Interested in guest editing a special issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism? We've made it easier than ever to pitch us. Download our special issue proposal form here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/submission-g...

I passed my viva today with no corrections - couldn't and still can't quite believe it! Very grateful to my examiners, Mike Niblett and Nick Bentley, and as always a constant debt of gratitude to my supervisor Michael Gardiner

Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF

👻 Preparing for my book launch on Friday (Hallowe'en!) 1pm UK - if you'd like to join online drop me an email! You can read and access LIVING WITH GHOSTS here link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with institutional access 👻

Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to have let it go but pleased to have it in!

Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!

Just under two weeks to send in abstracts for this special issue!

Had a great time at the Dis/Trusting the Institutions of Literature conference at UCD - a brilliant series of panels and papers across themes of sociology and literature. Here I am chatting away about the grammar school, disciplinary English Literature, and the British constitution.

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

Pleased to say that mine and Michael Gardiner's paper on meritocracy and its discontents in Textual Practice is now open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've been learning Welsh for two years now with mixed success - very grateful to my Welsh colleague who will talk to me about books in Welsh! I think I'll have to start trying to slowly read something on my own, but that's probably a post-PhD project