iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Call for Papers: 'Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference', @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 28-30 June 2027, organised by @mckeever.bsky.social & team. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2026. Details of financial support for PGRs to follow. tinyurl.com/yt2vj4x7

01310

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on coasts is now out! If you click on the link and scroll down a bit, the very eclectic table of contents is visible. Pleased to be a part of this. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

muse.jhu.edu

Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Fall 2025

12913

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/09/2025

Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...

youtube.com

Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels

YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

1116

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Huge congrats to the wonderful @cleoocy.bsky.social who passed her viva today with no corrections!

1242

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Just watched There Will Be Blood for the first time in about ten years. Holy mackerel, what an unbelievable film. Had forgotten quite how unhinged Day-Lewis’s character is.

040

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Went on a holiday and it was totally awesome

A man smiling beside the road sign for Pont L’Évêque

A board with very nice Pont L’Évêque cheese on it.

080

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

10653273032

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I like the Pope, the Pope says nope

0151

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

78122

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award Deadline 1st June 2025 The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. More information and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

01013

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Normalise writing a nice quick note to scholars literally every time you read and like their work. Our world is small and getting smaller. We need encouragement.

845781

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This sounds great, congrats! Can’t wait to read it.

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Todorov! Structuralism and genre are a match made in heaven

140

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:

28023

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Will look forward to reading that. To me, she’s one of the instances where Scott is most strongly flirting with a genuinely supernatural character, short of the White Lady of Avenel, of course.

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Good stuff! Peveril of the Peak is so often laughing at rather than with Geoffrey Hudson. Think it’s my least favourite of the entire 27 novels.

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Oooh sounds interesting! Can you tease a few of your primary texts?

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Email I received from a senior colleague at Berkeley this week opened ‘Greetings from the anarcho-neofascist hellscape!’ … thoughts are with everyone in the US 🙏

0210

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s a butter delivery system tbh - more butter the better

010

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.

bars.ac.uk

Five Questions: Gerard McKeever on Regional Romanticism – BARS Blog

098

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Kate Ash-Irisarri @kateai.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It could be an April Fool but, apparently, it’s publication day for this wee book. Thanks to all at @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for bringing it into the world!

1410323

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.

01510

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜 thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

Full and Final Edition Now Available

News article - 24 February 2025

16737

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Exactly right. There’s a view out that that universities are a tweedy self-indulgence. In reality, they’re a massive component of regional economies right across the UK and essential to any feasible vision of national economic renewal.

1545

Reposted by Gerard McKeever

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“I have no doubt most of you feel that the on-going genocide is wrong, I likewise have no doubt each of you feel you did the best that you could (at the MLA, or elsewhere).” Please read @palumboliu.bsky.social’s open letter relinquishing his lifetime MLA membership. academeblog.org/2025/02/05/r...

academeblog.org

Resignation Letter from the Modern Language Association (David Palumbo-Liu)

POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH As readers are no doubt aware, the problem of undemocratic professional associations is coming more and more to the fore as members attempt to hold their scholarly and profe…

0223

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Sure, yes please. The more the merrier!

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The visa point really ought to be a no-brainer for a Labour gov, would essentially cost nothing, and potentially make quite a big difference. But they’re too worried about being outflanked by … Reform?

050

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thanks for all these suggestions! Much appreciated!

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m collecting literary maps relating to Scotland for a thing. A few examples here. If anyone has suggestions for others, I’d love to hear them 🙏

164217

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This sounds awful, I’m so sorry. Is your sense that there’s a misunderstanding of the finances somewhere, or something else going on?

210

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Sorry, that sounds terrible. What is the possible rationale being given for axing a profitable department?

120

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Spare a thought for the Burns scholar on Burns night, wincing in the corner with his precious little facts.

410911

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Definitely hard to continue giving them the benefit of the doubt when you’ve had a few really scary experiences.

010

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Yep this is massively compounded by having young children. I honestly feel like I need some sort of martial arts training to protect them!

120

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Truly among the worst things about living in the British countryside is the regular encounters with aggressive dogs, off the lead, frequently with the owner nowhere in sight. When (if) owner appears, they invariably expect you to adopt a fondly understanding attitude to their terrifying pet.

2140

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Was just yesterday thinking that I ought to know more about Scottish linen in this period!

100

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Does anyone know of book history/bibliographical work that imagines books as actors in the terms of actor-network theory?

386

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Haven’t written any such syllabi/policies so can’t really comment on that. Instinct-wise, I’m not at all worried about those of us who knew life before this stuff. It’s the next generation.

010

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Get that you are proposing some middle way, lots of ppl are trying things, e.g. setting assessments with specific uses of AI. But the relationship with plagiarism is unavoidable. Limited evidence yet of longterm effects, yes, but that’s no excuse to trial upending the discipline. Quite the opposite.

110

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Right, so when marking essays I should stop concerning myself with whether the student actually wrote this thing or not?

100

Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not to mention the fact that, for now at least, those really relying on it are going to get abysmal grades in the process.

000