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Posts by Polly Hember
A really thoughtful, generous review of Jesse Wolfe's book 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury'. Book published by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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More info about Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/love-frie...
This is such a fantastic book - I had a great time reviewing it for The Modernist Review. Thanks to everyone at TMR for their work on this (fab) issue 💛
We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!
📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details.
If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.
Lecturer, History of Design and Material Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum - applications close 5th March 2026 vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. Deadline: 16th March 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137845-...
CfP - Listening to Possible Worlds: Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: March 30, 2026
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Collective Forms - Call for Papers
Friday 19 June 2026, University of East Anglia / abstract deadline: 23 March 2026 www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/colle...
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
Please do consider applying to join us! I've found being a Rep incredibly fulfilling and rewarding - I'm sure you will too!!
A final #ModWrite before Christmas, share with us using the hashtag! 🎄☃️
Don't forget to register to attend NWiMS 15 on 9th January using the form below before 29th December:
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We can't wait to see you there!
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon...
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This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
Derby University is in chaos and management caused it.
🔻 265 redundancies proposed
🔻 Nursing & early childhood studies at risk
🔻 Staff pushed through a rushed, unfair process
Show your support for staff and students on strike from tomorrow.
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There is not one PhD between the directors of Nous, they have no experience of research or teaching and yet they're advising universities, student unions & governments on how to run HE.
'The union said management had "agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until at least July 2026".'
Some more job listings!
Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich:
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TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!
Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Kent, applications close 20th November 2025 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
New episode! @tealescope.bsky.social & Souki speak with Dr Luke Blaxill, founder of The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding, about how to help fund PhDs (with or without UKRI funding). Listen wherever you get your podcasts from! open.spotify.com/episode/2Acb...
Lecturer/Associate Professor in Irish Folklore and Ethnology, University College Dublin, closes 17th November 2025
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Assistant Curator, Courtauld Gallery, applications close 18th November 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE223/a...