In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact. www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...

My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022! lsupress.org/978080717851...

If weekends are for bricolage - why not with Joyce? joycebricolage.blogspot.com #JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Modernism

Corinne François-Denève interrogates Strindberg’s ‘deranged sensations’—a vivid journey into disorientation and aesthetic decay. Ever felt the unsettling pull of decadence rendered in words? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

This Wednesday (11/5) at 4 PM ET, please join us for a free webinar during which, Kathleen deLaski, Cheryl Fields-Smith, @drshaunharper.bsky.social, and Brent W. Maddin will discuss the future of education. Find out more and register here: https://bit.ly/4mUDEgZ

📢 Call for Papers — Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural & Literary Exchange between India and Europe (1870–1947). Explore flows of texts, ideas, and people across empires. 🔗 journals.fupress.net/call-for-pap... #CFP #LEA #FUPress

Grateful to @SHARPOrg for funding our next LEA issue: Transimperial Encounters: India & Europe, 1870–1947. See what they’re supporting: drive.google.com/file/d/1JbuP... Support open-access research: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

“‘They were fated to meet”: A study of the crossings between two major modernist voices, James Joyce and Giuseppe Ungaretti:

‘All this is but forgery’ — Rachele S. Bassan peels back the layers of gender performativity in Love’s Cure (1615). Who’s playing who—and why do those masks matter today? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

My choice for Halloween! What is yours? www.penguin.co.uk/books/359636...

A classroom full of questions, dialogue, and ideas taking shape. To all my students — thank you for your passion, your insights, and your patience.

A new article out: “Flexible Masculinities: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Global Asia.” I introduce the concept of “flexible masculinities” to understand how people navigate shifting gender norms across different cultural and geographic contexts. doi.org/10.1177/0011...

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Talk by Anna Enrichetta Soccio (University “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara) on Victorian Age: Texts and Contexts — 28 October 2025, 5 PM CET

Pia Masiero examines the perspectival strategies in Kate Chopin’s celebrated short story "The Story of an Hour". oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Elisabetta Cecconi analyzes English newspapers’ coverage of the sensational discoveries at Herculaneum and Pompeii: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

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We’re delighted to announce that Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural & Literary Exchange between India and Europe (1870–1947) will be supported by a SHARP Lightning Grant ⚡️ Our warm thanks to @SHARPOrg for this recognition! 🔗

I’ve thought about this article every day for 14 days. It so perfectly encapsulates why showing up in all of our humanity beats machines every single time. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.” Nope. That’s my job.

Joyce's annotations on Dante's Inferno illuminate his engagement with Italian culture and foreshadow stylistic innovations in Ulysses and beyond - Reading the Inferno: James Joyce’s Notazioni on Dante’s Divine Comedy: www.bulzoni.it/it/catalogo/...

📢 Call for Papers — Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural & Literary Exchange between India and Europe (1870–1947). Explore flows of texts, ideas, and people across empires. 🔗 journals.fupress.net/call-for-pap... #CFP #LEA #FUPress

Those who read or hear a poem should remember that a good poem has two audiences; it is addressed to the living and the dead at the same time. If a poet dismisses the living he becomes morbid. If he dismisses the dead he ceases to be a prophet. – Vernon Watkins

Matylda Włodarczyk examines how the myth of Hannibal and classical intertextuality shaped perceptions of Napoleon. 🔗 oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Ruxandra Vișan investigates linguistic stereotypes and national topoi in two early eighteenth-century lexicographic works. 🔗 oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

I’ve already shared Bloom’s famous potato, but his pockets hold much more. Can an epic voyage fit in a pocket? www.no7.org.uk/pockets/inde... #Ulysses #JamesJoyce

Starting from Pound’s televised 1967 conversation with Pier Paolo Pasolini, this essay traces the paths of Canto 81 through interlingual and intersemiotic translations that gave the text new functions and meanings: teseo.unitn.it/ticontre/art...

My wonderful students know their Ulysses: instead of apples for the teacher, they brought me potatoes (faces blurred in the pic). Now, like Bloom, I can say, “Potato I have.” (Also, it’s rather handy for dinner) #Ulysses #JamesJoyce

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Jack Lynch explores the links between Samuel Johnson’s celebrated Dictionary and the lexicons of ancient languages. 🔗 oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

So iconic... This really caught me off guard www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Aldo Corcella presents a mythological dictionary that guided “gentlemen and ladies” through the classical world: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

📢 Call for Papers | LEA Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural & Literary Exchange between India & Europe, 1870‑1947 Eds Ujjwal Jana (Delhi) & Greta Perletti (Trento) --- 🗓️ Deadline: 8 Jun 26 📚 Publication: Feb 27 ✍️ Length: ~6,000‑7,000 words journals.fupress.net/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers Transimperial Encounters: Networks of Cultural & Literary Exchange between India & Europe, 1870‑1947 Edited by Ujjwal Jana (Delhi) & Greta Perletti (Trento) — special issue of LEA journals.fupress.net/call-for-pap...

Excited to be part of NEMLA 2026 on the panel “Working with Tainted Legacies.” Looking forward to discuss how we engage with complex cultural inheritances. It seems we all need some (Re)generation

"Often described as postmodern, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, winding sentences, dystopian and melancholic themes, and the kind of relentless intensity that has led critics to compare him to Gogol, Melville and Kafka." #Nobel #Literature #Prize #novels www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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Hellish imagery in Synge, Yeats and Joyce often fuses Dante’s Divine Comedy with old Irish Otherworld tales. Read the article (in Italian): ojs.unito.it/index.php/CO...

Take The Near Impossible Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)

A guide to corpus-based approaches to health communication Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare by @elenasemino.bsky.social @paulari.bsky.social @lukeccollins.bsky.social & @tonymcenery.bsky.social, Out Now & #OpenAccess #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦 https://cup.org/4nXkIiq

1 trillion web pages preserved makes the Wayback Machine an indispensable research tool. Share how this effort has impacted you, and encourage your network to support the Internet Archive: donate.archive.org/1T #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

Small Axe: a caribbean journal of criticism publishes work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 77 is now online, view the full TOC: buff.ly/ARwiPeV @smallaxeproject.bsky.social

Por fin puedo compartir que en septiembre saldrá mi primer poemario, tristes, en @rileditores 💜 No puedo explicar lo que significan para mí estos poemas y la gente que los ha rodeado. Gracias, gracias, gracias. ¡Nos vemos en septiembre para la presentación!

This essay (Italian) traces Storm Jameson’s development as a prolific modernist writer and her anti‑fascist activism, showing how her fiction and her political commitment evolved together. dx.doi.org/10.36253/979...

Isabella Martini shows how Etruscan discoveries entered public discourse in the early nineteenth-century British press. 🔗https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/15819/14390

Early documents for Ulysses offer clues to characters and conceptual frameworks later transformed in the novel. Dive into the article: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels armed 19th-century caricaturists with imagery sharp enough to pierce social and political pretensions. oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/si...

Festival of contemporary arts spanning dance, theatre, music, visual arts, and multimedia. It enourages experimentation and collaboration between emerging and established artists worldwide.

This essay examines how poet & doctor Dannie Abse navigated the boundaries of literariness and medical identity. “The Doctor Writer and the Boundaries of Literariness” is in LEA Vol. 7: oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs... oajournals.fupress.net