Hot on the heels of my last, please join me in welcoming the brilliant Ulla Kriebernegg as our new series editor for the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social series 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' www.bloomsbury.com/series/bloom... - Ulla, welcome aboard and I can't wait to work with you!

Really sad to see the wonderful Kate de Medeiros step down from her role as series editor for our @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' series. Kate, thanks for all of your hard work, energy and vision, you've been a DELIGHT to work with.

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Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

The British Academy Book Prize 2025 shortlist Is here! 📚 Africonomics by Bronwen Everill Sick of It by Sophie Harman The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith The Golden Road by William Dalrymple The Baton and the Cross by Lucy Ash Sound Tracks by Graeme Lawson Find out more 👇 bit.ly/4glo8Jo

The first book from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new innovative multidisciplinary series now published: 'Theory Across Disciplines' brings together key scholars to examine how theoretical concerns from a range of disciplines operate within their respective fields. www.bloomsbury.com/theory-acros...

Open (free) access recent edited book with chapter on human-tree relations in a graphic novel, as well as other mentions of plants - Children's Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: Multidisciplinary Entanglements www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

"UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost" www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

I'm honoured and excited to be a part of the REF's Main Panel D as a 'User Expert', as announced today. Looking forward to getting stuck into the role over the next few years! 2029.ref.ac.uk/panels/main-...

Publishing next month, for the Austen fan in your life (or for you, if you're the Austen fan in your life!): www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Less than £18/$25 for the most comprehensive overview of literary and cultural theory on the market. All 472 pages of it! Eminently suitable for classroom use so please do add it to your Theory 101 reading lists today! www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary...

This morning's mood...reflective: open.spotify.com/track/1UKobF...

Well that's summer definitely over...

💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

Really sad to see this - a very interesting press with some really nice Lit Studies books.

Now published both in paperback and ebook (and available for free Open Access), 'Resisting Big Tech' advocates for the de-Googling of life and the need to foster truly communal spaces, online but especially offline. Could it BE more timely?! www.bloomsbury.com/resisting-bi...

Another year of the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship - time to get your applications in!

Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...

Another shout out for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies' in our med hums series, from @louisecreechan.bsky.social , Jenny Bergenmar and Anna Stenning. It's a foundational collection and one that will be very, very important for the field. www.bloomsbury.com/critical-neu...

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

disgraceful decision to suspend the flagship widening participation initiative in the humanities at Bristol please sign and share this letter to oppose this docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today's commute listen: open.spotify.com/album/3hKlec...

Once of the saddest songs I've ever heard. Teary on the train home! open.spotify.com/track/6m7yfT...

Just published in paperback, Jeffrey Di Leo's magisterial overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory: www.bloomsbury.com/contemporary... Excellent both for teaching and reference, and excellent value at under £25/$35 for more than 400 pages!

Lazy Friday dog.

New article by me, "The Failure of Climate Dialogue: Why Global South Voices Must Be Climate Talk Leaders" (Public Humanities), where I engage with Bakhtin, Fanon, @naomiaklein.bsky.social + others to argue COP talks need to be reformed, and offer pointers as to how dialogue should be re-envisioned.

Happy publication day indeed, for what is a field-defining volume and a huge contribution to knowledge. Thanks to all involved for their hard work on this. I'm so proud to have published it on the list here!

Please sign and share to show your support for colleagues at my alma mater, Lancaster University. Let's hold management accountable www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein. www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

And finally, a bonus 'new in paperback' for one of our handbooks, 'The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film': www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

And finally, new in our 'Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' series, 'Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms': www.bloomsbury.com/transgressin...

Next up, 'Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture': www.bloomsbury.com/istanbul-and...

Bit of a shout out for three @bloomsburylit.bsky.social books publishing this month...first up, 'Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century', in our 'New Directions in Religion and Literature' series: www.bloomsbury.com/wordsworth-a...

Apologies for the daily mirror link but it was either that or twitter. Cracking stuff in the Jeremy Vine Vs Joey Barton feud...lovely resolution! www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

'New Directions in Digital Textual Studies' brings together an exciting collection of book historians, textual editors, curators, and new media theorists to provide templates for and methodological reflections on how digital textual studies research can be done. www.bloomsbury.com/new-directio...

'Drone Cultures' encourages us to think critically about the drone, tracing its emergence in 21sr-century warfare and examining its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics and artificial intelligence, and its representations in literature and the arts. www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...

'Listening In' begins with post-WW2 monitoring devices, and traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

'Resisting Big Tech', available open access, critiques Big Tech's colonization of everyday life and advocates for the de-Googling of life and the need to foster truly communal spaces, online but especially offline. www.bloomsbury.com/resisting-bi...

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social digital cultures line going from strength to strength! Coming up in paperback: 'Resisting Big Tech', 'Listening in: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence', 'Drone Cultures' and 'New Directions in Digital Textual Studies' www.bloomsbury.com/series/bloom...

Post-ADHO trip to the Douro valley! #holidayreads

Last day of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social at the ADHO conference today! I know you couldn't all be here, so here's the conference booklist. Order via our website and use the discount code BLOOM-CONF-26 to get 35% off. Lisbon, it's been real!

A new Thomas Pynchon novel imminent? Sign me up!

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social all set up at #adho25 in Lisbon. Looking forward to an exciting week aheadm

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social are now boarding to Lisbon for the #adho25 conference - excited to talk DH for the next week! Interested in meeting to discuss a project? PLEASE swing by the stand!

All set up at the global Jane Austen conference at Southampton!

Lovely review of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new F Scott Fitzgerald handbook in @thetls.bsky.social - “...a treasure trove of new scholarly work on the author.” Check out the handbook here: www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

Nice review of our DH handbook: 'deserves to be read widely for its very approach to curation & conversation around a subject. Its relevance lies beyond DH.' dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/1/000... PB here: www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h... @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

For your consideration. THE GRAPHIC HISTORY OF HIP HOP. A Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics finalist. #BlackSky

Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea. Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.

Recently published by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social and available in paperback, 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television' which argues that since the mid-2010s, a distinctly new phase in the representation of AI has occurred. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/represent...