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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Mar 13

Update: we've extended the CfP deadline for 'Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice' to 21 March 2025. Send your 250-word abstract and 100-word bio to [email protected].
CfP Google doc here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Middlebrow Network @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hello, Bluesky! We have a call for chapter abstracts for Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice. This edited volume will explore care in modernist culture, broadly defined. Submit a 250-word abstract & 100-word bio to [email protected] by March 14, 2025 #CFP

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Feb 25

Our third university of the day getting into trouble is Birmingham City University, where all the staff have been offered severance terms. It's a tsunami now I'm afraid.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Birmingham university offers all staff a golden handshake to quit

The Vice Chancellor of Birmingham City University has invited any staff who don't want to work there to quit, with a golden handshake, as he seeks to bring change

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Feb 10

Drop us an email at [email protected] and we can send you a PDF of the CfP if you'd like

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Feb 6

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Feb 6

CfP alert!📣 We're looking for contributions to Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice, co-edited by @jadefrench.bsky.social, Emily Bell, Paula Maher Martin and I. Send your abstract (250 words) and bio (100 words) to [email protected] by 14 March 2025. CfP below⬇️

The Middlebrow Network @middlebrownetwork.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hello, Bluesky! We have a call for chapter abstracts for Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice. This edited volume will explore care in modernist culture, broadly defined. Submit a 250-word abstract & 100-word bio to [email protected] by March 14, 2025 #CFP

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you so much for your generous words, @pollyrowena.bsky.social - I know I'm not alone in saying that reading and thinking about your work continues to be a rich and stimulating experience.

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Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social for this really engaged, thoughtful review of Some of Us Just Fall, and for putting it to carefully in context. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jan 28

@milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social reviews Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (2023) by @pollyrowena.bsky.social, a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing #medhums #medicalhumanities thepolyphony.org/2025/01/28/a...

Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review

Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writ…

thepolyphony.org

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 28

Really enjoyed writing about @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'Some of Us just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (2023) & how nature writing can call for feminist disability justice for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Big thanks to the editors for facilitating conversations like this 🌿

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jan 28

@milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social reviews Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (2023) by @pollyrowena.bsky.social, a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing #medhums #medicalhumanities thepolyphony.org/2025/01/28/a...

Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review

Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writ…

thepolyphony.org

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 17

Really enjoyed reading your review of this - thankyou! (P.S. it's nice to meet someone else who shares the name Milena on here)

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 15

Thanks Melanie! Hope all is well with you too 😊

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 15

Likewise! Would be good to chat :)

Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hello! A brief intro as I'm new here - I'm a postdoc whose research spans modern & contemporary lit, especially in relation to intersectional feminism, environment, embodiment, health & affect.

Some of my previous research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

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Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social · Jan 15

Are you curious about nature writing? Join me to read and talk about all things literature and environment on the online course I'm teaching at the Uni of York Centre for Lifelong Learning from 28th January 🌱
www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...

Natural Wonders: Discovering Nature Writing - Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of York

An 8 week online literature course

www.york.ac.uk

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