A lovely mock tutorial for prospective applicants @lincoln.ox.ac.uk this morning! Always a joy to work with such insightful students!

Volume 31: Virginia Woolf Selected Papers

Exciting news for literary lovers! 📚 Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Volume 31 is now available to read on ClemsonOPEN! Dive into fresh insights and scholarly takes on one of modernism’s most iconic writers. Available here: open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...

Very pleased to finally see this, which started in life as the first conference paper I ever gave as an undergraduate, out in the world! Many thanks to @ivws.bsky.social for their efforts in publishing this volume!

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Do any Oxford locals have any desire for this well-loved copy of Snow? Free to a good home!

Potentially a testament to my poor powers of observation, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen what appears to be a sun dog rainbow in Oxford before

Not entirely what you’re after, but my workaround for a similar thing is to switch it collection view, and only put stuff that I want to read on it in a collection, leaving the rest uncollected. Not the most elegant solution, but it works!

Best of luck, Josh!

Put together a wee modernism/contemporary lit Starter Pack (because there simply wasn't not enough research/teaching prep/admin/housework to keep me occupied)

DM me if I've made any glaring omissions or besmirched your good name by implying that you're a modernist

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James T. Bowen

After much faff, and a not inconsiderable overestimation of my technical skills, I finally have a website! Should you have any desire to, you can now find out more about my work at jamestbowen.com

You promised, and you delivered - my god…

A new arrival, with wonderfully appropriate provenance!

Those of you who follow me on Twitter will already have seen this, but please do have a listen to this if you don’t already follow:

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Likes, reviews, shares etc all very much appreciated!

A lovely evening at Blackwell’s. Such a wonderfully affirming immersion in reading and writing with Sally Bayley, Elizabeth Lowry, and Joanna Kavenna!

Background of split gill mushrooms series on a coniferous tree branch. Light beige text reading: Imagining Queer Ecologies. Friday 01 Dec 2023. A free, one-day, online symposium, open to all, and encouraging of participation from postgraduate researchers (PGRs) and early-career researchers (ECRs). Co-hosted by the British Society for Literature and Science and the University of Oxford. Abstracts due by 12 October 2023. Black logo of the British Society for Literature and Science in white text in the right bottom corner.

CFP: ‘Imagining Queer Ecologies’, the BSLS Winter Symposium, Friday 01 December 2023.

A free, one-day, online event, open to all. Participation from PGRs and ECRs is encouraged.

View the CfP here: tinyurl.com/3u7fnpme.

Abstracts due 12 October 2023.

Spent the morning reading Freud on repetition, only to find myself in another Twitter exodus. Sometimes these things write themselves…