Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

Lovely to see this new video of my colleagues & students @bristolunienglish.bsky.social advocating for our programme and for the subject more broadly. Studying English Literature can help our students think & read more critically - essential at the moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkW...

‘This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm.’ Tom Crewe reads Ocean Vuong’s second novel, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Student Support Champion Project Manager believes academics should stop imparting knowledge derived from scholarship

"This is an interesting connection"

‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’ Hannah Rose Woods on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A. is a brilliant student and really deserves to be able to finish their degree. If you can donate at all, even just a small amount then it would mean such a great deal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

This is honestly not what I thought this novel would be!