✌️OUT NOW✌️my new book w/ South African Modernism 1880-2020 Routledge Literature explores how literature contextualises the climate crisis within a history of capitalist-imperialism & helps us imagine a habitable and just world for all forms of life 🧵1/7

Thanks to all who made my #JanetFrameAt100 piece possible: liese spencer & Charlotte Northedge @guardianbooks ; Emily Perkins, Catherine Chidgey & Kirsty Gunn; @clarebot & Tamara Sampey-Jawad Fitzcarraldo Editions ; John Mitchinson , CK Stead, Lynley Edmeades; Olivia Barber Emma Parker & Pamela Gordon !

Great opportunity to do a PhD at Warwick, supervised by Guido van Meersbergen and David Lambert (both excellent)!

I’m very grateful to Bodleian Libraries for a visiting fellowship in women’s history (!) over 24-25. I’ve spent the past month in their rich #antiapartheid archives, developing a new project on SA writers in Britain. Feeling relieved to have the time, space & encouragement to write.

Publication week! 🎉 THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET by Janet Frame Fitzcarraldo Editions seen in the wild Foyles Bookshop 🎉

📢FRIENDLY REMINDER📢 You still have over two weeks to send in your application (deadline 15th October). Do not miss this wonderful opportunity!

Janet Frame playing pool, Yaddo artist colony, Saratoga Springs, New York (1967).

My talented colleague Noreen Masud has had her brilliant and beautiful book, A Flat Place, nominated for a National Book Token readers award! Please consider voting for her 🙏 nationalbooktokens.com/readers-awards

So very sad to hear this news. I had the huge pleasure of meeting Fleur in Oxford in late June at a wonderful symposium on Janet Frame organised by Emma Parker #nzlit

In Centre Pompidou: an unexpected encounter with tomorrow's seminar materials for English@Bristol… Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, complete with delicate tipp-exed corrections, on display at ‘Band Dessinée, 1964 -2024’ (running until 4 Nov)

🚨Only 2 DAYS LEFT to submit your proposal for #MSA2025! ✍️Send your proposal (abstract of 300 words) by October 20th! We invite submissions of individual papers, panels, roundtable discussions, book launches, workshops, and special events on-site. 🔗 bit.ly/4dvJd1b

What a delight to be back on #InOurTime. Hear lurker discussing Louisa May Alcott’s Transcendentalist childhood, me on her Gothic writing, and the inimitable Bridget Bennett asking Melvyn Bragg which of the Little women he is? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Bristol friends, Monique Roffey will be doing a reading and conversation in December as part of the Autumn Arts series. Tickets are free but you gotta register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/passiontide-…

Another reminder that if you’re buying books online, for Xmas or otherwise, you should do so through Drop City Books, an inspirational new space in Stoke currently closed due to a flood damage caused by a negligent landlord. They’re amazing, honestly uk.bookshop.org/shop/dropcityb…

Congratulations to our Dr Bateman!!

Out today in paperback! ⬇️ The last publication in our flagship series 'Studies in Imperialism' of 2024 - British culture after Empire: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182548/ "An engaging and rich conversation" Journal of British Studies #StudiesinImperialism

🌎For interdisciplinary perspectives on life-writing from Antarctica to Patagonia, join us to celebrate the launch of 'Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere' by Elleke Boehmer & Katherine Collins 🌏 🗓 14 Jan ⏰ 17:30 📍Wolfson College Faculty of English Sign up: shorturl.at/XVdn5

Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar Oxford started this term with a panel on LIFE WRITING AND THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, edited by Elleke Boehmer and Katie Collins. Superb papers by Emma Parker, Elizabeth Chant, and Archie Davis. Huge congrats to the team for defining and curating this topic so innovatively.