It was a great pleasure to be part of the roundtable, ‘Weird Campuses: Modernism and the University’, at the BAMS/MSA Joint Conference at Loughborough University on 1 July. I'm still buzzing with conference excitement. #WeirdModernisms @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Delighted to present at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last week. My presentation on Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight explores ageing and gender performativity by drawing on her RADA training. This feeds into my new project on cosmopolitan modernisms and overseas student experience.

The Best Escapism Award to Roman Holiday

My article 'Vivien Eliot, The Criterion, Autobiografiction' is now available in the 2025 issue of the Journal of T. S. Eliot Society (UK). !http://s699163057.websitehome.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025-Journal-of-the-T.S.-Eliot-Society.pdf

I'm really honoured to be part of Leeds University's Smeaton 300 project 'Roots and Journeys: Poetry and Busses'. We are now delighted to announce the winners of the adult category of our Smeaton300 poetry competition🎉

Proofs 🪻

Psssst. Hey. This CFP on Contingency, Precarity, and Jeopardy: Labor in the Space Between looks fantastic— #AcademicSky @spacebetween.bsky.social scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...

I’m super excited that my article ‘Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck’: Shipwrecked Nostos in a Ulyssean Palimpsest in The Waste Land has just been published by Forum for Modern Language Studies! Many thanks to the reviewers and editors. Please read and share: doi.org/10.1093/fmls...

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Submit away!

Hi! I'm an assistant professor of literature. I research how people, institutions, and algorithms circulate books from around the world into the US in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as what kinds of communities are imagined and created through that circulation. Let's connect!

Hello everyone! MLN (founded in 1886 as Modern Language Notes) is a journal of literary scholarship published by @hopkinspress.bsky.social We publish 5 annual issues: Italian, Hispanic, French, German, Comparative Literature. Managing editor @victoriajane.bsky.social

What's good about burning it all down? Patrice Rankine's first of three public talks is on Thursday Nov 14, in the Penn Museum and on zoom. For everyone who cares about education, academia, the humanities, history, race, ways of knowing, & food. Registration link below.

We are excited to say that The Modernist Review is seeking papers for a ‘Modernism and Data’ special issue! Deadline 20th December for submissions. Please see the link below for the full CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

This is my humble attempt at a starter back for literary studies. Please feel free to join. go.bsky.app/9i1XbVC

Many thanks for this!

My book Heroines of Olympus: The Forgotten Women of Greek Mythology is on sale on Kindle - just £2.99! #ClassicsBluesky

Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...

I’m delighted to be co-hosting the BAMS conference at Leeds. It’s a great pleasure to work with the @modernistudies.bsky.social committee and my Leeds colleagues. Welcome to Leeds, everyone!

Be ready for the CFP for Big-BAMS coming very soon! Really very very soon. It has a brilliant theme and I have designed a logo for it which is going to look great on a tote bag (if I say so myself) and you should be EXCITED @modernistudies.bsky.social