very exciting for this #sharp2025 panel Therapeutic Uses of the Book Amélie Doche, "Immediacy, Self-Help, and 'Feel-Good': Hegemonic Discourses of Value in Contemporary Book Culture'

Wow! I won the SHARP Book History Prize for my last book with Stanford University Press, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History!

If you’re at #SHARP2025 this week and you’re interested in becoming the next SHARP bibliographer, come talk to me! We’re going to start looking for the next bibliographer(s) soon! #BookHistory @sharpnews.bsky.social

Printing a broadside at #sharp2025 This is a reproduction of The North Star, 1848 from Frederick Douglas, originally printed about a mile away in Rochester, NY.

Hello everyone! I am attending #sharp2025 and I have permission to tweet the first panels today. Up first is Anastasia Armendariz who is presenting about Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections. If I tweet, it will be in a thread here.

🤓For those of you attending #SHARP2025 (or those experiencing FOMO at home), please join our Discord server: discord.gg/ne8TYwMtGQ. You can also find a guide to joining and navigating the server here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-vVz...

Fantastic reading at STORIE by @vocebooks.bsky.social in Birmingham. Featuring local writers. Live this thriving literary scene✨ Forgot to take pics during the readings because they were too good so here’s the, ah, afterdrinks 🍻

I was on my boat late last night & thought I heard a scrabbling noise coming from outside. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye & looked up to see a fox had come through my open boat hatch & was climbing into my bed!

Some audio recordings of translations of four of my short poems into French, with thanks to Claire Majola and Amélie Doche jonathandavidson.net/a-commonplac...

Today I (Roya) am at @writingwestmids.bsky.social National Writers Conference, where I've already been inspired and informed more than I could have imagined.

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This morning's reading😍 "forcing replication based on a foreign (quantitative) notion of research quality into qualitative research communities can be seen as epistemic trespassing: infringing on local principles of proper (non-positivist and non-realist) qualitative research" osf.io/preprints/so...

I’m truly grateful I got to present my research on feel-good literature, ME/CFS recovery discourses, and neoliberalism for the Gloucestershire Philosophical Society yesterday. Great questions kept flowing at the pub and even into my inbox. A powerful (and needed) reminder that my research matters!

Have you read Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard yet? An intimate #poetry memoir exploring what it means to ease open to the restorative powers of love, faith and beauty following diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Now with limited UK FREEPOST https://buff.ly/3RqRH0R

What a fantastic programme! 👏🏼. Looking forward to tuning in online!

#Ecolinguistics and #cognitivelinguistics followers: does anyone know of any Greek-speaking researchers working on or interested in (non-literary) language, cognition and the environment? I’d be grateful if you could point them in my direction for a potential funding/project opportunity.

2 of 3 reviewers on my interpretive qualitative paper want intercoder reliability tests, random sample to prevent selection bias, tables w/counts, comparison to those not interviewed, & generalizability. If you are NOT qualified to review qualitative research, please say no to the journal's request.

Curious about what a 'diffractive' approach to reader-response stylistics may look like? Or just need a break from doomscrolling? Either way, come to my talk next week! Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c695f6... #stylistics #diffraction

This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...

We launched some of the materials from our British Academy funded project on Wednesday night on Young Women & Body Image @c19thceleb.bsky.social @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

I have decided not to over-think this.

Another great morning of presentations at #QRS2025 day two! A beautiful keynote from Prof. Sarah Neal exploring her use of poetry as qualitative rigour and “amplifying what is already there”. Incredibly moving work!

Had a lovely time giving the keynote at #QRS2025! In it, I shared 3 big hot-takes: 1. Open science is not new (see: the work of feminist scholars for decades) 2. It is not open to all (see: bropen science) 3. Open science could be transformative for qualitative research

Loving the workshops at #QRS2025 : 1. Qual research clinics, where PhD students and ECRs move every 10 minute to a new table asking questions about #Qualresearch 2. Qual Research and AI delivered by Casual Map

"Open science is not a new thing. People have been talking about how to reconcile scientific messiness and rigour for a long time"- @maddipow.bsky.social #QRS2025 @cqr-bath.bsky.social

Excellent keynote today from @maddipow.bsky.social - Everything she said made pure sense and even included a little history lesson in open science 🧬 (and bropen science 😂) There is more than one way to be scientific! 🧪 #QRS2025

Very happy to have presented my research on desire in qualitative research at #QRS2025! 😁

Listening now to a duo-lightning talk about duo-interviewing #QRS2025

🔈Job Alert 🔈 I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.

Two new Assistant Professorships in our department Language and New Media: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Intercultural Communication: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I'm looking for literary agents who deal in deconstruction memoirs, or memoirs that are low-key about deconstruction, or memoirs about place. Putting this out in the world.

“E-readers have been one of the greatest single-purpose gadgets for almost three decades.” www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

As I’m nearing thesis submission, I’m looking for postdoc research and/or teaching positions for the new year. My research interests are metaphor, corpus discourse analysis, health communication, and pregnancy discourse. I’m also interested in disability and neurodivergence due to lived experience.

📚 💻 Super happy to share my review of 'Post-Digital Book Cultures' : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....! [Yes, I know that book reviews don't 'count' but: 1) critical engagement matters (even if it doesn't 'count') 2) I love reviewing 3) no one needs an academic CV if there are no academic jobs 😶]

Somebody needs to explain this shelving to me …