📣 Calling my BlueSky followers - would you like to join the #LTHEchat organising committee? To express your interest, please complete this very brief form in @suebecks.bsky.social post below ⬇️ @buxiduan.bsky.social @kathrynsidaway.bsky.social
Look forward to the day - will be fab!
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How would modern Londoners react to 80% of their city burning down in a firestorm today?
How would they communicate in the chaos their confusion, suspicion and grief?
Josh @woolfianjosh.bsky.social just officially released the Digital ‘Anon’ today and it is BRILL🎉
Check out this online edition at www.digital-anon.com and sign up for our symposium if you’d like to learn more about Josh’s methodology! research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
0.16FTE Lecturer in English Literature @ University of Glasgow, focusing on science fiction, literature and medicine, and/or post-war lit. More info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...
And thanks to the generous conference subvention from the Bibliographical Society UK, we're able to offer a few small travel grants for self-identified PGRs and ECRs without access to institutional support. More details below and do consider applying!😊
My wonderful colleague Lawrence Jones and I organised a symposium on Modernist Editing at Reading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social!
We’ve got a DREAM lineup of leading scholars in textual scholarship, especially @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social! And we have a few travel bursaries. Details👇
Gonna be a fab day!
CBCP will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd Sept 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon, but in the meantime, please save the date. More info here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Cover of book 'Clemence Dane and Good Housekeeping' by Stella Deen. Cover features a painting of a woman reading a book on a long sandy beach
Now reading. Fascinating to learn of the expert literary criticism readers of Good Housekeeping enjoyed in the 20s, from writers Virginia Woolf, Rose Macaulay, as well as novelist Clemence Dane. And how seriously women's magazines took their role in educating their newly enfranchised readers.
Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
My fav pic: a puppy taking a nap in front of the Teotihuacán mural of a jaguar preparing to hunt.
Good afternoon! My wonderful co-editors and I are so excited as we approach the publication date for The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnational Perspectives. Just wanted to share that the volume is now available for preorder: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...
1/2 A superlative, benevolent & generous scholar, whom we lost this year, in his last email to me, said “Supporting rising talent, I have come to understand, whether through direct teaching or indirect support and mentoring, is ultimately more important than anything I’ve published. …
Thanks Sophie!😊
Such a great honour to have my name listed alongside those distinguished scholars in textual scholarship!
Please drop me a message if you're interested in my scholarly edition of D. H. Lawrence's short story 'The Flying Fish' - happy to share and discuss all things archives and textual criticism!
Screenshot showing that I was assigned as Reviewer 2.
Invited to be 'Reviewer 2' - but promise I'll be kind, constructive, and supportive!
W.C. Poetry
Absolutely honoured to be invited to present my current research on Nancy Pearn at the next #DHLawrenceHappyHour event!
Pearn was more than Lawrence's 'golden [...] magazine girl' - she was a leading literary agent.
Never visited The London Archives before and unsure what to expect? We have just the video for you!
This 90-second video explains all you need to know about registering for a History Card, ordering material, and viewing records here at TLA.
www.youtube.com/shorts/qlDC3...
Can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I presented an early draft at the @modernistudies.bsky.social Leeds conference. So grateful for the suggestions I received from my fellow modernists that helped me refine this piece. Look forward to reuniting with many of you at the next conference!
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My article on Nancy Pearn’s editorial contribution to D. H. Lawrence’s late journalistic essays is out in @englishjournaloup.bsky.social - big thanks for peer reviewers’ insightful feedback and editors’ kind support throughout!
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A screenshot of the call for papers of our panel titled ‘D. H. Lawrence and Class’.
For next March’s #NEMLA convention in Pittsburgh, PA (5-8 March 2026), the D. H. Lawrence Society North America is organising a panel ‘D. H. Lawrence and Class’.
Please check out our cfp for more details - look forward to reading your abstract!
Am hiring! If you know anyone who might want to lead institutional approaches to digital pedagogy and practice either let me know or send them this link. @bnuni.bsky.social an exciting place to be right now! jobs.bucks.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #DigitalPedagogy #DigitalEducation
Thanks for sharing!! Looks great and I already have some ideas - will think through to connect the dots!
That’s so kind of you Alison! Really nice meeting you again and listening to all these fascinating papers - absolutely a treat!😊
A bit late to join the 'starter pack' trend, but as we're gradually migrating here, it's the perfect time to start connecting with both old and new friends through this list of literary societies. Follow them for their latest updates!
go.bsky.app/4KvE9bp
A very big thank you to Susan Reid, editor of The Journal of D.H.Lawrence Studies (2013 - 2024), who steps down after 12 years and 3,046 edited pages. We wish her the very best with her own creative endeavours. Watch this space...