#Sourdough week 154. A bit of a break since the last one, but came out really well (particularly considering I didn’t refresh the starter until yesterday)

National Poetry Competition - The Poetry Society National Poetry Competition 2025 The competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. The 2025 competition is judged by Denise Saul,...

English doctoral researcher and poet Michael Brown has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition run by @poetrysociety.org.uk. Many congratulations, Michael!

It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.

How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.

In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.

Sex & Scandal behind Wuthering Heights Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 6 February · 51m

Claire was also recently on the Betwixt the Sheets podcast to discuss how Brontë came to write Wuthering Heights. How did the Brontê sisters write about sex and sexuality in their work? And how accurate is the new film to the original story?!

Troubling timing: “modernism, generations, and the gaps between” a conversation between Jade French and Sarah Parker Studies centred on questions of generationality, periodization, and ageing have flourished in modernist scholarship in recent years. In a conversation reflecting on this work, Sarah Parker and Jade...

Our own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.

#Sourdough week 153 :)

A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.

Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history?

Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞

Fantastic! Congratulations to all of you. Looking forward to reading it.

It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊

Disability and the Gothic Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026:
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#Sourdough week 152. So nice after a break

I loved it, Heather. Well done!

I'd planned to listen to the first 10 mins of this (I had a few other things to do), but ended up listening to the full 58 mins. It's a brilliant discussion of the power of fictional narratives to engage readers with climate change. Really interesting thoughts on cli-fi and eco-gothic.

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes ‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?

Don DeLillo and the Visual Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on ...

A new monograph by our own Brian Jarvis, Don DeLillo and the Visual, offers a fresh perspective on DeLillo for the Age of the Image.

The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.

'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...'

Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:

#Sourdough weeks 150 and 151 (150 from a few weeks ago)

The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020!

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Promotional graphic for a Liverpool University Press book. On the left, over a dark, theatrical background showing a performer with a paper bag over their head, white text reads: “Examines the emergence of documentary theatre in the increasingly experimental landscape of contemporary Irish drama.” The Liverpool University Press logo appears in the top left. On the right is the book cover titled The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010–2020 by Luke Lamont, featuring a stage scene with performers and projected images, and the series subtitle “Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations.”

Recently published | The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020 is available now!

Discover more about the first book-length study of documentary theatre in Ireland here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Very excited that the first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations book series has been published! And what a fantastic book it is - huge congratulations to Luke Lamont!

I hate that they snuck in a “summarize” this chapter/book/article in the ebooks program through the library. I’m sure it’s confusing to students when we argue to stay away from AI for
their core work whilst our Unis are throwing it at them all
over the place.

#sourdough weeks 148 and 149 (last weekend’s and the one before).

Call for Papers: (De)colonial Solidarities Symposium | whisol CALL FOR PAPERS (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship 27-28 August 2026 University of Turku, Finland From Indigeno ...

CFP: (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship, 27–28 August 2026, University of Turku, Finland sites.utu.fi/whisol/news/...

Congratulations Melissa! I will order it for our library

What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report.

A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.

nice to spy my former PhD supervisor @timothycbaker.bsky.social and fellowship mentor @sadiseshiah.bsky.social in this cambridge companion to british utopian lit & culture!

Murder in London Rolling 12-month murder total View: In numbers / rate / teens / London (since 1990 / 2003) 200 150 Oct '25 93 100 50 0 Jan '05 Jan '10 Jan '15 Jan '20 Jan '25 Includes manslaughter, infanticide, corporate manslaughter. Met Police data; excludes jurisdiction of City of London Police (for the square-mile financial district) & British Transport Police. Data to Oct 2025. published Nov 2025. updated month/v.

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)