becimay
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
The psychic precision is important here. We're sitting through a national processing process for one man's castrated shame and anxiety, which will never end: Ossoff understands that and communicates it clearly.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3w agoOSSOFF on Trump Address: At a moment when his war spirals out of control, instead of focusing on the nation's needs, as always, he nurses his grievances and he forces the rest of us to help him process his shame.
Just finished a remarkable article by @becimay.bsky.social on “The Last Line.” “And the hardest of all is to make them hatch”—a stellar (hatching!) last line of its own.
Faculty will be ”given a score between zero and three by the university” - unbelievable stupidity and cruelty, solidarity with comrades at Exeter
Andy Brockman@andybrockman.bsky.social · last mo."The idea that people will be able to hold it together and deliver a term of teaching before they vanish off into the horizon, is bizarre, spiteful and naive as well.” The Times HE's punchy account of Exeter University's #BonfireOfTheHumanities & what one academic describes as "existential terror".
Ok, so according to the Union’s calculations, 27% of the staff in my English department will be made redundant
becimay@becimay.bsky.social · last mo.In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year
First review of my book, Modernism’s Whims, and it’s a lovely one ❤️✨🥰
Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.
becimay@becimay.bsky.social · last mo.In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year
solidarity from UEA where we went through this 3 years ago. the 3 campus unions did a stellar job then, ousting the VC, getting media onside and supporting alternative plans for budget management- a very long and hard fight and many still lost their jobs but it was a turnaround - good luck
In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year
english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?
Wow. Simultaneously being put at risk of redundancy and my new modules being abolished, while also being asked to put forward those same modules for TEF and Accessibility case studies. The sheer nerve.
“No throne exists that has a right to exist, & no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull & crossbones of that kindred industry, piracy, which differs from royalty only as retail differs from wholesale.” - Mark Twain
‘That you cannot get in since the entrance is the obstacle itself is what it means for life to end at emptiness. Despite the space’ (Keston Sutherland)
‘That you cannot get in since the entrance is the obstacle itself is what it means for life to end at emptiness. Despite the space’ (Keston Sutherland)
Just got my copy of TP’s brilliant special issue on influence, with my essays on inimitability and Prynne side by side ❤️
new in Parapraxis online! Love's Work the romance boom, psychoanalysis, Emily Henry, and creative labor www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...
Love’s Work — Parapraxis
The Generic Pleasures of Romance Anna Kornbluh
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I’m chapter 30 in a forthcoming Oxford handbook of Santayana. My first philosophy gig! It’s mainly about Wallace Stevens ✨💕
Excited for our panel on modernism’s meanest: Laura Riding Hates You (And You, And You, And You, And You)
becimay@becimay.bsky.social · 5mo agoSpeaking on the theme ‘Laura Riding Hates You’ at this year’s BAMS, alongside brilliant @kristingrogan.bsky.social & Christian Gelder 🖤✨🎉