I'm very excited to be speaking as part of this year's English Grammar Day @britishlibrary on Monday 29 June. Full programme, and booking info, can be found here: ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/ev….
Any questions about the Forum Prize 2026 ❓ We've got you covered ✅
A Q&A with Jeremy Hicks (Queen Mary University of London), General Editor for the Forum Prize.
youtube.com/watch?v=gHFyA-0L…
This year's @FmlSjournal essay prize is open for submissions. The subject is "Science and the Arts", the deadline is 1 July, and the prize is publication £500! academic.oup.com/fmls/pages/…
We have a vacancy for a (permanent, full-time!) Lecturer in Scottish Literature in the School of English at St Andrews. The deadline for applications is 16 April. jobs.ac.uk/job/DQU707/lectur…
📢 Call for Entries: 2026 Forum Essay Prize
The prize is open to researchers at any career stage.
🏆 £500 prize and publication
📅 Deadline: 1 July 2026
Full details and submission guidelines here: academic.oup.com/fmls/pages/…
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn. Follow us to stay informed about journal initiatives and opportunities, alongside new research!! linkedin.com/company/forum-f…
Our special issue is out!🌈'The Opportunities of Laughter: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Humour in Walter Benjamin' offers fresh takes on Benjamin’s work, highlighting his use of humour as a critical approach to modernity. Check it out here: bit.ly/3O2gucA !
The latest issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies - a special issue on Walter Benjamin and humour - has just been published! academic.oup.com/fmls/issue/…
"Full fathom five…" by Edmund Dulac, from a 1915 edition of The Tempest.
From our essay by @drgregorytate on the attempts of a Victorian polymath to reconcile the languages of poetry and science: publicdomainreview.org/essay…
Karin Koehler and I are inviting chapter proposals for a book titled Literature and Multilingualism in the Four Nations 1800-1900, building on the @VicLitLang1 research network. Deadline 31 July 2025. Please share widely! victorianliterarylanguages.w…
Karin Koehler and I are inviting chapter proposals for a book titled Literature and Multilingualism in the Four Nations 1800-1900, building on the @VicLitLang1 research network. If this is of interest, please email us. And please share widely! victorianliterarylanguages.w…
If you're interested in multilingualism, linguistic diversity, and/or nineteenth-century literature, please check out the latest issue of @19_birkbeck, edited by me and Karin Koehler.
The latest issue of @19_birkbeck, edited by me & Karin Koehler, has just been published! It's based on our work on the "Victorian Literary Languages" research network (@VicLitLang1), and we're very grateful to our fantastic contributors. 19.bbk.ac.uk
The latest issue of @19_birkbeck, edited by me & Karin Koehler, has just been published! It's based on our work on the "Victorian Literary Languages" research network (@VicLitLang1), and we're very grateful to our fantastic contributors. 19.bbk.ac.uk
If you’re an academic with an interest in 19th-century crime (& who could fail to be interested in Victorian criminals?) please, please do come to our Conference in August. 🕵️
Give a paper, have a Janetta’s ice cream, paddle in the sea. PhD Students go free.
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Do repost!
"Full fathom five…" by Edmund Dulac, from a 1915 edition of The Tempest.
From our essay by @drgregorytate on the attempts of a Victorian polymath to reconcile the languages of poetry and science: buff.ly/33ji8NK
I'm very excited to be part of this new literary history of the 1870s: just published by @CambridgeUP, edited by the brilliant @alisonfchapman, and featuring the work of some amazing scholars (and me). cambridge.org/core/books/nin…
My @OUPAcademic selection of the poetry and prose of Arthur Hugh Clough has just been published in paperback! After decades of reading Clough, he still surprises and entertains me - a unique and under-rated poet. global.oup.com/academic/prod…