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Ben Davies

@bendavies.bsky.social

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Contemporary Literature, Novels, Theory, Time, Readers, Reading, Sociology of Literature. New book - Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Currently working on reading practices, times, and spaces.

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 23h

We can't wait to celebrate the #NationalYearofReading!

🫵Tell us how you're going to celebrate - we'd love to share your story in our magazine English 4-11, published with our friends and partners @uklitassociation.bsky.social and @natefeed.bsky.social: bit.ly/4-11YearOfRe...

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 2d

University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

And how research in English both changes our historical awareness and improves contemporary practices

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 2d

University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 17

#EnglishCreates How researchers at Aston (www.aston.ac.uk/bss/social-s...) help with criminal investigations:

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 2d

No reason for reposting this today, either...

University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 4

#EnglishCreates impact across the UK every day.
Learn how this Aberystwyth's project on Expressions of Care helped to benefit communities
See more examples of English impact at universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 2d

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't realise all those songs must be about 'things that actually happened'.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 3d

Some welcome news from @univeng.bsky.social 👇

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 10d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 8d

@ies-sas.bsky.social @bobeaglestone.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social @gailmarshall.bsky.social @clarelees.bsky.social

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Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · 10d

We are now also on LinkedIn! Join us over there for updates and news 🗞️ www.linkedin.com/company/arts...

Arts and Humanities Alliance | LinkedIn

Arts and Humanities Alliance | 72 followers on LinkedIn. An association of learned societies working together to promote the arts and humanities in UK higher education | The Arts and Humanities Allian...

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 10d

Pleased to announce @univeng.bsky.social small funding scheme now open to members. UE will fund up to 20 projects up to £250 each to support research/pedagogy/continuing professional development activities in Lit, Lang, Creative Writing. See details here: universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

University English Funding

universityenglish.ac.uk

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16d

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 15d

Still time to register for this fantastic free event!

📅4 October 🕑10.30-16.30 🏢Senate House

Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

@englishassociation.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

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Chaucer our Contemporary: Teaching, Reading and Rewriting Medieval Literature Today

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 18d

Helpful summary in @timeshighered.bsky.social about why portability matters to humanities and social science scholars at every stage of career with a quotation from me at the end about exceptions expected for "long form and/or longer-process outputs”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/use-ref...

Use REF pause to review non-portability of outputs, urge scholars

Breaking the link between researchers and their outputs harms academic mobility and disciplinary excellence, argue professors

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Matthew Hayday @mhayday.bsky.social · 25d

My university’s Office of Teaching and Learning is offering a workshop on how to “leverage” Generative AI to develop lecture content. The thought of it makes me ill and I am tired of being quiet on social media about how this insidious, environmentally-destructive cult is being so blindly embraced.

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Call for Contributors!

@michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals!

Deadline: 30 September 2025

More info here 👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

Call for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book Studies

Call for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣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/...

The History of English Studies in Britain: a Symposium

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations.

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Aug 31

Take care. Sending good wishes.

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Dr Joanna Nadin @joannanadin.bsky.social · Aug 19

Please help. Our department runs a groundbreaking part-time degree programme in English Literature and Community Engagement, known as ELCE, designed for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. The University of Bristol has decided to close it.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Jul 24

#EnglishCreates great futures

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Jul 23

Boxes of poetry books arrive at the SPL every week. A much anticipated poetry collection will be in today's delivery and reaching hands are at the ready...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age

This posthumously published final collection confronts mortality, alongside the world’s almost unbearable beauty

www.theguardian.com

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Jul 16

universityenglish.ac.uk/english-crea...

#EnglishCreates Futures

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Gail Marshall @gailmarshall.bsky.social · Jul 14

#EnglishCreates English, History, all the arts and humanities subjects are critical for all of our futures universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · Jul 10

Congratulations!