English Studies
Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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- Reposted by English StudiesJoin us on on Saturday, February 7th, for our free virtual birthday conference! ✍️🏻📅 You can read about it on our blog, The Cricket: www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/... Please register via Eventbrite to receive a zoom link the week of the conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
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- 📚🌳 In “Apple Trees and Plastic Ducks: Gardens as Post-pastoral Landscapes in Contemporary British Fiction,” Silvia Rosivalova Baucekova explores how four renowned authors depict gardens as powerful spaces where the distinction between wilderness and society might be reimagined. Read the article👇:
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- 📖 In “Spatiality, Fugitivity, and “Black Livingness” in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Tuire Valkeakari sheds new light on how Jacobs narrates discourses on spatiality and pre-fugitivity to draw special attention to solidarity and black livingness. Read the entire article👇:
- Reposted by English StudiesThe CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
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- 📜 In “Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Medieval Germanic Courtier Narrative,” Leonard Neidorf sheds new light on how #Beowulf and Nibelungenlied hold similar literary motifs as courtier narratives that experiment with aesthetic form and character development. Check out the entire article👇:
- Reposted by English StudiesCongratulations to @claireconnolly.bsky.social on the publication of "Irish Romanticism: A Literary History" @universitypress.cambridge.org ❗We're looking forward to launching this book in @gihnyu.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12 at 6:00pm ⬇️⬇️⬇️ as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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- 📜 In “Hieroglyphic Matter in Bacon’s New Atlantis,” Katrina L. Spadaro charts and draw attention to how hieroglyphs serve as simulacra and mimetic characters that mirror the natural world in Francis Bacon’s utopian writing. Read the entire article👇:
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- 📚 In “Ante-victimhood of Atomic Bombing: Inter-imperiality and Gender in Jackie Copleton’s A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding,” Ngoi Hui Chien and Vandana Saxena examine ante-victimhood and inter-imperial rivalries in Copleton’s writing, focusing on gender and complicity. Read the article👇:
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- Reposted by English StudiesOUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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- ✒️ In “The Narrative Perfect and Past Perfective: Evidence from the Diary of Samuel Pepys,” Dr Vladimir Bondar examines how Pepys’s writing reveals how temporal, syntactic and pragmatic factors trigger the use of the present or past perfect in different contexts. Check out the entire article👇:
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- 📢 We are excited to share that our newest issue has officially been published at @englishstudies.bsky.social! 📖 This issue includes reflections on promising topics from depictions of trauma and #posthumanism in Anglophone literature to loanwords and prosody. Check out the array of articles👇:
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- 📢 We are delighted to announce that our most recent special issue "(Dis)location: The Shifting Thematics of Home" has just officially been published! 📚 This issue comprises a diversity of promising articles on home, #belonging, transcultural memory and #diaspora. More details on the entire issue👇:
- 📖 This special issue includes a poignant introduction by guest editors Margarida Martins and Paula Horta, focusing on the multi-layered meaning behind different textures of home in light of discourses on dislocation, trauma and exile in Anglophone literatures! Read the wonderful #freeaccess piece👇:
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- Reposted by English StudiesComing soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- 📚 In “Merciful Solidarity Across Space and Time: Affective Communities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction (2014–2024),” Carla Sassi examines how four Scottish novelists represent the shaping of affective alliances through merciful solidarity in their recent fictional writings. Check out the article👇:
- Reposted by English StudiesTales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
- Reposted by English StudiesDickens is going to Denmark! Will you go too? CFP deadline: 4 January Conference: 13-16 July in Aarhus on ‘Thinking Dickens’ dickenssociety.org/home
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- 📜 In “Communities of Writing: The Main Scribes of National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn ii.1,” María José Carrillo-Linares explores the constellation of palaeographical features in a Late Medieval manuscript to examine the influence of writing communities among scribes. Read the article👇:
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- Reposted by English Studies📚 New Book Review! Ellen Barth reviews: The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020, edited by Nicola Wilson et al. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Publishing #WomeninPublishing #WomeninPrint #FeministBookHistory
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- 📢 We are delighted to officially announce that the wonderful @drdominicdean.bsky.social has joined the International Advisory Board at @englishstudies.bsky.social! Looking forward to collaborating on various exciting activities that are on the horizon!
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