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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
“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
“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
https://bit.ly/4yZyWWm
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
“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
https://bit.ly/4yZyWWm
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
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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July 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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
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
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
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
#newpublication: 'Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings]' by member José Manuel Marrero Henríquez!

Info: bailedelsol.org/textos-del-d...

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

Info: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

#envhum #envhist #environment #ecocriticism #ecopoetics #litstudies #ecolit #litsky #ecology
Jobs - The University of York
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April 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
#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

Info: champ.ly/6TgMslzZ

#smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #materialculture #litstudies
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February 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM
CFP
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
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
#litstudies
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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
🚨 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.

📥 Sub: tinyurl.com/cfcblolitpop... 📄 CFP: iaspm.org.uk/the-bloomsbu...

#LitStudies #PopMusic #CFP
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
Next in 49.4:

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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January 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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
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
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
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
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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December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
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
#C19th #litstudies
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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
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
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
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
October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM