Come to Oxford Brookes to do a PhD with myself or one of my fabulous colleagues - really pleased to be able to share this: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Can anyone assist Rachele with this awful situation? Seems very poor from UCU.

The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association. Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.

Who wants to put together a special issue on Severance so I have a place to pitch a thing in a few months? There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.

Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today

There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

French researcher denied entry to the US because his computer and phone were searched upon arrival and anti-Trump sentiments were discovered in messages he exchanged with colleagues www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪

It’s an obscure policy detail for anyone outside of academia but deeply unsettling for UK arts and humanities scholars at a time their jobs are increasingly under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-ref...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts #AcademicSky #EduSky

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...

Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester

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

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk

Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...

#ModWrite @yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Abstracts: 15 February Articles: 1 July

Applications are now sought for the Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English. Research and teaching specialism in 20th and 21st-C Writing in English. Emphasis on Irish writers may be favoured University of Limerick www.ul.ie/vacancies

This is what integrity looks like.

Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3

You may wish to share this story, which indicates potential issues with the way the some post-92 universities are dealing with the financial challenges facing the sector. You may also wish to read up on the ramifications of allowing universities to own subsidiary companies. tinyurl.com/8bbh95kf

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Last teaching day of 2024 !and I’m looking forward to my students presenting their visions of the future in 2050 (on my Inventing the Future module: a mashup of science and speculative fiction, and Futures Literacy)

Art Historian @mattlodder.com has spearheaded the study and teaching of tattoo art. His latest book reveals the untold history of tattooing as a professional art form and explores the archive of the “linchpin” of the 20th-century tattoo industry. www.essex.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

We have been warning about this for years. There is so much evidence of what the humanities bring to the economy and society. See @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are now up to 84 universities making staff redundant. A key part of our society is retreating at a staggering pace that would never be allowed if the decisions were all seen and weighed up together. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

It's staggering that any country would let this happen to something it's good at. Honestly think that when we look back at this disaster - which is only in its initial stages - it'll be seen as a national scandal. There should at least be an independent investigation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I will be giving my last virtual lecture for the year tomorrow, dedicated to everyone fighting for a #FreePalestine. I have found giving virtual lectures hard during these times. So I will be taking a break & expressing rage in other ways. You can register here: events.ok.ubc.ca/event/changi...

You, boy! Which UK university has declared itself in financial crisis today?

Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

"Charging a fee – no matter how nominal – feeds into an individualised and commodified perception of a good that ultimately benefits society as a whole". www.theguardian.com/education/20...

As large-scale redundancies loom in Higher Education, some good advice here on Unfair Dismissal and Labour's new proposals. My advice: keep a contemporary diary of any practices that look suspect; email such messages to your personal email account; know your rights. www.griffin.law/university-r...

Utter madness. Surely can't be true.

We’ll barely notice, apparently www.bbc.com/news/article...

With some hashtags: #FWW #fwwhist #ww1 #grandeguerre

A little over two years ago I had just made the move from the USA to Canada and from academia to government when this little doorstop came out. Still very proud of what Alex Goody and I assembled here and still amazed at the brilliance of our contributors edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...

If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going? My piece for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

It's quite interesting in academia at the moment, from an anthropological point of view. Three elements I note: (1) some ppl developing their side hussles as income; (2) colleagues trying to work out where is safe to jump to; (3) big junking of research given the losses it makes.

At The Modernist Review we have just launched a CfP for a 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue with guest editor Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton (Columbia University). Details below! Please circulate widely.

This is what I mean when I talk about the Greyout or Soft Crash in Higher Education. Happening all over the place.

You can talk about raising tuition fees all you want, but the reality is that any new resource will take 18 months to come on stream and be a really small dribble of money. It will help at the margins, but frankly it's too late to save a big chunk of the sector. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I was thinking about putting together a Modernist Studies starter pack - or has anyone else done that already? Who should be/wants to be on it if it's yet to be done?

Simply raising the tuition fee and doing nothing else is irresponsible, exacerbates inequalities, and is politically costly. That it is the preferred solution of the VC Braintrust is understandable, but it won't fix the system.