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Polly Hember

@pollyhember.bsky.social
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Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We're delighted to share #TheModernistReview63, the first of two special issues dedicated to this year's MSA & BAMS Weird Modernisms conference. This issue includes a selection of reports and interviews reflecting on the conference's programming: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/t...
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The Modernist Review Issue #63: Weird Modernisms Special Issue Part 1
28 August 2026 For the first part of our special issue celebrating the joint British Association for Modernist Studies and the Modernist Studies Association conference Weird Modernisms (1-4 July 20…
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Had the best time presenting alongside @annadevs.bsky.social and @david-strong.bsky.social! 💕
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
we received a large number of strong applications
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Departmental Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford (specialism in eighteenth and nineteenth-century) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU210/d...
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Departmental Lecturer in English Literature at University of Oxford
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Department of Politics and International Relations), University of Oxford, closes 23rd June 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR637/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Oxford
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
New job listing: Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, King's College London, closes 22nd June 2026 📖https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT413/lecturer-in-english-language-and-linguistics-education
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Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Education) at King's College London
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
i for one think it’s really helpful that our online learning environment has a big button labeled “post marks” on every page of the grade center which i must never accidentally press or the marks will be released to students ahead of time and this is irreversible. good to keep us on our toes
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Good piece, brief and to the point from @drjogrady.bsky.social Gen Sec of UCU: “We are calling for direct government intervention before the crisis spirals further.” Intervention is cheaper than most think, and pound for pound excellent investment in our future economic prosperity.
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The government must intervene before the universities crisis worsens
During moments of political crisis it’s often said there are weeks when decades happen. This has been one such week.
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Sign the Petition
Save Black Studies at Birmingham City University
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New job listing: Archivist at Gladstone's Library 📖 www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/work-a...
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Work at Gladstone's Library - Gladstone's Library
Archivist We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in our world-famous Reading Rooms. See below to read or download the full job description,
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: A Scholarly Reappraisal Magdalen College, Oxford Salary: £42,794 per annum www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRM012/o...
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
DREAM postdoc for ME circa 2013 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
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Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
New job listing! Teaching Associate at Cambridge Digital Humanities - closes 2nd June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ899/t...
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Teaching Associate at University of Cambridge
An opportunity for an academic position as a Teaching Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We are delighted to invite you to the #EnglishCreates: Futures Online Symposium, Thursday 2 July 2026. What futures are possible for English Studies – in universities, schools, public culture, industry, and beyond? This event is open to all - please join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New job listing: Teaching Fellow in Animation, University of Edinburgh - deadline 20th May elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Teaching Fellow in Animation
The Edinburgh College of Art, School of Design is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and pro-active individual for the post of Teaching Fellow in Animation.
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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A really thoughtful, generous review of Jesse Wolfe's book 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury'. Book published by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...
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Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury
Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of friends, lovers, spouses,…
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is such a fantastic book - I had a great time reviewing it for The Modernist Review. Thanks to everyone at TMR for their work on this (fab) issue 💛
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!
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The Modernist Review Issue #59
6 March 2026 As March and the promise of Spring arrives, we are pleased to bring you the latest issue of The Modernist Review. Our new issue contains an exciting range of research articles, book re…
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details. If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Lecturer, History of Design and Material Culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum - applications close 5th March 2026 vam.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Lecturer, History of Design and Material Culture - Cromwell Road, London
The Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture will contribute to teaching on the V&A/RCA History of Design Programme in the Summer and Autumn terms of 2026. They will supervise MA dissertations and support students in the planning and delivery of student-led projects. In Autumn 2026, the Le
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London. Deadline: 16th March 2026 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137845-...
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Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries | King's College London
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
CfP - Listening to Possible Worlds: Sound and Music in Speculative Literature and Culture deadline for submissions: March 30, 2026 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Collective Forms - Call for Papers Friday 19 June 2026, University of East Anglia / abstract deadline: 23 March 2026 www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/colle...
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Collective Forms - CFP — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
This one-day symposium seeks to reflect on collectives as both the subject and condition of art, examining the ways in which shared purpose is communicated, examined, and extended through cr...
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MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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Lily Martin @lilyvmartin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Please do consider applying to join us! I've found being a Rep incredibly fulfilling and rewarding - I'm sure you will too!!
