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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Author copies! It’s great to see The Collective Voice in the flesh.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

British universities are now gripped by the ultimate madness. Some unis are bankrupting everyone else accepting students they can't even take and have to leave in limbo... While putting everyone on redundancy notice! It's crazed. Still no-one will intervene. thetab.com/2026/08/24/u...

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University of Exeter offers deferred places following shortage of student accommodation

The university said it has not been able to offer accommodation to all students

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Robert Higney @roberthigney.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Edit MSA's incredible journal!!!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It exists! Publication day in the UK of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014. Available everywhere for preorder with discount code AUFLY30 at Oxford UP WEBSITE; digital edition available now at all libraries with Oxford academic subscriptions.

Hardcover copy of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, AND SEA, 1926-2014 (Oxford UP June 2026).

Table of contents of ARRESTING ECOLOGIES

Image of interior pages with Shell OIL advertising photos.

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Juan Meneses @dissentum.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Book! 👇

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm excited to say it's up and official! Please write if you have any questions or interest in writing a short monograph for the "Periodicals and Print Matter" strand of the Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture series. I'd love to hear from you! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Nice haul of old Critical Quarterlies from Loose’s today 😍

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Princeton University Press has a 50% off sale, lasting until the 9th of June. It covers most of their catalogue. If anyone is interested, it includes a few of my own books:

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is a great opportunity to join our school as a postdoc, and to work on m'colleague Tommy Karshan's AHRC-funded project 'Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching'. Spread the word, and apply! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

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Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Apply now for the Senior Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

'Until 2015, when an article appeared in his local newspaper claiming he was about to win the equivalent of a Nobel prize or Fields medal, Montaclair was an unremarkable teaching instructor who liked to write fantasy books, many about vampires, in his spare time.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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French professor accused of ‘gigantic hoax’ after inventing Nobel-style prize

Authorities investigate Florent Montaclair over award given to himself and others including Noam Chomsky

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Awful to hear. We need these subjects, and the people who teach and reasearch in them, more than ever.

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Apply now for the Senior Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This will be the most significant outcome of Thursday. Labour’s defeat will matter & losing London get a lot of coverage. But long term, anti-Union parties in power in all 3 devolved nations & Unionism represented by, in essence, an English ethnonationalist party will intensify deep instability.

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Great opportunity to work with us at UEA as a post doc! And to work on the on the exciting AHRC-funded project, "Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching", led by my colleage Tommy Karshan: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...

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Senior Research Associate (RA2392) in University of East Anglia | UEA

View details and apply for this Senior Research Associate (RA2392) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Arts and Humanities (HUM) School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing (L...

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In 1927, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston bumped into each other in Mobile, Alabama. From there, they took a road trip through the South home to Harlem. Over the next month, I will be retracing their tour. You can follow my progress on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/langstonandz...

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Dr Siân Round (@langstonandzoraontheroad) • Instagram

19 Followers - 3 Posts - "Dr Siân Round is embarking on a research trip, following the course of a road trip taken by Langston Hughes and Zora Nea…"

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Of interest to any local Norfolk peeps I hope Truly foul and disgusting specimens

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Fascinating discussion on New Books Network, between Amanda Anderson and Simon During, around their book “Humanities Theory” (from the new OUP “Literature & Politics” book series) newbooksnetwork.com/humanities-t...

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Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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Amanda Anderson and Simon During, "Humanities Theory" (Oxford UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Nicole Rizzuto @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨: My new monograph ARRESTING ECOLOGIES: GLOBAL LITERATURE ACROSS AIR, LAND, and SEA, 1926-2014 is available for preorder from OXFORD UP, with 30 percent discount.

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is a brilliant and fascinating piece - well worth your time!

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Cf. UK 1953 – women allowed to get their own passports. 1956 – rape redefined as crime. 1967 – contraception available to all women, married and unmarried, but not until 1974 on NHS 1975 - women have right to own bank accounts and sign cheques in UK 1991 – marital rape recognised as crime.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

We have some really fascinating archives at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social -- contemporary literature (including poetry), film, visual arts, history, rare books -- and we also have Visiting Fellowships to use them for research. Deadline to apply is 17th April: please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

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Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships

University of East Anglia

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have a new article on Jorge Luis Borges and failure (the latter being a topic on which I am somewhat of an expert) up on early view at Critical Quarterly. The article is open access, and reads a bit better in the PDF version: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

Click on the article title to read more.

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm reading Bruno Latour's "Rejoicing: or the Torments of Religious Speech," which is pretty fascinating on religious language and translation:

Text reads: "It's just that time passes, words that once had
a meaning lose it. But, you see, the people whose job it
is to change words so as to keep the meaning, clerics,
have preferred piously to preserve the words at the risk
of losing the meaning; they've left us, the rest of us,
we latecomers, ignoramuses, stutterers, equipped with
words that have become untruthful for the purposes of
recording the real things we hold dear to our hearts.
For instance, the word 'God', which once served as
the premise of all arguing, could have been translated,
when ways of life changed, as 'indisputable framework
of ordinary existence' so that we could continue to
really see that what was thereby designated was merely
the preliminary and prelude to a conversion of meaning."

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Hardback and an affordable (but beautifully produced) paperback on the same day… it’s the latest in our Literature & Politics series from @academic.oup.com. Doug Mao and @duncanbell.bsky.social arrive at Utopia via different routes. It’s a fascinating read!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

‘We remain deeply concerned that universities will be unable to absorb the cost of the levy’s introduction. The loss of cross-subsidy for domestic teaching & research will harm universities’ ability to deliver their core functions’ Our response to the levy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

British Academy response to the Department for Education's technical consultation on the Interational Student Levy
18 February 2026
Background
The Department for Education is consulting on the proposed levy on international student income, due to be introduced in England in August 2028.

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

New issue of CQ has landed! “Chaplinish”, edited brilliantly by @becimay.bsky.social

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

@duncanbell.bsky.social and Douglas Mao, Utopia - @academic.oup.com, March 2026 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Lucky enough to find The British Novel of Ideas at a CUP sale on Friday. What a brilliant and much-needed book.

The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith, ed. by Rachel Potter and Matthew Taunton.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

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Utopia

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'm excited to see the second book in our "Literature & Politics" series published online @academic.oup.com. Douglas Mao and @duncanbell.bsky.social take on "Utopia". It's a fascinating read. Hardback and paperback coming on 5th March. Congratulations to the authors! academic.oup.com/book/62279

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Utopia

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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Utopia

Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

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