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If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Please do consider applying to join us! I've found being a Rep incredibly fulfilling and rewarding - I'm sure you will too!!

A final #ModWrite before Christmas, share with us using the hashtag! 🎄☃️ Don't forget to register to attend NWiMS 15 on 9th January using the form below before 29th December: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!

This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...

This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky

PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.

Derby University is in chaos and management caused it. 🔻 265 redundancies proposed 🔻 Nursing & early childhood studies at risk 🔻 Staff pushed through a rushed, unfair process Show your support for staff and students on strike from tomorrow. www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

There is not one PhD between the directors of Nous, they have no experience of research or teaching and yet they're advising universities, student unions & governments on how to run HE.

'The union said management had "agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until at least July 2026".'

Some more job listings! Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/ Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Petition here to stop the closure of film studies at the University of Leicester: c.org/Md95YhF4zx

Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...

TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!

Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Kent, applications close 20th November 2025 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New episode! @tealescope.bsky.social & Souki speak with Dr Luke Blaxill, founder of The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding, about how to help fund PhDs (with or without UKRI funding). Listen wherever you get your podcasts from! open.spotify.com/episode/2Acb...

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Irish Folklore and Ethnology, University College Dublin, closes 17th November 2025 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Assistant Curator, Courtauld Gallery, applications close 18th November 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE223/a...

Lecturer in Media & Film, York St John University, applications close 7th November 2025 jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Professor in Digital Media, UWE, applications close 16 November 2025 ce0164li.webitrent.com/ce0164li_web...

New job listing: Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic, King's College London, deadline for applications 11th November 2025 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/129286-...

Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (prose) at Edinburgh, deadline 31st October ✍️ elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Part time & temporary role: Teaching Associate in 19th Century Literature at Cambridge 📚 deadline 10th November 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53176/

Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London, deadline 2nd November 📖 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE069/l...

New role being advertised: Lecturer in Filmmaking at Kingston University 📽️ 🎞️ deadline 6 November jobs.kingston.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

#jobs Permanent part-time departmental tutor in archaeology with Oxford Lifelong Learning

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!

Amazingly, there's a permanent university job available in History! It's 'only' part-time, and as the only non-fixed term contract in the entire UK available right now will probably see a queue form many hundreds long, but it'll be great for someone: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO275/l...

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...