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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/ Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️
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Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures
Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
History / Irish Studies job at Boston College, applications for a senior scholar to serve as the inaugural Jane B. and Thomas E. Hachey Professor invited The appointment will be a tenured position at the rank of full Professor of History #irishhistoryjob apply.interfolio.com/194167
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am doing the same! Share advice/insights/tips!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Columbia University bans all electronic devices in required courses in its Core Curriculum. This is the way! I’m rarely proud to be a Columbia graduate, but this is great:
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Columbia prohibits electronic devices in all Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization sections
Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This makes me think of wuthering heights.
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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...
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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What gets me is the woman who wasn’t able to finish her degree. The one who isn’t sure if she can. The one who started a stable job and had to leave because of this behavior. How many brilliant women are stifled by the men coddled by their institutions?
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Irish Studies Assistant Prof post available at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/191724
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sept. 9 at Notre Dame--in addition to discussing the collection Race, Violence and Form, we will celebrate Sara Maurer's work in shaping it: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2026/...
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"Race, Violence and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland" - Panel Discussion
Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for a panel discussion with Renée Fox, Mary Mullen, and Amy Mulligan on the edited volume, Race, Vio...
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NVSA CFP for 2027: Trash northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026
Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Institution	Grinnell College
Enrollment data	15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution	University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data	50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data	25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution	University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data	37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution	University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data	anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution	University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data	10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data	42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year
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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are pleased to share our CfP: Framing the Human in the 19th Century. We meet in #Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. 🎃 Proposals due October 31, 2026. For more details, visit: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... 💰We have four Conference Travel Grants, due January 15, 2027: ncsaweb.net/grants-fundi...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026
Texas Tech is using AI to seek out content on sexual orientation & gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare. One professor worried about her core course, Holocaust in Literature, because it mentions that gay & bisexual men were also targets of the Nazis...
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Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NVSA's Rudikoff Prize for first book in Victorian Studies now accepting nominations for books published in 2025: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...
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Rudikoff Prize
The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of th…
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!
Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism. 

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture. 

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe. 

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme. 

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal. 

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️
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Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
What a dream! This will be great.
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Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents
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Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2
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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My article "Provincializing Victorian Studies" is out in the latest PMLA. It's many years in the making—thanks for reading. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions - Volume 141 Issue 2
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Great to see this finally out: My article "The Stubborn Will to Mean: Sympathy, Relationality, and the Origins of Collecting Indigenous Bones in the Eighteenth Century" in ELH!
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"The facts of Palestine are spoken, and increasingly by Palestinians themselves, but they are met by a refusal to listen, by ears that prefer the drone of implausible denial to the unbearable weight of fact." www.equator.org/articles/mor...
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Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Really disappointing (sickening, tbh) to read a forum on Daniel Deronda in 2026 that does not include Palestinian voices or call genocide what it is.
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Carleton University Department of English @cuinenglish.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Congratulations to Professor Barbara Leckie, who has won a Carleton University Research Achievement Award! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2026...
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Research Achievement Awards - Research and Innovation
The awards were established in 1989 to enhance research quality and recognize research excellence. The recipients’ terms run from May to April after an announcement each spring. Be sure to also view t...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen are launching their book, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland at the SSNCI Annual Conference! You can find out more here ⬇️
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Irish Studies at QUB will host @acirishstudies.bsky.social in 2028. The dates will be June 12-15; CFP to follow.
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Charles Lever: “If, good reader—for to you we now appeal—it has not been your lot to have once on a time lived remote from the world and its ways, you cannot imagine how intensely interesting can become the commonest of those incidents which mark ordinary existence”
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Join us on 18 and 19 June @maynoothuniversity.ie! Registration will close on 10 June!
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Would be so grateful for reposts the help get the word out. Also, I think the application deadline is getting extended by a week, so you have a bit of time. Also also, all you have to write is a paragraph to apply!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 18/05/2026
ICYMI, the recording of our #RSVPDigiEv last Friday with VPR's Expanding the Field winners is now live on our YouTube channel! Many thanks to Sourav, Tarini, and Nilkantha for sharing your work and insights on this important topic, and to Kathy Malone for moderating! youtu.be/OKYFS1Pgfms
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Expanding the Field: A Roundtable Discussion
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Mick Flannery @mickflannery.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Album out on Friday, pre order on www.mickflannery.com and thank you. www.theirishworld.com/taking-the-h...
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Taking the House - The Irish World
Singer- songwriter and now playwright Mick Flannery told David Hennessy about his new album The House Must Win which is made up of music from his new stage show of the same name. Mick Flannery, one of...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/05/2026
‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
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‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin
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Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
College is not a “stamp of approval” for “select people”; it is, overwhelmingly, public infrastructure whose function is to educate the public and advance inquiry in all areas of study. It should be free to all because learning serves the social good and prepares people to participate in social life
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The draft conference schedule is now available there too! ssnci.org/annual-confe...
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Annual Conference 2026 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Found this handwritten, "Poem by Oscar Wilde's Mother" at the top of some random internet copy of "The Famine Year" and for whatever reason, it brings me joy:
poem by oscar wilde's mother
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/04/2026
THREAD 🧵 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises shows that the number of people facing acute food insecurity is growing. Tens of millions of people are at IPC Level 4 or higher levels of hunger, including millions of children and mothers. #Infograph
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Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'
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A Confederacy of Haters
Substack describes its newsletters as solid “independent businesses.” The counter-public responds: we are gig workers excluded from most legacy media work.
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Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please share.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/04/2026
The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.
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As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy' in Gaza
The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/04/2026
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The first book in the Race in Nineteenth Century Literatures and Cultures series (Oxford University Press) is out in June! Porscha Fermanis’ Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 Get your library to order copies! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Book cover: SETTLER FICTION FROM THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, 1820-1890
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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
it's officially out! :)
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Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685
Snippet of the introduction’s title line, “The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry,” with two versions of the phrase “Victorian Poetry” laid on top of one another. One version is not italicized and refers to the field of study. The other version is italicized and refers to the journal, which has undergone a series of seismic transitions as a direct result of the erosion of literary studies and higher ed.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.
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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt.
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:
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