📢📢Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Pathologies of Violence: Inscriptions of Global Conflict in Irish Literature, 1922-present (PATHOS), Led by Dr Ailbhe McDaid (PI)Ailbhe McDaid Full-time 48 month contract Mary Immaculate College (MIC) #BeMoreAtMIC mic.ul.ie/about-mic/vaca…

I spoke to The Bookseller about finding out that access to our Routledge Books publications has been shadily sold to Microsoft to train their generative AIs thebookseller.com/news/academic-…

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My thoughts on I Saw The TV Glow: - A Gregg Araki film set in the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness universe - Queer nostaligia for a past that never was is devastating - Director Jane Schoenbrun realised they were trans while on shrooms which makes sense - ICE CREAM MAN

Sundays are for dreaming of chasing rabbits with one eye open 🐇

Reminder that Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER begins on July 20th, 2024 — which makes today the first day of the new dystopia.

For #modwrite I've been planning a co-authored article on "My Year of Rest and Relaxation," thinking about sleepwalking, pharmakons, and modernist detachment and immersion. Wouldn't mind a lie down.

Professor / Associate Professor, Department of English Lingnan University, Hong Kong 3 years initially Specialization is open and we welcome applications from scholars working in all periods of literature in English timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

❗️Reminder for the free online collab event #TeachingModernisms starting this Thursday! We kick off this summer with the panel on #Teaching #Translations with Alex Brostoff (Kenyon) Deanna Cachoian-Schanz (UPenn) Gayle Rogers (Pittsburgh), chaired by Christos Hadjiyiannis! Looking forward! 🙂

All emerging writers schemes should include writers over 40 – writers can emerge at any age, and women writers especially are frequently prevented from taking up writing until later in life (as we well know)! theguardian.com/stage/article/…

“I want translations with copious footnotes, footnotes reaching up like skyscrapers to the top of this or that page so as to leave only the gleam of one textual line between commentary and eternity.” - Nabokov on translating Pushkin (shared by @Alexbrostoff, #TeachingModernisms)

An update: Taylor & Francis Research Insights set to make £58m from AI on 2024 as it reveals SECOND partnership. I’m glad someone is making money as universities close departments, make redundancies, raise fees, and cut salaries. The Bookseller thebookseller.com/news/taylor-fr…

Do your PhD in #Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full #PhD #scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD News. Application deadline: 10 Oct 2024

"Flann O'Brien and the Nonhuman" is the 5th book in our CorkUniversityPress Flann O'Brien edited collection series! I'm really proud of this new collection - which explores O'Brien's representations of environments, animals & machines - and of the whole series Info: corkuniversitypress.com/9781782050018/…

At British Association for Modernist Studies #EphemeralModernisms I presented on A Terrific Uproar by Scout Tzofiya Bolton Broken Sleep Books. Tonight her documentary poem about psychosis, addiction, & HMP Prisons is broadcast on Radio 4. FFO contemporary modernisms, not to be missed! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Why did no one warn me about Giovanni's Room? I am a WRECK

Do I know anyone who has had a book published by Wiley? I’ve had good experiences speaking to Matilda at the Bookseller - get in touch with her!