🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University! A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

The team have done a fantastic job with our new Space Gallery, the objects look gorgeous - these photos almost don't do them justice! - and some great stories woven throughout. We are now the only museum in the world where you can see an Apollo command module alongside a Soyuz module.🚀

We all love bureaucracy, right? Here it is for your enjoyment... bureaucratic utopias and dystopias with Daniel Jenkin Smith. Please rate, subscribe, recommend, and all that other bureaucratic nonsense! open.spotify.com/episode/3mD0...

To mark the 50th anniversary of The Shining, editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for a new collection of scholarly essays. Direct 250-word proposals and inquiries to [email protected] and [email protected] by Dec. 1st, 2025.

Most read in Extrapolation 🔭 'Daniel Bell, Social Forecasting, and Science Fiction' by @sean-seeger.bsky.social & Daniel Davison-Vecchione Read it #OpenAccess via the LUP website: bit.ly/EXTR-Bell @amb42.bsky.social @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social

A quick reminder: if you read something you love, don't forget to write to the author to thank them for it, and tell them why you loved it.

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! My first book - Gothic Precarity - now actually exists! It will be published on Monday 15th September and is available to pre-order now: www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-... In the meantime, please forgive me while I gaze at these… #Gothc #gothicprecarity #precarity #neoliberalism

Here it is, episode 14. An interview with scholar Athira Unni about, among other things, postcolonial dystopias (particularly from South Asia and the Caribbean) and social reproduction theory. Please consider subscribing, reviewing, and rating the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/3cbZ...

My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Having children dress as characters for book week teaches them to embrace naive mimesis. They should be encouraged to personify formal categories like omniscient naration, free indirect discourse, etc

Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM. Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and @samjhind.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The UK government will evacuate nine of the 40+ students in Gaza with scholarship at UK universities. My PhD student Shaimaa isn't included. We must now make sure they help the other students - email your MP today. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Our newest book "Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century" by Matthew Benjamin Cole looks at how stories of our world gone wrong haunt political thought. You can start reading this #OpenAccess book at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.

Have you noticed how films about the end of the world are more thoughtful than they used to be? Me on a new genre: the "apocalypse, maybe" movie

We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

hey modernists (and not really modernists) if you're going to MSA in Boston, consider signing up to the seminar Brian and I are running on ✨relational uncertainty✨. It's about why people are messes and why that's productive for art and theorizing @glavey.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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!

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

a belated #modwrite announcement: my first academic book should be out with the Edinburgh UP in October. On its cover is Alexandra Hughes's stunning art. More on what’s between the covers soon, but for now, enjoy Alex’s stunning work, and see more here: alexandrahughes.co.uk

I'm excited to announce that Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work! This is such an honor, and I appreciate everyone who helped me along the way.

Absolutely thrilled for @jordanscarroll.bsky.social, whose book is excellent and necessary. And always thrilling to see a book of criticism win in this category.

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that: the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined* what this country is really good at is producing culture

Today is publication day for my book! @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social You can get your hands on it at most bookstores in the UK, or online at any of the vendors listed here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/pro...

Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) at Royal Holloway 💛 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Cover reveal! “The People in British Literature: Belonging, Exclusion, Democracy”, ed. by Benjamin Kohlmann and me, out this December from CUP.

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

📢Excited to reveal the lovely poster for our Sea Changes event at the @britishlibrary Knowledge Centre & online 6-8 Sept booking now! opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-20

arrived back in Philly to a box full of copies of my book: the very best welcome-home present 💗 Official release date is later this month, but you can buy for 20% off with the code CUP20: bit.ly/4opXLp8 -#modernistlatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social @philipleventhal.bsky.social

Now Available! STITCH, UNSTITCH: MODERNIST POETRY & THE WORLD OF WORK, by Kristin Grogan. Use the couple code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4opXLp8 #ModernistLatitudes @columbiaup.bsky.social

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Editor and contributor copies of The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction have come through. Great chapters from @erinacean.bsky.social, @afrayn.bsky.social & @kristinbluemel.bsky.social. The 10 volume Decades Series (conceived in 2007, published 2014-2025) is complete. (profile cover updated)

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

@moderniststudies.bsky.social How the early twentieth century’s “lost generation” of writers, artists, and intellectuals combatted disinformation and “fake news.” For more information, and to order, visit: www.cambridge.org/9781009574679 and enter the code MAD2025 at the checkout

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US!! So excited for this to be out in the world! @annastenning.bsky.social @bergenmar.bsky.social @ainokash.bsky.social @alicehagopian.bsky.social and everyone not on BSky!

We're looking for a fiction writer to teach Creative Writing half-time on our BA and MA at the University of Bristol next year. Details: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Please share!

WE ARE HIRING!! Creative Writing (fiction) Pathway 3 lecturer 0.5 in the Department of English at the University of Bristol's thriving School of Humanities. It's a 3/2 teaching load with plenty of support and mentorship from meeeeeee (others are available)! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.

Environmental humanities & adjacent scholars: interested in collaborating on a panel for this @carsoncenter.bsky.social conference in July?! #envhum #STS #envhist www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev...

Our three-volume Cambridge History of the Gothic, a monumental labour of love that we worked on for many years, has just come out in paperback! @angelawright1794.bsky.social @catherinespooner.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

New in Genealogy+Critique: Gerald Posselt’s “Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling” Read it here: doi.org/10.16995/gc....

As a dedicated reader and former student of Jameson's, I revel in the work that @mattseybold.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, @smithcal.bsky.social, et al. do here. An "add another mile to the morning walk to finish this one out" episodes. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

We’re proud to publish the inaugural issue of Theory & Social Inquiry— now fully scholar-led, #DiamondOA, and free from commercial control. Read the introduction by editors Greta R. Krippner and Monica Prasad to learn why this matters: doi.org/10.16995/tsi...

Congrats to Stefan Ekman and his book Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Magic, published by us at @leverpress.bsky.social, for winning the 2025 Mythopoeic Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies! www.mythsoc.org/news/news-20...

Everything about the present moment makes me want to retreat into old books.

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...