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.

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