Audiobook sales are up more than 18% since last year, accounting for over $2 billion in sales and an increasing part of the publishing world. We need more critics and scholars writing about the world of audiobooks, its best narrators, its dominant styles, and its readers!

The Victorian Novel & the Health Humanities ONLINE SEMINAR 16 Oct 2024 5pm-6:45pm BST Speakers: Sally Shuttleworth, Andrew Mangham, Anne Stiles. Free registration: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-victoria…

NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Tomorrow from 5pm (BST)! Please join Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Stiles, and Andrew Mangham for an online seminar on “The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities” Register for free here: tinyurl.com/y2pjuupw

NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Doctoral Research in Health Humanities. The Health Humanities Research Group welcomes research projects that investigate all aspects of health humanities within our wide and diverse research specialisms. lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

I am launching my book this Thursday. Edinburgh University Press UvA Geesteswetenschappen . All in Amsterdam are welcome to join!

What are the emotional and ethical risks of writing the lives of our lovers? In our first Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop of Michaelmas 2024, Prof Santanu Das (Faculty of English) turns to #EMForster's archive for answers. 1 November. Limited spaces remaining: t.ly/zmOM1

Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by Jacob Jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-progr…

I am giving a talk on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and asylum practices online with University of Aberdeen English UofAberdeen Centre for the Novel and the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine on 20th November 4-5pm. Teams link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

I'm no cinematographer, but I am at #msa24 in Chicago, with wonderful books which are *40% off* with code EXMSTA24 MSA (Modernism) Oxford Classics

Great opportunity for #EarlyCareerResearchers: OUP’s First Book Prize opens in Jan 2025. Publish your work fully #OpenAccess with a full OA fee waiver & hardback edition. Don’t miss out! oxford.ly/4end5wH

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

An exciting announcement for our ECR followers: Oxford Academic has announced plans for their new, annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers. Opening for submissions in January 2025; initial information is available to read here: academic.oup.com/pages/early-ca… Do share widely!

It's very exciting seeing proposals come in for 'Woolf & Dissidence' School of Media, Arts and Humanities King's English The deadline for proposals is 13th December, so do submit your proposal soon! woolf2025.uk IVWS MSA (Modernism) British Association for Modernist Studies Virginia Woolf Society GB

📢📚 My monograph, 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture', is hitting the shelves in Spring 2025! Here's a sneak peak... cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/the-pe…

The Thomas Hardy Journals are looking for a reviewer for Timothy Carens' 'Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel'. If you are interested in reading and reviewing this publication please get in touch at [email protected] with a short bio! Open to all.

University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/uni…

We're delighted to announce that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July University of Oxford We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference! CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 BAVS Postgrads

Please join us Centre for Victorian Studies for a panel on "Victorian Bodies" on 18 June from 5:15pm (GMT), with papers from Will Abberley and Jess Cox. You can book a (free!) ticket here: tinyurl.com/bdfnpe4r BAVS NAVSA Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies