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Peter Budrin
@peterbudrin.bsky.social
‘Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia’ (OUP, 2026). Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in CompLit at QMUL.
We’re delighted to announce that Professor Leah Price has been appointed to the Professorship of Bibliography and Modern Book History.
Professor Leah Price appointed as Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History
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The introduction to Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia: The Secret Order of Shandeans (OUP, 2026) is free to read until 19 August. If you’re interested in book history or Soviet culture, I hope you’ll take a look. Please share with anyone who might enjoy it! + Photos of readers!
Free idea?? The University Review of Books—a new online OA member supported book review focused on scholarly nonfiction books, any discipline or period, that’s not rooted in a particular place or uni but understands “the uni” as the knowledge we—people!—produce together.
Today is the official release date of my first book! 🎉 I am grateful to the many people who have made this a reality and am thrilled to see it in print (and my cats are thrilled to have another empty box!). Available now from @oxunipress.bsky.social : global.oup.com/academic/pro...
the cuts to higher education in the UK are ideological. they are based in a false valuation of the humanities that is entirely founded in erroneous concepts of employability and demand. these cuts are not financially necessary; they are a stripping of the humanities for political reasons.
🚨RADICAL PRINT CULTURE SYMPOSIUM 🚨 The Programme is now live (see 🧵), and the symposium will also feature two amazing keynote speakers, a print exhibition and a handling workshop. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bsecs.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Japan Forum's special issue on katakana in Japanese is out @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/3... Check out my (OPEN ACCESS) contribution on anti-katakana discourse @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now's a good time to visit the Wild Garden at Shandy Hall laurencesternetrust.org.uk/what-is-shan... Sunshine, shade, flowers, birdsong. Plants & books for sale, house tours today and Monday #gardens #wildlife @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk
New publication! Edited by me, Nicole Aljoe and Olly Ayers, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, first published in 1782. Now out with Oxford World’s Classics, with extensive introduction and commentary.
More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!
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Our cat, Couscous, goes on long walks with us around the neighbourhood. He gets incredibly excited every time!
Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · 3mo agoLast night, walking home from the subway, we saw in the distance a small black & white animal on a leash walking towards us w/ its person. We each said, "that looks like a cat." But then I got skeptical: "it can't be a cat--it's walking in a straight line." But, readers, it WAS! A cat named Mookie.
Really looking forward to this celebration of Judith Hawley: wickedly erudite and witty scholar of the #18thcentury. @royalholloway.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-celebrat...
A Celebration of the Career and Scholarship of Judith Hawley
Satirists, Bluestockings, and Gin: A Celebration of the Career and Scholarship of Judith Hawley
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In some better news, look at this week's exciting book post: this long-awaited, mind-blowing, moving new book on Mary Wollstonecraft, by the brilliant @juliehoo.bsky.social. I and many others in #18thc studies are going to be thinking with this book for years to come.
I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!
The History of Literature Podcast@holpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago"When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong, farewell cool reason and fair discretion!" – Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman #books #literature @academic.oup.com
Hey I was just looking up the book Ellie Crookes & I co-edited in 2024 and the hardback is on sale! It is SUPER PRETTY (and contains some absolute bangers) so if you want one for £36 rather than £85, have at it
A little late for the book launch, but the copies of my book have finally arrived. 10 years in the making (with all sorts of digressions along the way)!
Out! Ryu Aerim (Kyushu), "Reception, Translation, and Republicanism: Nakae Chōmin in Global Intellectual History", a review article, "Nakae Chômin, la mise en politique d'une philosophie rousseauiste au Japon" by E. Dufourmont (@classiquesgarnier.bsky.social 2024) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I greatly enjoyed the conversation with Jacke. Thank you for having me!
The History of Literature Podcast@holpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago"When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion, or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong, farewell cool reason and fair discretion!" – Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman #books #literature @academic.oup.com
Until May 22 the introduction to my book on Sterne and his Soviet readers is available open-access on Oxford Academic!
Proofs! Forthcoming chapter in *The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel* amongst stellar company & excellently steered by Prof Chris Morash. I’ll be doing these with some Easter chocolate to power me through #IrishLiterature #Novels #speirgorm #GulliversTravels
Today: QMCECS Seminar 31 March Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (Edinburgh) 'Richard Steele and the Corps of Comedy' More info: tinyurl.com/2uy8668m 31 March 2026 Time: 17:15. UK Time. Location: QMUL Mile End Campus ArtsOne, Room 1.36 (entrance from the rear of the building).
Friends in London and in the area! If you are free on the 15th of April, please come to my book launch!
Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"