📚🧣 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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Language Rules! by Asya M. Pereltsvaig A fascinating introduction to a uniquely human trait, this book guides the reader about how human language actually works. 📚 https://cup.org/4vkhCsm

📜💬 In ““At that Moment Many Things Happened”: Juxtaposed Focalization as a Structural Strategy for Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings,” Han Xiao and Haifeng Hui examine the role of spatial form and focalization for turning a climatic event into lived collective memory. Read the article👇:

“At that Moment Many Things Happened”: Juxtaposed Focalization as a Structural Strategy for Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings

This article examines the narrative representation of the One Ring’s destruction in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, arguing that, while grounded in medieval interlace, Tolkien constructs th...

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🏆️📚️ WINNER 📚️🏆️ Congratulations to Dale Townshend whose book 'Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture' has won the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for Best Monograph at the @igagoths.bsky.social conference! Discover more about this fascinating book: uwp.celfapps.com/book/matthew...

It’s been available for a little while now, but today is the official publication day for THE NEW OLD STYLE: ANACHRONISM IN CONTEMPORARY COMICS! I’m proud of this book, and hope you’ll consider purchasing it or recommending it to your local or campus library.

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The New Old Style explores how the deliberate use of cartooning styles that mimic those of the early twentieth century has paradoxically become one of the mo...

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🌳📖 In “Unsettling Coloniality. Opaque White Space in the Cut-Up Poetry of Jordan Abel’s (Nisga’a) Un/Inhabited,” Doro Wiese examines how aesthetic means are used to fragment settler-colonial narratives around land-seizure while presenting Indigenous viewpoints on nature. Read the #openaccess piece👇:

Unsettling Coloniality. Opaque White Space in the Cut-Up Poetry of Jordan Abel’s (Nisga’a) Un/Inhabited

Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel’s Un/inhabited—a cut-up poetry collection from 91 Western novels in the public domain—disrupts, fragments and resists colonial narratives of Indigenous vanishing through ...

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Randi Reppen, Larissa Goulart and Douglas Biber. Now in its second edition, this Handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of cutting edge research in corpus-based linguistics. 📚 https://cup.org/4fE2O1F

New Cambridge Element, Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing by Tove Larsson and Gregory R. Hancock, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4yKyCuu

💬📚 In “‘Stories Exist in that Space between Love and its Absence’: An Interview with Donal Ryan,” @noeliacr.bsky.social enters into dialogue with the acclaimed Irish writer to reflect on his fiction alongside the role of masculinity and gender in contemporary society. Check out the conversation👇:

“Stories Exist in that Space between Love and its Absence”: An Interview with Donal Ryan

This interview was conducted with one of Ireland’s most iconic and relevant writers, Donal Ryan, on 3 December 2024. It has since been updated in consultation with the author. Ryan discusses issues...

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“Part Fable, Part Porridge”: Jackie Kay & Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self Autobiography assumes a self that can be known & a life that can be accounted for. But how do you write an #autobiography when your origins & identity are unknown, uncertain, or multiple? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRP...

‘Part Fable, Part Porridge’: Jackie Kay and Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self

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This will be coming out in 2027. 79 contributors, it’s a monster!

Rage in Caribbean Women’s Writing. Nicole King and Ana Nenadović. This Element is curently free online. Read it now ! #feminism #racism #gender

📖✒️ In “The Rhythmic Pause: Poetry, Pathology, and Ethical Time in Ian McEwan’s Saturday,” Ying Zhong and Yan-Fang Song examine how the poetry recitation in #McEwan’s novel allows an intervention in violence and narrative time, with a focus on auditory disruption and subjectivity. Read the piece👇:

The Rhythmic Pause: Poetry, Pathology, and Ethical Time in Ian McEwan’s Saturday

This paper employs the concept of the rhythmic pause to examine the poetry recitation scene in Ian McEwan’s Saturday, arguing that the poem’s rhythm enables its intervention in violence. Existing c...

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New book: Leith Morton, "Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry and Poetics: Contemporary Poetry Handbook, 2000–2021" (Routledge). www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry and Poetics | Contemporary Poetry Handbook

This book analyzes avant-garde contemporary Japanese poetry published in the monthly poetry journal Gendai shi techō (Contemporary Poetry Handbook). Featuring

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9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm (CET): Special Guest Lecture by Dr Marina Cano “Adapting Violence, Violence in Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Behind Bars.” Free. Zoom. All welcome! For the link, contact: womenwritingviolence@gmail.com global.oup.com/academic/pro... #C19th #Adaptation

📚🌱 In “Between Colonial Archive and Alien Mind: Fungal Ontologies in Mexican Gothic and What Moves the Dead,” Xiao Zhang and Shuya Zhang draws attention to the critical affordances of fungal fiction in narrating ecological crises, trans-corporeal horror and cross-species intimacy. Read the article👇:

Between Colonial Archive and Alien Mind: Fungal Ontologies in Mexican Gothic and What Moves the Dead

The “fungal turn” in twenty-first-century speculative fiction has become a significant trend for narrating ecological catastrophe and the crisis of anthropocentrism, yet the ontological differences...

