Repeal the “inequitable, “pernicious,” and “perverse" Jobs Ready Graduate Policy! openpetition.org/!repealjrg

Great piece on the bad things happening at my alma mater. insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!

C20th folks, is anyone doing / can you recommend good work on Marghanita Laski?

It finally happened

The Australasian Modernist Studies Network exec. (which I recently joined as Treasurer) is delighted to announce a CFP for a guaranteed AMSN panel at this year’s MSA. The panel is on Southern (Infra)Structures. Details below.

Reviews by @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social, @drmilthorpe.bsky.social, Alexander Howard, Allison Nick, Lauryl Tucker, Ashley Maher, Rachel Farebrother, Brigid Rooney, and John Attridge cover a range of new books on #MeToo and modernism, British parody, Australian writer Eleanor Dark, and queer forms.

The new issue of The Space Between journal (@spacebetween.bsky.social) "Searching for the Truly Strong Man: Masculinities 1914-1945" is out! Including a brand new suite of book reviews, edited by @sarahgleesonwhite.bsky.social and myself. scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...

Sadly, there's no skin care regime that will get you as iconic as Clarissa D

The work experience kid was having fun that day

I'm exhausted and drained, but what a wonderful few days at AMSN 2024 was! Michelle Cahill discussing and reading from her novel, Daisy and Woolf, was such a grand way to finish, too. Congratulations and thanks to @utasenglish.bsky.social and @drmilthorpe.bsky.social and team for hosting!

Last day of "Modernism and modernity at the edge" started (depending on who you were) with a masterclass on life writing led by the brilliant @noreenmasud.bsky.social, or a wander thru the colonial house museum Narryna to ponder the ruptures of history and modernity on this island...

Day 2 of AMSN, "Modernism and modernity at the edge", opened with bracing and wide-ranging panels (Elizabeth von Arnim! Print culture! Limits!)...

Some amazing papers from day 1 of AMSN6 "Modernism and modernity at the edge", including our keynote @thomassdavis.bsky.social on aesthetic and ecological attachment... (1/)

This week @utas.edu.au! AMSN's 6th conference, "Modernism and modernity at the edge", in honour of modernism's edgy aesthetics/ extreme politics/ living in edgy times/ us being at the ocean's edge / valuing the edge/ margins/ disciplinary boundaries.

Have a look at our fabulous line-up of speakers, and register to join us at the Australasian Modernist Studies Network conference on Zoom or in Hobart in December! amsn.org.au/amsn6-modern...

Research: spending several hours combing census records and land registries to find the owner of a house you mention once in a footnote and which is entirely tangential to the main thrust of your work. And when you find them, pumping your fist in the air like you're Rocky.

One *might* argue that the quotation doesn't necessarily clarify things all that much

Themes we shall find!

Deadline extended to April 30! We have some absolutely brilliant international keynotes & home grown plenary events planned. Attend in person on beautiful lutruwita (Tasmania) or consider remote attendance!

Call for Papers for the Australasian Modernist Studies Network 2024 Conference: Modernism and modernity at the edge University of Tasmania, 11-13 December 2024 amsn.org.au/amsn6-call-f...

This passage 😍

Every so often, Evelyn and I agree on something. (from "A Tourist in Africa")

What a way to end a paragraph

Back in the noughts we didn't need to go to the gym, we just carried around Norton anthologies

The CFP for Ephemeral Modernisms, BAMS International Conference, 2024, is here! We’ll be at the University of Leeds. We welcome proposals for papers, panels, or for something more innovative if the spirit moves you! wordpress.com/page/bams.ac... @modernistudies.bsky.social

Only two things are certain in life, death and procrastination from marking

Overheard: our 7 year old child, on the phone, singing the War On Drugs to one of his mates

Lovely keepsake from my Honours student

Is "court circular" the kind of thing a reader in 2025 and beyond likely to need explained?

Would the phrase "at the present" (referring to soldiers) mean that the soldiers are standing presenting arms? Is this well-known military slang?

TAS: Another day, another destructive wind warning