We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat.... More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin.... Do share widely!

So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!

Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social! Book your free ticket👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/cinemarc-t...

Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested). euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577

@drdouglassmall.bsky.social you may like this, then…

**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.

I've caved and created a substack where I'll post bloggish things in relation to my critical edition of George Moore's 'Confessions of a Young Man' every Monday for the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...

Went to get my photograph taken - my current profile picture dates from 18 years ago. Don't think I've changed much.

My edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man is out with @themhra.bsky.social‬ and I've been posting links to some blogging I did back in 2021, as I drafted the introduction, including this long-ish ramble about the word 'perverse' mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/perv...

During lockdown, I started assembling material for the introduction to my critical edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man on a blog. I'll post a few links here, in case anyone is interested or wants a preview: mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/what...

My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it... www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Saturday afternoon game of #forbiddenpsalm and it is *not* going well for my warband (‘The Meaty Fights’). Emma the Demon and Red the Question have been downed. Daughter’s warband (‘The Guardians of Steve’) are doing better round the other side of the house, tho

📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Venetian lions. A thread

Venetian lions. A thread

Back at my favourite depiction of department meetings…

Programme:

We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Glasgow for our 'Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers' symposium a month from today on 3.4.25. The programme is live (below) and you can sign up to join us for FREE here: www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing...

Upcoming event: 5pm Thurs 27 Feb in the Garden Room, Kennedy Hall Dr Corey Gibson (University of Glasgow) will be giving a seminar titled 'The Worm Queen Turns: Helen Adam from Dundee Manse to California Coven' More information: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/engli...

It's here! Registration is now open for our Publishing Fantasy for Young Readers Symposium this April! Book your tickets to our FREE in-person event on Eventbrite: shorturl.at/5Awu8 Visit our website for the full schedule: shorturl.at/yjghx Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #ChildrensLit #Publishing

Here it is, Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical & Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, with brilliant chapters by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social, Paola Pugliatti, @wvmierlo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Bonapfel, & more. Available from Liverpool UP & Clemson UP 🌊

Back in October 2022, I travelled to Pescara for a conference on Neo-Victorian decadence, organised by @janedesmarais.bsky.social & others. I got to hang out with my colleague Elisa Segnini properly, discussing ideas and swapping stories about being academics with children.

There's a new blog post over at The City of Lost Books: childishness and fascism in Ruthven Todd's Surrealist fantasy Over the Mountain (1939). thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/fantasy-1939...

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? A wicker man is an inefficient way to burn someone to death. The structural integrity is very low, the wicker will spring apart when heated, the larger the wicker man the more unstable the structure. That cop could have just jumped out.

As part of the International Symposium on James Joyce at the university of Glasgow, we’re organising a concert on 17 June to celebrate the time Joyce appeared on the same stage as John McCormack in 1904. Tickets available now: ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/twotenors/

Also coming as part of the James Joyce Symposium here at the University of Glasgow in June. More details soon

Very good pleased to be involved in organising this event on Joyce and Cinema at the Glasgow Film Theatre with help from the BFI as part of big James Joyce conference at the university of Glasgow www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/at-the...

UPDATE - the deadline of the Call for Papers for the International Joyce Symposium here at the University of Glasgow has been extended to 16 February. (Please share widely!) More details here: ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

Boasting time. I’m very pleased to have worked with Koenraad Claes and L. Janzen Kooistra on this short bio of Mallarmé in relation to late Victorian periodicals: Https://1890s.ca/mallarme_bio

The Call for Papers for the 2024 James Joyce Symposium has been updated with details of scholarship opportunities from the International James Joyce Foundation. Apply now (or before the deadline on 2 Feb)! ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

(Have been slow to switch from the other place.) In case you've missed it: The International James Joyce Symposium is coming to the University of Glasgow in June 2024. There's a call for papers (deadline 2 Feb 2024) on our site (please share) ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

On Sat 4 Nov for the ESRC Social Sciences Festival at the University of Glasgow, Megan Coyer and I will be running a playtest of our adaptation of the 'Pandemic' boardgame, based on the 1832 cholera outbreak in Glasgow. Sign up here to come along and join in: tiny.cc/6ewcvz

Hey BlueSky did you know if you work on 19thC materials & have a dataset we would be happy to review & maybe publish it so other scholars can see your data & maybe work with it, too? c19datacollective.com please share!