Siân Adiseshiah
@sadiseshiah.bsky.social
Prof of Literature, Politics & Performance at Loughborough University. Head of English. Editor of ‘Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations’ @livUniPress. Contemporary theatre, age studies & utopianism.
#Sourdough week 156 & 157 from This weekend and two weeks ago
Siân Adiseshiah@sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 5mo ago#Sourdough week 155
We are delighted to be ranked FIRST in the UK for both English Literature and Creative Writing in the latest Daily Mail university rankings! 🎉
Excellent from @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social (as usual) zeteo.uk/p/the-jason-...
The Jason Arday Affair and the 'Oprahfication' of Antiracism
Culture warriors blame 'woke' Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies for the scandal surrounding the Cambridge professor. The real problem is that EDI has been rendered symbolic and superficial.
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You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 4mo agoHenry Nowak murder's has highlighted the debate on whether UK police are anti-white
EVENT! Free online #CPD *Close reading is creative reading* Why reading closely matters from primary to higher education Join contributors to the Spring issue of the EA Newsletter & explore the topic of close reading, with experts from primary, sec., H.E. englishassociation.ac.uk/close-readin...
Close reading is creative reading (5 May 2026, 16:30 - 18:00) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Shocked at how the media are still only reporting on two of the stabbings www.thenational.scot/news/2607258...
Met Police criticised for 'airbrushing' stabbing of third man in terror incident
THE Met Police has been accused of "airbrushing" an attack on a third man on the same day as the Golders Green terrorism incident ...
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#Sourdough week 154. A bit of a break since the last one, but came out really well (particularly considering I didn’t refresh the starter until yesterday)
Siân Adiseshiah@sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 8mo ago#Sourdough week 153 :)
English doctoral researcher and poet Michael Brown has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition run by @poetrysociety.org.uk. Many congratulations, Michael!
National Poetry Competition - The Poetry Society
National Poetry Competition 2025 The competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. The 2025 competition is judged by Denise Saul,...
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.
Loughborough English@lboroenglish.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.
In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.
How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry
Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.
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Claire was also recently on the Betwixt the Sheets podcast to discuss how Brontë came to write Wuthering Heights. How did the Brontê sisters write about sex and sexuality in their work? And how accurate is the new film to the original story?!
Sex & Scandal behind Wuthering Heights
Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 6 February · 51m
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Our own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.
Troubling timing: “modernism, generations, and the gaps between” a conversation between Jade French and Sarah Parker
Studies centred on questions of generationality, periodization, and ageing have flourished in modernist scholarship in recent years. In a conversation reflecting on this work, Sarah Parker and Jade...
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Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history? Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞
A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour
One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.
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It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings@c21literature.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong
Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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I'd planned to listen to the first 10 mins of this (I had a few other things to do), but ended up listening to the full 58 mins. It's a brilliant discussion of the power of fictional narratives to engage readers with climate change. Really interesting thoughts on cli-fi and eco-gothic.
Heather Ray Milligan@hrmilligan.bsky.social · 9mo agobig thanks to the brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social for the opportunity to chat on Planet: Critical we kicked off the new year by asking: what's up with climate fiction? www.planetcritical.com/heather-mill...
Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.
The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
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My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨
Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes
‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen
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Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?
A new monograph by our own Brian Jarvis, Don DeLillo and the Visual, offers a fresh perspective on DeLillo for the Age of the Image.
Don DeLillo and the Visual
Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on ...
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'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...' Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:
The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life
These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.
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The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...
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Liverpool University Press@livunipress.bsky.social · 9mo agoRecently published | The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020 is available now! Discover more about the first book-length study of documentary theatre in Ireland here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Recently published | The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020 is available now! Discover more about the first book-length study of documentary theatre in Ireland here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Very excited that the first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations book series has been published! And what a fantastic book it is - huge congratulations to Luke Lamont!
Christabel Scaife@christabelscaife.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...
I hate that they snuck in a “summarize” this chapter/book/article in the ebooks program through the library. I’m sure it’s confusing to students when we argue to stay away from AI for their core work whilst our Unis are throwing it at them all over the place.
Jonathan Rigsby@ridetrips.bsky.social · 10mo agoI've stood my ground, but I hate how the companies have inserted it into everything. I don't want the AI summary at the top of a Google search. I hate that my new laptop has a dedicated button for Copilot that I can't disable. My phone will pull up Gemini if I press the wrong button for too long.