This is such a great piece of writing

Some good news!

Now published: 'The People' and British Literature Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and me. Please consider ordering for your library, or reviewing the book! (Let me know if you would like me to arrange a review copy.) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

NEW special issue of Critical Quarterly, 'Paper and Poetry: Interventions in Theory and Practice', brilliantly edited by @georginaemw.bsky.social and Orietta da Rodd. This is an outstanding collection that we are proud to publish in CQ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

NEW special issue of Critical Quarterly, 'Paper and Poetry: Interventions in Theory and Practice', brilliantly edited by @georginaemw.bsky.social and Orietta da Rodd. This is an outstanding collection that we are proud to publish in CQ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

‘Comrades in Art reveals a rich seam of committed art that dispels clichés about the Red Decade.’ Matthew Taunton welcomes a provocative account of the role of art in the 1930s

Can't wait to read this!

Now published: 'The People' and British Literature Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy, edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and me. Please consider ordering for your library, or reviewing the book! (Let me know if you would like me to arrange a review copy.) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Great piece on the history of 'balance' on the BBC from my @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social colleage David Nowell Smith

Turns out, the idea of "poetic technique" was once strange and new. Here's a new article on what "technique" meant for poets and critics in the time of modernism, and in particular about how it shaped their judgement of poetry and poets. Might be of interest? doi.org/10.1111/criq...

This looks great! Also: very timely!

Look at this monster project and tell me your library doesn't need a copy 👇

‘The People’ and British Literature: Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy, which I co-edited with Benjamin Kohlmann, will be published on 11th December 🥳. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Artists' International Association first meets in Seven Dials, where Pearl Binder, Peggy & James Fitton, James Boswell, & Clifford Rowe gather in Misha Black's rough and ready studio at 29 Little St Andrew Street.

I’m excited to have my review of Andy Friend‘s “Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, 1933-43” in the December issue of Apollo Magazine. It’s a great book about the Artists’ International Association, a key popular front cultural organisation. I don’t think I’ve ever been so glossily published!

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Important, deeply researched piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social, on the BBC's handling of Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/ins...

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...

My commute ❤️

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

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.

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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...

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!