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Posts by Elizabeth Fraser
My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷
Are you a current grad student working with modernist texts? If so, check out the launch of the new MSA Graduate Mentorship Publication Program! The program is designed to support MSA’s graduate student members develop a draft article to submission standard with an experienced academic mentor.
It's that time of year again! We've published the CFP for our annual conference, this year on the theme of "Postcolonial Temporalities," from Nov 20-21st 2026!
Please share and circulate widely within your networks! Abstracts due May 4
sfps.org.uk/2026/03/16/s...
Call for Editors!
The 'Critical Insights in American Studies' series from Edinburgh University Press is seeking a new co-editor.
Apply before 18:00, 13th March.
@edinburghup.bsky.social @emilysharp.bsky.social
A flyer for the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize, announcing a call for papers under 3,500 words on ecological thinking in the Anglophone world 1750–1945 by Ph.D. students or scholars <3 years out from the Ph.D. Papers should be sent to kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu by February 15, 2026.
The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum
🔊 There's 1 week left to apply for open positions at BAMS, including 5 roles on our committee, and 3 postgraduate representative roles. To apply, see here bams.ac.uk. For an idea of what being a PGR Rep involves, see a blog from our reps here:
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/b...
The deadline for applications to the role of Secretary to The Allan Lloyd Smith and Justin D. Edwards Memorial Book Prizes has been extended to 19 January!
The successful applicant will receive a fee of £300.
More information and application details: www.globalgoth.org/blog/applica...
My book #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 has been named as a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice.
It’s described as offering “a fascinating history in an underrepresented area of Shakespeare studies”. “Highly recommended.”
#ChoiceOAT2025
@edinburghup.bsky.social
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama
We are delighted to be working with @creativeaccess.bsky.social to recruit for our new marketing, data and events assistant trainee!
If you are from an under-represented background and want to join our team, we’d love to hear from you:
opportunities.creativeaccess.org.uk/job/marketin...
Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.
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The paperback of my book is currently available for a MERE £12.50!!!
As always, downloads are free due to Open Access
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Friends! My book is 50% off today—only $12:48. I’m grateful for your support! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-paratex...
Two bits of news: *Literary Illusions* is currently 50% off in Edinburgh UP's sale, so grab it now if you want the hardback. But - if you want to wait until July 2026, you can get it for £19.99 in paperback! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-literar...
Canonical Misogyny is currently 50% off, direct from the publisher Edinburgh University Press. That makes the ebook just £10 all weekend!
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Forget #BlackFriday
The @edinburghup.bsky.social #StAndrewsDay sale means you can now pick up #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 for just £7.50.
Gotta be worth putting in someone's #Christmas stocking 🎄🎁
#Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
@edinburghup.bsky.social Strange Intimacies copies have arrived at the only desk, and in the only garden that I still return to after writing it! Now out in the world, and the cover lightens up November gloom. Might be of interest to @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social ppl
My book is out! @edinburghup.bsky.social
Sharing this again - deadline tomorrow! We'd love to hear from you
Really excited to be on the judging panel for the 2026 BARS First Book Prize - details of eligibility, nomination, and submission can be found on @bars.bsky.social’s blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Do share widely!
Congratulations Denise!
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
👀 psst!
Our #StAndrewsDaySale is coming soon!
✍️ Sign-up to our mailing lists for details...
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The funds will support panels that address the production of research by people of colour, LGBTQ+ communities, disability communities & scholars without regularised institutional support.
Don't miss this fantastic opportunity!
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We are delighted to welcome Yasmeen Soliman to our team under our partnership with @creativeaccess.bsky.social
Yasmeen has said: ‘To be a part of the effort to put out important research into the world is an incredible opportunity that I cannot wait to make the most of.’
The inaugural volume of the new World Philosophies series (with an endorsement from @DrTJC) is finally out! we will change the history & decolonise philosophy one volume at a time from Edinburgh: edinburghuniversityp...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...