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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For ease, here's the post on jobs.ac.uk. Applications close 14th October. Job starts in January. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD128/l...
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Lecturer in English Literature at University of Winchester
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in English Literature on jobs.ac.uk!
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Come and work with us at UoW! The English department is looking to appoint a new colleague with expertise in pre-1800 writing. Our application deadline is October 14, and the successful candidate will be starting in January 2027. Please circulate far and wide. www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...
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Work with us - University of Winchester
Explore the University of Winchester and discover your new career. We have a variety of positions in academic and professional services. Work with us.
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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hwaet! Winchester is advertising for a 0.5FTE, open-ended contract in English Lit (pre-1800). Deadline 14 October for applications. Please share this with anyone who might be interested! www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excited that we'll be welcoming a new member to the English Literature team. For more details and to apply see the link below. We're looking for a 0.5 colleague with a specialism in pre-1800s. www.winchester.ac.uk/About-Us/Wor...
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Work with us - University of Winchester
Explore the University of Winchester and discover your new career. We have a variety of positions in academic and professional services. Work with us.
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just delivered proofs for a chapter on Stranger Things and Chernobyl Prayer that I'm very excited about. Part of the Atomic Horror collection due for publication in December.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, that's my first day of Welcome Week-Welcome Back Week activities completed. (Level 4 today - a Welcome Talk,a personal tutors talk, a near two hour long literary tour of Winchester, and a library tour.) Welcome Back sessions for Levels 5 and 6 tomorrow. More double espresso, stat!!
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Just had a lovely chat with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for an episode of NBN about Wastelands and Wonderlands. Paperback version is now just on the horizon. I hope the episode, when it airs, will give potential readers more insight into what it's all about.
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Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just over one week to apply for this! Come work with us at Winchester with a one-year maternity cover in Modern British History #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW286/l...
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Lecturer in Modern History at University of Winchester
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Modern History on jobs.ac.uk!
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Last four watched - - Valedictory Western for John Wayne - Sam Raimi does a Western with a stacked cast and lots of directorial Raimi-isms - Slow cinema wilderness survival story - Dude who can shrink and talk to ants
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Marc Welsh @marcwelsh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hey UCU. Please remove this post (for now). It incorrectly names specific institutions that CURRENTLY employ English lecturers, have English departments and teach English students as having 'shut' their schemes. The overall argument may not be wrong, but some of the facts are and need correcting.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Out of office on, bag packed, books to read. Annual leave, here I come.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Last four watched (left to right) * Spider-capers, with added trauma, guilt, and Millennial sadsack life stuff relatable * Reliving Covid, with added zombies * Jennifer Lawrence having a bit of lighthearted fun * My worst fears for how A.I. could turn out, with added smashy crashy stuff
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geraldmcgrew @geraldmcgrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
*“You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism* www.currentaffairs.org/news/mel-bro...
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Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker
Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most “politically incorrect” humor.
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hope you enjoy this. A bit of a departure for us. #CriticalRole #DnD #TTRPG #CR #Critters
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Me: "I should probably listen to some of the new music that I have bought....." Also Me: "Nah, 'Is This It' again..."
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm looking forward to getting stuck into this over the summer.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Left with no comment other than, You know what to do: c.org/QXJBNfxLsN
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Sign the Petition
Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Had a great time presenting at The Quartet Symposium today organised by my wonderful colleagues @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social and Dan Varndell! The papers were all incredibly delivered and thought-provoking. I previewed my Utopian Studies paper I'll be giving in Bucharest in a couple of weeks!
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Last four watched on #Letterboxd.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Last four watched on #Letterboxd
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
First day of Term 2, and back to teaching. This morning, I had an intro session for "Researching Film Studies". This afternoon, I have the opening class for "Superheroes", covering hero monomyths, defining the superhero and superhero film genre, and other opening debates and discussions.
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Need something uplifting right now? This might be it...
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Loved Marty Supreme. What starts as a period sports drama centred on a self-mythologising chancer, evolves into an anxiety-inducing riff on hustle culture (and Chalamet's quest for greatness) touching on post-WWII class and race, soundtracked anachronistically by banging 1980s electronic music.
