Sign in

Ben Doyle

@bendoyle.bsky.social
2.5K followers 853 following 539 posts

Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.

PostsRepliesMedia
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something tells me it's not going to be my year...
Image shows a Glastonbury festival ticket queue page on a laptop screen.
140
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just finished (and rather enjoyed) this. Despite the deeply AI-skeptical tone I found its take on the situation weirdly heartening. Though I appreciate experts will likely say it WILDLY oversimplifies. But I'm glad for that. Decent read that I got through at a good clip.
Image shows a copy of the book titled The Reverse centaur's guide to life after ai
020
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🥹❤️
Image is a headshot of a black greyhound with grey muzzle and grey eyebrows looking beseechingly into the camera
040
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jacket spread for the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new Blue Humanities handbook now finalized. Doesn't it look lovely?! 600 pages of some of the finest folks working in the field. It's the most comprehensive overview to date. What an achievement! @stevementz.bsky.social @serpiloppermann.bsky.social
Image shows a jacket spread (front and back) for the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Blue Humanities. The jacket is an overhead shot of a body of water and land and the back jacket is grey and turquoise. Blurb reads:

The most comprehensive treatment of the emerging discourse of the Blue Humanities to date, this book comprises essays from key figures alongside new voices, creating a navigational map through this new discipline’s formulations and possibilities.
Structured around four parts, Discourses, Networks, Forms and Representations, the Handbook begins by establishing
the critical discourses and theoretical lenses that shape
how we see our planet’s water, and the impact of watery
thinking on disciplinary knowledge. It ranges across the
Indian, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic and Southern Ocean worlds,
recognising oceans as active, connective systems that
link people, species, ideas, and materials across time and
space. It considers the myriad ways humans encounter
water: salty, fresh, frozen or fluid, out in the world or moving
within human bodies. It also explores artistic practices that
conceptualize human relation to water – visual, sonic, poetic
– and the watery imaginings of artists conjuring an immersive
encounter to bear witness to historical injustice and a climate
crisis that is all too current. Moving beyond Western binaries
of colonial representation, the book includes a diverse range
of contributions and contributors, making it essential reading
for scholars and students of the Blue Humanities.
0216
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's finally here - publication day for Black Feminist Theories from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social ! Please share far and wide - this is essential reading for anyone teaching the topic, or simply interested. Available in paperback, it's 456 exciting, stirring pages: www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
Image shows a digital marketing asset with a bright orange background and the jacket for the book Black Feminist Theories on it. Text reads: What has Black feminism given you? Language. Method. Permission. Rage. Pleasure. Possibility. A way of seeing.
033
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dogs>people
010
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New addition to our burgeoning Science, Technology and Society' list - 'Green Dreams: Why Technology Can't Save the World' just dropped onto my desk! Working on something STS-shaped? Please drop me a line! @imreszeman.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
Image shows a copy of the book Green Dreams on a desk.
051
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ToC 2/2
Image shows the second part of the table of contents for the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Plant Humanities. It reads:
C. FORMS

(15) “Tree” (Sumana Roy, Ashoka University)

(16) “Weeds: Context Is Everything” (Peter del Tredici, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University)

(17) “Crops and the Life Cycle of the Plant” (Elizabeth Kellogg, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center) 

(18) “Plantation” (Sophie Chao, University of Sydney)

(19) “Thinking Like a Landscape” (John Beardsley, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)

D. CASE STUDIES

(20) “Barley, The Goddess’s Gift: An Archaeobotanical and Textual Exploration of an Ancestral Food Staple of Greece” 

(21) “A Flower for the Desert: Nation-Building and the Ceibo in Argentinean Culture” 

(22) “Leafy Matter: Reflections on the Tea Bush” (Romita Ray, Syracuse University)

(23) “Coffee Through the Plant Humanities Lens” (Sarada Krishnan, Global Crop Diversity Trust, and Fernando Vega, USDA)

(24) “From Extinction to Distinction: Creating Narratives on the Living Fossil Metasequoia glyptostroboides in China” 

