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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 24/02/2026

Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, @noreenmasud.bsky.social's project at @bristoluni.bsky.social will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and novelists who identify as face blind.

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Blank Face

Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, Noreen Masud’s project will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and n...

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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lovely to see this new video of my colleagues & students @bristolunienglish.bsky.social advocating for our programme and for the subject more broadly. Studying English Literature can help our students think & read more critically - essential at the moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=avkW...

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Why study BA English at the University of Bristol?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/06/2025

‘This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm.’ Tom Crewe reads Ocean Vuong’s second novel, ‘The Emperor of Gladness’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure

This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A new article by our own Dr Abs S. Ashley has been published in a special issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly ('Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory'): 'Neurotrans Affect: Choreography, Cocreation, and Coalitional Resistance'! @ainokash.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article-...

The abstract for Dr Ashley's article: 'Many neurodivergent people are also trans, and lived‐experience narratives, creative practices, and research outputs have storied this intersection in powerful and capacious ways. Yet, in the face of increased antitrans hostility across the globe that relies on the mobilization of incoherent pseudologics, neurodivergent and trans persons are mutually imbricated, and in violent ways. This essay invites coalition among trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, disability justice, and the literary health humanities to consider the effects of these violences and to think through the possibilities of choreographing shared potentials through nonnormative cocreation.'

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Tim Gao @timgao.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Student Support Champion Project Manager believes academics should stop imparting knowledge derived from scholarship

The authors, who also include Ben McCarthy, student support champion project manager, and Jenny Shaw, student support champion consultant, believe that generative AI will have a “major role” to play in identifying vulnerable or distressed students.

They said that the technology will change but not replace the roles of specialist student support staff, who will still be needed to navigate the safety and ethical concerns around the use of AI.

Academics’ jobs will change too, they say, away from “imparting understanding of knowledge derived from their own research or scholarship…towards creating curricula that prioritise higher order thinking skills, such as complex analysis, real-world application and critical thinking”.

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Tim Gao @timgao.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"This is an interesting connection"

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/05/2025

‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’ Hannah Rose Woods on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

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Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A. is a brilliant student and really deserves to be able to finish their degree. If you can donate at all, even just a small amount then it would mean such a great deal: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-a-gra...

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Help A graduate

Help A graduate by paying the last of her fee debt

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Tim Gao @timgao.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is honestly not what I thought this novel would be!

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