CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...

If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/.... We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Today!

Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link

Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!

The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details. #lets #editing #textualscholarship

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

So exciting to finally officially launch our AHRC-funded project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. This is what I'll be doing until 2029 😮 @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...

You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell... Please share and promote to your modernist networks!

@drsarahparker.bsky.social is giving a talk about designing the The World of Oscar Wilde 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Kibworth Books next week: Tuesday 25 March at 19.30. You can book a ticket here: kibworthbooks.com/collections/...

Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Our Health Humanities colleagues shared some of their research with the VC today, including transcribing Victorian medical archives, cycles of care from the Victorian asylum to post-war care homes, 17C midwifery practices, and early modern plague treatments (a sponge with vinegar on the nose!)

Loughborough English professor Elaine Hobby has been with Her Majesty the Queen today at the unveiling of a statue of Aphra Behn - the first professional woman writer. The event took place in Behn's home city of Canterbury. Read more: 👇 bit.ly/4bdmmaD

Our next event is a hybrid presentation from Alice Staveley (Stanford),'Taking Woolf’s Measure: Experiments in Data Visualizing Virginia Woolf’s Archives' on Wed 26 Feb, 16.00-17.15 GMT. Give @drsarahparker.bsky.social a shout if you'd like the Teams link!

Event alert! Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between Symposium, 7 May 2025, 1-5pm BST, feat. @amigonidavid.bsky.social @helenkingstone.bsky.social Fatima Borrman and Helen Small, organised by me and @jadefrench.bsky.social hybrid and FREE, register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...