pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage

John Clare Society Journal 44 (2025) has gone to print - landing on doormats before JC's birthday on 13 July. Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore

The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!

Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.

The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...

Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …

Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

Yay, someone quoted me. Boo, they reversed my name. It’s right there on the cover. Shouldn’t be this hard.

Newport Central Library now has some of its archives online: including Chartist trial records (issuu.com/lion7/docs/c...)

Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?

Wading through Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799). Blimey, that woman needed an editor, and a sense of irony. Particularly love the rant about women who think they can write.

A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.

Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.

Submissions for our special section of Theatre History Studies, "Disability Performance Histories," due January 1! Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions! www.academia.edu/115737170/Ca...

This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ

19th C classics as “I survived…” books…. Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money. Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….

2. It will join Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Godwin’s letters, both edited by moi-même, and published in 2011 and 2014 respectively. (Volume 3 is still in progress.)

I’m at the proof stage for “Disability and Mutable Spectatorship” in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection. Edited by: Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling, Oxford University Press.

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk

Arrived today. Seriously looking forward to jumping in!

Congratulations to Xavier Aldana Reyes on the publication of ‘Contemporary Body Horror’ from our series Cambridge Elements in the Gothic.

you could ask your library to order if you want

New book Series from Manchester University Press, ‘Reading the Gothic’. Send us your ideas for short-form volumes on single Gothic fictions, films, etc manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/11...

Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n

Absolutely fantastic paper from @essaka.bsky.social on Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge and the undiagnosability of madness

We've extended the deadline for abstracts for our hybrid Shirley Jackson conference! The new deadline is 15 April. See the CFP in the link for more information: shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/r...

My essay on “infectious madness” and the epidemiology of social unrest is out soon. It was great fun to have been part of this wonderful project. Congratulations and thanks to John Gardner and David Stewart! www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

Just published - Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms, special issue of Romanticism and the Net edited by Penny Fielding and @apilz.bsky.social 💦🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I have an article in this collection, 'Watery Romanticism: Walking and Sailing West with Keats' ronjournal.openum.ca/articles/n79/

My latest article is now out in Studies in Romanticism: Romantic Sociability, Deaf Comedy, and John Poole's Deaf as a Post (1823) muse.jhu.edu/article/909932 Open access for the next 27 days.