We are delighted to announce that Irish Studies at QUB will host @acirishstudies.bsky.social in 2028. The dates will be June 12-15; CFP to follow.

Charles Lever: “If, good reader—for to you we now appeal—it has not been your lot to have once on a time lived remote from the world and its ways, you cannot imagine how intensely interesting can become the commonest of those incidents which mark ordinary existence”

Join us on 18 and 19 June @maynoothuniversity.ie! Registration will close on 10 June!

Would be so grateful for reposts the help get the word out. Also, I think the application deadline is getting extended by a week, so you have a bit of time. Also also, all you have to write is a paragraph to apply!

ICYMI, the recording of our #RSVPDigiEv last Friday with VPR's Expanding the Field winners is now live on our YouTube channel! Many thanks to Sourav, Tarini, and Nilkantha for sharing your work and insights on this important topic, and to Kathy Malone for moderating! youtu.be/OKYFS1Pgfms

Album out on Friday, pre order on www.mickflannery.com and thank you. www.theirishworld.com/taking-the-h...

‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters

College is not a “stamp of approval” for “select people”; it is, overwhelmingly, public infrastructure whose function is to educate the public and advance inquiry in all areas of study. It should be free to all because learning serves the social good and prepares people to participate in social life

The draft conference schedule is now available there too! ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Found this handwritten, "Poem by Oscar Wilde's Mother" at the top of some random internet copy of "The Famine Year" and for whatever reason, it brings me joy:

THREAD 🧵 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises shows that the number of people facing acute food insecurity is growing. Tens of millions of people are at IPC Level 4 or higher levels of hunger, including millions of children and mothers. #Infograph

Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'

Please share.

The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.

‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The first book in the Race in Nineteenth Century Literatures and Cultures series (Oxford University Press) is out in June! Porscha Fermanis’ Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 Get your library to order copies! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

it's officially out! :)

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!

Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt.

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:

This upcoming lecture from the inimitable Prof Rashid Khalidi in Queens' University Belfast looks brilliant: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rashid-kha...

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Max Chapnick reviews Irena Yamboliev's Ornament, The Novel, and the Victorian Real on Review 19: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

If one is to have freedom to write out of one's own varying unfolding self, and not be a machine always grinding out the same material or spinning the same sort of web, one cannot always write for the same public.

Good craic last night on @thelatelateshow.bsky.social with @tommytiernan.bsky.social @glenhansard.bsky.social and Patrick Kielty. Tickets / Info for The House Must Win available here: www.thehousemustwin.com Thank you www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvE...

Hot off the press! AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WAR ON CRIME: NOVELS & THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION, by Theodore Martin. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30%! tinyurl.com/482zmjsw @columbiaup.bsky.social

following Ali Kadri, every IOF-U.S. bomb as a waste of human life, a furtherance of structural genocide against Arab peoples, and, in the long term, an attempt at enclosure, producing wasted land to be eventually put in service via settler-colonialism to western capital.

It is too much, has been too much, and it is hard to bear.

This is a beautiful essay: lareviewofbooks.org/article/minn...

I have recently written a review of this fascinating book for the April edition of Bronte Studies

Juliet Shields reviews @sarahdallison.bsky.social's excellent book: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Out this spring!!

Barbara Leckie reviewing @nathankhensley.bsky.social's beautiful book: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

Re-reading books is such a pleasure.

hey bsky let's pay March rent for these families in MN: www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Lots of points of hope in this piece about the Twin Cities. And what Serwer calls “neighborism” is what I associate with diasporism—I truly believe with my heart that it’s the key to our futures.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Fucking incredible.