With media such as “28 Years Later” and “The Last of Us,” 2025 has been a bacchanalia of zombies. Katy Waldman writes about our cultural fixation on the walking dead.

"After a pilot was written and slated for production, the broadcaster asked for a rewrite. The Italian backdrop, they said, was too unfamiliar. Why not set it in Ireland?" www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize. First Book: Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire Main award: Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth Judging panel: Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

#Vortragsankündigung Am 18.06. ist Prof. Dr. Andrea Geier @andreageier.bsky.social (Uni Trier) im Rahmen der Vorlesung „Was sollen wir lesen?“ von @sigridgkoehler.bsky.social in Tü zu Gast! Sie spricht über Brigitte Reimanns „Die Frau am Pranger“ (1956). Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag!👇

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...

When a big @nytimes.com feature about #reeesesbookclub dropped in mid-May 2024, @astarre.bsky.social and I had just submitted our manuscript about - you guessed it - the club to @cl-journal.bsky.social. #Academicpublishing is slow, but here we are, 13 months later... (1/4)

I went clubbing - book clubbing that is - with @corinnanorue.bsky.social and you can read about it in the new issue of @cl-journal.bsky.social. open access! cl.uwpress.org/content/65/3... More in Corinna's🧵

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

Come check out our Leonard McCombe photography exhibition!👀📷 McCombe's impressive portrayal of the aftermath of war in Europe will be featured at the HCA until July 11th (Mo- Fri, 9 am - 5 pm, admission free).

☀️ Guten Morgen! Ich bin auf der Suche nach weiteren #Steady- oder #Ko-Fi Abonnent*innen 🥀 Ich liebe meine Arbeit, aber die Situation für Kreative ist schwer ✍️ Ich würde gerne weitermachen. Ideen habe ich! Und eine kleine regelmäßige Spende von ganz vielen Leuten wird helfen 🫶🏾 Vielen Dank!

Alena Pfoser (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) and Sabine Stach (GWZO) analyse the production and circulation of memories in the arena of tourism and argue for a more systematic investigation of this tourism-memory nexus. valuepast.hypotheses.org/4362

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

On Thursday, Kyle William Bishop from Southern Utah University will talk about 👀 “The government as the true monster: the collapse of authority and trust in zombie narratives" Part of the Baden-Württemberg Seminar / GKAT Lecture series. 📍 HCA, Atrium 🕰️ June 5, 18:15

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...

#CfP The Moralization of Science 📍 International Conference | organized by @oeaw.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social and others | contributions on the Role of Moralization in #Science 📅 September 17-18, 2026 in #Vienna Deadline: September 15, 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Patricia Lockwood joins Deborah Treisman to discuss her story “Fairy Pools.”

New paper out! "Geographical Sensemaking: Situating, Relating, and Positioning as Spatial Practices Between Self and World" #Sfb1265 members Ilse Helbrecht and @lucaspohl.bsky.social draw on international research to analyse geographical sensemaking⬇️ #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nature Marsilius Gastprofessur: Kommunizieren in Zeiten planetarer Krisen – Journalistin und Filmemacherin Verena Mischitz gestaltet Workshop- und Seminarprogramm an der Universität Heidelberg www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #wissenschaftskommunikation

Last Call für Einreichungen zum #fwk25! Nutzt die Chance, die größte Tagung für #Wisskomm im deutschsprachigen Raum mitzugestalten, eure Projekte mit der Community zu teilen, Formate auszuprobieren und Debatten anzustoßen. Wir freuen uns auf eure Beiträge! 🔜 wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/forum-wissen...

Our comparative literature issue is up on MUSE and currently open access! It includes a dossier on Singularity's Abilities (a festschrift in honor Sam Weber) + a discussion forum on Alisa Zhulina's marvelous Theater of Capital + general articles + book reviews. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

We are honored to host an 👀exhibition of Leonard McCombe's photographs from 1944-46 depicting the end of the war in Europe. Admission will be free. 🕰 May 6th - July 11th (9 am - 5 pm) 📍 HCA, Atrium

Digitale Spring School „Wissenschaft kommunizieren!“ @con-gressa.de für junge Forscher*innen: In vier kompakten Online-Sessions lernt ihr, wie ihr eure Themen verständlich vermittelt und passende Formate und Kanäle auswählt. Jetzt anmelden: wissenschaftkommunizieren.de/digitale-spr... #Wisskomm

📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality 📆 23-24 June 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan 🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

In der Promotion fand ich Schreiben oft quälend, hab mit jeder Formulierung gekämpft & gehadert. Das hat sich inzwischen zum Glück verändert — v.a. durch Schreibkollaborationen, die das Zutrauen in mein Schreiben gestärkt haben, & durch Routine. Was ich daraus gelernt hab: Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!

Science Slam mit Beiträgen aus der Queer- und Genderforschung: Studierende sowie Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler präsentieren auf unterhaltsame Weise Ergebnisse aus aktuellen Forschungsprojekten www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

Welcome to the summer semester!🥳 The new editors of the HCA Graduate Blog are issuing a 📢CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS📢. Go check out the link below to find out more about our blog guidelines and other useful information.👇 hcagrads.hypotheses.org/author-guide...

From Anne Carson’s groundbreaking translations to Geetanjali Shree’s Booker-winning work, Saudamini Deo explores the complex dynamics of translation, cultural appropriation, and the reception of non-Western literature in the Western literary world. Read her essay:

#cfp - 'Here and There: Reflections on Place-Based Photography' 📸 The conference calls for scholarship that interrogates photography as a practice that sustains, creates, transforms, & expands places. 🏞️ University of Warwick | 13th September 2025 Deadline: 30th April

💯 Das sehen wir auch so! 🫵 Und freuen uns, wenn Lehrende an #PHHD & @uniheidelberg.bsky.social ihre #Lehramt|sstudierenden auf das extracurriculare Angebot zur #Demokratiebildung hinweisen. 📧 Bis 13.4. kann man sich noch anmelden. Infos: www.hse-heidelberg.de/demokratiebi... #bluecampus #lehramt

Eleanor Lanahan reflects on the literary legacy of The Great Gatsby, her grandfather’s timeless novel, as it turns 100.

#cfp "America and the World in the 1960s: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on American Foreign Relations during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations" 📍 Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines & Université Paris-Saclay 🗓️ 22-24 October. Deadline for submissions: 15 May

Aktuell im Deutschlandfunk zu hören: SFB-Sprecherin Christiane Wiesenfeldt in der Sendung Tonart über Musik, die wie Heimat(en) klingt, Heimatvorstellungen bei der Band Element of Crime und nicht zuletzt einen Klassiker der Schlagergeschichte.

Out now: The latest vol. of German Politics&Society, a special issue on #Heimat and #identity in socialist and postsocialist Germany, ed. by @christianrau.bsky.social and myself, further contributors: @profannasaunders.bsky.social, Nick Wetschel, Maren Hachmeister and Andrew Demshuk! t1p.de/4u6bi

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social

🪚 Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) Postgraduate Workshop will take place on 28th February 2025. The workshop seeks to prepare American Studies PGRs for the post-PhD job market 🌟

David Lynch, who died last month at 78, was a director whose ability to combine the grotesque and the mundane has influenced a generation of artists. The Critics at Large hosts revisit Lynch’s landmark works and reflect on their resonance today.

#CFP Contemporary #WomensWriting Annual Conference! Please share! #TV #film #creativepractice #literary #genre #romance #scifi #crimefiction #gothic #poetry #screenwriting #fanstudies #biography All welcome!