It arrived! 🤩 Available for pre-order with University of Texas Press and out in January: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477327708/

For the 3rd international conference organized by the Environmental Humanities Center, Cappadocia University, is inviting scholars to discuss the branches and directions of ecocriticism, including recent theories, emerging topics, and new challenges. ehconference.kapadokya.edu.tr/call-for-paper…

Bodies of Water is out in September! Huge thanks to the brilliant Rebecca Colesworthy and her team SUNY Press. Pre-orders coming soon… 🌊🏊‍♂️🎬

‘How Argentina’s protesters are responding to a new president who wants to end environmental protections and sell off natural resources’ theconversation.com/how-argentinas… via The Conversation

I’m on my way! Looking forward to it

Love that first item on the news after the world’s first exceeding of 1.5 degrees global warming for a whole year is: ‘Labour will not commit 28 billion pounds to green investment’

Into second printing, both at Thames & Hudson and Princeton UP!

Starvation in Gaza is a war crime. bbc.com/news/world-mid…

I won’t be able to present at #ISA2024 because my US visa appt is in 2026. How many academics from the global south are forced to wait, prevented from accessing these spaces? Immobility helps define those who speak their voices in academia and those whose voices are spoken for.

Join us online on 9 May (17:30 BST) to discuss cultural representations of paid domestic workers in Latin America -- sign up here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/paid-ca… ILCS CLACS University of Texas Press @CAP_Ltd

Very happy that Debbie Martin and my article on #LasTesis has been adapted for this fantastic edited collection.

📢Calling all postgrads interested in creating a wider community of scholars in Latin American Studies!! Are you interested in joining the PILAS Committee next academic year? Do you have ideas to enrich this space and engage with other postgrads? Message us or let us know below!

Rare sighting of an FT literature job, which will feature in part 6 of David Attenborough’s ‘This Fragile Discipline’ jobs.ac.uk/job/DJK368/lec…

'Black Skin, Red Masques: Reading Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde in Tension with Edgar Allan Poe' by Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social is one of this week's most read articles. Read it #OpenAccess via MLO: bit.ly/BlackSkin-RedM… #EdgarAllenPoe Emily Baker (she/her) Tim Beasley-Murray UCL SELCS/CMII

Great blog post on non-human histories of the Anthropocene in Lake Titicaca by Olivia Arigho-Stiles 🍉, who we are very lucky to have as a research associate on our The British Academy project on values of the Anthropocene! UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @moneschleper Iva_Pesa …nmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/09/04/inv…

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Publishing today! Critical games, On play and seriousness in academia, literature and life. By Tim Beasley-Murray This book interrogates the theory of play and gaming, with a particular focus on the games played by #LiteraryAuthors and #LiteraryCritics. Find out more 👇

Probably the most fun and ‘relevant’ article I’ll ever publish 😬: Straight Time and Queer Utopia: Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma’s Disorientating Desire in the Regency tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations to Dr Emily Baker (UCL SELCS-CMII) who was featured in The Journal of Popular Film and Television analysing the romance between Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma in season two of Bridgerton. Read more: buff.ly/jfOQZ3B UCL SELCS/CMII

60 Seconds With... Professor Florian Mussgnug ⏰ Professor Florian Mussgnug reflects on his extensive research journey so far, as he prepares for his Inaugural Lecture 'Loving Apocalypse Too Much' taking place on 28th October. buff.ly/ougeeMC UCL SELCS/CMII