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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Just sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture
This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned
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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We are listed @sunypress.bsky.social! Congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social! sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wast...
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Wastelands and Wonderlands
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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We Can Make an Impact.
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Physical copies of my book have arrived, yay! I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Evidence of today's class - Structuralism and "Kiss Me Deadly".
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 03/11/2025
Sheffield Hallam was pressured by the Chinese state to shut down research into human rights abuses and gave in. “It’s incredibly worrying that Hallam appears to have silenced its own professor on behalf of a foreign government.” Jo Grady. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My day today: * teaching 9am-11am (Golden Age cartoons), * rush to town, gown-up, and do graduation (11:45- 1:45), * do a little bit of celebrating (1:45-2ish), rush to de-gown, * rush back to campus, * teach 3pm-5pm (semitic and film) Coffee, don't fail me now ...
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
New episode of @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social landing on Wednesday and given its close connection to my own research on play in utopian and dystopian fiction and the fact it marks a year since we started the podcast it's certainly a special one for me.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
One Battle After Another. What a film.
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a woman in a plaid coat is walking down a hallway with the words viva la revolucion on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a plaid coat is walking down a hallway with the words viva la revolucion on the bottom
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Well, I sure picked an interesting evening to go and see Eddington...
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It's alive! Publication day! Play in Utopian and Dystopian Ficion arrived in the mail. Thanks Liverpool University Press for producing such a beautiful book.
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Matthew Leggatt @matthewleggatt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Publication day! If you're interested in reading my piece on Julie Dash's brilliant "Daughters of the Dust" (film and novel), co-authored with the wonderful Betty Knight, you can read it here. It's Open Access. doi.org/10.1080/0195...
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Daughters of the Dust: Rephrasing the African American Experience in Julie Dash’s Film and Novel of the Same Name
While Julie Dash’s landmark 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust, has received extensive attention as the first by an African American woman director to receive a wide-scale theatrical release in the U...
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Bags packed, out of office on, books to read ready, train on its way - annual leave, baby!
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Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Anyone else read The Unworthy yet? It's one I think will stay with me and I'm keen to hear what others made of it...
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just finished watching the new Adam Curtis series, "Shifty". It took a while for the central thesis to come through, and I'm not sure that he was really saying anything new...but, as always, the archival footage was fascinating, the micro stories were interesting, and there was a great soundtrack.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm very excited to announce that my @edinburghup.bsky.social book The President's Kill List has just won the Richard E. Neustadt book prize of the PSA's American Politics Group. Thanks to @historydafydd.bsky.social, @pete-d-finn.bsky.social, and the APG Committee.
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Just received a follow from @nortoncriticals.bsky.social. (The highlight of my day.) In my classes, I sometimes end modules by asking students which texts that we have read are the ones that they think will likely join 'the canon'. (Who will we be reading, teaching, debating in 100 years' time?)
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-... That's it, that's the post.
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Does everything feel broken but weirdly normal? There’s a word for that
Large-scale systems are crumbling, yet daily life continues. The Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help when dysfunction is the status quo
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British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Next Tuesday, America Now! returns with a session on the state of masculinity in the US of Trump 2.0. You can book your ticket for 'Tech Bros, Proud Boys and Christian Dads' here: buff.ly/WCI5XS4 27th May, 6:30pm. British Library, London. In-person.
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Tech Bros, Proud Boys and Christian Dads | British Library
A key feature of Donald Trump’s second administration is its relationship to very particular forms of masculinity. Trump 2.0’s political agenda is actively
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
My midweek live music jolly this evening was Snapped Ankles. Band on top form, and a strong turnout for a midweek gig night. To paraphrase the title of the band's latest LP, these may be hard times, but I did much furious dancing.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/05/2025
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danmattingly87.bsky.social @danmattingly87.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My last teaching week of the semester kicks off tomorrow with "The Social Network", 'Silicon Valley Cinema' and C21 Hollywood now for "Twenty-First Century Hollywood,' and "Brightburn", 'supervillain films' and wrapping up for "Superheroes".
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