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📢 Call for Submissions - Postcolonial Medical and Health Humanities: South Asian Literary Imaginaries and Epistemologies 📚

250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 1 April 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #southasianliterature #medicalhumanities #postcolonialstudies
December 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
... or discover the Soviet, #ColdWar -era version of Oz: "The Wizard of the Emerald City", by Aleksandr Volkov, in Erika Haber's study "Oz behind the Iron Curtain" 💚🕶️

#TheWizardOfOz #LiteraryStudies #AmericanLiterature #ChildrensLiterature #LFrankBaum
Holding the book "Oz behind the Iron Curtain" by Erika Haber in front of a Christmas tree decorated with white and silver ornaments
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Off to see the wizard... 2 new books on The Wizard of Oz in our collection! 📗📗
Explore queer readings of #LFrankBaum 's works with Tison Pugh's "Queer Oz" - not only for "friends of Dorothy"! 💚🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#childrensliterature #AmericanLiterature #QueerStudies #TransStudies #LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Queer Oz" by Tison Pugh in front of a Christmas tree decorated with white and silver ornaments
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel" by Kathleen Tamayo Alves

www.rutgersuniversit...

Published by Bucknell University.

#WomensStudies #GenderStudies #Medicine #LiteraryStudies
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"Hagiography in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron: Saints and Debates in Renaissance France"

www.rutgersuniversit...

Published by University of Delaware Press.

#UniversityofDelawarePress #Hagiography #MargueritedeNavarre #Catholicism #Religion #Renaissance #WomensStudies #LiteraryStudies
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
illinoispress.bsky.social
Happy Pub Date to LINGERING INLAND: A Literary Tour of the Midwest edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, with a foreword by @joseolivarez.bsky.social!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

#LiteraryStudies #Midwest
Lingering Inland A Literary Tour of the Midwest Author: Edited by Andy Oler Foreword by José Olivarez Interior pages about Gwendolyn Brooks Interior pages about John Joseph Mathews Interior pages about Sojourner Truth
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
jcls-io.bsky.social
🎉 Milestone alert! 🎉
We’re thrilled to announce our 50th article!

New in JCLS 4(1): @danja.bsky.social & @nevmenandr.bsky.social. “The Outward Turn. Geocoding the Expansion of Fictional Space in Russian 19th-Century Literature”🔗 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...
#JCLS #CCLS2025 #LiteraryMaps #LiteraryStudies
Article Preview on JCLS.io website
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
If you're intrigued by Guillermo del Toro's #Frankenstein then check out this essay collection, edited by Robert I. Lublin & Elizabeth A. Fay on the afterlives of #MaryShelley 's creation in film, #PopularCulture & other #adaptations

#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies
The book "The Afterlives of Frankenstein - Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings" on a mossy stone in a graveyard, with several historic tombstones in the background
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Remindere CFP "Scenes of Play in German Literature"
Deadline for submissions: 12 January.
Organised by Elizabeth Ramsey (Cambridge), Joseph Prestwich (London) and me.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #litwiss #cfp #literarystudies @germancambridge.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast: Gender and Animality in Modernist Hebrew Fiction" by Naama Harel

www.rutgersuniversit...

#JewishStudies #GenderStudies #WomensStudies #HebrewFiction #AnimalStudies #LiteraryStudies
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#Newbooks! The new
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
catalog has arrived, with something for everyone.
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#SallyRooney #JaneAusten #JamesJoyce #poetry #literarystudies #LatinAmerica #18thcenturystudies #Frenchtheater #IrishLiterature #humanities #ReadUP @rutgersupress.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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#CFP! "Rewritten Water Myths in Times of Global Warming", arranged by Barbara Barrow (@barbarabarrow.bsky.social) and Monika Class – Lund University, Sweden, 11–12 June 2026.

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 2 February 2026.

