Our day of strike was powerful & positive. Back at work today for 2 days, & we have asked SMT to meet with us.

We are willing to meaningfully negotiate. If they aren’t willing to do the same we will be back out for the next 2 weeks - knocking out the end of the teaching term & crucial admin work.

Front cover of the higher education section of the Sutton Trust's A Class Act report available here https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/

Front cover of A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries available here https://www.suttontrust.com/our-research/a-class-act/

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research...
I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

*Job Alert*. Dublin Cemeteries Trust are hiring a Historian and Archives Manager www.dctrust.ie/careers/Hist...

Academic book on wooden stool.

F*ck M*sk. I’m properly moving on here. Here’s my editor copy of ‘Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman’ and here’s my dog.

Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien, Human and Nonhuman Join us at the James Joyce Centre for the launch of two extraordinary new books about Finnegans Wake, Flann O'Brien.

This coming Saturday, 5 October, Sharae Deckard will launch Richard Barlow & my new essay collection "Finnegans Wake-Human & Nonhuman Histories" at the James Joyce Centre, Dublin
🎫Reserve your free tickets here: eventbrite.ie/e/finnegans-...
👇In the comments below, I'll detail the book's 12 chapters

My contributor copy of ‘Finnegans Wake - Human and Nonhuman Histories’ arrived over the weekend. Looks amazing! Congrats to all involved and special thanks to editors @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social and Richard Barlow.

Happy publication day to my edited collection coedited with Christin Mulligan and with great chapters by Philip Miles, Ruth Daly, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, Orlagh Woods, Matthew Fogarty and Monika Gehlawat!

🚨DON'T FORGET!🚨

The ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH for "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism" is TOMORROW, Friday 15 March, 5PM(GMT)!

Speakers:
Lauren Arrington
Emilie Morin
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Katherine Baxter
Zsuzsanna Balázs
Yours truly (talking An Béal Bocht & Apocalypse)
🔗👇Email for link in poster

I'm grateful to the Blooms and Barnacles Podcast for inviting me on to their Patreon to discuss Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds!
We had a great wide-ranging chat about cowboys, Irish mythology, Joycean influence & how O'Brien's aesthetic politics differ from Joyce's
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Our new edited collection, Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism, is just out! Thanks to Matthew Fogarty and Bridget English, as well as all the contributors. See details and ToC here. t.co/4xHKiTfkFt

‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ... Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother

Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter

International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science The annual conferences of the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) and the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu), and the Commission on Science and Literature (Co...

News just in for #LitSci people: the website for the joint conference of CoSciLit, BSLS and SLSAeu to be held at the University of Birmingham in April 2024 is now live.

CFP deadline: Friday 1 December 2023

Just signed this open letter that calls on the AHRC to reverse their decision to cut PhD studentships by *a quarter*, a decision that threatens the UK's brilliant research landscape & the accessibility of PhD funding to underrepresented groups. Pls sign & share 👇

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