For the latest @wasafirimag.bsky.social I talk to memoirist Cato Pedder about apartheid, her family (including Jan Smuts), and encountering #DorisLessing in a public bathroom. Her brilliant book, Moederland, is out now with @johnmurrays.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

“Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. ” — Janet Frame In all seriousness, how lovely to see my book in such excellent company, alongside work by @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew Hayward, & Wan-Chuan Kao. Janet Frame on prizes: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies

New old Janet Frame coming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in November: her 1966 novel A State of Siege. Wise words from the chap on the back cover.

A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement. Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔

“Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?”

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨 📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025 ✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks! Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

‘Janet Frame’s writing is often compared to Faulkner’s, and her family history reads like a Southern Gothic novel. Yet Frame can be an extraordinarily cheerful, funny writer. Language was a source of continual revelation.’ @lucieelven.bsky.social on the novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today is the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway! Dr Elizabeth Gourd writes on the novel’s relevance to post-pandemic life in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-it-was...

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

"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

Great to read my colleague @drdomdavies.bsky.social on three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance theconversation.com/three-graphi...

'Frame refuses to bask in her exceptionalism, her almost miraculous escape. Triumphantly, mournfully, her plots are anti-redemption and anti-assimilation.' Audrey Wollen reviews THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET by Janet Frame for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/books/second...

My first book is going to print! All being well, it should be out in paperback and OA on March 28. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... If you read it and enjoy it (or hate it!), let me know.

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

We are building a Hong Kong Collection at @bristoluni.bsky.social! We now call for donation of photos of HK in 19 and 20th centuries. We'd also love to hear about other materials, such as family letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs etc.

Abstracts are due for ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the end of this month, 28th February. See the following link for more info: blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir.... #hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies

I loved reviewing these two, fascinating books for #C21Literature, who sorted me out with hard copies AND open access. The dream. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... @bloomsburylit.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social

v pleased to be the Life Writing judge for this. you should submit

New in C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings > “Review essay: Gaps, Gutters, and Devolution in Postcolonial Britain” by Emma Parker / @dremmaparker.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/c21... #C21Literature

The Introduction to our Australian Research Council funded Special Issue of a/b Auto/Biography Studies, "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives" is FREE access. Take a peak www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun. Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

Our book is out! Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

NEW REVIEW: Professor Stuart Ward review's 'British culture after empire' by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @manchesterup.bsky.social

Out today in paperback! ⬇️ The last publication in our flagship series 'Studies in Imperialism' of 2024 - British culture after Empire: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182548/ "An engaging and rich conversation" @jbritishstudies.bsky.social #StudiesinImperialism

And also: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l... with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social First of two Oxford celebrations of our new book, out Dec 2024 with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social This event is 14 Jan at OCLW @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social The next is 23 Jan at the PoCo Seminar @engfac.bsky.social