Only 12.47 gets you 11 chapters on objects ranging from greenhouses and ship's stores to snowflakes and, well, penguin eggs!

The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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A moment of Zen for your timeline 😺🛀

Please see the online programme and more information here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6560 (5/5)

If you would like to attend the online conference tomorrow, there's still time to book here: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-... (4/5)

All who attended the in-person conference are automatically registered for the online day, so please do join us for any or all of the panel sessions or keynote lecture. (3/5)

The event will culminate in the Marilyn Butler Lecture, given at 8pm by @nikkihessell.bsky.social of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Professor Hessell's title is ‘Treaties Recollected in Tranquillity’. (2/5)

Thank you to all attendees of the in-person portion of #BARS2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham. It was a wonderful few days! Reminder too that the online Conference is taking place tomorrow - Thursday 6th Aug starting at 12 noon (UK time). (1/5)

Little over a month until our CFP deadline! We look forward to reading your proposals 🦇 @angelawright1794.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social

Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now@radcliffecup.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heed the call... www.annradcliffe.org/conference/

📚🧣 In “Toward a Muslim Women’s Bildungsroman: Gendered Double Critique and the ‘Agency of Un/Belonging’ in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf,” Saleh Chaoui shows genre conventions to be reconfigured to carve out a discursive space where conservative images are unsettled. Read the article👇

Toward a Muslim Women’s Bildungsroman: Gendered Double Critique and the “Agency of Un/Belonging” in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

This article examines Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006) as a transformative contribution to the emerging genre of Muslim women’s Bildungsroman in Anglophone literature. The novel ...

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Very pleased to have just received the final MS for 'The Bloomsbury Handbook of Romanticism in Britain and Asia', from volume editors Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson. Spanning 28 chapters, it'll be a landmark text on the topic. Sneak peak at the ToC below...

"This is the University where I work in the Electronic Systems Eng Department" Essex University #HigherEducationPostcard

I had the pleasure of interviewing @witchesetc.bsky.social last year for the @harchivestrust.bsky.social #Podcast 🥳 It was a really fab discussion and I’m so excited to read her latest book and delve deeper into the topic of #Witches, #EarlyModern studies, and #LocalHistory

March 2027: Oxford World's Classics edition of Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (1821) will be published. First modern, annotated edition of a novel that defined the age. In this plate by the Cruikshank brothers, the chums get in a fight & Egan has his notebook nicked. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer

Bear min/maxxing #art #bears

By Keith Herring 1988

Watercolour of the eruption of Vesuvius by Pater Fabris for Sir William Hamilton’s Campi phlegræi: Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies (1776) from the collection of @antiquaries.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

Lads! I’m in a cafe - about to have a flat white 🤓

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 4d ago

DISCHARGED! Thanks to the staff of Southport Hospital for saving my life!! It’s been incredible - I feel incredibly lucky - and surrounded by love ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is an incredible honour. And BAVS was fantastic -- an inspiring few days talks and conversations that fill me with hope for the future of the field.

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · 7d ago

The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026

Come and see us at the York Georgian Festival next week! My @yorkstjohn.bsky.social students & I will be presenting: SANCHO & STERNE: A MEETING OF MINDS IN GEORGIAN BRITAIN 10th August, 3.30pm York Mansion House Tickets: www.mansionhouseyork.com/york-georgia... #18thC #18C @bsecs.bsky.social

I never quite got into Ghosts US (which felt increasingly obsessed with the mechanics of ghostliness over character dynamics) but Ghosts Australia is super fun - still giggling about the Mutiny on the Bounty ghost complaining ‘one never suspects the bitter taste of betrayal from one’s own seamen’

My monograph “Only a Scratch”: British Military Surgery and the Romance of Pain, 1750–1914" has gone into production with Cambridge University Press. It looks at the cult of heroic fortitude in surgery and at the related racial theories about what sort of person could "take it."

It's ACLA #CFP season, and we are seeking papers for our virtual seminar, "(Re)composing Rot," on everything from translation, ruins, burnout, bureaucracy, brainrot, debility, waste, memory, and the e(rot)ic. Come decay with us! Inbox open for queries.♻️🚯 #CFP #ACLA www.acla.org/seminar/d909...

Publication Day! Our “Terms of Art” with @postmedieval.bsky.social was published today. In this essay, @basilaprice.bsky.social and I explore the “phantasm” of Valhalla in contemporary and medieval politics and culture. The article is OpenAccess. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Valhalla: A phantasm - postmedieval

This Terms of art examines Valhalla as a phantasmic construct that gathers fantasies of whiteness, masculinity, and militarism across political, religious, and temporal divides. Beginning with invocat...

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The Routledge Companion to #Gender and #Celebrity is out now! It includes my chapter '(Re)framing Britney Spears: the celebrity bimbo in the #MeToo era', which explores the 'bimbo' of the early noughties via Spears and the 2021 documentary Framing Britney Spears. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity offers the first comprehensive global study of how gender shapes celebrity culture across diverse contexts and media landscapes. Bringing together 37 or...

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Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

Studies in Romanticism is thrilled to announce the publication of its Summer 2026 issue, a special issue titled "Mediating the More-Than-Human"! The issue is available open access via Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172.

Moved beyond passive aggressive to just aggressive

Cat Typing on Laptop

Alt: Cat Typing on Laptop

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Learn a German word with impetus today: Hitzefrei. Literally translates as „heat free“, and means you should get time off from work or school or whatever you do because it is simply too hot. #hitzefrei