NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

"Humanities Theory" by Amanda Anderson & Simon During, is now available as an ebook (bit.ly/4m6XGUU) and out in hardback and paperback on 7th Oct (UK) / 7th Jan (US).This is the first book in a new OUP series, Literature & Politics, ed by Janice Ho, Benjamin Kohlmann, and me: bit.ly/4ntmW9c.

"The message to ministers is to pay attention to such connections. Economic growth and higher education policies need to be joined up." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Attempts to make the UK a less welcoming destination are part of an alarming rightward lurch on immigration..."

I've not seen this image of H G Wells before: an unpublished sketch by David Low from 1924.

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

Great piece, this.

A campus for all seasons 💙 It's A-Level Results Day and we're open from 8am-8pm to answer your queries about Clearing: 01603 294952 Here's everything you need to know👇 #ALevelResults

Another great one! 👇 I know Benjamin and he's a stellar scholar!

Cover reveal! “The People in British Literature: Belonging, Exclusion, Democracy”, ed. by Benjamin Kohlmann and me, out this December from CUP.

Further to this @thetls.bsky.social essay about Una Marson's early work as a publisher, the full run of Marson's 1920s/1930s magazine, The Cosmopolitan, is now freely available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (@dlocaribbean.bsky.social): www.dloc.com/AA00114844/0...

Excited for this new OUP series on Literature & Politics! Paired authors tackling vital terms and topics of the day, starting with Amanda Anderson and @simoncd.bsky.social on *Humanities Theory*. Next up Doug Mao and @duncanbell.bsky.social on *Utopia*. global.oup.com/academic/con...

Declamations! is a short documentary that developed out of my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career fellowship on the politics of choral speaking. It documents a series of performances in Norwich, written by UEA students, inspired by Jack Lindsay's 1930s Mass Declamations. youtu.be/IY085tFQ7SM?...

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

Declamations! is a short documentary that developed out of my @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career fellowship on the politics of choral speaking. It documents a series of performances in Norwich, written by UEA students, inspired by Jack Lindsay's 1930s Mass Declamations. youtu.be/IY085tFQ7SM?...

Looks brilliant- can’t wait to read!

The replies to this are interesting about the power (and perils) of bluesky for writers (including academics). We write in a moment of media fragmentation, lacking clear rules about what to do (on- and offline), to engage readers in the topics that interest us. Many wise, encouraging thoughts here!

Really a bad mistake to pitch education at 'jobs of the future' which you will almost certainly get wrong. What education gives is maturity, judgement, cognitive skills, trainability, flexibility - almost whatever the subject. For this reason 85% of grad job adverts don't specify a subject.

Proofs of my chapter 'Devolution, Nationalism, and the Rhetoric of Independence' from Benjamin Kohlmann and Matthew Taunton, eds, 'The People' and British Literature: Belonging, Exclusion and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, December 2025. #ProofingTime #AcademicSky #Cymru #Scotland

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex is looking to hire both a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature and a fixed-term Lecturer in Theatre Studies. For full details about each post, see the link below. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Calling all Sylvia Townsend Warner fans and scholars: there is a Prize, and there will be a Conference. See here! townsendwarner.com/the-society/...

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

Excellent representation of @standrewsenglish.bsky.social in this book with essays by my supervisor James Purdon and @dranindyar.bsky.social 😍 Go give it some love!

new book series: Literature and Politics! first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project global.oup.com/academic/con...

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And here’s the programme for the symposium at UEA on Friday. Book your place here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

Norwich! Book your place for this Thursday's Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture, 5.30pm, @writerscentre.bsky.social, hosted by the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social. Helen Small's lecture is called 'Changing Humanities'. store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

It’s been a while, old friend. And as it turns out, perfect indexing music!

Awful news- a brilliant scholar and a lovely man 💔

Great to see these articles published in The Modernist Review, all fruits of the #NWiMS conference at UEA last December. Looks like a fascinating issue! @modernistudies.bsky.social modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

Looking for stories that are out of this world? 🚀 This week on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime you can hear 'Shakedowns in Hyperspace' –five short stories, written by Dr Naomi Wood, Associate Professor in Creative Writing. Catch any episodes you’ve missed on the BBC Sounds website: bbc.in/4kfqR84

When your editorial work can only be expressed in rhyming couplets…

I'm excited to read 'In Defence of Leisure' by Akshi Singh, which is out now with Penguin. Marion Milner fans, take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/459266...

This one is chock full of links to @aupresses.bsky.social's AskUP--the most valuable (& imho under-used) resource on scholarly publishing out there. I can't tell you how much I've learned from it. 9 times out of 10 if I have a Q about publishing, it's answered there. ask.up.hcommons.org?s=marketing

A reminder that The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith is out! It includes brilliant essays by Amanda Anderson, Janice Ho, Peter Boxall and many more. Please do consider ordering it for your library, or reviewing it. www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Excited to see this book making its way into the world! It’s the first book in a new OUP series, “Literature & Politics”, that I’m editing with Janice Ho and Benjamin Kohlmann. www.foyles.co.uk/book/humanit...

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

A great thinker- RIP Alasdair MacIntyre

People of Sussex and beyond, get yourself to Sussex English’s own Hope Wolf’s fantastic Sussex Modernism exhibit at the Towner in Eastbourne. So so good!

Our speakers: Ruth Abbott Stefan Collini Heather Love Tina Lupton David McAllister Anshuman Mondal David Nowell Smith Rachel Potter Nancy Yusef Book your place for the symposium here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-...

Delighted that the Lorna Sage Memorial Lecture at UEA will be given this year by the brilliant Helen Small. Helen's lecture, entitled 'Changing Humanities', will take place at Dragon Hall, Norwich, on Thursday 19th June at 5.30pm. Book your (free) place here: store.uea.ac.uk/conferences-....

An essay we published in CQ has made the news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are delighted that @writerscentre.bsky.social will be hosting the lecture in beautiful Dragon Hall!