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Publication News! You can now pre-order the Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird, edited by me and @jasonhaslam.ca Look at that cover!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Weird

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CFP: IMC Leeds (5–8 July 2027) Conquest, Invasion, Colonisation: Experience and Memory in Early Medieval Britain. Papers are invited for panels on the experiences and legacies of conquest in early medieval Britain and Ireland. Abstracts to matthew.firth@flinders.edu.au by 31 August 2026.

🎭 ⌛ In “Waiting in Don DeLillo's Love-Lies-Bleeding,” Jiena Sun examines in what dynamic ways waiting and attention function as affectionate modes of resistance alongside the interpersonal relations in #DeLillo’s play. Read the entire article👇:

Waiting in Don DeLillo's Love-Lies-Bleeding

In light of Schweizer's conceptualisation of waiting, this essay reads waiting as a valuable experience teeming with possibilities in Don DeLillo's play Love-Lies-Bleeding, and examines how it blen...

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A long time in the making, Reprints & Revivals of Renaissance Drama, which I edited with Harry Newman (a long time friend), is now out! It's a collection about forms of renewal in print & performance & their importance to the production & reception of early modern drama.

A volume examining vernacular forms of English in Britain, Ireland and Europe within the framework of language variation and change. The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol 4.: Britain, Ireland and Europe (ed. Raymond Hickey), Out Now #LangSky 🐦🐦 https://cup.org/3SJl5CN

The New Cambridge History of the English Language

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📖✒️ In “Gerascophobia and Narration as Healing in David Lodge’s Deaf Sentence,” Xin Xiao points attention to how Lodge’s protagonist relies on self-narration in the journal form to reconstruct their own subjectivity around ageing within contemporary British society. Read the entire article👇:

Gerascophobia and Narration as Healing in David Lodge’s Deaf Sentence

In Deaf Sentence, influenced by negative Western conceptions of old age, Desmond suffers from gerascophobia, which manifests primarily in his anxieties about his deafness and declining sexual vigou...

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Coming soon! Investigates Gothic’s place in English literary history from 1814 to 1921. See here ➡️ tinyurl.com/y64u84wj #GothicStudies #GothicLiterature #LiteraryHistory #LiteraryCriticism #NineteenthCenturyLiterature #TwentiethCenturyLiterature #VictorianLiterature #CUChicago #AnthemPress

📚💡 In “‘Pure Existence’: The Search for Reality in John Banville’s Ghosts,” Brendan Mcnamee draws attention to the hidden affinities between actuality and imagination in key selected passages of Banville’s #postmodern novel, focusing on the role of ancient religious mythologies. Read the article👇:

“Pure Existence”: The Search for Reality in John Banville’s Ghosts

Through a close examination of three key passages, this essay seeks to highlight hidden affinities between John Banville's novel Ghosts and the mystical foundation of the world's religions. The ess...

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What a fantastic forthcoming event by @modernistudies.bsky.social, @moderniststudies.bsky.social, AMSN, MADS, @modernism-asia.bsky.social, SEM, The Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, and HASE! Such cool things happening in the world of modernism 😁

Call for Papers. H.G. Wells and Modernity: Texts, Contexts, (Re)visions. Host and dates: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland | 22-24 October 2026. Extended deadline for submissions: 10 September 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...

📜✒️ In “Hagiographic Motifs in Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother,” Niamh Kehoe argues for a new hagiographical analogue for the enigmatic episode that centres the conflict between #Beowulf and Grendel’s mother, focusing on the engagement with secular narratives. Read the #openaccess article👇:

Hagiographic Motifs in Beowulf’s Fight with Grendel’s Mother

Analogues for the narrative structure and content of Beowulf's first two battles have long been identified from northern legend and folklore; it is only in relatively recent years that hagiographic...

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New #DigitalHistory data project: London Theatre in one hundred and forty seasons, 1660 – 1800 Playhouses, patent theatres and pleasure gardens: fifty-two thousand nights of performance, made visual. londontheatre.prisms.digital #History

📖✒️ In “‘Heart’s Need’ and ‘Physical Hunger’: The Influence of Sexuality on the Life and Work of E.F. Benson,” @sashagoblin.bsky.social examines Benson's writing as a vital mode of self-fashioning to interweave desire with love, underscoring his relationship with George Wolfe Plank. Read the piece👇:

“Heart’s Need” and “Physical Hunger”: The Influence of Sexuality on the Life and Work of E.F. Benson

Whilst novelist E.F. Benson’s attraction to men is widely recognised, his reticence about his private romantic life and his professed distaste for “promiscuous immorality” have led scholars to be e...

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Discover more about Race, Violence, and Form here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Renée Fox is Associate Professor of Literature and Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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