary Association's virtual conference is this weekend. Keynotes are open to the public: Gurminder Bhambra Friday, and Tahmima Anam and Mirza Waheed Saturday. (Zoom links at the link below) My own panel is Friday morning 9:15 ET. southasianliteraryassociation.org/2025-confere...

I’m organising a conference: 'Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the University of Kent, 23-24 June 2025. Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley. #hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies

I still recall the first line that rushed from my head to the page: “The people choose their poets exactly as they please.” Legions of people chose, lauded and loved Nikki, flocking to her readings & standing in long lines for her to sign their 📚. Rest in Peace our dear Nikki.💕

Full interview is here: www.shondaland.com/inspire/book...

The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress. A man must be buried. It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination. RIP 🕯️ Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

We're glad you liked our 2024 book list. We've done one every year we've been publishing. It's a lot of work done by contingent historians, work that's often not rewarded professionally even as people in the profession consume it. See all of our book and article lists here. 🗃️

@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)! Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit

❤️‍🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY

Jean Rhys worked on “Wide Sargasso Sea,” her 5th and final novel, in her 60's & 70's while in precarious health and devotedly coaxed by two editors, Diana Athill + Francis Wyndham. Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit. free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...

Congratulations @lenakt.bsky.social on the National Book Award for Poetry 💫 Read Lena in conversation w Anna Rajagopal on Something about Living in @palestinestudies.bsky.social here: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...

5. On Dec. 7, we present "Past Continuous: Reading Darwish in a Time of Genocide" with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2024). She will lead a discussion of Mahmoud Dawish's Memory for Forgetfulness. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...

4. On Dec. 5 we will have "A Poetry Reading for Gaza II," featuring Indigenous poetic geniuses Natalie Diaz, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. This follows our first online poetry reading, which was held in October. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

2. Also on Dec. 1 is "Follow the Water: A Writing Workshop" with Rita Wong, author of many original works, and co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water (2017). Participants will think about what waters around teach us when we listen to them? www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fol...

1. Dec. 1 is "Gaza Kitchen: A Cooking Workshop" with Laila El Haddad, a Palestinian-American author and speaker from Gaza, who will teach ppl to make Rummaniya, a vegetarian stew popular in the sw of Palestine. She was on "Parts Unknown" with Bourdain in 2013. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/gaz...

To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️

This article shamefully normalises an ultraright corporate takeover of the US government. It's particularly distateful given Musk's targeting of named federal employees, exposing them to harassment or worse. I'm appalled to see it in @uk.theconversation.com. theconversation.com/love-him-or-...

This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu! post45.org/contemporari...

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really feeling this post from Tim Morton’s Instagram today.

Working on critical border studies starter pack for @acbsnetwork.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

I'll admit I've always found the term 'populism' confusing and weirdly euphemistic. This excellent article summarises the real dangers of not calling out fascism when we see it.

Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield? | Will Hayward

Abstracts due January 15th. britishwomenwriters.org/conference-b...

Proud to be in this collection by Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson! Drawing on my experience editing The Norton Anthology of English Literature, I wrote about the colonial roots of anthologizing and the decolonizing force of anthologies that reckon with and reframe literary value. Free PDF👇!

I just finished this excellent 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, and it has helped to shape my thinking on Palestine in important ways. In particular, I recommend the conclusion, which is concise summary and analysis useful as an undergraduate reading and for writing an introductory lecture.

"You could wake up and go to the internet and see a beautiful new essay about poetry from Reginald Shepherd, which always included names of poets you never heard of. And because you had never heard of them, you could look them up." I did. southernspaces.org/2024/poetics...

NEW: The Guardian newspaper has just announced it will no longer post on X. It says it's due to "often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories & racism...X is a toxic media platform.” A big move by a major media outlet with 27M followers on X

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed. go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd

Universities need to swiftly, and pointedly, get off X now. (Cf. all publicly responsible institutions).

1. My column on what happened, what comes next, and just how easy our fake democracies are to overthrow. + short thread on where our remaining hopes lie. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Copies arrived just in time to read at the All Out for Palestine Rally in Ōtepoti Dunedin

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

We’re extending this sale because... reasons: ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 15th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Haymarket has TEN ebooks on the work of liberation that are free for download for the next week. Ten. They include LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, HOPE IN THE DARK, HOW WE GET FREE on the work and lessons of the Combahee River Collective, and more:

‘Strong likelihood’ of imminent famine in northern Gaza, food experts warn, as Israel continues siege

GA Tech is hiring a TT Early Modernist. One of my very favorite former colleagues is chairing the search. 2/2 teaching load, 11/15 deadline. joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

Call for Proposals: For a collection from SUNY Press, coming in 2026, to explore how labor unions, union organizing, and strikes and job actions have been portrayed in mainstream, scripted episodic television shows. More info: solongdentalplan.com