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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Persepolis (2000), autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, author and film director Marjane Satrapi #WomensArt ❤️

Comic strip in black and white taken from a graphic novel featuring a young woman running and being stopped by two policemen in Iran

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Uncanny to find this irascible aside about review criticism in William Hazlitt's Lectures on the Elizabethan Age: now "we contrive even to read by proxy". Seems like he foresees (in 1820!) our worries about the age of AI when he links "the Millennium of criticism" with "the euthanasia of thought".

“We have lost the art of reading, or the privilege of writing,
voluminously, since the days of Addison. Learning no longer
weaves the interminable page with patient drudgery, nor ignorance
pores over it with implicit faith. As authors multiply in number,
books diminish in size; we cannot now, as formerly, swallow libraries
whole in a single folio: solid quarto has given place to slender
duodecimo, and the dingy letter-press contracts its dimensions, and
retreats before the white, unsullied, faultless margin. Modern authorship is become a species of stenography: we contrive even to read by proxy. We skim the cream of prose without any trouble; we get
at the quintessence of poetry without loss of time. The staple
commodity, the coarse, heavy, dirty, unwieldy bullion of books is
driven out of the market of learning, and the intercourse of the
literary world is carried on, and the credit of the great capitalists
sustained by the flimsy circulating medium of magazines and reviews.
Those who are chiefly concerned in catering for the taste of others,
and serving up critical opinions in a compendious, elegant, and
portable form, are not forgetful of themselves: they are not scrupulously solicitous, idly inquisitive about[ “the real merits, the bona fide contents of the works they are deputed to appraise and value, any
more than the reading public who employ them. They look no
farther for the contents of the work than the title page, and pronounce
a peremptory decision on its merits or defects by a glance at the name
and party of the writer. This state of polite letters seems to admit
of improvement in only one respect, which is to go a step further,
and write for the amusement and edification of the world, accounts of
works that were never either written or read at all, and to cry up or
abuse the authors by name, although they have no existence but in the
critic’s invention. This would save a great deal of labour in vain:
anonymous critics might pounce upon the defenceless …

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 03/03/2026

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson

The Song of the Honey Bee
For the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson

23 July 1986

When all the birds of Roxburghshire Danced on the lawns, and all The Salmon of the Tweed cavorted Over the Garden Wall

Gold as the Honey Bee

A helicopter snatched you up. The pilot, it was me. The props, like a roulette wheel, Stopped at felicity

Soft as the Thistle's Crown

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/02/2026

It's a shame. It didn't start out that way 😔

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

#TrayvonMartin *Should* have turned 31 today.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Haven't read 'Aubade' in a few years and just did so on the link below. Astonishing how many of its phrases have entered my own way of thinking and expressing myself. And if there's a more perfect, devastating, beautiful ending to a poem, I need to know.

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I will be marking the occasion by purchasing some antique coins and hiding from my spouse

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

How a book that began as a scourge of the establishment became, in the government's words, "an important part of our nation's history". It's the 65th anniversary of Penguin winning the Lady Chatterley trial (they had 200,000 copies ready to go). I wrote about it a few years ago:

penguin.co.uk

The book that changed Britain: why the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial still matters 60 years later

D. H. Lawrence’s classic novel was his attempt to “make the sex relations valid and precious, instead of shameful”; the court case it prompted, and its revolutionary result, now stand as moments of na...

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I am incredibly honoured to be awarded the 2025 Martin Schüwer Publication Prize for Excellence in Comics Studies for my article ‘Drawing in Circles: Feminized Labour in Autobiographical Comics and Cartoons on Instagram’ (supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and published in Studies in Comics)

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

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Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature A book about literary depictions of the types of work conventionally associated with women, and the role of gendered labour in the literary world.

edinburghuniversitypress.com

Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

404media.co

Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

extremely obsessed with the concept of this book

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Ben Davies @bendavies.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Looking forward to hosting 'History & Future of Reading Inside & Beyond the University' Symp. w/TinaLupton. Speakers: LeahPrice JackChen StefanCollini SophieCorser, @bobeaglestone.bsky.social MattRubery JaniceRadway @mattseybold.bsky.social HelenSmall PeterSimonsen LindsayThomas @cnewf.bsky.social

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

1. poetry time 2. close reading

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

exciting today to be at a conference answering questions literary studies traditionally hasn’t been good at asking, about the practical and tangible effects of literature and how we measure them. Organised by @yazell.bsky.social Tatiana Tilly and, not pictured, Leonardo Nolé.

