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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 23d

📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣

Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.

#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature

Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

Pls share

CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

www.iasil.org

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Sep 3

Congratulations, Kate 🎉🥳

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · May 31

Sad 😢. This also means that the job market in the higher education sector is shrinking.

Ashish Valentine @ashishval.bsky.social · May 30

🧵 1/8 My latest for @theworld.org: Taiwan's birthrate is among the lowest in the world. Fewer babies means fewer kids going to school, and fewer still onwards to university. 15 colleges have closed here in the past decade as a result - four of them just last year. theworld.org/segments/202...

Taiwan's colleges closing amid dropping enrollment - The World from PRX

Due to Taiwan’s falling birth rate, enrollment at many universities and colleges has been declining for years, forcing many higher education institutions to shut their doors or merge with other univer...

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 22

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.

On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.

Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

defector.com

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Mar 27

My article on Maeve Brennan is included in the annual survey of American Studies in Humor. Can I claim expertise in American humor now? 😆

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Feb 18

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’

Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career

www.irishtimes.com

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Killian Beashel @killianbeashel.bsky.social · Jan 30

Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.

Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jan 23

Congratulations to #Thailand which becomes"the third place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal." 🏳️‍🌈

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · Jan 23

Same-sex couples flock to make marriages legal as Thailand changes law

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ couples in Thailand were expected to make their wedded status legal on Thursday, the first day a law took effect granting them the ...

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jan 18

Went to #Kaohsiung city to visit my alma mater. Always lovely to see this harbour city 🥰

The newly innovated Kaohsiung train station.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Jan 14

The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature

Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Nov 14

CFP:

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025

Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield

Organised by me and Adam Kelly

Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

Please consider submitting, and share widely!

Images of the two-page call for papers as outlined in the post. Too lengthy to add in full here, but one key sentence is: "Abstracts of 200-300 words for 20-minute papers and an author bio of max 100 words should be submitted by e-mail attachment to trust.ucd@gmail.com by 3rd February 2025.". Please write to us at this email address with any questions.

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jan 14

#JobAlert! A tenure-track position in Spanish language and culture at my department. Please help circulate 🙂🙏

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jan 12

Really enjoyed this novel! It's about food and travel in Japan-occupied Taiwan. It also asks serious questions about the subtle power dynamics in colonial society.
The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Nov 22

No idea 😆 the students were hard to read.

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Nov 22

For my "Intro to literature" class, I taught Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" I wanted them to think about the changing significance of Barbie. Turned out that only half of them saw the movie 😱

a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror

ALT: a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror

media.tenor.com

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our little conference is next week! #IrishStudies
www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happy publication day! I co-edited with Phyllis Boumans a themed issue of RISE @efacis.bsky.social on "Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-20th Century." It's open access: risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... 😀

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century | Review of Irish Studies in Europe

risejournal.eu

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EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social · Apr 18

Join the editors and contributors on 16 may
at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1!

Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

#irishstudies

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Apr 18

The new issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, which I coedited with Phyllis Boumans, is coming out soon. There will be an online launch and roundtable. You can see more info here: 🙂 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Mar 12

Happy to share the provisional programme of the "Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace" conference coming up in June. #IrishStudies

www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

Programme

www.arts.kuleuven.be

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Dec 21

Charles Addams's Christmas cartoon for folks who don't celebrate it, published #OnThisDay in the New Yorker 1946. Happy holidays 🙂

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Dec 3

Oh yes. Thank you so much! 😀

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Dec 3

Dear Bluesky hivemind, does anyone recognise the signature of this cartoon artist? It appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Appreciate your help! 🙂

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Oct 26

Repost to follow the thread. Would be very interested to find out.

Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · Oct 26

Historians / literary critics! What might an upper-middle class family in the 1890s have eaten for breakfast on Christmas Day? Where do I even find this kind of information?

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Yen-Chi Wu @yenchiwu.bsky.social · Oct 22

Hang in there. #AntwerpZoo

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