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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#Sourdough week 156 & 157 from This weekend and two weeks ago

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are delighted to be ranked FIRST in the UK for both English Literature and Creative Writing in the latest Daily Mail university rankings! 🎉

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

EVENT! Free online #CPD *Close reading is creative reading* Why reading closely matters from primary to higher education Join contributors to the Spring issue of the EA Newsletter & explore the topic of close reading, with experts from primary, sec., H.E. englishassociation.ac.uk/close-readin...

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Close reading is creative reading (5 May 2026, 16:30 - 18:00) | The English Association

We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#Sourdough week 154. A bit of a break since the last one, but came out really well (particularly considering I didn’t refresh the starter until yesterday)

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

In light of the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, our own @drclaireocall.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com about how Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry helped shape her powerful novel.

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How Wuthering Heights was shaped by Emily Brontë’s gothic poetry

Emily Brontë’s poetry is full of haunting love, grief and death.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Claire was also recently on the Betwixt the Sheets podcast to discuss how Brontë came to write Wuthering Heights. How did the Brontê sisters write about sex and sexuality in their work? And how accurate is the new film to the original story?!

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Sex & Scandal behind Wuthering Heights

Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 6 February · 51m

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Our own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.

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Troubling timing: “modernism, generations, and the gaps between” a conversation between Jade French and Sarah Parker

Studies centred on questions of generationality, periodization, and ageing have flourished in modernist scholarship in recent years. In a conversation reflecting on this work, Sarah Parker and Jade...

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history? Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞

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A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour

One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.

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Dr. Melissa Schuh @melissaschuh.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It’s so exciting that this @c21literature.bsky.social special issue on ‘The Century at 25’ is finally out! Such a labour of love, and I’m so grateful we got to work on it together for over two years @alicebennett.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social 🎊

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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social

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Disability and the Gothic

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'd planned to listen to the first 10 mins of this (I had a few other things to do), but ended up listening to the full 58 mins. It's a brilliant discussion of the power of fictional narratives to engage readers with climate change. Really interesting thoughts on cli-fi and eco-gothic.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

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Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes

‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Good grief. Do people who don't go to uni not benefit from doctors, librarians, researchers, lawyers, architects, artists, writers, archivists, historians, designers, programmers, etc etc etc...? What is this weird unjoined up world she imagines?

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...' Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:

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The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life

These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

#Sourdough weeks 150 and 151 (150 from a few weeks ago)

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Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations series is now available - congratulations to Luke Lamont on the publication of The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s...

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Recently published | The Documentary Aesthetic in Irish Theatre, 2010-2020 is available now! Discover more about the first book-length study of documentary theatre in Ireland here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Very excited that the first book in our Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations book series has been published! And what a fantastic book it is - huge congratulations to Luke Lamont!

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I hate that they snuck in a “summarize” this chapter/book/article in the ebooks program through the library. I’m sure it’s confusing to students when we argue to stay away from AI for their core work whilst our Unis are throwing it at them all over the place.

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

#sourdough weeks 148 and 149 (last weekend’s and the one before).

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 04/12/2025

CFP: (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship, 27–28 August 2026, University of Turku, Finland sites.utu.fi/whisol/news/...

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Call for Papers: (De)colonial Solidarities Symposium | whisol

CALL FOR PAPERS (De)colonial Solidarities: Whiteness, Colonialism, and the Politics of Allyship 27-28 August 2026 University of Turku, Finland From Indigeno ...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report. A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.

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Heather Ray Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

nice to spy my former PhD supervisor @timothycbaker.bsky.social and fellowship mentor @sadiseshiah.bsky.social in this cambridge companion to british utopian lit & culture!

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

Murder in London
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View: In numbers / rate / teens / London (since 1990 / 2003)
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Includes manslaughter, infanticide, corporate manslaughter. Met Police data; excludes jurisdiction of City of London Police (for the square-mile financial district) & British Transport Police. Data to Oct 2025. published Nov 2025. updated month/v.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, is co-organising the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, held at the Uni of Leeds on 20 May 2026. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Alluvium. Deadline for abstracts: 4 January 2026. CFP here: bacls.org/news/188/

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News - BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies Conference 2026 CFP

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This open letter to COP30 calling for the arts and humanities to be central to responses to the climate crisis chimes with the current research project of our Vice Chancellor’s Independent Research Fellow @hrmilligan.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/op...

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Open letter to COP30: Use storytelling to fight climate crisis - University of Birmingham

Actors, authors, and public figures have signed an open letter calling for the cultural sector to have a prominent role in the fight against the climate crisis.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Early today, we were treated to an excellent paper by Dr Frankie Dytor from the University of Exeter. It was hosted by our Cultural Currents: Nineteenth to Twentieth Century research group, and the title of Frankie's paper was 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Thousands of university workers around the country losing jobs and careers, whole degree programs lost, areas of expertise lost, student opportunities lost. Yes, it's life-changing, and the consequences will be with us for a long time.

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Loughborough University UCU @lboroucu.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Last chance to register for the #LboroUCU online CPD workshop, "Allyship and Solidarity", open to all LU staff & Masters & PhD students. Taking place online on Tues 11th November from 12 noon. For more information and to register for the course: ucu.lboro.ac.uk/cpd-course-a...

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CPD Course: Allyship and Solidarity – Loughborough UCU

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

It’s been ages, but last week I baked #sourdough 146 - an absolute disaster as I’d run out of wholemeal and had a v wet dough with not enough salt and completely flat, and week 147, which was a triumph! 😀

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We took our first-year Intro to Drama students to the Birmingham Rep theatre last night to see Deafinitely Theatre's production of Eloise Pennycott's play, 'Barrier(s)' - a queer/deaf love story with a rich interweaving of English and BSL. We were also treated to an excellent post-show discussion.

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

On #Reading - free online event! englishassociation.ac.uk/reading-and-...

Info on upcoming event on reading and well-being, details available on website.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?

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Siân Adiseshiah @sadiseshiah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

"Do we want to live in a world where books and culture flourish? Or in a purely functional world where the value of education is solely measured in expected earnings? Perhaps Kemi would be a better leader if she’d dropped engineering for religious studies or psychology."

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16/10/2025

A really interesting piece about the indebtedness of the University of Chicago and how it is destroying its academic reputation - killing the humanities subjects - so it can finance prestigious buildings by top architects. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities?

The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

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The Victorian Ghost Story

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The Brontë Society's Annual Lecture was delivered this weekend by @drclaireocall.bsky.social 'A happy Heathcliff and Cathy': The influence of Emily Brontë on Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. Claire is also Editor of Brontë Studies, the journal of the Brontë Society. www.bronte.org.uk/events/bront...

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel

The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.

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