(25) “Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis): Booms and Busts of the Rubber Cycle in Amazonia” (Luciana Martins, Birkbeck, University of London)

(26) “Bodhi (Ficus religiosa): Place-Making and Spiritual Significance of Plants in Buddhism” (Natasha Heller, University of Virginia)

(27) “Ungovernable Beauty: Ottoman Tulips in the Eighteenth Century” (Amanda Phillips, University of Virginia)

(28) “The More than Human in Beny Moré’s “Mata Siguaraya”: Plant Songs in Ethnography of the African Diaspora” (Kenneth Walker, New York Botanical Garden)

(29) “What Use are Seeds Without the Right Expertise: Eucalyptographic Hierarchy in Early British Cyprus” (Jackson Perry, U.S. Naval Academy)

(30) “Boundless Prickly Pear: A Social History of a Plant Revisited (Eastern Cape)” (Luvuyo Wotshela, Rhodes University)

(31) “A succulent subject: The Value of Psychoanalysis for the Plant Humanities (Jared Margulies, University of Alabama)
000
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Had an enthusiastic 'thumbs up' from the peer reviewer for our forthcoming 'Bloomsbury Handbook to the Plant Humanities', which promises to be AWESOME & will sit beautifully beside @stevementz.bsky.social, @serpiloppermann.bsky.social et al's Blue Humanities handbook. ToC sneak peek below...
Image shows part one of a table of contents that reads:
BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK FOR THE PLANT HUMANITIES


Table of Contents

(00) “Introduction to the Plant Humanities” (Yota Batsaki, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University and Peter Crane, Oak Spring Garden Foundation)

A. CONCEPTS

(01) “Evolution” William (Ned) Friedman, Harvard University and Arnold Arboretum)

(02) “A Planet of Ecosystems” (Stephen Jackson, University of Wyoming)

(03) “The Language of Species” (Sandra Knapp, Natural History Museum, London)

(04) “Extinction in Deep and Historical Time” (Yota Batsaki, Dumbarton Oaks and Peter Crane, Oak Spring Garden Foundation) 

(05) “Geographies of Refuge: Conservation, Ancestral Agroecologies, and Food Futures” (Judith Carney, Richard Rosomoff, Case Watkins) 

(06) “Plant Mobilities” (Felix Driver, Royal Holloway University of London and Diego Molina, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 

(07) “Agnotology: The Circulation of Plants in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” 
(Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University)

(08) “Botanical Illustration” (Anatole Tchikine, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University)

B. COLLECTIONS

(09) “Herbarium” (Maura Flannery, St. John’s University)

(10) “Botanic Gardens: For Plants and People” (Peter Crane, Oak Spring Garden Foundation and Yota Batsaki, Dumbarton Oaks)

(11) “Biocultural Collections” (Caroline Cornish and Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

(12) “Seeds, Seed Banks, and the Future of Plants (Peter Crane, Oak Spring Garden Foundation)

(13) “Libraries and Archives for the Plant Humanities” (Isabelle Charmantier, Linnean Society)

(14) “Materia Medica: The Art of Knowing through Illustrated Bencao in China” (Ruiying Gao, 
Wake Forest University)
061
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pickle getting dressy. Photo courtesy of @gabyturner.bsky.social
Photo shows a black greyhound with a grey muzzle and very beady eyes wearing a large, floppy hat
160
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Can we talk about how terrifying pigeons attempting to kiss is?
010
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Part III Genres, Styles, and Translations 
20. Asiatic Goths and Oriental Gothic. James Watt 					531–558
21. Asia on the British Romantic Stage. David Worrall 					559–585
22. The Fashion for Kashmiri Shawls in Romantic Britain. Suchitra Choudhury 		586-610
23. The Chinese Taste in Britain. Stephen McDowall 					611–634
24. The Company We Keep: Art, Commerce, Empire. Holly Shaffer 			635–666
25. Texts and Translation: China. Timothy Barrett and Amy Matthewson 			667–689
26. Translation and Transculturation of English Romantic Poetry in Meiji Japan. Kaz Oishi    690–712
27. Romanticism and Japan in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Kimiyo Ogaw   713– 739
28. Romanticism and China in the Twentieth Century. Ou Li. 				740–763
000
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Part II Peoples, Places, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
10. India, 1770–1813: Early Anglophone Writing. James Mulholland			284–310
11. India (1814–40): Later British Writing. Máire ní Fhlathúin 				311–334
12. Remaking British Romanticism: Women Poets in Nineteenth-century India. Mary Ellis Gibson												335–359
13. On Ideas of the Bengal Renaissance and the Thing Itself. Rosinka Chaudhuri 		360–381
14. China (1770-1842): From Chinoiserie to Opium. Elizabeth Chang 			382–403
15. Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860. Laurence Williams 	404–428
16. Malay Dreams: Knowledge, History, and Colonial Expansion in Southeast Asia. Christina Skott 												429-–56
17. Pan-Buddhism and Heritage-making across Maritime Networks. Himanshu Prabha Ray
											457–477
18. Britain, India, China, and the Opium Trade. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts 			478–505
19. Tea. Markman Ellis 									506–530
100
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Introduction: Romanticism in Britain and Asia. Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson												1–44

Part I Histories and Contexts
1. Romanticism in the Colony: Orientalism, Translation, and the Aesthetic unconscious in British India. Baidik Bhattacharya 									45–66
2. Romantic Orientalism and Asia. Alex Watson 						67–92
3. The English East India Company, Colonialism, and Empire. Callie Wilkinson		93-–17
4. Obedient Despots: Indirect Rule and the Lure of Empire in Early British India. Sudipta Sen 
118–140
5. Asian Religions and Romanticism. Chris Murray 					141–168
6. Sati, Colonialism, and the Romantic Imagination. Andrea Major 			169–190
7. Circulating Plants: Canton, Calcutta, Kew. Kate Teltscher 				191–222
8. Romantic Ecology and Asia. Robert E. Markley					223–252
9. War, Resistance, and Revolt. Peter J. Kitson 						253–283
100
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
'Green Dreams' traces the rise of green techno-optimism from postwar fantasies of progress to Silicon Valley manifestos, EV marketing, Big Tech sustainability campaigns, and Hollywood eco-futures. Beautiful eh? @imreszeman.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/green-dreams...
The book's jacket shows a dreamy background of clouds and blue sky, with wind turbines peaking above the clouds. The jacket blurb reads: Electric cars, smart apps, green AI, carbon
capture, solar panels—everywhere we
turn, we’re told technology will save the
planet. Green Dreams shows why that
promise is so compelling, and why it keeps
us chasing solutions that leave the real
causes of the climate crisis untouched.
Blending cultural criticism, political
analysis, and environmental history,
Green Dreams traces the rise of green
techno-optimism from postwar fantasies
of progress to Silicon Valley manifestos,
EV marketing, Big Tech sustainability
campaigns, and Hollywood eco-futures.
Along the way, it exposes the hidden
costs of supposedly “clean” technologies:
extractive mining, exploding energy
demand, ecological destruction, and the
preservation of systems built on endless
growth and consumption. Rather than
rejecting technology outright, Tanner
Mirrlees and Imre Szeman argue that
technological solutions can matter only if
paired with deeper social, political, and
economic transformation. Provocative,
accessible, and sharply argued, Green
Dreams offers a powerful critique of one
of the defining ideologies of our time.
064
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