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

really liked reading this. Very interesting on close reading as both (desperately needed) individual practice of attention AND inherently relational appeal to the other.

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/

A hand, holding a copy of the book 'Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,' edited by Emily J. Hogg and Charlotte J. Fabricius.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Queen unveils a statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury today, marking a momentous occasion in the recognition of the first full-time professional woman writer in the English language. Loughborough English's Prof Emerita Elaine Hobby has been central to this campaign. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Canterbury: Camilla to unveil new Aphra Behn statue in town

Camilla is to unveil a state of Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn a wage as a professional writer.

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I wrote here about playgroups, and the playschool I chair as the last remaining hold out of an anarchic, feminist moment from the 1970s which has lasted til the present day emilybaughan.substack.com/p/of-church-... but the early years funding crisis has come for us too and we look set to close 💔

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Of church halls and custard creams

or, the strange disappearance of community playgroups

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?

A spoof of an infographic showing a map of Europe, colour-coded by which countries will offer food to visitors. The caption is "Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?" The Nordic territories are labelled "sad", Northern Europe is labelled "sad & wet", Eastern Europe, Southern France and Northern Italy are labelled "sad and drunk" and the Mediterranean nations are labelled "sexy". It's less funny when you explain it, to be honest.

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Please enjoy this shot of Elvis getting a polio shot backstage at the Ed Sullivan show as part of a pro-vaccination campaign in 1956, posted here today for no reason whatsoever

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Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I would just never perform again

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 12/11/2024

A pretty stunning special issue from /19/ on the London Mechanics' Institute, or, Birkbeck College. Features pieces from Jacqueline Rose, Isobel Armstrong, Esther Leslie, Laurel Brake, and many others 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/1289/i...

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century | Issue: Issue: 36(2024) 1823–2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics’ Institution (2024)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

For the New Bookforum, I wrote about pro-natalism, the liberals who love it, and the rise of the childless woman as a symbol of decadence & object of contempt in place of a meaningful confrontation with motherhood’s contradictions. www.bookforum.com/print/3102/b...

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Baby Talk

On pro-natalism and motherhood after Dobbs – Moira Donegan

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Margaret Harrison, Homeworkers, 1977 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I guess this is…pretty much how we all knew the future was going to look

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

As doctoral students and their supervisors gear up for the new academic year, I'm reminded of the David Lodge character who sets out to write a thesis on 'Culture and Ideology in the Modern Novel' and ends up taking on 'The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern Novels.'

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

A certain loneliness, aloof. She swoons at the mention of Blackpool. You would love her.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Former Minister for Common Sense, here

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

‘Do you know that predictive spelling for “I’ll” gives, as its first choice, “ill”?’ www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/08...

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Hearing from Helen Vendler - The Paris Review

“When I saw your name on an e-mail yesterday, it was simply … well, I do not have words.”

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

love this book because I’ve been trying to say something interesting about it for like 7 years and it resists all my pinning down

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Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

✨job ad✨associate professor, focus on US and other anglophone literatures, plus the uses and social dimensions of literature. More details: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 20/02/2024

Good example of deadpan understated news writing by the FT.

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Calling upon anyone holding the reins in UKHE to do the right thing feels akin to that apocryphal story about the Dutch boy who tried to plug a hole in a dyke with his finger, but nonetheless, please everyone sign this, remember to like & subscribe, &c., &c. chng.it/x9MbCYZB7V

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We Can Make an Impact.

Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent

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Charlotte J. Fabricius @charlottejohanne.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

So proud of this article - co-writing with @emilyjhogg.bsky.social was a joy, as was testing out the combination Barbara Pym x Liana Finck! #comicsstudies

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