"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.

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism

Just wanted to share news that the second paper based on the study I conducted earlier this year with Rory fans has now been published! This one focuses on four 'rites of passage' in the fan experience, as told through material objects: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @rorygallagher.com

Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.

"The Old English grund was chimeric and contradictory: it meant the ‘surface of the earth’, but also the ‘abyss’ and the ‘bottom of the sea’" - Interesting piece on my novel Hummingbird Salamander by Juha Vertanen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to announce the launch of a new journal from @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social: Global South Literary Studies 🎉 Editor-in-Chief: Goutam Karmakar. Learn more, sign up for new content alerts & consider submitting at www.tandfonline.com/rgsl 🎉

Great to see an exhibition of Gurminder Sikand’s work with the @jpw-routledge.bsky.social team after our meeting in Nottingham yesterday. With huge thanks to @timyoungs.bsky.social 🙏

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

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.

Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social

New Publication Alert Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

📢 Cogent Arts & Humanities open access article collection now live: Narrative in Board Games 🎲 Guest Advisor Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

A radical new take by @angelariviz.bsky.social on “the green man” and British men’s writing in the Anthropocene, envisioning futures “in which masculinities may rot, sprout, and become otherwise” doi.org/10.1080/0011...

I try to think through the 2010s sad girl phenomenon as an inheritor and interrogation of a sidelined modernist literary history. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2KFHB...

This article makes an interesting suggestion: distinguish the Institute for Social Research from the Frankfurt School. The former is a formal institution defined by a foundational text; the latter, an informal one shaped by a particular style. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share my latest article "Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)", published at the European Journal of English Studies @tandfresearch.bsky.social 😊 You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

POSTDOC: Mellon Fellowship, Wolf Humanities Center, Penn, 2026-27 Topic: Practice wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

#IMC2025 so far ⚔️🛡️ Thanks to all who joined the Journal of Medieval History round tables and reception yesterday - it was a great turnout and celebration! Sun is shining today and plenty to browse at @routledgehistory.bsky.social stand @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Thrilled to be in Leeds for @imc-leeds.bsky.social! There are 3 round tables & a reception marking 50 years of Journal of Medieval History tomorrow - please do join us for celebrations 🎉🥂 @routledgehistory.bsky.social #IMC2025

Inspiring plenary by Harriet Tarlo at English: Shared Futures on the interface betw creative, critical & environment. Topped off with a shout out to @asleuki.bsky.social & her Green Letters special issue - showing the enduring legacy of this work ‼️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to be in York for English: Shared Futures! Stop by the @routledgelit.bsky.social stand to browse books and chat journals. Today soundtracked by Elbow sound-checking! Code ESF25 for 25% off books 🤟

Very excited to share that we have just published these recently discovered & previously unpublished texts by #FrantzFanon in Interventions! With huge thanks to Mireille Fanon, Olivier Fanon & Nicola Lamri for the honour, marking 100 years since Fanon's birth ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Time to blow my little trumpet ! I'm very happy to share my article "Memory Gaps and Biofiction in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet: Interpreting Mystery and Reimagining Anne Hathaway" published by English studies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SUJI5...

Remembering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: a free access selected collection of articles from @tandfresearch.bsky.social journals written by or about him. Includes articles from @globalsouthshub.bsky.social, @jpw-routledge.bsky.social & @wasafirimag.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/journals/cja...

In tribute to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938-2025), Wasafiri has lifted the paywall on a range of his articles, stories, and interviews from our 41-year-old archive, each introduced by @flostadt.bsky.social‬, Deputy Chair and Trustee of Wasafiri. Read & access here:

Congratulations ‪Bárbara 🎉 this award-winning article is now free to access ✨ @lehighu.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social

A new article by Bristol PhD student Alice Hill-Woods, who is supervised by Dr Maria Vaccarella (Bristol) and Dr Arthur Rose (Exeter)! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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....

📚 My article "Neocolonialism and oceanic care in Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues" has recently been published with the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. ↗️ It's open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #neocolonialism #hawaii #indigenousliterature

📢Call for co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts📢 a great opportunity to work alongside Prof Alexandra K. Wettlaufer & a wonderful & active editorial team on this interdisciplinary journal. Apply by 18 July or get in touch with questions 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...

Sometimes when I'm not writing spicy blogs or doing public art projects, I'm doing "serious" work on hand gestures in discourse. Weird right? Here's our latest article. Pretty fun. Plus it pushes back on our written language bias in linguistics. So the spice is still there! doi.org/10.1080/0163...

It’s so lovely seeing our book being read so attentively and sensitively!! If anyone is using the book in their classrooms, please do get in touch :)

I have a new essay out about how neoliberalism leads to endemic irony and normalised hypocrisy. The topic is narrative form and the crazy ideas that neoliberalism normalises 1/- Link is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Jennifer Leetsch and Pia Wiegmink on the publication of '(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency' (special issue of 'Life Writing,' 22.2). See also: ow.ly/W2KH50VT8Ry @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Pleased to have contributed this article about 'Ariadne', an enslaved girl in 19th c. Barbados. It explores the methodological + epistemological issues of using colonial records of violence from the Caribbean for life writing about the enslaved. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GYMFT...

Open access article collection CFP: The Arboreal Humanities 🌲🌳 think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll... #environmentalhumanities #envhums

CALL FOR PAPERS: We're seeking papers, position pieces, & practice-led contributions of 20 minutes max, celebrating the art, craft, praxis, and labour of translation — and the new perspectives and futures it makes possible. buff.ly/EsJxOmw

A short essay by me about Margery Allingham’s last novel The Mind Readers, has been published with open access in Textual Practice. It’s part of the work I’ve been doing on telepathy. This piece is also a tribute to Nick Royle, marking his retirement from Sussex. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read @matthewsteggle.bsky.social's open access research behind the headline here 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @routledgelit.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Register now for 8th May 📢 panellists from @tandfresearch.bsky.social @wikimediafoundation.org & @digital-science.com discuss how @wikipedia.org can be a powerful space for visibility, impact, & trust in the digital age authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/events/how-a... @radical-reach.bsky.social

A little creative critical piece I wrote about the writing workshop inspired by Nicholas Royle www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was delighted to read Martha F. Bowden’ incredible paper on Mary Davys in Women’s Writing, and so warmed to see her uses of my own investigation of Davys’ Familiar Letters: doi.org/10.1080/0969... as a Davys reader, I am indebted to her pathbreaking work more than I can articulate.

Is #Prospero in fact #Magellan, pleading4 "gentle breath" in the Epilogue of #TheTempest? -Might be, I argue in this longer #OA piece on #earlycolonial oceans/emotions: #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #BlackAtlantic #TeamEnglish #TheatreSky #EnglishLit #EarlyModern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'a parish register is to be understood not narrowly as a list of vital events, but expansively as a record of parish memories' Ian Atherton has a new #OpenAccess article on #EarlyModern parish registers, attending to their archival and social context. #WrittenWorlds 🗃️ doi.org/10.1080/0268...

"I'd love to see humility as a principle in research integrity" Maria Delgado talks about the need to share failures in research as well as success - we learn from what goes wrong. #REDUX2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold