Now our mega #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness thread is complete. Treat yourself and explore the full double special issue!

Laura Ludtke@ladyelectric.bsky.social · last mo.

It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...

So excited to see this article out as part of the fantastic ‘Configurations of Creepiness’ special issue. Thank you so much to Laura, Josh, Mar, and all of my fellow Creeps!

Laura Ludtke@ladyelectric.bsky.social · last mo.

🩸 ‘“Crimson haunts you everywhere’: Spilling Blood and Unsettling Bodies in Charlotte Mew’s Poetry” Madeleine Rose @madeleinerose.bsky.social When blood spills, seeps, and stains, it refuses the body’s containment. #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology

On this scorching July afternoon, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview62! With a range of excellent articles and reviews, we hope you enjoy this issue! 🌞 Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t...

The Modernist Review Issue #62

10 July 2026 In our first issue following the joint Modernist Studies Association and British Association for Modernist Studies’ ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference earlier this month, we are…

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When I’m not working on my thesis, I volunteer as a lifesaving instructor. As the weather gets warmer, it’s so important to be safe around open water sites and be mindful of the dangers of cold water shock

Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK)@rlssuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

With parts of the country reaching 29°C today, please share our Summer Water Safety advice to help keep your community safe around water. Take 5 minutes to read our essential summer water safety advice, it could make all the difference in an emergency: www.rlss.org.uk/summer-water-safety

There's still time to register to attend OEGC 2026! Our provisional programme includes a great selection of panels... t.co/qO6D6aZjUw @engfac.bsky.social

Registration to attend the 2026 Oxford English Graduate Conference is now live! Sign up quickly to secure your spot. For further details visit our website (link in bio). forms.gle/DjssXbUo6ZFE...

Oxford English Graduate Conference 2026, 'Strange Bedfellows' Registration Form

Please fill in this form to register to attend the Oxford English Graduate Conference in person at Jesus College, Oxford on 9th June 2026. If you have any questions please email oegc2026@gmail.com and...

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Our call for papers is now live!

Delighted to see that my article, '"Many Little Wildernesses": Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist' is out in the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies! doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.16.2.0107

“Many Little Wildernesses”: Harriet Monroe, Poetry, and the Reader as Tourist

ABSTRACT. This article seeks to understand readerly experiences of the little magazine Poetry in the context of Harriet Monroe’s commitment to the American wilderness, combining insights from both per...

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Small correction to the term card! Our final event is in week 7 rather than week 8.

🔊 CfP: New Work in Modernist Studies 15 🗓️ Friday 9 January, online ⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-... A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.

DM: 3 orcs attack your party Me: my level 20 literary critic critiques their racialised traits *rolls a 1* DM: uh oh your critique runs out of steam Me, panicking: I surface read them! DM: your thin description reveals they are brigands in disguise and they flee. Well played!

The sun is shining in Lancaster and I’m looking forward to the start of the @thebsls.bsky.social conference!

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy. Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-sta... @ucu.org.uk

UEA staff to strike over plans to cut more than 150 jobs

Union branch at redundancy-hit institution to stage one-day walkout

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Listening to #radio4 discussion of 'sovereign data' such as the British Libraries books as a resource that can generate income by being leased to Ai tech companies. Rather wish government had recognised its sovereign data status for the rest of us when the Library was hacked. #AcademicSky

📣 CfP: #NWiMS Special Issue Presenters, please consider submitting your abridged papers (extracts or summaries also welcome) of c.1000 words to The Modernist Review. 🖋 Express interest by 31 December 2024 🖋 Submit by 15 January 2025 Any questions do contact us at tmr@bams.ac.uk

Very much enjoyed #NWiMS yesterday! Met lots of lovely people and was treated to a great variety of papers. Huge thanks to @matthewtaunton.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social for organising

Today I’m working on my #NWiMS paper on Charlotte Mew, Lascelles Abercrombie, and felled trees, which feels rather apt in the wake of Storm Darragh #ModWrite

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another Monday, another #ModWrite. Share with us what you are working on today!

The Bodleian Christmas Tree is up in the Old Schools Quad, for those who like their 17th Gothic Revival architecture served with a side of festive foliage. Christmas starts now! Photo by @tansybranscombe.bsky.social.

📢 CfP Modernism & Data Special Issue of The Modernist Review Submissions of 1000-1500 words (articles, creative responses) to the topic. We are just as excited about papers that use digital methods as those that refuse to; as long as you tell us why! 📌 Deadline - 20th December 2024

Modernism and Data Special Issue: Call for Papers

27 September 2024 “A New World of Information”: Modernism and Data Modernism has a problem with data. Within adjacent fields—Victorian, Post45, and Black studies—there has been a proliferation of a…

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I'm on strike today and tomorrow with hundreds of my Guardian colleagues over the proposed sale of the Observer. Much of the brilliant journalism you enjoy for free on the Guardian website over the weekend is Observer journalism... cont'd www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Journalists strike over proposed sale of Observer to Tortoise Media

Forty-eight-hour strike, first at Guardian in more than 50 years, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday

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It’s the final ModCon Graduate Forum of term tonight! Looking forward to hearing from Sara L. Borga on '"Impractical" and "unsummarizable": The Terms of Tracy K. Smith's Poetry' and Shivani Arulalan Pillai on 'Memory and Imperial Ruins in Rohinton Mistry's ‘Family Matters’'

Diplodocus, in Ray Lankester's book Secrets of Earth and Sea (1920): 'It seems probable that Diplodocus was an aquatic reptile, and never raised himself on to his four legs on dry land as the Carnegie skeleton at the Natural History Museum is doing'. Sorry, Dippy (and Fern).

Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share with us what you're working on using the hashtag. Also, if you're joining us for New Work in Modernist Studies don't forget to register:

This #modwrite I’m thinking about tangled threads in H.D.’s ‘Helen in Egypt’ and wondering how to untangle the argument of this thesis chapter

The point is that at university you're meant to be taught by researchers. It's higher education because it's not just a static body of knowledge; researchers are the people who can teach you to make new knowledge yourself

Chris Parr@chrisjparr.bsky.social · 2y ago

King's vice-chancellor: "It’s not that we are going broke teaching our students,it's that we are going broke fulfilling our mission of doing research and doing research-led and research-informed teaching." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Put together a wee modernism/contemporary lit Starter Pack (because there simply wasn't not enough research/teaching prep/admin/housework to keep me occupied) DM me if I've made any glaring omissions or besmirched your good name by implying that you're a modernist go.bsky.app/CkQhf9v

Looking forward to the first Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum of term on Wednesday! We’ll be hearing papers from Aryehi Bhushan and Leo Kadokura.

Ta da! Our autumn programme is ready for launch.

The Sound of the Fens: wonderful BBC Open Country in which Martha Kearney visits Helpston & Fen Edge to explore how the landscape has changed since the days of John Clare. Features Francesca Mackenney discussing Clare’s soundscapes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, The Sound of the Fens

Martha Kearney is on Fen Edge in Cambridgeshire listening to the sound of the countryside.

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This #ModWrite we're pleased to announce: 📢 New Work in Modernist Studies 14 📌 13 December 2024 @uniofeastanglia 🖋Abstract deadline 18 October 2024 An opportunity for PhDs/Early Career Researchers working on modernism (broadly defined!) to share work & connect. Please share!