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Doug Battersby

@dougbattersby.bsky.social

Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine 9 September (Online) Register here (free): tinyurl.com/y529huhs Please join this online launch event for Ulrika Maude's Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025). @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine

This online event will celebrate the publication of Ulrika Maude’s groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · last yr.

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

'The Black Country' is a painting by by H. Warren from 1869. It depicts a black-and-white industrial landscape dominated by chimneys that emit black smoke and fires in the background. A few small figures can be seen amidst the smoke.

Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lots going on in our 'Critical Interventions in the Medical & Health Humanities' series! Some fascinating proposals under consideration and some excellent books in production. Please do reach out with any questions/ideas for the series that you may have! www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...

Picture is of a flyer for Bloomsbury's Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series. Flyer depicts five book jackets, followed by the series blurb, a list of published titles and a list of forthcoming titles. Series blurb reads:

Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across
the medical and health humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations,
to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience.

Published titles reads:
Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 by Douglas RJ. Small
Available open access
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies by Stuart Murray
COVID-19 and Shame by Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal & Arthur Rose • Available open access
Relating Suicide by Anne Whitehead
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction by Caitlin E. Stobie

Forthcoming titles reads:
Forthcoming titles:
Critical Neurodiversity Studies edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Dr Louise Creechan & Anna Stenning
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic by Janet Harbord

Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Close Reading Archive is a tremendous gift to our discipline -- thank you to Scott Newstok for this incredible work. www.closereadingarchive.org Alongside other varieties of wonder, it's a thrill to see @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and my forthcoming book here.

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 2y ago

Delighted that Troubling Late Modernism has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize! If it's in your wheelhouse I'd be very grateful for a review (& can ask OUP to send out a copy) universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/ @univeng.bsky.social

Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 3y ago

Oxford folks – I’ll be giving a talk, “Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Brontë, Eliot, Hardy,” next Monday (12th Feb). Do come along! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa5...

Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 3y ago

A final reminder about our exciting panel on Modernist Fiction & the Health Humanities this Wednesday! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...

Doug Battersby@dougbattersby.bsky.social · 3y ago

Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...

Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 3y ago

Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 3y ago

Welcome @dougbattersby.bsky.social whose wonderful first book was just shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize! #lit #modernism