We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek
Rehnuma Sazzad
@rsazzad.bsky.social
Research & Associate Fellow (IES & ICwS), External Lecturer (University of Regensburg), AE & RE, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, BAMS & SCS, Committee Member: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-rehnuma-sazzad
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Rehnuma Sazzad: The Influential Scholar Transforming Postcolonial Studies While Challenging Conventional Thinking - ukplusmagazine
Explore Rehnuma Sazzad's biography, career, books, research, education, and lasting contributions to postcolonial studies.
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Please see below @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social Conference Registration Form 2026 for joining us online: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
49th Society for Caribbean Studies Conference Registration Form, 1-4 July 2026
This year's annual conference will take place online, 1-4 July, 2026, from 12:00-18:00 BST. If you have any queries or difficulties with this form or registering for the conference, please contact us ...
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Please see below details about a Special Issue I'm editing for Modernist Cultures. If you're interested in contributing an article, please could you email me a 250-word abstract (along with 5 Keywords), and a 100-word bio at the following address: rehnuma.sazzad@yahoo.co.uk?
CFP: I'm editing this Special Issue: Please check out all the details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Contrapuntal Britain: Edward Said and the Architectures of Contemporary British Culture
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Meet the Executive of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) Ordinary Members - Rehuma Sazzad #SocietyForCaribbeanStudies #CaribbeanResearch #CaribbeanScholarship #CaribbeanAcademia #CaribbeanVoices
This year, Prof. Mark Steven (Exeter) is delivering the RWS annual lecture. Join us on 27 May 2026 at the University of Westminster. More details and free tickets available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...
24 Revolutions Per Second: The Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture 2026
Please join us in London on 27 May 2026 for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter). Mark’s lecture,&nbs…
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Please check out the wonderful Special Issue of @jpw-routledge.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/6...
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Decolonial Hope: Planetary sustainability and literary responses; Guest Editors: Goutam Karmakar and Janet M. Wilson. Volume 62, Issue 1 of Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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A BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: My second monograph has just been announced: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Dynamics among Mother Language, Motherland, and Liberation Struggle
This book offers a comparative study of how language movements shaped divergent paths of nation-building in postcolonial South Asia.
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Off to Southampton for this exciting event: symphony-live-new2.s3.amazonaws.com/xi9OE5haO5Yl...
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Just published: my review of Said on Opera: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Said on opera
Published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Call for Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean: community-languages.org.uk/scs/bursarie...
Apply for the Bridget Jones Award – Society for Caribbean Studies
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Celebrating International Mother Language Day: Advancing multilingual
Schools from the Arab region, Africa, Asia, South America and Europe - came together to celebrate International Mother Language Day under the theme “Many languages, one future: Youth voices on
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join @modernistudies.bsky.social! 3 PGR Rep roles are available, see below for a blog post from @lilyvmartin.bsky.social & yours truly about our time as reps so far.
This is also a good time to mention that nominations are open for *5* positions on the BAMS committee & *3* postgraduate representative roles. To apply see here bams.ac.uk & for an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...
Webpage now with cover art! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
And introduction, short section heading essays and conclusion by me and Katie, of course.
I'm delivering a lecture on Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott on 27 Jan 2026. Please register here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Caribbean Studies Seminar
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An exciting conference on Fanon is happening this week at @ilcs.bsky.social : ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives - Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Conference 2025
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Please see below a Call for Papers: 2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social: community-languages.org.uk/scs/annual-s...
Call for Papers: 2026 Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies – Society for Caribbean Studies
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📢NEW PUBLICATION📢 🔴Issue 61.4🔴 Special Issue: The New Subalterns Guest Editor: Adriana Stan Check this issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/6...
More information regarding University of Amsterdam event later this month for remembering Fanon's legacy: www.materialculture.nl/en/events/fa...
Fanon at 100
PUBLIC EVENT | June 24, 2024 | 10.00 - 19.00 | Universiteit van Amsterdam Fanon at 100, the Pragmatics of Freedom: Aesthetics, Care, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution
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I'm part of this Keynote panel at @uvahumanities.bsky.social in June: asca.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
Fanon at 100, or the Pragmatics of Freedom: Aesthetics, Care, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution - ASCA
This event is to commemorate the centennial of Frantz Fanon's birth (July 20, 1925). With David Theo Goldberg, Norman Ajari, Rehnuma Sazzad, Layal Ftouni, and Wayne Modest. | Tuesday, June 24 ,...
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I'm editing this collection for Vernon Press, and would really appreciate your chapter proposals by July 31, 2025: vernonpress.com/proposal/350...
Vernon Press - Call for Book Chapter Proposals: "Decolonizing the Curriculum: Teaching Race and Developing Knowledge about Indigenous Literature"
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Attending today @torchoxford.bsky.social conference: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/resist..., have presented my paper on Zadie Smith's NW
Race & Resistance 2025 Conference | Resistance, Renewal, Reimagination: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain
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I'm presenting a paper on Philip Hensher's fictionalized memoir on Friday at historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-confere...
Zoom Link and Abstract Booklet are now available for “London Calling” @PopCRNPop conference on Dec 5-6: www.popcrn.org/upcoming
Upcoming Events — Australia's Popular Culture Research Network
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