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New work in The Explicator exploring Henry James' various narrative strategies preconfigured by states of boredom. RIP Hyacinth Robinson, you would have hated journal paywalls. #published #litstudies #academia #newwriting
September 6, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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“Professor Susan Farrell neatly pieces together how Vonnegut created a modern classic whose anti-war message remains as relevant as ever.”

Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (out 20th Aug) is a @the-independent.com book of the month! #AcademicSky #LitStudies
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What to read in August
Martin Chilton picks his favourite new book releases for August
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August 14, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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“Professor Susan Farrell neatly pieces together how Vonnegut created a modern classic whose anti-war message remains as relevant as ever.”

Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (out 20th Aug) is a @the-independent.com book of the month! #AcademicSky #LitStudies
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What to read in August
Martin Chilton picks his favourite new book releases for August
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August 8, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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“Professor Susan Farrell neatly pieces together how Vonnegut created a modern classic whose anti-war message remains as relevant as ever.”

Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five (out 20th Aug) is a @the-independent.com book of the month! #AcademicSky #LitStudies
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What to read in August
Martin Chilton picks his favourite new book releases for August
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August 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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The latest issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW is on its way to subscribers, & available online via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional subscription required)

Essays on Robert Louis Stevenson; Muriel Spark; Anne Grant of Laggan; & Robert Fergusson
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A bright yellow journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Spring | Summer 2026 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages. Contents Editorial Ainsley McIntosh ‘Your Weak Brother in Verse’: Infirmity and the Poetics of Constraint in Stevenson Judith Popova Subverting Literary Tradition: An Absurd Reading of Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat Rob Sutton ‘One darling idol, fondly cherished by all true Highlanders’: The Rational Supernatural – Anne Grant’s Challenges to the Cultural Authority of Walter Scott Amy Wilcockson Satire, Food and Drink in the Poems of Robert Fergusson Notes on Contributors
July 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Our summer sale ends TODAY! Get up to 30% off our #LitStudies and #CreativeWriting books until midnight tonight. ⌛

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July 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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Our summer sale is coming to an end and with it your chance to get up to 30% off our #LitStudies and #CreativeWriting books!

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July 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Our summer sale is coming to an end and with it your chance to get up to 30% off our #LitStudies and #CreativeWriting books!

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July 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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We're thrilled that @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social's fantastic book, An A-Z of Beatrix Potter, has won the Wordsworth Prize for Literature & Poetry at the Lakeland Book of the Year awards! 🎉

Want to read this much-loved addition to our #LitStudies list? It's 30% off in our Summer sale 'til Sunday.
July 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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#newpublication: 'Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings]' by member José Manuel Marrero Henríquez!

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May 1, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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#academicjob: 'Postdoctoral Research Associate - Cultures of Ecotechnology', University of York, England
Deadline: 28/04/2026

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April 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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#newbook: 'Letteratura e Antropocene. Forma, etica, estetica', Annamaria Elia, 2026

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Letteratura e Antropocene - Editpress
Che cosa accade alla letteratura quando l’Antropocene non è più soltanto una categoria descrittiva, ma un mutamento profondo dei nostri modi di conoscere, sentire, immaginare e abitare il mondo? In ch...
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April 22, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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#CFP: "What’s the Matter with Description? Form, Practice, and Material Culture"; University of Delaware’s 5th CMCS Conference in Material Culture, April 2-3, 2027

Deadline: July 15, 2026

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February 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Scotland Along the New Silk Road
@iassl.bsky.social 5th World Congress
17–20 June 2027, Nanjing

This congress seeks to foster reciprocal understanding & cultural collaborations between Scotland & the diverse voices of the New Silk Road
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Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027)
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027. Being China’s first city designated as a “UNESCO City of Literature…
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February 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye

Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
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January 29, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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🚨 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026

Abstracts due for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music with @BloomsburyAcad.

We need 350w abstracts on lit/music intersections.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
The relationship between literature and popular music is deeply interwoven. Literature has long served as an inspiration for popular music, with lyrics, form and style borrowing from classic and conte...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Smyth argues that Naish's That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the farm novel through its portrayal of women and class.