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A final #ModWrite before Christmas, share with us using the hashtag! 🎄☃️ Don't forget to register to attend NWiMS 15 on 9th January using the form below before 29th December: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We can't wait to see you there!
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New Work in Modernist Studies 2026
Register here for the British Association for Modernist Studies postgraduate conference, New Work in Modernist Studies. The 2026 edition will take place online on Friday 9 January from 10.30am to 4.3...
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
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Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/12/2025
This is disastrous. And the news are mostly hidden- not at all prioritised by the BBC as breaking news across their channels/platforms. I had to dig deep to find this link. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What do we know about University of Essex's Southend campus closure?
The university says it will be moving students from its Southend campus to Colchester.
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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
CFP: 'Difficult Collections' Special issue of 'Paper Trails' @uclpress.bsky.social. Focus on challenges of working with troubling heritage collections (colonialism, eugenics, representation, etc). Proposals: 31/01/26; Submissions: 31/05/26. Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... #GLAM ##HistorySky
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Call for Papers: Difficult Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
PhD studentships available in: Creative and Cultural Industries, Media, and Arts Practice (EDI in Practice); Identity, Representation, and Social Justice (EDI in Theory and Experience); Humanities, Philosophy, and Literature (EDI in Knowledge and Method). More details in link below.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 01/12/2025
Derby University is in chaos and management caused it. 🔻 265 redundancies proposed 🔻 Nursing & early childhood studies at risk 🔻 Staff pushed through a rushed, unfair process Show your support for staff and students on strike from tomorrow. www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...
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Derby University is sleepwalking into a disaster - as the UCU has exposed
The Canary speaks to the UCU chair at Derby University - as staff prepare to take strike action over redundancies
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
There is not one PhD between the directors of Nous, they have no experience of research or teaching and yet they're advising universities, student unions & governments on how to run HE.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
'The union said management had "agreed to halt all planned compulsory redundancies for academic staff until at least July 2026".'
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Strikes suspended in Lancaster University staff job cuts row
The university is trying to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Some more job listings! Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/ Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Petition here to stop the closure of film studies at the University of Leicester: c.org/Md95YhF4zx
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Thrilled to announce our new issue, Novel Media/Media Novel, edited by Dong Xia and Sandro Eich: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1286/i...
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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 2(12) Novel Media / Media Novel (Autumn 2025) (2025)
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
TOMORROW! Come join us--it'll be awesome!
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Kent, applications close 20th November 2025 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Do you have the breadth and depth of specialist knowledge to teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Creative Writing fiction?  Are you available for a fixed term part time post?  If yes, then...
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The Other Kind of Doctor Podcast @tokodofficial.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New episode! @tealescope.bsky.social & Souki speak with Dr Luke Blaxill, founder of The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding, about how to help fund PhDs (with or without UKRI funding). Listen wherever you get your podcasts from! open.spotify.com/episode/2Acb...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Lecturer/Associate Professor in Irish Folklore and Ethnology, University College Dublin, closes 17th November 2025 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Assistant Curator, Courtauld Gallery, applications close 18th November 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE223/a...
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Assistant Curator, Paintings at Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Recruiting now: Assistant Curator, Paintings on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Lecturer in Media & Film, York St John University, applications close 7th November 2025 jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at York St John University: Lecturer in Media & Film
Lecturer in Media & FilmLocation: YorkFull time, Permanent. Salary: £39,906 – 48,822 per annum. Introduction to YSJ university York St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Professor in Digital Media, UWE, applications close 16 November 2025 ce0164li.webitrent.com/ce0164li_web...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New job listing: Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic, King's College London, deadline for applications 11th November 2025 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/129286-...
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Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic | King's College London
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (prose) at Edinburgh, deadline 31st October ✍️ elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing (Prose)
The successful candidate will contribute primarily to the teaching of our MSc in Creative Writing (fiction workshops and seminars) and Literature courses (‘e.g. Acts of Storytelling’), and the supervi...
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Part time & temporary role: Teaching Associate in 19th Century Literature at Cambridge 📚 deadline 10th November 2025 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53176/
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Teaching Associate in 19th Century Literature [Temporary Cover] (Part Time) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Teaching Associate in 19th Century Literature [Temporary Cover] (Part Time) in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
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