Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, @noreenmasud.bsky.social's project at @bristoluni.bsky.social will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and novelists who identify as face blind.

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Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, Noreen Masud’s project will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and n...

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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

Lovely to see this new video of my colleagues & students @bristolunienglish.bsky.social advocating for our programme and for the subject more broadly. Studying English Literature can help our students think & read more critically - essential at the moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkW...

Why study BA English at the University of Bristol?

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‘This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm.’ Tom Crewe reads Ocean Vuong’s second novel, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure

This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

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A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

Student Support Champion Project Manager believes academics should stop imparting knowledge derived from scholarship

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Supporting students in their professional and personal development will become a “primary focus” of higher education in the years ahead as artificial intelligence changes the university model, according to the next chair of the OfS. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #EduSky

"This is an interesting connection"

‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’ Hannah Rose Woods on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

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A. is a brilliant student and really deserves to be able to finish their degree. If you can donate at all, even just a small amount then it would mean such a great deal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

This is honestly not what I thought this novel would be!