📚 In ““Novels consist of words”: Exploring Transcultural Depths, Translating The Sense of an Ending into Russian,” Elena Bollinger underscores the hidden meanings revealed in translating Julian Barnes’ award-winning novel, focusing on transcultural memory in its reception. Read the article👇:

📖 In “Paratextual Mediation and Narrative Reconstruction: An Analysis of Footnotes in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl,” Jingxuan Yi explores how Owenson redefined Anglo-centric colonial narratives in her epistolary novel, tracing paratextual elements as subversive tools. Check out the article👇:

My book is out a week today! Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Hybrid-Novel... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hybr... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/hybrid-...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social. This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏 'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!' uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

📖 In “Lost and Found: Material Objects and Dislocation in Denise Levertov’s Tesserae,” Nora Kirkham examines how, in her fragmented memoir, Levertov illustrates memories and landscapes through excavating missing objects and histories of her nomadic identity. Read the #openaccess article here 👇:

This title offers new insights into vision, fiction and depiction, exploring the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815. Click here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ycywhuht #AnthemPress #NineteenthCenturyStudies #LiteraryCriticism #GenderStudies #NarrativeTheory #NovelStudies #getyourcopy

Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

Pleased to see that David Szalay‘s novel Flesh has now been shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize! Read my interview with him about Flesh and his previous work here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔍 In ““Madam, Will You Talk?”: Disability, Confinement, and a Newly Discovered Draft of a Ghost Story by M.R. James,” Dr Patrick Murphy and Dr Fred Porcheddu explore representations of #womanhood, interiority and the #gothic in the unexplored ghost story "Martin's Close". Read the article here👇:

Three lost Virginia Woolf stories, rediscovered. The Life of Violet is already making waves in @thetimes.com! Out on 7th October, this is one you won’t want to miss. Read more: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Graham Holderness, Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome – Routledge, June 2025 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

📚 In “Writing Solidarity in Brexit London: Exclusions and Alliances in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Aminatta Forna’s Happiness,” Dr Patricia Bastida-Rodríguez shows how two contemporary authors trace diasporic solidarity and the immigrant experience during crisis. Read the #openaccess piece here👇:

ASLE-UKI Online Seminar Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment 29 January 2026, 3:00-7:00pm GMT Convenors: Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University) and Tess Somervell (University of Oxford) Further details: asle.org.uk/events/semin... Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

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/

Pleased to see that my review of the new collection “Atrocity and Early Modern Drama” is now up on the English Studies website! It was a pleasure to engage with this volume over the summer, and it’s a collection I look forward to revisiting in my own scholarship. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 We are excited to share with you the wonderful conversation between @drdominicdean.bsky.social and award-winning author David Szalay in @englishstudies.bsky.social ! The interview covers striking reflections on the novel Flesh (2025), with a focus on literary writing, migration and masculinity.

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

My book is out! @edinburghup.bsky.social

Grab your copy now! This monograph treats modes of fictionality in contemporary auto/biography, memoir and autofiction. Get your copy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh5rp4bu #AnthemPress #FionaDoloughan #radicalrealism #crosscultural #OpenUniv #newreads #Indiepublisher

'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney’ by #JessicaVolz examines the forms and functions of visuality in the novels of Jane Austen and 3 women writers of her time. Celebrating 250 b'day @janeaustensummer.bsky.social. Buy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/ycywhuht #JaneAusten50

The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026 Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026 Updates & CfP announced: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-... [Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]

📜 In “Disturbing Decorum and Good Proportion: Imbalance and Excess in English Pastoral Sonnets of the 1590s,” Dr Anthony Archdeacon interrogates how the poetic voice in several sonnet sequences challenge the Petrarchan tradition, shining light on a unique pastoral setting. Read the article here👇:

📚 In her article “Dispossessed Homes: Remembering Cyprus in the Aftermath of Conflict,” Seda Bahar Pancaroğlu examines the complex interplay between space and #memory in Christy Lefteri’s writing, exploring how difficult pasts are reimagined. Read the piece for @englishstudies.bsky.social here 👇:

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

Evenin' Campers! We're hosting a #SRSlyGood book launch on 10 Sept 2025, 17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST. Join former SRS Postdoctoral Fellow, @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social in conversation ŵ @ewoodacre.bsky.social to celebrate "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots" shorturl.at/Z6zfN

THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANION TO THE SCOTTISH NOVEL Ed. Cairns Craig Assesses the work of Scottish novelists from the #C18th to the present day, & confronts constructions of nationality, identity, & form From all good bookshops everywhere & via @projectmuse.bsky.social asls.org.uk/publications...

📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

📣The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium 📣 Booking now open for this fantastic event! 📅30 October 🕑2-7pm 🏢Senate House 💲FREE This is a major international symposium on the history of English Studies with Stefan Collini ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

My book, _Say Hello to Metamodernism!_ has been reviewed in the journal _English Studies_, which I understand is a rather prestigious European journal. It's overall a positive review, with a few gentle critiques, which I like because it makes it feel more real. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FTKAC...

📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism

We are delighted to announce that English Studies has officially joined this digital space! 📖 Looking forward to sharing the wonderful contributions from scholars working on language, literature & culture in the English-speaking world. More details on the journal 👇: @tandfresearch.bsky.social