Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
@abdavis.bsky.social
Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
Pinned
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025) – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278
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📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 4:45 AM
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
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Prof Michael Gamer’s wonderful lecture ‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture’, delivered at the University of Sheffield and at Keats House, is now available as a special episode of our free podcast series: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/ann-r... @radcliffecup.bsky.social
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture | A lecture by Professor Michael Gamer | The University of Sheffield Player
Discover Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels and lasting influence on Romantic literature in this podcast episode with Professor Michael Gamer.
player.sheffield.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Prof Michael Gamer’s wonderful lecture ‘Ann Radcliffe and Romantic Culture’, delivered at the University of Sheffield and at Keats House, is now available as a special episode of our free podcast series: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/ann-r... @radcliffecup.bsky.social
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
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"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them."
Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
Mushrooms Are Not a Metaphor | Los Angeles Review of Books
Maria Pinto finds climate futures hidden among wild mushrooms.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them."
Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...
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We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.
www.uis.no/en/research/...
www.uis.no/en/research/...
January 16, 2026 at 10:56 AM
We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project.
www.uis.no/en/research/...
www.uis.no/en/research/...
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Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
In 2024-25 alone, the #UKHE sector paid out £303.3 million to make people redundant. That's a whole lot of money that could have gone to education & research, now used to put education & research on a less secure grounding for the future. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
In 2024-25 alone, the #UKHE sector paid out £303.3 million to make people redundant. That's a whole lot of money that could have gone to education & research, now used to put education & research on a less secure grounding for the future. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
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This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:10 AM
This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
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Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
January 14, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Have you completed a PhD in the last 10 years? Applications are open for our Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment. Funding covers an £8000 bursary for part-time (0.5) research over 8 months, plus travel expenses. Apply by Monday 9 February. link.bl.uk/VisitingFellowship
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A new #LewisCarroll Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church Oxford and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Looks like a wonderful opportunity to work with their marvellous #SpecialCollections following the acquisition of the ‘Michelson Alice’.
The Lewis Carroll Visiting Fellowship
www.chch.ox.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 10:29 AM
A new #LewisCarroll Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church Oxford and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Looks like a wonderful opportunity to work with their marvellous #SpecialCollections following the acquisition of the ‘Michelson Alice’.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
The Book Unbound
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound
www.cambridge.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature at King's College, Cambridge
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a College Lecturer in English; Eighteenth-century English literature on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 8:21 AM
✨️Job Alert✨️ College Lecturer in English: Eighteenth-Century English Literature
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
📍King's College, University of Cambridge
📝Full-time, fixed-term. Closing date 19 January ('candidates are encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible').
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQA485/c...
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We're so proud to be a partner on Poems on the Underground, which turns 40 this month! Check out the documentary about it at 4pm on BBC Radio 4.
You can also get hold of copies of the posters via our website (they're free - you just need to cover postage costs)
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
You can also get hold of copies of the posters via our website (they're free - you just need to cover postage costs)
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
Poems on the Underground on Radio 4 Tuesday 6th January at 4pm
On January 6th BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen live on 6th January at 4pm on BBC Radio 4
On January 6th BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen live on 6th January at 4pm on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Poems on the Underground
A programme to mark the 40th anniversary of London's Poems on the Underground scheme.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM
We're so proud to be a partner on Poems on the Underground, which turns 40 this month! Check out the documentary about it at 4pm on BBC Radio 4.
You can also get hold of copies of the posters via our website (they're free - you just need to cover postage costs)
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
You can also get hold of copies of the posters via our website (they're free - you just need to cover postage costs)
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
Early Career Antiquaries - Society of Antiquaries of London
We welcome Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers and those starting out in fields involving the past to join us in considering how the Society of Antiquaries could contribute to early ca...
www.sal.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
About | Eighteenth Century E
hzj520.wixsite.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
"In an era where the authentic written word is under threat....English isn't just about reading the past--it's about understanding the power of words and narratives in the present and future and giving our students the skills to successfully navigate the world".
True of all UK English programmes.
True of all UK English programmes.
Today the Sunday Times discusses the decline in students studying A-level and beyond. I believe this is reversible. I believe it is necessary. And I’m glad to have some of my words on the importance of the discipline and the vibrancy of our degrees in English at York in the article.
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"In an era where the authentic written word is under threat....English isn't just about reading the past--it's about understanding the power of words and narratives in the present and future and giving our students the skills to successfully navigate the world".
True of all UK English programmes.
True of all UK English programmes.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🪶 Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Founder's Day Lecture | Gilbert White, the Revolutionary Outdoor Naturalist
Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne, published in 1789, was a…
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🪶 Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊
ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood.
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood.
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
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Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
More from the University of Derby picket as it marches through the city. @ucu.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
More from the University of Derby picket as it marches through the city. @ucu.org.uk