📢 Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, @academic.oup.com. Thanks to Aaron Bradbrook’s gorgeous photo of Tanya Gerstle’s absolutely inspiring The Mill in the Floss at #TheatreWorks #Melbourne (discussed in the book) #JaneAusten #Adaptation #19thC global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Happy birthday, Jane! A few tokens of appreciation past and future! #JaneAusten

Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise. Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

Tomorrow Thursday I'll be speaking about women, failure and academia at @leuphana.bsky.social. Come and join us on Zoom! #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/us...

And more proofs! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...

Here is a list of upcoming Jane Austen and the Brontës virtual events scheduled for the next few months. There is a lot here from book clubs to movie nights & everything in between! Check the event websites for more information and details. 👉🏻 excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bro...

Very honoured to be the plenary speaker at this fabulous event on women, failure and academia at @leuphana.bsky.social. Two days till registration closes! #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/us...

Proofing time! #JaneAusten #Adaptation #19thC

The next #English Lunchtime Research Seminar takes place on 5th November, 12pm, LCB012. Professor Michael Griffin will talk to us about Editing Goldsmith for @universitypress.cambridge.org. All welcome! #spéirgorm @ulresearch.bsky.social

For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs. I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.

Our book is now open for pre-order! Comes out March 2026 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure With the very wonderful ‪@rellypops.bsky.social‬ @tsjharling.bsky.social‬ ‪@dawnlyon.bsky.social‬ @profjoubin.bsky.social‬ & many more!‬‬ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...

The Women’s History Network Conference is happening in Sep - it is online, FREE, and packed with fascinating sounding papers by archivists, curators, local historians, museum professionals, scholars, etc all about women’s history & archival, library, museum & personal collections.

Always feels more real when there is a cover image. Thanks @bendoyle.bsky.social and everyone @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social for their work on this. Due out in December.

If you enjoy plotting tools, do not miss this approach from novelist Bryan Wiggins.

Oops this is the livestream link! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...

A date for your diaries! 8 July 2025, 18:30 — 20:30, for the launch of Ruth Beecher’s new book, Community Health Practitioners and Child Sexual Abuse in the Family, 1970s-2010s. Free but must register: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @ruthbeecher.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Back on sale! Ebook €18.99 now. Courtesy of Palgrave. #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Finally, our book Redrawing Europe´s Literary Map: Transnational Circulations of Women´s Writing 1850-1920 (formerly known as "Travelling Texts") is reaching the final stretch: the implementation of peer review recommendations are accepted, and the first 3 chapters have gone out for copy editing.

Delighted to report that the paperback edition of Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion is now available for pre-order! You can also read it for FREE thanks to Open Access! Both options available here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-irish-g...

Ebook of my Jane Austen and Performance now at the absolute bargain price €12.99. Palgrave special sale. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250

In person or online, come next Tues. at 4pm eastern to what is sure to be a brilliant talk by Matt Fee: www.lemoyne.edu/event/the-ir...

The recording of today's webinar with Prof. Trish Reid on theatre and performance in contemporary Scotland, hosted by @irishtheatreres.bsky.social is now available to watch on ISTR YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlLh...

Looking forward to Houston, Friday February 21! My talk on AI will also be broadcast via Zoom: uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/j/89581161077 Meeting ID: 89581161077

Jane's world: fans and admirers pick their favourite Austen characters

Coming up this month there's the fantastic joint conference between @adaptstudies.bsky.social and LFA on 'Adaptation and Aging'. More info can be found here, including the registration link: litfilm.org/conference/l...

Delighted and excited to announce the new @bloomsburylit.bsky.social long 19th C series, 'The New Nineteenth Century', edited by Porscha Fermanis and Omar Miranda. @amymartin13.bsky.social and soliciting proposals now, so read the blurb and please DM/email with ideas! Reposts gratefully received!

This free session coming up on Friday wins the all-time best registration award. More than 1,100 students and counting! You can join me and @bookpostusa.bsky.social live, or wait for the recording.

This semester's research seminar programme of the Crosscultural circa 19th-Century Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.