Peter Adkins
@peteradkins.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
What a line-up!
We’re picking up right where we left off as the 2025 Fall Term Woolf Seminar Series gets underway!
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What a line-up!
We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...
Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose) on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're hiring! Come and join a friendly department in the Scottish capital. A two year part-time contract in Creative Writing (Prose): www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY206/t...
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Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...
#EnvHum #Petrocultures
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NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.
August 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.
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We are recruiting!
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
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An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We are recruiting!
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.
We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.
1/3
Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!
August 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!
Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).
July 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).
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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex is looking to hire both a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature and a fixed-term Lecturer in Theatre Studies. For full details about each post, see the link below. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex is looking to hire both a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature and a fixed-term Lecturer in Theatre Studies. For full details about each post, see the link below. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.
July 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.
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Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
July 18, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc
But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.
1/
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we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
Oxford University and @cam.ac.uk have each received a £6.25 million gift to expand their outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in STEM subjects.
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Joint donation to Oxford and Cambridge helps young people overcome
The University of Oxford has received a £6.25 million gift to expand its outreach work with socio-economically disadvantaged students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
www.ox.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
Quoth the raven, "baguette".
July 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Quoth the raven, "baguette".
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Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
This is how.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
June 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?
June 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?
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We have a new review on the BSLS website: Aaron Scott Pugh reviews Sebastian P. Klinger's Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/klin...)
Klinger, Sebastian P., Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 – The British Society for Literature and Science
www.bsls.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We have a new review on the BSLS website: Aaron Scott Pugh reviews Sebastian P. Klinger's Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929 (www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/klin...)
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We're at the Samuel Beckett Society 10th Annual Conference: Beckett’s Relationships 📚 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Visit us at the School for Languages, Literature and Cultures to chat to Emily Sharp and Elizabeth Fraser from our Literary Studies team! 👋
edin.ac/4jGuu6L #SamuelBeckett
Visit us at the School for Languages, Literature and Cultures to chat to Emily Sharp and Elizabeth Fraser from our Literary Studies team! 👋
edin.ac/4jGuu6L #SamuelBeckett
June 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
We're at the Samuel Beckett Society 10th Annual Conference: Beckett’s Relationships 📚 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Visit us at the School for Languages, Literature and Cultures to chat to Emily Sharp and Elizabeth Fraser from our Literary Studies team! 👋
edin.ac/4jGuu6L #SamuelBeckett
Visit us at the School for Languages, Literature and Cultures to chat to Emily Sharp and Elizabeth Fraser from our Literary Studies team! 👋
edin.ac/4jGuu6L #SamuelBeckett
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For the first time, both James Tait Black Prizes have gone to works in translation: Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy and Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite. www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...
Translated works win UK’s oldest book awards
A portrait of obsessive desire and a lushly illustrated elegy for the lost identity of the Arab world have won the UK’s longest-running literary awards.
www.ed.ac.uk
May 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
For the first time, both James Tait Black Prizes have gone to works in translation: Lamia Ziadé's My Great Arab Melancholy and Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favourite. www.ed.ac.uk/news/transla...
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We're announcing the winners of the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes today!
The James Tait Black Prizes are the oldest literary prizes in the UK - so come along on 30 May at 4pm to find out 2025's Fiction and Biography winners!
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes
Join us for the announcement of this year's winners of the James Tait Black Prizes. Featuring Ian Penman, one of 2024's winners.
edin.ac
May 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We're announcing the winners of the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes today!
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The James Tait Black Prizes are the oldest literary prizes in the UK - so come along on 30 May at 4pm to find out 2025's Fiction and Biography winners!
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
Celebrating the 2025 James Tait Black Prizes
Join us for the announcement of this year's winners of the James Tait Black Prizes. Featuring Ian Penman, one of 2024's winners.
edin.ac
May 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The James Tait Black Prizes are the oldest literary prizes in the UK - so come along on 30 May at 4pm to find out 2025's Fiction and Biography winners!
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
Featuring the judges and postgraduate panel, as well as Ian Penman, one of last year's winners, it's not to be missed.
Free 🎟️: edin.ac/3H1ZKPi
As someone who was welcomed into Kent's anthropology department reading groups and research seminars while doing my PhD in English this is heart-breaking stuff to read.
#UKHE consultancies: turn everything in generic megacourses because the only metric for value we have is the largest possible enrolment number & fees
students: I will take my brain & my fees to where there's some respect for my interest in choice and specificity. www.lemonde.fr/en/campus/ar...
students: I will take my brain & my fees to where there's some respect for my interest in choice and specificity. www.lemonde.fr/en/campus/ar...
May 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As someone who was welcomed into Kent's anthropology department reading groups and research seminars while doing my PhD in English this is heart-breaking stuff to read.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope