A brilliant press night for “Still” by @FrancesPoet to reopen Traverse Theatre after many months! Heart-breaking and hilarious in equal measure. Grab a ticket while you can!

So very sad to hear the news about Laura Marcus. What an awful loss for academia, her colleagues and her friends. Laura was one of my examiners early in my DPhil, and her glitter, humour and acute intelligence inspired me then and now. I'll think of her when I think of Berlin.

The last two years have shown us how science pervades and shapes our lived experience and our artistic interpretations of the world. Of course, this is nothing new. Guest-edited by Dr Rachel F. Eames, check out the latest issue of the Modernist Review: tinyurl.com/rdbt78zn

It's my first week as a Teaching Fellow Research in English At Durham - I couldn't be more proud and excited! 🥳

So excited for Hopeful Modernisms next year!

Dazzling illuminations at #ApolloPavilion by #LumiereDurham artists #MaderWiermann. Or have I stepped into a Vorticist painting?

Insecurity steals attention: how can you truly concentrate on e.g. close reading when you are caught in an anxiety loop about the rest of your life/money/future/home? It's impossible to think straight in precarious conditions. Solidarity with those striking #UCUstrikes

It may be grey & dreary outside, but here’s a sparky thing on the week’s horizon! Join us for exciting new work from Lauren Fournier on autotheory & creative non-fiction Research in English At Durham This Friday at 2pm over zoom ⚡️ Details & link below! durham.ac.uk/departments/ac…

It’s Burns Night! Slàinte mhath and ceud mìle fàilte to all our Fellows, current and former.

Latest member comms in your inboxes this afternoon 📨💌 💥Strike schedule - pickets and regional rally 💥Teachouts - preview of the week 💥Pensions update - costs of the proposals mailchi.mp/c3ca09338817/s…

#UCUstrike Rally in Newcastle on Monday lunchtime ⁦UCU⁩ ⁦UCU@UoC #UCUrising⁩ ⁦Durham UCU (@ducu.bsky.social)⁩ ⁦Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social⁩ ⁦UCU Northumbria - SHY BAIRNS GET NOWT!⁩ ⁦Univ Sunderland UCU - Solidarity With All Strikers⁩ ⁦UCU Teesside Uni⁩ ⁦

#UCUstrike rally in the Newcastle sun with Dr Barbara Franchi. Shy bairns get nowt! #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs

Angry? Disgusted at how your employer is treating you over pensions and working conditions? There's never been a more important time to join the union! ucu.org.uk/join

Let it sink: this is a European war. Ukrainians have been warning you for 8 years. Read this brilliant essay by Olesya Khromeychuk on why the world should care.

⚡Meeting THIS MONDAY 21st for all staff on casual contracts⚡ 📍library pub, Saddler Street 🕣 11am Tell your colleagues! Not-yet union members welcome! #OneOfUsAllOfUs #UCUstrike

📢 WIP Seminar on the Cultural Cold War on 4th May at 5.30pm via Zoom, with papers on 'Red Days and Dystopian Nights: Arthur Koestler’s Travel Writing and the Cultural Cold War' (Annabel Williams) & ‘Mapping the Cultural Cold War: Toward a Digital Humanities Approach’ (Katie Muth). 1/2

You can still just about squeak in under the wire to register for the online conference! Now online and/or hybrid panels on Thursday, Friday and Saturday! trybooking.co.uk/BQMD #HopefulModernisms

So excited for Day 1 of #HopefulModernisms! I'll be speaking today on melancholy spaces of hope in Rebecca West. Looking forward to catching up in person with my lovely BAMS colleagues after so long 😀

Our Department is looking for a Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare & Early Modern Literature (12 months). Official enquiries to John Nash; informal questions about the Department to any one of us (& you needn't know us before you email). Closes 7 August. jobs.ac.uk/job/CRG043/tea…