My article with Rosemary Day about new speakers and Irish language community radio is available open access in the latest edition of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The CFP deadline for our Brontë Studies special issue on poetry is coming up - 1st April! Don’t be a fool - submit something!

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social

The 💉 #HealthHumanities 🩺 section of Cogent Arts & Humanities is now open for submissions 🎉 Read more about this important new #openaccess forum & how to submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/oaa... #medicalhumanities #medhum #medhist

My article —“Are You Here?”: Medical Education and Poetry in Jane Barker’s Galesia Trilogy — is published today! If you’re into early modern English women’s writing or history of medicine, click on the link below (I have 50 free eprints) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chuffed to have my "Sally Rooney, James Joyce, and 'Eastern Europe'" article appear in the latest special issue of LIT. Many sincere thanks to the absolutely amazing editorial team behind this special issue: #EllenScheible, #drtinamorin, and Tara Harney-Mahajan! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The second article from the forthcoming special issue I am guest editing on Shakespeare and Middleton has now been published open access. Thanks to Shaun Nowicki for this piece 🙂 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults. New paper by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social and Emanuela Campisi. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Dr Philomena Mullen has published a new paper in Postcolonial Studies, co-written with Stephen Hewer and Jairo Fúnez-Flores. 💫 Read the article: tinyurl.com/5n727yfa @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social

The 🌿Environmental Humanities🌊 section of Cogent Arts & Humanities is now open for submissions with @tstorey.bsky.social as Senior Editor 🎉 Read more about this vital new #openaccess section & how to submit here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/oaa... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #envhum #envhist

📢Call for Associate Editors - Cultural Heritage, Cogent Arts & Humanities 📢 If you're a researcher/practitioner in a relevant field & interested in supporting this growing open access journal, we welcome your application 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Our new report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM** has already had over 550 downloads! If you haven't seen it yet but are interested in taking a look, you can find it here: doi.org/10.17613/jn1... #morphss #OpenResearch #AHSS

Looking for your next weekend read? 🌟 Our latest collection traces Wuthering Heights' incredible journey through adaptations, translations, and cultural interpretations. From film to opera to global retellings - discover how this classic keeps reinventing itself! 📄 spr.ly/6009hMjH5

To mark the release of Emerald Fennell’s #WutheringHeights, @drclaireocall.bsky.social, #BrontëStudies Editor, has curated a selection of archival essays exploring the novel’s incredible afterlife. Free to access & perfect pre-reading🍿 www.tandfonline.com/journals/ybs... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Call for Contributions: 'To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry', a special issue of Brontë Studies, edited by @drbeard79.bsky.social 500-word abstracts due by 1st April. More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6317

My article 'Ghost nets and rusting machines: rivers in the contemporary Canadian long poem' is now published in Interventions, as part of a special issue on World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When engineered scarcity & competitive entrepreneurialism become defining features of intellectual life, terms for understanding material struggle tend to metastasize into tokens of prestige accumulation & self branding. This should be resisted. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long part-time editorial placement. The internship will provide invaluable experience within an internationally-recognised academic and literary journal. Deadline: Thurs 26 Feb

📚🌳 In “Apple Trees and Plastic Ducks: Gardens as Post-pastoral Landscapes in Contemporary British Fiction,” Silvia Rosivalova Baucekova explores how four renowned authors depict gardens as powerful spaces where the distinction between wilderness and society might be reimagined. Read the article👇:

I love surprises like getting cited in a literary critique journal article about the "whiteness of the megalodons". I haven't read the books or even seen the films but I am entertained by the notion that there is an undercurrent about male anxiety. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Roundtable in Memory of Helen Carr, who sadly passed away last year, leaving an epic legacy in modernist studies and as a founding editor of Women: a cultural review. London Modernist Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social 9th May 2026 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @modernistudies.bsky.social

I spoke with Martin Peterson, the philosophy professor at Texas A&M University who had to remove Plato readings from a course syllabus to comply with school policies against teaching "race and gender ideology." He says he's replaced that material with media coverage of this censorship.

Here's a new article from IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li: “Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions, once made a documentary about human–elephant conflicts in Zimbabwe. My essay on the film – and what it says about species conservation in a postcolonial world – is now online at Interventions. DM me if you'd like a PDF. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

wow - honoured to be here

New article by IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li: “Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If your friend doesn’t make you a t shirt promoting your book, are they really your friend? @zugenia.bsky.social #mla26

New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...

The rare sight of sunshine and blue sky at an MLA convention ☀️🍁 #mla26

We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Very pleased to say that the new issue of Shakespeare on 'Adapting Romance in Indian Cinema' , guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcia-Periago, is now out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...

A few more days left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable #digitalhumanities experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd be interested to hear from you!

Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

une publication de Hisham Bustani: Preparing for revolutionary times? Chronic crisis of authority and constructive subversion in contemporary Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social

Article Abstract: Fugitive sounds: A reappraisal of enslaved people’s music in antebellum New Orleans, 1814–1861 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The study reveals a complex, diverse musical network, where Black musicians performed covertly in taverns, boardinghouses, and private residences.

David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh! Earlier this year I interviewed David (who is a lovely guy as well as a very fine author!) about this fantastic book for @englishstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just over a week left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable publication experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd welcome your application! @tandfresearch.bsky.social

📚 In “A Possible Way Out? The Paradox of the Multitude in Cloud Atlas and Slade House,” Hua Tan and Siyu Cao examine David Mitchell’s networked fiction as an emblem of how cosmopolitan vision views are challenged in light of utopian images of the multitude. Read the entire article👇:

This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

I have written about Satantango, his masterpiece, in the article "Destroying necessity with necessity – on László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango" (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) - I will be happy to share a pdf!

Very happy that my new article has just been published in _Green Letters_ - "‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now published in the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing: our research on YA Book covers, showing that book covers may be as powerful a driver of sales as author fame www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is an editorial that role that I currently hold, and from which I'll soon be stepping down to focus on new priorities. If anyone would like a conversation about the role I'd be very happy to chat - drop me a DM if so.

📢 Call for Senior Editor: Literature & Literary Criticism on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 19 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors For details, please visit asle.org.uk/green-letter...

"Using academic English in philosophy is now almost inevitable... But academic English is no one’s native language."

We are open for submissions, but also to your suggestions! Do you have an idea for a special issue related to Global South Literary Studies? Is there an author, theorist, or translator who you think should be interviewed, a book that begs reviewing? Send us your pitch at the link below.