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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · 6h

📢 Call for Senior Editor: Literature & Literary Criticism on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 19 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social

Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 5d

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors

For details, please visit asle.org.uk/green-letter...

Green Letters: Green Letters: Call for Applications For Assistant Editors | ASLE-UKI

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 14d

"Using academic English in philosophy is now almost inevitable... But academic English is no one’s native language."

The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous

Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today---"academic English"---and the challenges faced by native and non-native speakers of everyday English as they work in this language. The survey was completed, and the results of their study were published yesterday in Review of Philosophy and

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Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social · 16d

We are open for submissions, but also to your suggestions! Do you have an idea for a special issue related to Global South Literary Studies? Is there an author, theorist, or translator who you think should be interviewed, a book that begs reviewing? Send us your pitch at the link below.

Learn about Global South Literary Studies

Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Sep 1

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reading and writing race in law and literature

Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism

Introduction: Towards an Ecological Posthumanism in English Studies

Since Ihab Hassan’s 1977 “Prometheus as Performer” that heralded the posthuman as a model reaching beyond the postmodern, the concept and its related theories known as posthumanism(s) have prolifer...

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Dr Lauren Alex O'Hagan @drlaurenalexohagan.bsky.social · 28d

Just wanted to share news that the second paper based on the study I conducted earlier this year with Rory fans has now been published! This one focuses on four 'rites of passage' in the fan experience, as told through material objects:

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Materialising music worlds: heritage-as-praxis in everyday music objects and vernacular memories

This paper extends Crossley’s concept of ‘music worlds’ by foregrounding the role of material assemblages in shaping collective memory, fan practices and vernacular heritage. Drawing on object-orie...

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Sep 4

Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.

“This Experience Was a Reminder That No Matter How Much We May Try to Distance Ourselves, This Reality Remains Inescapably Present”: An Interview with Professors Osama Jarrar and Sumaya Haj Mohammed

In this interview, which took place virtually at the 2024 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference with the International Conference on Romanticism, Professors Jarrar and Moha...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Sep 5

"The Old English grund was chimeric and contradictory: it meant the ‘surface of the earth’, but also the ‘abyss’ and the ‘bottom of the sea’" - Interesting piece on my novel Hummingbird Salamander by Juha Vertanen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘ … then and only then would you be allowed to look to the future’: falling out of the Anthropocene with Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander

This article offers a detailed close reading of selected key passages from Jeff VanderMeer’s 2021 novel Hummingbird Salamander, focusing on the ways in which this eco-thriller develops and extends ...

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · 27d

Delighted to announce the launch of a new journal from @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social: Global South Literary Studies 🎉 Editor-in-Chief: Goutam Karmakar. Learn more, sign up for new content alerts & consider submitting at www.tandfonline.com/rgsl 🎉

Global South Literary Studies

Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Global South Literary Studies.

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · 29d

Great to see an exhibition of Gurminder Sikand’s work with the @jpw-routledge.bsky.social team after our meeting in Nottingham yesterday. With huge thanks to @timyoungs.bsky.social 🙏

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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor

For details, please visit
asle.org.uk/green-letter...

Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor | ASLE-UKI

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · Aug 19

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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Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social · Aug 3

This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.

Susan Larson @susanlarson.bsky.social · Aug 3

Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3.
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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Aug 4

Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
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Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher

The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Aug 5

New Publication Alert

Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)

Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · Aug 8

📢 Cogent Arts & Humanities open access article collection now live: Narrative in Board Games 🎲 Guest Advisor
Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social

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Narrative in Board Games

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Berthold Schoene @profberty.bsky.social · Jul 31

A radical new take by @angelariviz.bsky.social on “the green man” and British men’s writing in the Anthropocene, envisioning futures “in which masculinities may rot, sprout, and become otherwise” doi.org/10.1080/0011...

Androdecentrism in the Anthropocene: Weirding Masculinities in the Work of Max Porter, Martin Macinnes, and Matt Hill

In an era marked by ecological collapse and accelerated technological transformation, the human subject, and especially the masculine subject, can no longer be imagined as sovereign, stable, or aut...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Jul 24

I try to think through the 2010s sad girl phenomenon as an inheritor and interrogation of a sidelined modernist literary history. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2KFHB...

Modernist sad girls

Recent work in feminist modernist studies has reappraised methods of biographical criticism and feminist recovery. At the same time, many contemporary women writers and artists explore feminist the...

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Robert Seyfert @seyfert.bsky.social · Jul 28

This article makes an interesting suggestion: distinguish the Institute for Social Research from the Frankfurt School. The former is a formal institution defined by a foundational text; the latter, an informal one shaped by a particular style.

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Instituting Theory as Style: The Frankfurt School in New York

Taking Adorno’s and Gehlen’s institutional theories as a starting point, this essay explores the distinction between the Institute for Social Research and the so-called Frankfurt School. While ofte...

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Almudena Machado-Jiménez @alstopian.bsky.social · Jul 30

Happy to share my latest article "Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)", published at the European Journal of English Studies @tandfresearch.bsky.social 😊 You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dudbubs, cripsanretards and womanidols: strategic ennoblement of wasted bodies in Louise Katz’s The Orchid Nursery (2015)

This research expounds from a feminist perspective on the parallelisms between Bauman’s modernisation and the conception of patriarchal utopias in our neoliberal era through the exegesis of Katz’s ...

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · Jul 14

POSTDOC: Mellon Fellowship, Wolf Humanities Center, Penn, 2026-27

Topic: Practice
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its 2026–2027 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities on the general theme of Practice.

Research proposals from all humanistic disciplines and allied areas (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible, except for educational curriculum building and the performing arts (scholars of performing arts are eligible). The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities who received, or will receive, their PhD between May 2021 and August 2026. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are interdisciplinary and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life.

The appointment is twelve months (July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027) and carries a minimum stipend of $67,000 plus a $3000 research fund and discounted health insurance. Fellows teach one course during the year and collaborate on the planning of a symposium in addition to conducting their research.

For full fellowship guidelines, application instructions, and the Practice topic description: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc. Please email Wolf Humanities Center Associate Director Sara Varney with questions.

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · Jul 8

#IMC2025 so far ⚔️🛡️ Thanks to all who joined the Journal of Medieval History round tables and reception yesterday - it was a great turnout and celebration! Sun is shining today and plenty to browse at @routledgehistory.bsky.social stand @imc-leeds.bsky.social

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thrilled to be in Leeds for @imc-leeds.bsky.social! There are 3 round tables & a reception marking 50 years of Journal of Medieval History tomorrow - please do join us for celebrations 🎉🥂 @routledgehistory.bsky.social #IMC2025

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Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social · Jul 5

Inspiring plenary by Harriet Tarlo at English: Shared Futures on the interface betw creative, critical & environment. Topped off with a shout out to @asleuki.bsky.social & her Green Letters special issue - showing the enduring legacy of this work ‼️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cross Multi Inter Trans: a contextual introduction

Published in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2019)

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