JUST landed on my desk, the amazing 'Black Feminist Theories', a landmark text and an essential book for courses. So many people put so much into this, including the volume editors and my amazing assistant Leigh. Huge thanks to you all. www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
Image shows two copies of the book 'Black Feminist Theories'. Jacket image is of Nana Buku by Brianna McCarthy.
030
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Day two of #MSA #BAMS joint conference. Come see me at the stand!
Image shows a Bloomsbury branded book stand complete with books on modernism
000
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Lining a tag and calling the tagger a 'toy'. No, not New York in the 80s/90s. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Fleet high street, in Hampshire.
000
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Also any excuse to push our 'Blue Humanities' series, ed. @serpiloppermann.bsky.social & @stevementz.bsky.social First three books are 'The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change', 'Hydropoetics' and 'Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water'. Check the series out here: www.bloomsbury.com/series/the-b...
Image is of a series flyer for the Bloomsbury series 'Blue Humanities'. Text reads: 
SERIES EDITORS:
Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr
The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today.
The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies.
Forthcoming in the series
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change
By Simon Estok
December 2026 
This book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship to water in an age characterized by climate change.
Hydropoetics
Briony Hughes
June 2027 
Examines work by innovative poets to think about the ‘hydro’ not simply thematically but also in terms of methodology, material, and practice.
Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water
Kate Lewis Hood
October 2027 
This book develops an interdisciplinary approach that reads poetic work in dialogue with anti-colonial spatial practices.
060
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A lot of interest in our new 'Critical Memory Studies' series at the mo! The first three volumes publishing: 'Slowing Down Memory Studies' (open access), 'Critical Indigenous Memory Studies', and 'Enabling Memory'. Check the series out here: www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...
Image is a series flyer for the series Critical Memory Studies. Text reads: Critical Memory Studies
Critical Memory Studies ranges across diverse cultures of memory and histories of remembrance while simultaneously synthesising and disrupting the legacies of cultural memory studies with fresh interventions from newer interdisciplinary areas of study. These includes studies of gender, queer LGBTQIA+ issues, race, indigeneity, disability, social movements, animals and posthumanism, and environmental and digital humanities. This exciting new series explores how cultures of memory are shaped by the legacies of colonisation and decolonisation; the remembrance of nonhuman actants and agencies in event-formation; the recalibration, beyond human-centred perspectives, of the temporal and spatial scales by which event-formation can be measured; the socioecological effects of climate change; and new digital technologies and their mediations of memory. This dynamic series ensures the field’s immersion in lived experiences across social, cultural, political, economic and geographical contexts and its agile responsiveness to challenging real-world scenarios.
Series Editors:
Lucy Bond, University of Westminster, UK Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Jessica Rapson, King’s College London, UK Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Forthcoming in the Series:
Slowing Down Memory Studies: Theory and Practice for Transformative Change
Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Critical Indigenous Memory Studies
Edited by Ethan Madarieta
Enabling Memory: Ambivalence and Frames of Mourning the Empire
By Pia Bakshi
240
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Beer garden read. KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
Photo shows a table in a pub beer garden with a bottle of beer partially poured into a pint glass alongside a copy of the book 'Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination'
060
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
VERY excited that the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Handbook to the Blue Humanities, edited by the incomparable @stevementz.bsky.social @serpiloppermann.bsky.social Mohammed Muharram & Sandra Young, is in production, with a January '27 pub date. On our website soon, but here's a sneak preview ToC...
Image shows a table of contents which reads:
Prefatory Poem: Juan Carlos Galeano 
Preface: Anna Iltnere 

