Lecturer in Modern Literature. Teaching & writing about the anglophone novel. Books: Troubling Late Modernism (OUP, 2022); Cardiac Realism (OUP, c. 2027)
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9 Oct 2025
My review of Claire-Louise Bennett's Big Kiss, Bye-Bye now up on the FT:
ft.com/content/25912c4f-def8…
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1 Sep 2025
Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine
9 September (Online)
Register here (free): tinyurl.com/y529huhs
Please join this online event to celebrate Ulrika Maude's groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025).
@modernistudies @Mod_Ireland
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5 Jun 2025
Please join us @CentreVictorian for a panel on "Victorian Bodies" on 18 June from 5:15pm (GMT), with papers from @WillAbberley and @JessJCox.
You can book a (free!) ticket here: tinyurl.com/bdfnpe4r
@BAVS_UK @navsa @incsscholars
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We're delighted to announce that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July @UniofOxford
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs202…
@BAVS_PGs
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17 Feb 2025
University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme victorianist.wordpress.com/2…
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22 Jan 2025
The Thomas Hardy Journals are looking for a reviewer for Timothy Carens' 'Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel'.
If you are interested in reading and reviewing this publication please get in touch at editor@hardysociety.org with a short bio! Open to all.
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Doug Battersby retweeted
30 Dec 2024
📢📚 My monograph, 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture', is hitting the shelves in Spring 2025!
Here's a sneak peak...
cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/th…
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25 Nov 2024
It's very exciting seeing proposals come in for 'Woolf & Dissidence' @SussexUniMAH @kingsenglishdpt The deadline for proposals is 13th December, so do submit your proposal soon! woolf2025.uk/ @IntVWoolfSoc @msatweet @modernistudies @VirginiaWoolfGB
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10 Nov 2024
Great opportunity for #EarlyCareerResearchers: OUP’s First Book Prize opens in Jan 2025. Publish your work fully #OpenAccess with a full OA fee waiver & hardback edition.
Don’t miss out! oxford.ly/4end5wH
ALT Early Career Researcher First Book Prize. Oxford University Press proudly presents the annual First Book Prize for ECRs, launching in January 2025. Explore the information page for further details.
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Doug Battersby retweeted
19 Nov 2024
An exciting announcement for our ECR followers: @OUPAcademic has announced plans for their new, annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers. Opening for submissions in January 2025; initial information is available to read here: academic.oup.com/pages/early…
Do share widely!
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18 Nov 2024
Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
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7 Nov 2024
I am giving a talk on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and asylum practices online with @aberdeenuni @EnglishAberdeen @CentreNovel and the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine on 20th November 4-5pm.
Teams link:
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5 Nov 2024
Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by @jacob_jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-pr…
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22 Oct 2024
What are the emotional and ethical risks of writing the lives of our lovers?
In our first Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop of Michaelmas 2024, Prof Santanu Das (@engfac) turns to #EMForster's archive for answers.
1 November. Limited spaces remaining: t.ly/zmOM1
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22 Oct 2024
I am launching my book this Thursday. @EdinburghUP @UvA_Humanities . All in Amsterdam are welcome to join!
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21 Oct 2024
NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Doctoral Research in Health Humanities.
The Health Humanities Research Group welcomes research projects that investigate all aspects of health humanities within our wide and diverse research specialisms.
lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua…
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15 Oct 2024
Tomorrow from 5pm (BST)!
Please join Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Stiles, and Andrew Mangham for an online seminar on “The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities”
Register for free here: tinyurl.com/y2pjuupw
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9 Oct 2024
NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature
lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua…
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