I’m putting together a guide for first time teachers in HE and would love your recommendations 💛 what are you favourite texts on pedagogy? Especially interested in any texts that focus on student centred learning, and on decolonising / uncolonising the curriculum. Thank you!

I'm teaching a module on critical theory this term. I'd love to know what your favourite books/articles are on critical theory - if there was one text you'd encourage students to read first, what would it be?

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Stipendiary Lecturer in English at Exeter College, Oxford www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ137/s...

Research fellow at St Andrews, working on AHRC project ‘Histories of Hope? Museum Redevelopment at Camp Nelson National Monument’. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOI436/r...

0.16FTE Lecturer in English Literature @ University of Glasgow, focusing on science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war lit. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...

Starting back to work again after the bank holiday weekend

Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - looks phenomenal! research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

Call for papers for new edited collection: Bureaucratic Modernism, edited by Alexandra Irimia and Jonathan Foster - deadline for submissions November 15 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...

❤️‍🔥 open.substack.com/pub/pollyhem...

Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Royal Holloway 💛 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Hmm, this seems like a wise and sensible take on UK university finance until and unless you’re willing to question the austere and impoverished neoliberal logics underpinning its core premises. 🧵 1/7

I'm very happy to answer questions by email or chat to anyone who's interested in this job, in our brilliant, friendly @chppc.bsky.social team at @ihr.bsky.social. Send me a direct message or drop me an email via my IHR address. And please share! #job #history #Skystorians #HistoricEnvironment

Me launching my substack

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊

I wrote about how drawings document the dizzying number of relationships in The Bloomsbury Group for Art UK. Read it here 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

"trust the process" i whisper as i make a complete and utter mess of things

New job listing: Research Associate working on Percy Bysshe Shelley at Sheffield! Sounds amazing. Applications close 18th August. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA409/r...

Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge working in: Classics History (restricted to work that falls substantially within the period c. 700–c. 1450) Music Politics & International Studies www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB206/s...

New opportunity for poets! Part-time Lecturer in creative writing/poetry at Bath Spa. Applications close 11th Aug ✨ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB269/l...

New temporary job post: Maternity Cover for Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies at Warwick, applications close 17th August www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOB494/t...

I (like everyone else on the internet) started a substack! This post contains a rant about the academic job market, and my rationale for sharing this 💛 open.substack.com/pub/pollyhem...

my mom's version of "touch grass" is every time i mention doing something academic she asks "do you get paid for it?"

when i'm asked to review the revised version

Sounds amazing! New job listing: Centre Administrator at Cambridge, working with the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre within the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research ✨ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ645/c...

Has anyone applied for one of the Yale Short-term Research Fellowships and would be open to sharing their application with me? Would hugely appreciate it! 💛

Lecturer in Digital Media at Keele University - applications close 12th August 📺https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX238/lecturer-in-digital-media

How it feels waiting for the outcome of my postdoc application

New job listing: Lecturer in Creative Writing at Hull, closes 31st July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY852/l...

Great article from Nick Lee that came out of one of his lectures on media and class for Royal Holloway's Introduction to Media Histories that I was teaching on this year: theconversation.com/who-represen...

Me submitting a postdoc application:

Lecturer in film and media industries at Southampton 🎥closes 25th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR921/l...

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

This sounds incredible! Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Project Researcher at Oxford, deadline for applications is 14 July 📜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS496/m...

Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter post, closes 15 July 💙https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS852/lecturer-in-creative-writing-education-and-scholarship

Lecturer/Assistant Prof post in Creative Writing at University College Dublin 📝 deadline 15 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS988/l...

Lecturer in Creative Writing post at Newcastle, closes 17 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT755/l...

Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies at Royal Holloway - deadline: Wednesday 16 July jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Lecturer in Film and Media Industries at the University of Southampton 🎞️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR921/l...

me & my draft

This looks super interesting! Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference: Heights, Depths, and Extremes - Birmingham, 14th-16th July 2025 victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

Ah yes, education, chemistry, and geography/geology/environment: knowledge and skills we clearly don’t need in a world facing climate change and rapid societal & cognitive change. You can’t let your country’s future be decided by what is deemed the cheapest to run as a degree. #UKHE #SaveHE

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

It's hard to find words in the face of this ongoing horror. That such cruelty has been abetted by so-called liberal democracies is an indelible stain. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"As If!" by Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Read the introduction for free on our website! #LiteraryTheory #LGBTQBooks buff.ly/Cnz0S8L

This is how the Guardian chose to headline a story about the Israeli military's mass killing of Palestinians at food distribution hubs yesterday.

🌞 🌞 On this incredibly sunny day, we are pleased to present issue #56 of The Modernist Review: 'New Work in Modernist Studies Part Two'. Explore a great variety of pieces below, all stemming from the NWiMS conference last year: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...

Great to see these articles published in The Modernist Review, all fruits of the #NWiMS conference at UEA last December. Looks like a fascinating issue! @modernistudies.bsky.social modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...