Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...

Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir' Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...

On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!

;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3

Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!

To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...

What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research? I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social

Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...

Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...

Today's commute listen - lovely new album from a real talent. open.spotify.com/album/3Brw2X...

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

Wonderful to see Pramod Nayar's new book with @bloomsburylit.bsky.social launched at the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad. herald.uohyd.ac.in/postcolonial... It's a fantastic book and one you can find here: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...

Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th! 🎁 https://bit.ly/3WSo6Qg

'James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures' repositions Joyce among his Irish contemporaries, showing his narrative experiments as a renegotiation—not a rejection—of earlier conventions. 📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc #irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism

Cannot stop listening to this - it's just so...GRAND! Full-sounded and totally OTT but also absolutely beautiful. open.spotify.com/track/4DAYMx...

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

'Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876- 1930' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in the BAVS newsletter: 'The 1st significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' available open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

The Year's Work in Tennyson Studies calls 'Letters and LIves of the Tennyson Women' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'The most extensive contribution to Tennyson biography in 2023' www.bloomsbury.com/uk/letters-a...

A couple of really nice reviews for 'Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - BAVS newsletter notes the book 'reveals that the women in Tennyson's family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents.' www.bloomsbury.com/uk/letters-a...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Very cool event celebrating feminist press Arlen House's 50th anniversary, with the launch of what looks like a wonderful anthology. Sign up for tickets here: irishlitsoc.org/event/arlen-...

Pro-Russian bribes?! What a patriot! It's almost as if Reform is a party of grifters... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Publishing soon in our flagship 'Environmental Cultures' series, 'Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment' by Pramod Nayar, which studies the work of over 50 poets: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...

Humanities decline ‘threatens Australia’s regional capability’. Group of Eight tells parliamentary inquiry Job-Ready Graduates scheme should be “dismantled”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!

A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...

Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!

*NEW DAVE ALBUM DROPPED* ARGHHHH open.spotify.com/album/24f1GF...

Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!

Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...

Final day book giveaway at #MSA25. Come see me in the book exhibit!

All set up at #MSA25. Stand looking good and we are ready to rock!

Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!

Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...

A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.