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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Amazing 40% off sale by @manchesterup.bsky.social means that paperback editions of our essay collection British Culture After Empire are just £15! A veritable bargain! @liamliburd.bsky.social

Book cover for the essay collection British Culture After Empire depicting partygoers from the Notting Hill Carnival

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉 Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books! bacls.org/news/187/

Emma Parker holds a copy of her 2024 book Life Writing and the End of Empire

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My own article on A State of Siege (repub soon with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) asks all the important questions for this spooky season: 🎃 Why are white ladies so afraid of the sea in #NZlit? 👻 Did Frame predict man-made climate change? 🌊 Who owns 'a view'? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Our special issue, Janet Frame at 100, is here! To mark Frame's centenary we commissioned 10 new essays on her glittering oeuvre, from discussions of working-class cultures to her writing as southern modernism. Out now with Literature, Critique, and Empire Today journals.sagepub.com/toc/jclb/60/3

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement. Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔

Image of Drum magazine, South Africa 1959

Anti apartheid cartoon in the left wing newspaper New Age, South Africa 1958

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I loved reviewing these two, fascinating books for #C21Literature, who sorted me out with hard copies AND open access. The dream. c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1... @bloomsburylit.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun. Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

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