#class #LitStudies #OzLit #OzStudies

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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Subverting Social Order: Recovering the Intelligent Woman Farmer in John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963). Author: Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Abstract: In a 1985 lecture, Australian literary scholar Bruce Bennett said that people associated with farming are commonly regarded as intellectually impoverished. John Naish’s farm novel That Men Should Fear (1963) subverts the literary social order that Bennett described by portraying a farmer who is characterised as highly educated. Naish’s first novel, The Cruel Field (1962), has appeared in recent georgic studies and ecocritical scholarship, and in analyses of the migrant experience and labour systems. In this article, I recover his second novel, That Men Should Fear, and argue that Naish’s characterisation of the farmer as university educated subverts the literary “scale of civilisation” noted by Bennett while enabling insights into a class division based on ownership of farmland. This article centres on Naish’s portrayal of a strong and independent woman farmer at a time when women felt sidelined in Australian literature and society. I argue that Naish’s That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the Australian farm novel by expanding traditional representations of women and class. It also enriches the farmer’s perspective offered in Naish’s The Cruel Field.
January 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Hello from #MLA26! 👋 Come see us at Booth #217 with our friends at University of Nebraska Press to browse our latest titles. 📚

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January 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye

Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via @projectmuse.bsky.social (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly!
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A dark blue journal cover with white lettering: SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW Autumn | Winter 2025 Journal of the Association for Scottish Literature The cover illustration shows an open book, lying on its back, with four stylised, twisty thistles growing from between its fanned pages. Contents page 1 Editorial Kang-yen Chiu: Resistance to Accommodation: Postcolonial Readings of the Highland Clearances in Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider the Lilies Megan Coyer: ‘By famine, sword, and pestilence’: James Hogg and Cholera in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country Alison Denham: William Thom (1798–1848), Weaver Poet: The London Years Katherine Ferrier: The Literary Gossiping of Susan Ferrier Mao Guihua and Zheng Ronghua: Animal Subjectivity in the Poetry of Robert Burns Under the Animal Turn Scott Hames: Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination Sarah Harlan-Haughey: Low Visibility: ‘wickit wedderis’ and the Contest of Knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear Kaiyue He: Muriel Spark and the House of the Brontës: Female Authorship and Autonomy Joanna Martin: ‘He in alle thing wele temperite was’: The Emotional Language of The Buik of King Alexander The Conquerour Ian Cameron Robertson: Green Blades Among the Rubble – Posterity’s Judgement on The Minstrel? Angus Sutherland: Hogg and the Ettrick Clearances Annalisa Nicholson: Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World, by Esther Inglis; an essay, by Jamie Reid Baxter (review) Trish Reid: Plays in Scots, Volume 1 and Volume 2, by Michel Tremblay (review) Honor Rieley: The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1: Beginnings and Consolidation, 1640–1800, edited by Nicholas Brownlees (review) Désha Osborne: Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons: Romanticism’s Black Geographies, by Katey Castellano (review) Adam Kozaczka: Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions, edited by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review) Zsuzsanna Varga: A modern skót irodalom a 19. század végétől napjainkig [Modern Scottish Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day], by Attila Dósa (review) Lois Burke: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature, edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis (review) Scott Lyall: History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, by William K. Malcolm (review) Peter Auger: Mary Queen of Scots: The First Biography: With the Life and Times of Its Author, George Con, by Ronald Santangeli (review) Amy Wilcockson: Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp (review) Hilary Clydesdale: Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life, by Juliet Shields (review) Notes on Contributors
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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In "Clowns in the Burying Ground," Christopher K. Coffman brings together #Deadheads and #LitStudies, showing how the Grateful Dead drew from the English and European literary canon to explore how creative powers can generate meaning. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/he9xzzZ
December 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026

Exploring the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work – deadline 30 Nov
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Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 11-12 May 2026 Aula Baratto Organizers: Lucio De Capitani...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
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Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye

Proposals invited exploring literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English in the 20th century
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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing
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October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Dreaming the Daily Darg: Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918
Studies in Scottish Literature 50/1, 2025

A special issue exploring work & working life in Scottish writing chiefly of the 20th & 21st centuries – available now on Open Access
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Articles Introduction: Dreaming the Daily Darg Corey Gibson Jute mill songs: Mary Brooksbank and industrial tradition in a dying industry Erin Farley ‘And On One Toils, Into The Hill’: Working and Walking in Nan Shepherd’s North East Sarah Leith Labour and (Class) Struggle in James Barke’s Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming with Rob Roy, Marx & Burns Arianna Introna Proletarian Nights in Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place Corey Gibson Agnes Owens and the Parliament of Insignificant Lives Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow Kate Wilson James Kelman and the Impossibility of Managerial Souls Joseph H. Jackson ‘Just Get It On The Table’: Gendered Food Labour in Janice Galloway’s Fiction Gina Lyle Scottish Workers’ Stories of Life and Labour during Covid-19 from the Workers’ Stories Project Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, and Ewan Gibbs
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM