T-minus 2 hours until we chat with Kevin Brazil, with readings from his forthcoming book of essays, What Ever Happened to Queer Happiness? Find tickets and more info here eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-ever-ha…

This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (Jessica Pressman) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'. For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]bham.ac.uk or a.burge[at]bham.ac.uk

Reminder that this is happening today at 5pm! Don't miss.

Event alert. 🚨🚨 @LisaMendelman will be speaking at The Centre for Modernist Cultures (via Zoom) on 24th June, at 7pm UK time. Her paper title is: ‘The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood’. Details and sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sentimen…

Following this event, @ellenaddis wrote a blog reflecting on Jessica Pressman's Bookishness, literary festivals, and how books change the way we look at literary and new media studies. Read it here: blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/06/0…

Next Wednesday 16th June at 4pm, we are speaking to Hay Festival's Digital Director Adrian Lambert about organising the festival during the pandemic and their 2021 digital edition🎪 More info & Zoom link can be found here: bit.ly/355LU86 All welcome!

Reminder that this is tonight! Be sure to join us, it will be a treat.

We have a new CCLC Profile on our blog with co-director of the Centre Dr Amy Burge! Amy talks us through her current research, how the pandemic affected her & her work, some favourite recent texts, and what's next... Give it a read here: blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/06/1…

Our next event is this FREE Being Human Festival cafe at UoB's newest city-centre venue. Organised by CCLC member Zoe Hope Bulaitis / @zoebulaitis.bsky.social and featuring readings from poet laureates, School of EDACS students, and academics, all reflecting on the city, creatively and critically. Sign-up to book!

Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture Being Human Festival School of EDACS link for tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/live-and-loc…

Don't miss the truly excellent Fariha Shaikh ☕📚🧶✒️ (Uni of Birmingham & BBC Three/Arts and Humanities Research Council #NewGenerationThinker) in her most exciting role yet: the *C19th pudding detective* for @R3TheVerb. She chats puddings migrating across cultures & South Asian deserts🥮 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The inestimable @asha_pb, author of State Sponsored Literature (OPU 2020), is giving a snapshot of her work at the College of Arts+Law Uni of Birmingham #ArtsMatters lunchtime lectures tomorrow at 1pm! Link below 🥳

If you missed our Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture IASPR Center for Black Diaspora DPU roundtable on Black British romance you can now watch the recording! Many thanks once again to our panelists Talia Hibbert @andiosho and Frances Mensah Williams blog.bham.ac.uk/cclc/2021/10/2…

A fully-funded PhD with our co-director Dr Amy Burge - deadline 12th January!

Two weeks left! Looking forward to some live poetry from Brum's Poet Laureates Casey Bailey Fatma Mohiuddin as well as Writers' Bloc UoB students. We will also hear from @asha_pb School of EDACS College of Arts+Law . Join us at 5.45pm 18th November, FREE tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/live-and-loc…

Our friends The Centre for Modernist Cultures are running this exciting seminar on Modernism & Teaching. Sign-up through Eventbrite, it's going to be a popular one!

This Thursday!

Continuing with our CCLC Profiles from last summer, we have a new interview with Dr Rona Cran, Senior Lecturer in 20thc American Literature at Uni of Birmingham and the Co-Director of UoB Centre for the Study of North America! Read here: bit.ly/38qzVrn 📚🌳

A new CCLC Profile is up this week! This time, we talked to @LyndseyStonebri, Interdisciplinary Chair and Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at Uni of Birmingham. Lyndsey discusses telling stories, m. gessen, Lea Ypi, & more! Read it here: bit.ly/3wUuLvG⚡️