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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

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Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Dougal McNeill @dougalmcneill.bsky.social · 8d

Our book gets launched in Wellington in a few weeks and youse are all welcome. The Tokyo launch is in November!

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ah yes, here you go:

parergon.org/index.php/pa...

parergon.org

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jul 28

And while we're on @parergon.bsky.social, we're just sending to print issue 42.1 (2025) - and loving Agnolo Bronzino's Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour on our cover, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jul 28

And don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions about submitting a proposal - we'd love to hear from you

Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jul 28

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

Newsletter | ANZAMEMS Inc | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Incorporated)

www.anzamems.org

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jul 28

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

Newsletter | ANZAMEMS Inc | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Incorporated)

www.anzamems.org

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Jul 28

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
theconversation.com/top-australi...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

theconversation.com

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jun 28

Honoured to be one of this book’s first readers, Naomi!

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jun 13

Loved seasons 1 and 2, stopped watching season 3 because SO boring

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · Jun 3

Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!

Image is a series flyer for new Bloomsbury series Book History for the Future. Flyer reads:

Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams.
They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative ethodologies, digital tools, and global contexts.
About the Series Editors
Lisa Gitelman is Professor of Media History at NYU, USA. Her work puts book history in conversation with media studies and the histories of technology. Her most recent book is Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents and was published by Duke.

Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History and Principal of Van Mildert College at Durham University, UK. Before coming to Durham he was Director of the Centre for the History of the
Book at the University of Edinburgh. With Michelle Levy he wrote The Broadview Introduction to Book History and edited The Broadview Reader in Book History.

Sarah Werner is the author of Studying Early Printed Books 1450-1800: A Practical Guide and the companion
site EarlyPrintedBooks.com, resources that have been widely taught with and recommended by book historians, librarians, and booksellers.

For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact:
Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher
Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Jun 3

Spread the word: 3-year Shakespeare and early modern literature job at the University of Auckland:
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Alice Griffin Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literatures

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · Feb 14

I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.

Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 29

Boston and Harvard you were lovely, but this beauty did a good job of welcoming me home today

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 26

17thC ms question: are these random numbers/squiggles or am I missing a key? V grateful for any thoughts.

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 21

Wonderful! So sorry I was at (Mihiko’s!) RSA panel - cannot wait to get your edition and hear sll the work coming out of this

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 19

Boston sunset last night #Shax2025 #RenSA2025

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 18

Wellington, NZ friends and more: get to Wellington Opera’s world premiere of Dame Gillian Whitehead’s Mate Ururoa - a wonderful and unique opportunity to hear this work www.wellingtonopera.nz/2025/mate-ur...

Gillian Whitehead, Mate Ururoa — Wellington Opera

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 5

So delighted to share that Te Herenga Waka is taking up partnership with SGCNZ in the beloved annual Shakespeare festivals: www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/03...

Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand welcomes Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington as a naming sponsor of their festivals | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

What’s in a name? A significant amount, it transpires, when you get a new sponsor. The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) annual Shakespeare festivals for young people are now the SGCNZ Vict...

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Mar 3

Wonderful!

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Dr Leah Veronese @leahveronese.bsky.social · Mar 3

Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social

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Erin Harrington @ladyhorrors.bsky.social · Feb 20

We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Dec 20

Access to billions (literally) of research euro? $1.67 return for every $1 spent? No thanks. The economic idiocy and the concerted ideological attack this represents on entire bodies of research and knowledge is beyond belief

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · Dec 19

The top-up funding adds $1.67 into our research system for every $1 spent. An absolute bargain...unless you actively want to discourage certain research.

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Dec 20

And 👇

Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · Dec 19

Horizon Europe's overall budget is 95.5 BILLION euros. The gov't has decided that NZ's access to the portion of those $ that relates to humanities & social sciences isn't worth pursuing.

Horizon investment in our researchers would cost the NZ taxpayer next to nothing for huge investment & reward

Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · Dec 19

And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Dec 20

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Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · Dec 19

To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded *by the EU* to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)

Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · Dec 19

And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬

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