wrote 3 completely different research proposals in addition to completely different american application materials but I think I'm getting an end in sight!!!

Love modernism? Like knowing stuff? *Really hate* knowing stuff? Like talking about weird shit? Then consider joining mine and @annakarlien.bsky.social’s panel at the 2026 MSA/BAMS conference on Weird Modernisms! If you're interested in presenting with us, please shoot either of us a message!

phd rejection 2 of the season 🔥🔥🔥 (it's all good lmao)

@jocularfowl.bsky.social and I are proposing a "weird epistemologies" panel for the @modernistudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms conference! We're looking for an addition to our panel though, so if you're interested please shoot either of us a message!

lmaoo just got C1 on the speaking part of my english test please address me in dutch from now on xx

deadline for stanford's modern thought and lit phd is in less than a week and they emailed now they aren't accepting any apps after all??? i'm so upset

why are so many current-day eugenicists professors in ethics 💀💀💀💀

main thing keeping me going with phd apps is that if i just do well enough i'll never have to go through this again (yes i know about other funding proposals but phd apps is a particular kind of hell)

Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor. Email me by 25 November on [email protected] if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026

whenever i try to carefully read fiction i always get like max 10 pages in because i'm constantly over-analysing every sentence - does anyone struggle with this and know how to middle between close reading and still getting through a text?

does anyone have advice how to write a proposal about something you know a lot about? I constantly get confused in the small details whereas the proposal a bit outside my comfort zone comes much easier

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[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social (my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)

The lack of academic perspective has me feeling so down lol

does anyone know anywhere the new AHRC phd funding scheme is explained? I just can't find it and don't get it whatsoever

Do I know anyone/have any mutuals who’ve successfully applied for an ERC Starting Grant in anything vaguely literary or DH-related?

wrapping up my time in the UK by sitting in a pub, drinking cider, eating chips with salt and vinegar, and thinking about the "grace and decorum" guy from come dine with me -- at least nobody can say I didn't go hard on "local culture" lmao

my graduate visa just got rejected -- bc of a short diss extension on mental health grounds (5 days on top of the regular 5 days extension) my results have been delayed by 4 MONTHS, which is too late to be eligible for visa. Cambridge's office says they can't do anything abt it??

sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/res... saw this, immediately thought up a phd proposal idea, and then realised that because of equity you can no longer apply as a student?? what is equal about that 😭😭

Oh great, now Duolingo is reading my papers

you know what -- if i'm forced to return to the netherlands it'll save me enough rent that I can just buy myself these editions at least as emotional compensation for my SufferingTM

just cancelled the room i was about to let bc of my visa issues :((((

jcla.in/journal-of-c... Really excited to share my new article on Wittgenstein's Tractatus, translatory practices, and silence! A happy way of wrapping up my dissertation work and MPhil at @eflcam.bsky.social :) With many thanks to Byron Byrne-Taylor's editorial work!

They're here. The first complete US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage in almost 50 years. Many thanks to designer Louise Aspinall for her work in making these books beautiful. Copies will be available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social (asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...) by 1 August.

now that i've slept for a week i'm so stoked to slowly start working on some papers again!!!

i like pound as someone who used to exist and doesn't anymore but i am 100% sure being around him for more than 5 minutes would just bring to mind chris fleming's wildly unlikeable guy song

why is my entire first chapter an extended metaphor?? why do i never just go for something comprehensible and sensible???

just saw human bones in the library??? !!! and now weirdly re-energised to finally get work done lmao

i'm so bad at close reading poetry - probably bc i don't think i'd done it literally ever before this year 🙃

#modwrite trying to get my dissertation edited (:

if anyone has advice how to get through the final week of my mphil diss please throw it my way - everything i think and write feels stupid (and feedback was v negative) and i need to do really well bc it's my only and final shot at getting into the phd i want but idk if i can do it

i love my work and i hate my work so much

This gyre is looking awfully wide

still thinking of john steinbeck's unpublished werewolf novel

oh this is so very sad; thank you for all your wisdom, Helen.

when i submit my diss i'm so gonna read a 700+ page stephen king book

the rain has come!!!

mysterious......... maybe bigfoots rely on black bears for their meals?

me, this morning in therapy: “so have you ever read anything by the philosopher ludwig wittgenstein?”

Please sign and share widely - Liverpool Hope is one of *the* centres for cultural Disability Studies research. This threat is a threat to the field itself and to its important commitment to challenging societal prejudices and advocating for social justice through cultural analysis.

Starting this one which seems very @audioontology.bsky.social coded 😂

i'd so read this lmaooo

does anyone know what's up with the upenn cfp site? i had so many things bookmarked 😭

Give Fatima Hassouna the ‘loud death’ she wished for in recognition of her incredibly brave work in Gaza. Please repost. So sad this journalist died at the hands of the IDF with 10 family members. RIP. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I got my first paper acceptance in a real journal for this thesis project!!!!!

stoked as hell for the new penguins!!!

Hey all! does anyone know what's (very) roughly the turnaround rate of Philosophy and Lit journal? from submission to first peer-reviewed decision

i feel like everything depends on this essay grade and i'm so scared to work on it and submit it 😭😭

literally got: 4 rejections, 1 bad grade, and 3 things to yet hear back from lmao

Continuing my essay on ways of knowing in Loy's Insel this #ModWrite!