Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year! joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...

College of Arts and Letters Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2027-2029 - Notre Dame, Indiana (US) job with Notre Dame English Department | 2001161

The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the English Department at the University of Notre Dame seek a postdoctoral fellow for 2027-29 AYs.

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Who are the literary agents of irish authors, and what do they do? I had a go at answering these questions and more in this (open access) essay - with help from some (anonymous) agents, authors and publishers who were good enough to lend me their time www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Literary Agents and Contemporary Irish Fiction | Irish University Review

This essay examines the role played by literary agents in bringing the work of Irish writers into the global marketplace. Adapting Laura McGrath's notion of ‘corporate taste’ (the claim that agents ex...

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🎉 Happy publication day! 🎉With Lauren Ottaviani, I co-edited a special issue on "Irish Literature and the Global Marketplace" for @irishunireview.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who helped with the long editing process. Happy reading! 😀 www.euppublishing.com/toc/iur/curr...

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - iur: Vol 56, No 1

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Job alert! We are looking for talented PhD researchers to write a dissertation on Benzaiten worship in modern Japan or Mazu pilgrimages in Taiwan, as part of the ERC project "Maritime Goddesses: Transnational Connections, Blue Environments, and Ritual Care in East- and Southeast Asia" (MARGO).

TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038) | University of Oslo

Job title: TWO DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN EAST ASIAN RELIGIONS (296038), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 6, 2026

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Very happy to receive a hard copy of my little book. I'm putting this in the New Yorker section of my shelf 😊💚 #IrishStudies

Happy Publication Day! 🎉 This little book is out in the world today. Parts of it are Open Access, thanks to a small publication grant from Taiwan's research council. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1... Happy reading! #IrishStudies #NewYorker

Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century | Yen-Ch

Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker records to uncover the contractual details of the

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Yen-Chi Wu@yenchiwu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

This little book is available for pre-order now. Please use this promo code to receive a 20% discount 😄

Yen-Chi Wu@yenchiwu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...

My Department has a job opening in English literature! Come work with us! 🤗🧋 #JobFairy #AcademicJobs

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries! UCC 19 February Boston College 11 March NYU Glucksman House 12 March Royal Irish Academy 25 March www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣 Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 Translating Ireland The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025. #IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature Full CFP: www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf... Pls share

This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Post45 Data Collective@post45data.bsky.social · last yr.

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

Sad 😢. This also means that the job market in the higher education sector is shrinking.

Ashish Valentine@ashishval.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 1/8 My latest for @theworld.org: Taiwan's birthrate is among the lowest in the world. Fewer babies means fewer kids going to school, and fewer still onwards to university. 15 colleges have closed here in the past decade as a result - four of them just last year. theworld.org/segments/202...

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all. On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI. Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

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My article on Maeve Brennan is included in the annual survey of American Studies in Humor. Can I claim expertise in American humor now? 😆

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’

Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career

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Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'. Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!

Congratulations to #Thailand which becomes"the third place in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after Taiwan and Nepal." 🏳️‍🌈

Irish Examiner@irishexaminer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Went to #Kaohsiung city to visit my alma mater. Always lovely to see this harbour city 🥰

The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature

Tim Groenland@groenbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

CFP: Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield Organised by me and Adam Kelly Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/... Please consider submitting, and share widely!

#JobAlert! A tenure-track position in Spanish language and culture at my department. Please help circulate 🙂🙏

Really enjoyed this novel! It's about food and travel in Japan-occupied Taiwan. It also asks serious questions about the subtle power dynamics in colonial society. The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃

For my "Intro to literature" class, I taught Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" I wanted them to think about the changing significance of Barbie. Turned out that only half of them saw the movie 😱

a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror

ALT: a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror

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Our little conference is next week! #IrishStudies www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

Happy publication day! I co-edited with Phyllis Boumans a themed issue of RISE @efacis.bsky.social on "Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-20th Century." It's open access: risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... 😀

Join the editors and contributors on 16 may at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1! Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac... #irishstudies

The new issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, which I coedited with Phyllis Boumans, is coming out soon. There will be an online launch and roundtable. You can see more info here: 🙂 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...

Happy to share the provisional programme of the "Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace" conference coming up in June. #IrishStudies www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...

Programme

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Charles Addams's Christmas cartoon for folks who don't celebrate it, published #OnThisDay in the New Yorker 1946. Happy holidays 🙂

Dear Bluesky hivemind, does anyone recognise the signature of this cartoon artist? It appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Appreciate your help! 🙂