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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

'The Black Country' is a painting by by H. Warren from 1869. It depicts a black-and-white industrial landscape dominated by chimneys that emit black smoke and fires in the background. A few small figures can be seen amidst the smoke.

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Lots going on in our 'Critical Interventions in the Medical & Health Humanities' series! Some fascinating proposals under consideration and some excellent books in production. Please do reach out with any questions/ideas for the series that you may have! www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...

Picture is of a flyer for Bloomsbury's Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series. Flyer depicts five book jackets, followed by the series blurb, a list of published titles and a list of forthcoming titles. Series blurb reads:

Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across
the medical and health humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations,
to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience.

Published titles reads:
Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 by Douglas RJ. Small
Available open access
Medical Humanities and Disability Studies by Stuart Murray
COVID-19 and Shame by Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal & Arthur Rose • Available open access
Relating Suicide by Anne Whitehead
Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction by Caitlin E. Stobie

Forthcoming titles reads:
Forthcoming titles:
Critical Neurodiversity Studies edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Dr Louise Creechan & Anna Stenning
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic by Janet Harbord

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Close Reading Archive is a tremendous gift to our discipline -- thank you to Scott Newstok for this incredible work. www.closereadingarchive.org Alongside other varieties of wonder, it's a thrill to see @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and my forthcoming book here.

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Delighted that Troubling Late Modernism has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize! If it's in your wheelhouse I'd be very grateful for a review (& can ask OUP to send out a copy) universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/ @univeng.bsky.social

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Oxford folks – I’ll be giving a talk, “Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Brontë, Eliot, Hardy,” next Monday (12th Feb). Do come along! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa5...

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

A final reminder about our exciting panel on Modernist Fiction & the Health Humanities this Wednesday! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...

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Doug Battersby @dougbattersby.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Welcome @dougbattersby.bsky.social whose wonderful first book was just shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize! #lit #modernism

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