Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

🎉 Happy publication day! 🎉With Lauren Ottaviani, I co-edited a special issue on "Irish Literature and the Global Marketplace" for @irishunireview.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who helped with the long editing process. Happy reading! 😀 www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/curr...

Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

Very happy to receive a hard copy of my little book. I'm putting this in the New Yorker section of my shelf 😊💚 #IrishStudies

Happy Publication Day! 🎉 This little book is out in the world today. Parts of it are Open Access, thanks to a small publication grant from Taiwan's research council. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1... Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker

This little book is available for pre-order now. Please use this promo code to receive a 20% discount 😄

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

My Department has a job opening in English literature! Come work with us! 🤗🧋 #JobFairy #AcademicJobs

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Sad 😢. This also means that the job market in the higher education sector is shrinking.

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all. On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI. Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

My article on Maeve Brennan is included in the annual survey of American Studies in Humor. Can I claim expertise in American humor now? 😆

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’

Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'. Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!

Congratulations to #Thailand which becomes"the third place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal." 🏳️‍🌈

Went to #Kaohsiung city to visit my alma mater. Always lovely to see this harbour city 🥰

The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature

#JobAlert! A tenure-track position in Spanish language and culture at my department. Please help circulate 🙂🙏

Really enjoyed this novel! It's about food and travel in Japan-occupied Taiwan. It also asks serious questions about the subtle power dynamics in colonial society. The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃

For my "Intro to literature" class, I taught Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" I wanted them to think about the changing significance of Barbie. Turned out that only half of them saw the movie 😱

Our little conference is next week! #IrishStudies www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

Happy publication day! I co-edited with Phyllis Boumans a themed issue of RISE @efacis.bsky.social on "Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-20th Century." It's open access: risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... 😀

Join the editors and contributors on 16 may at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1! Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac... #irishstudies

The new issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, which I coedited with Phyllis Boumans, is coming out soon. There will be an online launch and roundtable. You can see more info here: 🙂 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Happy to share the provisional programme of the "Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace" conference coming up in June. #IrishStudies www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

Charles Addams's Christmas cartoon for folks who don't celebrate it, published #OnThisDay in the New Yorker 1946. Happy holidays 🙂

Dear Bluesky hivemind, does anyone recognise the signature of this cartoon artist? It appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Appreciate your help! 🙂

Repost to follow the thread. Would be very interested to find out.

Hang in there. #AntwerpZoo

Spooky season is upon us. And by this I mean job/fellowship application season 💀

Just migrated here from old Twitter. Posting this conference information for people who haven't seen it. Abstract submission deadline is 1 November 🙂