Further info: lnkd.in/d9A78_4x

#bluehumanities #envhum #literarystudies
Still from the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, featuring Gill-man or the Creature (circa 1953). A humanoid fish-like monster is half-submerged in water.
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
cornellupress.bsky.social
📖 ALLEGORIES OF FORMAT by Malika Maskarinec examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of nineteenth-century Swiss author Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1855 novel Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). #LiteraryStudies #Media #Publishing

Discover more: https://ow.ly/mM1250XlzAc
Allegories of Format by Malika Maskarinec | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, Green Henry (Der...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
rutgersupress.bsky.social
"Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel"
Kathleen Tamayo Alves

"Body Language" examines how 18th-century medical discourse informed the comic novel.

www.rutgersuniversit...

#BucknellUniversityPress #18thCenturyStudies #HistoryOfMedicine #LiteraryStudies #WomensStudies
December 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
dukepress.bsky.social
The Weekly Read is "The Possible Form of an Interlocution" by Nahum Dmitri Chandler, which reflects on the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber. Read the entire book for free now! #sociology #LiteraryStudies
The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence
In The Possible Form of an Interlocution, Nahum Dimitri Chandler provides an epistemological and theoretical elaboration of the correspondence between W. E
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December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
inkscomicsjournal.bsky.social
As fall comes to an end, check out this 2023 fall article, "Monstrous Beauty: The Alternative Aesthetic of Difference in Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters."
muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/artic...

@projectmuse.bsky.social #ComicStudies #comics #MonsterTheory #formalism #LiteraryStudies #Chicago
Comic sketch: Indistinct face with speech bubble, "Resist them little artist! Fight!!" Sketched on lined filler paper.
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
The edited volume "Care and Disability", edited by D. Christopher Gabbard & @taliaschaffer.bsky.social offers new perspectives on the representations on the relation between the carer & the cared-for, and #CareEthics in a variety of #Literature s & contexts

#DisabilityStudies #LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Care and Disability - Relational Representations", edited by D. Christopher Gabbard & Talia Schaffer, in front of a bush with bright red berries (looking very festive!)
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
cornellupress.bsky.social
📖 ALLEGORIES OF FORMAT by Malika Maskarinec examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of nineteenth-century Swiss author Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1855 novel Green Henry (Der grüne Heinrich). #LiteraryStudies #Media #Publishing

Discover more: https://ow.ly/mM1250XlzAc
Allegories of Format by Malika Maskarinec | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Allegories of Format examines the significance of format to the literary oeuvre of the nineteenth-century Swiss author, Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), best known for his 1855 novel, Green Henry (Der...
ow.ly
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
transcript-verlag.bsky.social
Awareness for autism is rising but fictional portrayals remain for the most part one-sided and stereotypical.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7891-8/

#Autism #YoungAdultFiction #LiteraryStudies
Das Buch-Cover von »Stereotypically Autistic?« auf türkisem Hintergrund.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
gapsnet.bsky.social
📢 Call for Submissions - Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn 📚

250-300 word abstracts to be submitted by 18 January 2026
#literarystudies #englishliterature #literarytheory #speculativefiction
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social looks at playfulness and labour, boredom & the future of play in literature, films & TV series, from #ThomasMore to #SquidGame

#Utopia #Dystopia #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryStudies #TVStudies #FilmStudies
Holding the book "Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction" in front of a row of wooden lockers
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
All work and no play ... not with us! Find 4 new books on play & work in #culture & #literature in our collection!
Liam Connell's study "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" examines work depictions in novels from India, USA & the UK, incl 2025 Booker winner #DavidSzalay

#LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" in front of a row of wooden lockers
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Celebrate Thanksgiving with Rebecca Earle’s “Potato” and explore how mashed potatoes became a holiday classic.

https://bit.ly/3XihM4H

#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Rebecca van Laer sat down with @fullstopmag.bsky.social to discuss people’s fear and hatred of cats.

Read more: https://bit.ly/486pTGt

#BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
Rebecca van Laer
Writing to make sense of things feels both prophylactic (I will process an event, a thought in a safe space) and at times a little dangerous (Is it safe? what will happen as I bore further and further...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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READING WAR, MAKING MEMORY: Remembering the Bosnian War across Europe by Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Jessica Ortner, and Fedja Wierød Borčak has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/47abtVg

#MemoryStudies #LiteraryStudies #HeritageStudies
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM