Rebecca Bowler
@greenbowlerhat.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in C20th English Literature at Keele | Working (slowly but surely) on Critical Eds of May Sinclair | Past Chair of BAMS | Modernist Wellness | She/Her
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May Sinclair Papers at the University of Sussex
The papers at The Keep, University of Sussex were unsorted and impossible to use in any meaningful sense. They have now been sorted, catalogued, and are available for researchers. You can view the …
maysinclairsociety.com
By way of introduction (this is who I am and what I do), let me tell you about something I got up to this summer. May Sinclair has an archive at Penn, but some papers were recently donated to Sussex. They were a mess! Nibbled by mice and In all kinds of order maysinclairsociety.com/2024/09/26/m...
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⚠️ Time is running out! ⚠️
🗓️ The deadline for applications for The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is 1 December.
📣 No topics are off limits, ANY First World War research considered!
#FWWHist #PhDchat
🗓️ The deadline for applications for The WFA PhD Grant Scheme is 1 December.
📣 No topics are off limits, ANY First World War research considered!
#FWWHist #PhDchat
We at The WFA have launched our PhD Grant Scheme for 2025.
The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.
Where will our grant take you?
See website for full details 👇🏻
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
#Fwwhist #phdchat
The grant is open to doctoral students researching ANY aspect of the First World War.
Where will our grant take you?
See website for full details 👇🏻
www.westernfrontassociation.com/latest-news/...
#Fwwhist #phdchat
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Just got back from the doctor's. The bad news is that tests have revealed I have Onomatopoeia.
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Just got back from the doctor's. The bad news is that tests have revealed I have Onomatopoeia.
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
Naturally concerned, I asked, 'What's that?'
'I'm afraid,' he replied, looking up from his notes with a serious expression. 'It's exactly what it sounds like.'
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The Louvre robbers got their best ideas from Diane Morgan’s Mandy youtube.com/shorts/pIVNy...
Anyone got a spare hi-vis jacket? 👀 - BBC
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October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The Louvre robbers got their best ideas from Diane Morgan’s Mandy youtube.com/shorts/pIVNy...
The Louvre robbers got their best ideas from Diane Morgan’s Mandy youtube.com/shorts/pIVNy...
Anyone got a spare hi-vis jacket? 👀 - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The Louvre robbers got their best ideas from Diane Morgan’s Mandy youtube.com/shorts/pIVNy...
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As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
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Just upping this again as undergraduate dissertation topics are being picked.
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just upping this again as undergraduate dissertation topics are being picked.
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Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...
research.reading.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Also, if you are Reading-adjacent on 23rd September, I'll be talking about the edition at @buxiduan.bsky.social & @lawrentian.bsky.social's symposium on modernist editing alongside @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social, @wvmierlo.bsky.social and many more
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Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...
research.reading.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Also, if you are Reading-adjacent on 23rd September, I'll be talking about the edition at @buxiduan.bsky.social & @lawrentian.bsky.social's symposium on modernist editing alongside @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social, @wvmierlo.bsky.social and many more
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My wonderful colleague Lawrence Jones and I organised a symposium on Modernist Editing at Reading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social!
We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇
Gonna be a fab day!
We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇
Gonna be a fab day!
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...
research.reading.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
My wonderful colleague Lawrence Jones and I organised a symposium on Modernist Editing at Reading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social!
We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇
Gonna be a fab day!
We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇
Gonna be a fab day!
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
This symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners in modernist textual criticism and scholarly editing. Organised by Dr Buxi Duan and Lawrence Jones at the Centre for Book Cultures and...
research.reading.ac.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social
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I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on.
Give it a share, perhaps?
museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...
Give it a share, perhaps?
museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...
Learning Co-ordinator (Project) | Museum Studies | University of Leicester
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August 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on.
Give it a share, perhaps?
museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...
Give it a share, perhaps?
museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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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/
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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/
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'Put simply, we have a really strange system in higher education, where nobody admits how much things actually cost, nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil and goodwill of underpaid academics....'
Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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August 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
'Put simply, we have a really strange system in higher education, where nobody admits how much things actually cost, nobody admits who’s paying for what, research is kept alive on the toil and goodwill of underpaid academics....'
When I first saw this I thought oh, ICE again, the US really is going full fash. Then I saw it was the UK *Labour* government. For fucks’ sake!*
*For the sake of all the plural fucks, which I need to clarify because I’m about to say … by WHOM! Surely!
*For the sake of all the plural fucks, which I need to clarify because I’m about to say … by WHOM! Surely!
This is every bit as sinister and dangerous as the worst anti-immigrant propaganda from the last Tory government. Starmer's Labour is a disgrace.
July 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
When I first saw this I thought oh, ICE again, the US really is going full fash. Then I saw it was the UK *Labour* government. For fucks’ sake!*
*For the sake of all the plural fucks, which I need to clarify because I’m about to say … by WHOM! Surely!
*For the sake of all the plural fucks, which I need to clarify because I’m about to say … by WHOM! Surely!
This is great on Gertrude Trevelyan.
Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair mentioned twice: once as examples of modernist women writers NOT forgotten. I doubt if a decade ago a critic would feel confident saying that, as they would still have felt obscure.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...
Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair mentioned twice: once as examples of modernist women writers NOT forgotten. I doubt if a decade ago a critic would feel confident saying that, as they would still have felt obscure.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...
Gertrude Trevelyan is a novelist for the 1930s—and now
This long-neglected writer allowed the world—its politics, technologies and conflicts—to intrude on her books. Her rediscovery is perfectly timed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This is great on Gertrude Trevelyan.
Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair mentioned twice: once as examples of modernist women writers NOT forgotten. I doubt if a decade ago a critic would feel confident saying that, as they would still have felt obscure.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...
Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair mentioned twice: once as examples of modernist women writers NOT forgotten. I doubt if a decade ago a critic would feel confident saying that, as they would still have felt obscure.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7047...
I don’t quite agree with all of this but this part killed me: ‘My friends who pursued academic careers in English – no more apocalyptically disillusioned class of person exists – feel they are heirs to a ruined inheritance.’
I was brought up to regard English literature as a kind of secular religion. I never doubted that poetry and novels contained the meaning of life
I wrote this about the tragedy of the subject's decline and the dawn of a world in which nobody reads
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
I wrote this about the tragedy of the subject's decline and the dawn of a world in which nobody reads
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
June 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I don’t quite agree with all of this but this part killed me: ‘My friends who pursued academic careers in English – no more apocalyptically disillusioned class of person exists – feel they are heirs to a ruined inheritance.’
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I am baffled by some of the unevidenced leaps higher ed institutions are making toward AI. CalState and Ohio St. are acting nuts, IMO. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Higher Ed Should Be Very Cautious About AI “Partnerships”
I don’t know what Cal State and Ohio State are thinking. Maybe that’s the problem—not enough thinking.
www.insidehighered.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I am baffled by some of the unevidenced leaps higher ed institutions are making toward AI. CalState and Ohio St. are acting nuts, IMO. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from Boiler House Press, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University.
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
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Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
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Book Launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan
Join us for the launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the tale of a psychic and her exploitation, from Boiler House Press
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June 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from Boiler House Press, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University.
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
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Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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The latest ‘Recovered Book’ from Boiler House Press, and it’s a beautifully written, affect-driven, spooky and witty tale! Come hear all about it next week!
Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from Boiler House Press, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University.
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Book Launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan
Join us for the launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the tale of a psychic and her exploitation, from Boiler House Press
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The latest ‘Recovered Book’ from Boiler House Press, and it’s a beautifully written, affect-driven, spooky and witty tale! Come hear all about it next week!
The latest ‘Recovered Book’ from Boiler House Press, and it’s a beautifully written, affect-driven, spooky and witty tale! Come hear all about it next week!
Join us on Wednesday, 11 June, as we launch our newest Recovered Book from Boiler House Press, Gertrude Trevelyan's utterly unknown Trance by Appointment, with novelist Louisa Treger and Dr. Rebecca Bowler of Keele University.
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Register now on Eventbrite. It's free.
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Book Launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan
Join us for the launch of Trance by Appointment by Gertrude Trevelyan, the tale of a psychic and her exploitation, from Boiler House Press
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The latest ‘Recovered Book’ from Boiler House Press, and it’s a beautifully written, affect-driven, spooky and witty tale! Come hear all about it next week!