My talk in #Mantova is tomorrow at 18:30 @ #FESTIVALETTERATURA [in Italian] 📢Ho ancora due biglietti omaggio per il mio intervento, se qualcuno e' interessato (scrivete pure qui).

This Bloomsbury writing fellowship sounds great. It is 'open to UK-based, up-and-coming authors and researchers who identify as Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse (BAED)' with a 1 October deadline. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

For the Autumn issue of @newhumanist.bsky.social, I had the pleasure of writing about health anxiety and two great new books about hypochondria by @cacrampton.bsky.social and Will Reiss. Out now! newhumanist.org.uk/articles/644...

This is out! A much-needed shot in the arm and antidote to space pessimism. With contributions on the African Space Agency, indigenous “Sky grief” and my interview with Mark Hilborne on the need for regulation in our age of space warfare

@euanlawson.social covers the science sleuths fighting to save research from bias and fakery, while @tedilta.bsky.social writes about the the rise of health anxiety, and @andrewmueller.bsky.social reviews two books about what war does to ordinary men…

Also just a bunch of other amazing pieces, including @jamesrball.com on Luigi Mangione and the “rationalist” murders, and @tedilta.bsky.social on health anxiety, and why we should all be less obsessed with monitoring our bodies

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Proofs!! My first publication on #Plastics, "Making Plastics Count: Citizen Science Beach Cleanups and the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis (1980s-2020s)", is coming out in September in Environmental History 🐬🌏

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

new book series: Literature and Politics! first title from Amanda Anderson and Simon During coming soon; pipeline bustling; consider it for your next project global.oup.com/academic/con...

Join Nathan Waddell at Waterstones Hampstead on Thursday 26th June to celebrate the enduring legacy of George Orwell and the publication of Nathan's upcoming book A Bright Cold Day! Get your tickets here ➡️ bit.ly/4jdo5Py

Deadline extended to 13 June! Send us your brilliant work please! 📝📚

Deadline extended to 13 June! We are particularly looking for nominations for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair, and Publicity Officer. If you have questions about Chair / Vice-Chair, get in touch with @tedilta.bsky.social; for publicity officer @juliaditter.bsky.social can answer your questions.

All ready for the Reimagining Sleep pop-up at The Late Shows! Come see us at @northumbriauni.bsky.social student central. thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

We'll be at the Late Shows this Saturday with the Reimagining Sleep pop-up exhibition - come join us! thelateshows.org.uk/2025/northum...

We are proud to be back for another year of supporting The Late Shows, Newcastle and Gateshead's free late-night culture crawl. Join our sessions this year on the Friday 16th and Saturday 17th of May for an evening of creativity and discovery 💡

🏆📚 The BACLS Monograph Prize, Edited Collection Prize and Postgraduate Essay Prize are now open for submission! Entries are invited for work published in 2024 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’. Deadline: 23 May More details: bacls.org/site/prizes/...

Come and join us at the BACLS-WHN biennial conference next month!

Come join our Executive Committee by nominating yourself by 23rd May 2025! We are looking to fill the following positions: Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Membership Secretary Web Administrator Publicity Officer 3 Graduate Student Reps 1 Ordinary Member Details: bacls.org/site/site/me...

Arrived today as recommended by @tedilta.bsky.social on the podcast. Love the cover!

At a whopping 116k words, the finalised manuscript of *Sleep and Its Meanings: Socio-Cultural Investigations from Critical Sleep Studies* is off to @mitpress.bsky.social! Thanks to the wonderful sleep scholars who have contributed such exciting essays - full list in the ToC in pictures.

The Irish Women's Writing Network online writing group returns on Friday! NEXT SESSION Friday March 21st 9.30am – 12.30pm All are welcome! Email IrishWomensWritingNetwork [@] gmail.com to join #IrishStudies #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ECRchat #AMwriting irishwomenswritingnetwork.com/online-writi...

📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025 C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings. More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/

Had a fun chat with @matthewleggatt.bsky.social a few weeks ago on (post-)apocalyptic fiction, and you can now listen to it on the brilliant Utopian and Dystopian Fictions podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0kFi...

Want to know what's up with apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction? In the latest episode of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions we talked to the wonderful Diletta De Cristofaro to find out! If you enjoy please consider rating/following the podcast or letting us know. open.spotify.com/episode/0kFi...

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

⏰📢EXTENDED DEADLINE: Mon, 17 February 25. If you missed the original deadline, now is your chance to submit a proposal, and to come to beautiful Stirling to present your work on 10–12 June. Information on registration and on PGR/ECR travel bursaries will follow shortly!

Just had a great time chatting with @tedilta.bsky.social for season 2 of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions about apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic literature and film. Really looking forward to sharing the episode with you all soon.

I also came back to an inbox full of brilliant abstract for the Contemporary #WomensWriting Conference. While.the deadline has passed, we are still accepting late submissions! So do send them in! #CWWA2025 thecwwa.org/conference-2...

Did you write an article that intersects gender and medical history in 2024? Consider submitting it for the NC Prize for Best Journal Article! We are accepting submissions until April 15. Self-nominations are welcome! See our website for full details nursingclio.org/awards/

The CfP's deadline for @bacls.bsky.social conference has now been extended to 7th Feb. Submit your abstract here: forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3...

Just a couple of Sicilian pastries for lunch in a lovely cloister 🍰🤣

@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)! Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit

Re-sharing our Call for Papers for English: Shared Futures 2025! It's going to be a fantastic conference. Do be in touch if you have any questions - and remember we also have an optional zoom session on 17th December as a space to chat about CfPs and proposals! www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

Very excited that my book is now available to read via Bloomsbury Open Access! 🎉 Can't wait to receive my physical copies 📘 Pre-order for your library and/or read it now here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @scotlit.bsky.social @timothycbaker.bsky.social @bendoyle.bsky.social

Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...

Here’s a starter pack for those engaged in literary theory and criticism. Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/FwHzUwR

😕 Here we go again. timeshighereducation.com/news/deeply-... 📢 Follow us for updates about the ongoing situation at UEA. #SaveUEA #UCU 🦋 Please share this post with followers, to let them we're now also on Bluesky. 💪 UEA UCU Branch Meeting this morning at 10am. Check your inboxes for full details.

Critical extinction studies starter pack - go.bsky.app/SR3gMpS with accompanying list if you don't want to lose track of people bsky.app/profile/did:... Please send me a message (here or as a DM) to let me know you want to be on the list

Dr. Brian J Griffith and Dr. Amy King are pleased to announce the official launch of their jointly-curated digital archive of Italian neo-fascist propaganda, Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019. 1/16

Liam Knight and I have a podcast! It's called "Utopian and Dystopian Fictions" and features interviews with some fantastic scholars. In the first episode we interview Raffaella Baccolini! More to follow. open.spotify.com/show/2HWH9BA...

Slowly but steadily growing our network of utopians on bsky Recently added: @danhf.bsky.social @hlmurray.bsky.social @utopiennerach.bsky.social @tedilta.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @ccakir.bsky.social @saramartin.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @markusschwarz.bsky.social …

Lots of people on this app lamenting their doomscrolling should read Laura Salisbury's brilliant article on doomscrolling as a meaningful practice of managing time "when narratives of progressive history have worn thin." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Put together a wee modernism/contemporary lit Starter Pack (because there simply wasn't not enough research/teaching prep/admin/housework to keep me occupied) DM me if I've made any glaring omissions or besmirched your good name by implying that you're a modernist go.bsky.app/CkQhf9v