Part I: Discourses
1. Blue Postcolonialism, Mohammed Muharram  and Kerstin Knopf 
2. Black Hydro-Logics, Mapule Mohulatsi 
3. Blue History, Matt McKenzie 
4. Blue Philosophy, Melody Jue 
5. Blue Ecology, Michael Blackstock 
6. Blue Religion, Justine Bakker 
7. Blue Linguistics, K. David Harrison 
8. Blue Law, Irus Braverman and Sofie Quist 
9. Blue Anthropology, Nils Bubant 
10. Hydro-Feminism, Tamara Sheffer and Vivienne Bozalek
Part II: Networks
11. Indian Ocean, Rila Mukherjee 
12. Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Pastore 
13. Pacific Ocean, Antonio Ortega Santos 
14. Southern Ocean, Charne Lavery 
15. Arctic Ocean, Hester Blum, 
Part III: Forms
16. The Non-Human, Simon Estok 
17. Currents: Dan Brayton 
18. The Surf, Keven Dawson 
19. Storms, Alison Maas 
20. Clouds and Rain, Alison Glassie 
21. Ice, Lowell Duckert 
22. Fresh Water, Ellen Arnold 
23. The Deep, Laurence Publicover
24. The Seabed, Killian Quigley 
25. Coasts and Ports, Isaac Land 
26. Human Bodies, Gulsah Gocmen and Adem Balci 
27. Oceanic Feelings, Steve Mentz 
Part IV: Representations
28. Underwater Photography, Margaret Cohen 
29. Blue Acoustics, Stefan Helmreich 
30. Visual Art, Jaimey Hamilton Faris 
31. Theatre and Performance, Maurya Wickstrom 
32. Poetry of Oceania, Craig Santos Perez 
33. Blue Literature, Meg Samuelson and Maria Geustyn
34. Indigenous Poetics: Hsinya Huang 
Conclusion: The Blue Humanities and the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann 
Index
081
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Coming soon in the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Environmental Cultures series...'Images of the Plant Humanities'. It's a fantastic collection (and rather beautiful too). www.bloomsbury.com/images-of-th...
Image shows a jacket proof for the book 'Images of the Plant Humanities'. Across both the front and back are botanical drawings of plants.
1248
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Another rather lovely looking jacket proof! Publishing open access in September, 'Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel' is coming soon in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/neurodiversi...
Image shows a full spread of the front, spine and back jackets of 'Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel' by Nicola Simonetti. The jacket is green, with a graphic featuring c. 10 distorted, wavy Alice in Wonderland style clocks
040
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Great to see the jacket proof for this finalized! A wide-ranging, future-focused overview of madness in literature and visual culture - this book makes a huge contribution to literary and visual culture studies as well as mad studies. More details: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/madness-i...
Image shows the jacket proof for the book 'Madness in Literature and Visual Culture' by anna six. Jacket depicts a tornado rendered in charcoal, billowing up to the top left of the jacket. The title is in block caps in yellow in the top left.
1126
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Look what just landed on my desk...! Publishing in Aug, in beautiful jacketed hardback, 'Vonnegut's War', fusing biography with popular history and textual analysis, Vonnegut's War tells the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
Image shows a copy of the book Vonnegut's War on a desk
2231
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
@bloomsburylit.bsky.social all set up at the BSLS conference!
Photo shows a table with six Bloomsbury books on it, along with some flyers and a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth.
011
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Just got in to the #BSLS2026 conference after a LONG and very interrupted and delayed journey. Feels good to be back in Glasgow. Come see me!
Photo shows a man in a khaki shirt holding a BSLS lanyard and smiling
010
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Enraged Brontë fans making their feelings known in Fleet
Picture shows a bus stop advertisement for the Wuthering Heights film half pulled out of its casing.
020
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Really nice to see the final paperback jacket proof for the latest in @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Global Challenges...' series. Edited by Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby, 'Unsettling Extinction': www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...
Image displays the front and back jacket of 'Unsettling Extinction', a book in the Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities' series. The jacket image depicts a bird on a perch in a bell-jar with a spike through it. Jacket blurb reads:

