Emma Parker
@dremmaparker.bsky.social
Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol 📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru 📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/ Views my own
1 WEEK TO GO! to the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network. 14 September 2026 Join us as we begin building a collaborative community dedicated to critically engaged and inclusive legal education. Book your place in person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...
Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network
Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.
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Pleased finally to have this essay out on when I got cancelled from a conference in Germany for wanting to talk about the genocide in Gaza. ‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/
‘Rethink the Title of Your Talk, and Possibly its Substance’: On Speaking (out) About Palestine, Genocide, and Genre
Framed by a meditation on border-crossing of people and of texts, this essay reflects on the genre of autofiction in relation to the geopolitical contexts of Palestine and global literary marketpla...
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JOBS! We’re currently looking for two people to join us in the School of English @universityofleeds.bsky.social: Lecturer in Creative Writing jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1086; Lecturer in English Language (with interests in DH) jobs.leeds.ac.uk/AHCEN1087 Both are FT ongoing appointments
This CfP looks brilliant: Life writing and the nonhuman, 11-12 March 2027, Université Paris Cité storiaambientale.it/wp-content/u...
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OTD in 2020 the statue of Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol as part of the Black Lives Matter protests. From the HW archives Madge Dresser revisits the statue's particular history. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/slavery/cols...
Colston Revisited
Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...
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Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries. Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive. #PhDsky
University of Exeter and University of Cambridge Libraries & Archives - Collections Connections Communities
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Really big news! Author copies of my book are here, and they're gorgeous. The colours! The chunkiness! The big glossy cat on the front! LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is out in 2 weeks. Go pre-order it; it'll make a beautiful addition to your living space. I’m just saying…
First flyer for my book! Out in August. (Disclaimer: Yes, I know it's expensive. No, I don't set the price)
Two vacancies: One PhD position and one Postdoc position within the project Fabulous Archives: Queer Intellectuals and their Archives.
We covered a vast array of topics. Brilliant to explore two amazing books on colonial aftermaths and memory with the two authors @dremmaparker.bsky.social and Astrid Rasch.
Emma Parker@dremmaparker.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin us tomorrow for a discussion of life writing & colonial memory, feat. me, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social, & Prof Astrid Rasch. Thanks to @memorystudies.bsky.social for hosting 🕓 Tues 24 March @ 4pm 👉 bit.ly/4bYFZ85 @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow for a discussion of life writing & colonial memory, feat. me, @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social, & Prof Astrid Rasch. Thanks to @memorystudies.bsky.social for hosting 🕓 Tues 24 March @ 4pm 👉 bit.ly/4bYFZ85 @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social
Life Writing and Memory at the End of Empire
This panel considers the end of empire as a critical turning point with profound implications for memory making. It draws into conversation two recent monograph studies which track, in distinct ways, ...
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Amazing 40% off sale by @manchesterup.bsky.social means that paperback editions of our essay collection British Culture After Empire are just £15! A veritable bargain! @liamliburd.bsky.social
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 9mo agoHAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky
This means you can get 'Imperial Nostalgia', which I wrote, for less than a tenner! That works out at about 0.014p per word, which is the kind of bargain only a fool would miss: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146205/
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Imperial nostalgia - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Imperial nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 9mo agoHAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky
Last week my partner texted "I've just seen Janet Frame on the tube!" Slightly disappointed that a ghostly Frame isn't cruising the Piccadilly Line but equally delighted to catch a glimpse of this
An interesting selection on this list of “books that got you through your twenties” for @theconversation.com There was only ever one choice for me: Joe Sacco’s Palestine. What would yours be? theconversation.com/twenty-exper...
Twenty experts on the book that got them through their 20s – part one
Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time
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📚 A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is now available from our website 📚 ‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’ — Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
I reviewed Joe Sacco's latest book, the Once and Future Riot. It's as good as anything he's done, and that is a high bar. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage
The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots
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Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉 Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books! bacls.org/news/187/
Our special issue, Janet Frame at 100, is here! To mark Frame's centenary we commissioned 10 new essays on her glittering oeuvre, from discussions of working-class cultures to her writing as southern modernism. Out now with Literature, Critique, and Empire Today journals.sagepub.com/toc/jclb/60/3
Wasafiri remembers Zoë Wicomb, who passed away recently on 13 October, 2025. In celebration of her life and work, we are making her short story, 'In Search of Tommie', from our 25th anniversary issue, free to access until the end of the month. Read now: buff.ly/CdQQOLF
The first in our new TTiN podcast series of interviews with academics and artists working on infrastructure is now live! In this episode, Nicola Kirkby discusses her new book, Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel. Listen on your usual podcast platform! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
For the latest @wasafirimag.bsky.social I talk to memoirist Cato Pedder about apartheid, her family (including Jan Smuts), and encountering #DorisLessing in a public bathroom. Her brilliant book, Moederland, is out now with @johnmurrays.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Journey to the Heart of Whiteness: An Interview With Cato Pedder
Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2025)
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This PhD on a reparatory history of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, exploring the legacies of empire is open for applications. It features a great supervisory team (moi, Kerry Pimblott, and Sadia Habib) and fabulous public history opportunities. Please share. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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“Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. ” — Janet Frame In all seriousness, how lovely to see my book in such excellent company, alongside work by @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew Hayward, & Wan-Chuan Kao. Janet Frame on prizes: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
English at Bristol@bristolunienglish.bsky.social · last yr.Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies
New old Janet Frame coming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in November: her 1966 novel A State of Siege. Wise words from the chap on the back cover.
A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement. Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔
