What a line-up!

We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...

Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel. Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/... #EnvHum #Petrocultures

NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.

We are recruiting! An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library. We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work. 1/3

Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!

Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).

🚨 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...

Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.

Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press: Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc But 1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of 2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized. 1/

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

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Quoth the raven, "baguette".

Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?

We have a new review on the BSLS website: Aaron Scott Pugh reviews Sebastian P. Klinger's Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/klin...)

We're at the Samuel Beckett Society 10th Annual Conference: Beckett’s Relationships 📚 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Visit us at the School for Languages, Literature and Cultures to chat to Emily Sharp and Elizabeth Fraser from our Literary Studies team! 👋 edin.ac/4jGuu6L #SamuelBeckett

For the first time, both James Tait Black Prizes have gone to works in translation: Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy and Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite. www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...

We're announcing the winners of the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes today!

The James Tait Black Prizes are the oldest literary prizes in the UK - so come along on 30 May at 4pm to find out 2025's Fiction and Biography winners! Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed. Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi

As someone who was welcomed into Kent's anthropology department reading groups and research seminars while doing my PhD in English this is heart-breaking stuff to read.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Reddit at its best. Which character from Ulysses would YOU like to be friends with?

Love the point in the assessment year where the official university position on time management shifts to “simply invent more hours in the day”

Somehow TOMORROW is the LAST seminar in the series! Do join us to cap off the seminar series, with papers on BP and the aesthetics of labour. Eventbrite is closing imminently, but feel free to email me directly for a meeting link.

Today's university losing staff is Edinburgh, which has got itself into a frightful muddle and panic about cashflow - but which is becoming emblematic of just how vulnerable the Welsh and Scottish Higher Ed systems really are. www.scotsman.com/education/un...

Fantastic PhD opportunity on food and lit!

One of the more bizarre comms from our uni of late is the injunction that staff should buy their lunch from (expensive) campus cafes since the surplus goes back into the uni coffers. The neoliberal university, brought to you by £5 cauliflower and sheeze wraps and £3 bags of lentil crisps.

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

New open access edited collection of essays on Woolf from some of the sharpest minds around!

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

And once you've read this thread, I heartily recommend trying the amazing version of the biscuit sold at Considerit near the Meadows.

Please join us this Wednesday at 4pm (BST) for our third and penultimate online seminar, which takes the theme of BP and Corporate Myth-Making and features three fantastic speakers. Link to free sign-up below.

We rarely see VCs speak this strongly in public, and this is a real indictment of the Office for Students. Worth reading for anyone interested in academic freedom, trans inclusion, or indeed the OfS's ability to face the sector's financial catastrophe.

PMLA is accepting submissions for a special issue, Environmental Humanities in Practice, for one more week, until 31 March. Read about how to submit an essay:

📣Calling all #ECRs who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post - the @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Matters fellowship at the Uni of Edinburgh is now live! See below for details ⬇️ victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/n...

The end of Greenpeace US?

We're not going to (m)eat ourselves out of climate change. Although the coming storm isn't even the most compelling reason to give up eating animals.

Family of mice have decided to move into the flat. We are now trying to persuade them otherwise. Thirteen year old dog has not yet noticed. Loss of sleep all round (except for dog).

This is TODAY at 4pm! Possibly too late to register, but if you want the Teams link drop me a DM or email!

It's almost time for the Susan Manning Memorial Lecture ✨ This year, we welcome Professor Paul Saint Amour @upenn.edu to bring together authors OGS Crawford, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Watkins, and Katharine Emma Maltwood to explore the roles and processes of interwar authors. Free 🎟️: edin.ac/4alSecJ

Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Creativity, Full-Time, Fixed Term (2yr) University of Galway The successful candidate will investigate established and emerging political economies of arts, culture and creativity. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

A week today is our second seminar focused on BP and petrofiction! Still plenty of time to sign up below!

The lack of democratic accountability of university leadership to the staff and students of their institutions will be the death of us.

The latest headline in what looks to be a trend cascading across energy majors.

A bleak day here in Edinburgh. Time to buckle up and get ready to fight to protect jobs.

2x funded MA scholarships for Palestinian students at the University of Sussex. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Today! Tune in at 4pm GMT for what promises to be a fantastic conversation.