Biodiversity loss threatens to transform the ecological foundations of all
biological life on the planet, yet solutions to this crisis are fiercely contested. This
book addresses extinction by exploring species decline and conservation with a
particular emphasis on divergent cultural framings, temporal scales, and media.
Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, cultural geography, environmental
history, philosophy, literary studies, media studies, and studies of religion, this
book explores how the engagement with biodiversity loss challenges basic
assumptions in these disciplines and opens up new avenues of thought and
activism for shaping the multispecies communities of the future.
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most
exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species
extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the environmental
humanities.
083
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...
Image shows the jacket proof for 'Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches'. Front cover has a green background with multicolour leaves edging it and an illustration of a Black figure in profile, wearing colourful dress. 

Back cover copy reads:
An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.

Featuring ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. The collection includes not only standard academic essays, but also vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, and creative work, which transmit and embody Black feminist thought.

The book is broken up into five carefully curated sections:
- Black Feminist Foundations
- Statements and Manifestos
- Cultures and Aesthetics
- Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities
- Black Feminist Futures

Timely and important, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black Studies, Women & Gender Studies and Black Feminist Studies, as well as more generally to American Studies, African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and African Diaspora Studies.

A number of endorsements are also included from Amina Mama, Rhoda Reddock, Barbara Smith, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
0123
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...
Image shows a jacket spread (front and back) for new book 'Vonnegut's War' by Susan Farrell. The front cover is a cartoonish image of a stickperson being beamed up by the icon of a UFO. This image is surrounded by icons of eyes. The back jacket contains endorsements from John Irving, Ken Kalfus and Suzanne McConnell.
193
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Great to see so many of our books in one place!
Picture is of a Bloomsbury academic book exhibit, with one table in the front and three in a horseshoe shape behind it. The tables are covered with books.
070
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
Photograph shows the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' on a bookshop bookshelf, jacket out.
021
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
All set up at #MSA25. Stand looking good and we are ready to rock!
Photo shows two tables with blue Bloomsbury tablecloths covered in books on book stands.
060
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
Photo shows a copy of the book 'How to Weather Together' on a desk.
021
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
Photo shows two empty airplane seats next to the one I'm sitting in
040
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
Image shows the full jacket spread for new Bloomsbury book 'Listening In'.
050
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
Image shows a hand holding the book The American Sentence. The paperback jacket is navy blue, with the outline of a pen nib in lighter blue, with the title and author name - Ira Nadel - embossed in gold on it.
073
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Lazy Friday dog.
Picture shows a greyhound on her back 'roaching', stretching across the whole length of a double bed.
080
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein. www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...
Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'
0137
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Post-ADHO trip to the Douro valley! #holidayreads
Photo shows a copy of Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie Marsh' in the foreground against a backdrop of a view of the Douro valley.
010
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Last day of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social at the ADHO conference today! I know you couldn't all be here, so here's the conference booklist. Order via our website and use the discount code BLOOM-CONF-26 to get 35% off. Lisbon, it's been real!
Photograph is of the list of books displayed at the conference. For details of specifically what titles these are, email me at ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com
010
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A new Thomas Pynchon novel imminent? Sign me up!
Photograph is of Thomas Pynchon's new book 'Shadow Ticket', publishing October 7 2025.
032
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social all set up at #adho25 in Lisbon. Looking forward to an exciting week aheadm
Photograph shows a Bloomsbury Academic book stand with ten digital humanities books on it, along with some flyers. There is a hand holding a DH 2025 lanyard in the foreground.
0121
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
All set up at the global Jane Austen conference at Southampton!
Photograph of a table with a Bloomsbury tablecloth on it, along with six books all on Jane Austen
060
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Better late than never, but obligatory stand photo at the Shared Futures conference! Into the second day and all going well!
Photo shows a table with a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth, with ten Bloomsbury books on the table.
030
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Just arrived at Shared Futures and getting set up. I've worked in publishing for 15 years and am still entirely unable to work out how to construct a book easel. Help.
Photo shows an unconstructed book easel/stand for an individual book
080
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Now on the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social website in anticipation of a Feb pub date, 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton. Pre-order your copy of the paperback here: www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath... (Ignore placeholder endorsement text!)
Jacket is for the book How to Weather Together. The jacket is bright green with pink font and small icons relating summer and water (ice creams, wellington boots, umbrellas etc). Blurb reads: In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and
Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model
for climate change mitigation and adaptation that
brings together climate justice and community
engagement. Translating feminist theory into
practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually
change the world as the world changes us.
Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist,
queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and
Hamilton propose ‘weathering’ as both a theoretical
framework and a set of practical tools for responding
to environmental catastrophe. They ask how we can
reckon with existential crisis through playful,
low-tech practice by connecting the planetary to the
personal.
ASTRIDA NEIMANIS is Canada Research Chair in
Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University
of British Columbia, Canada on unceded syilx
territory.
JENNIFER MAE HAMILTON lives and works on
unceded Anaiwan Country as Senior Lecturer in
Literary Studies at the University of New England,
Australia.
031
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Who would have seen this coming?!!! I for one am SHOCKED.
Photo is a BBC news article with the headline Trump says relationship with Musk is over
020