Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
@abdavis.bsky.social
Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature https://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/amanda-blake-davis/
Pinned
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
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#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
About | Eighteenth Century E
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December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period.
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Details of their seminar series will be published here:
hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...
#skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
"In an era where the authentic written word is under threat....English isn't just about reading the past--it's about understanding the power of words and narratives in the present and future and giving our students the skills to successfully navigate the world".
True of all UK English programmes.
True of all UK English programmes.
Today the Sunday Times discusses the decline in students studying A-level and beyond. I believe this is reversible. I believe it is necessary. And I’m glad to have some of my words on the importance of the discipline and the vibrancy of our degrees in English at York in the article.
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"In an era where the authentic written word is under threat....English isn't just about reading the past--it's about understanding the power of words and narratives in the present and future and giving our students the skills to successfully navigate the world".
True of all UK English programmes.
True of all UK English programmes.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🪶 Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Founder's Day Lecture | Gilbert White, the Revolutionary Outdoor Naturalist
Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne, published in 1789, was a…
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December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🪶 Discover how one man’s intimate observations of swifts, frogs, and fields sparked a revolution in our understanding of nature.
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Catch up with Jenny Uglow's illustrated talk on Gilbert White, exploring how he came to be called ‘the father of ecology’.
Watch it now on YouTube:
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊
ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
ICYMI, our BARS Digital Event on the publication of Volume 4 of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley is available on the @bars.bsky.social Digital Events YouTube channel: youtu.be/7PFIDJtb2rQ?... ✨️
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood.
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
December 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ICYMI - the latest issue of Gothic Studies journal is devoted to the author, mystic, and media star Algernon Blackwood.
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
The Intro asks how we can understand Blackwood as an author both in and beyond the Gothic tradition and how his work reshapes the genre.
doi.org/10.3366/goth...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD
December 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/m... #OTD
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
Modern Humanities Research Association - Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality - Edited by Merrilees Roberts, Amanda Blake Davis, and Paul Stephens
www.mhra.org.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Excited to share 'Percy Bysshe Shelley in Collaboration: Influence and Intertextuality', ed. with Merrilees Roberts and @paulstephens.bsky.social, forthcoming with @themhra.bsky.social 📖✨️ www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
More from the University of Derby picket as it marches through the city. @ucu.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
More from the University of Derby picket as it marches through the city. @ucu.org.uk
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Great picket at the University of Derby today as they fight back against massive cuts outside their new £75m building in the centre of the city.
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Great picket at the University of Derby today as they fight back against massive cuts outside their new £75m building in the centre of the city.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
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...
🔻 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...
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
www.thecanary.co
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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...
🔻 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...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Reposting as it's #NationalTreeWeek 🌳
New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"
'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'
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New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"
'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'
🌳👇🌳👇🌳
An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social
arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
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arrived in the post this week 👇
#OvidAlert
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Green Letters
Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters
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November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Reposting as it's #NationalTreeWeek 🌳
New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"
'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'
🌳👇🌳👇🌳
New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"
'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'
🌳👇🌳👇🌳
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025
TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:15 AM
For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
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Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
#CFP: "The Ocean of Life. Humanities and the Ocean"
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
International seminar, 3 July 2026, University of the Ryukus, Japan.
Deadline for submissions: 19 December 2025
Info: international-seminar-ocean.my.canva.site
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #bluehumanities
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Norwegian Wood: P. B. Shelley’s Palimpsestic Pines
This essay explores the appearance of a distinctively Northern European tree, the pine, in Shelley’s works between 1814 and 1817. This period corresponds with the Shelleys’ continental travels and ...
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Submit an abstract for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 🖤
To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Submit an abstract for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 🖤
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage
Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025
Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Come visit our excellent Archives & Special Collections! Especially strong in eighteenth-century and Romantic-period books due to the copyright privilege. Awards cover costs up to £2500.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
We would love YOU to write for the BARS Blog! If you have an idea for the blog or for our TikTok/Instagram channel, then please do get in touch! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/
More info ⤵️
More info ⤵️
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) at University of Warwick
Explore an exciting academic career as a Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
🚨#History #envhist Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Environmental History.
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...
🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
See details below... And do not hesitate to spread the word...
👇👇👇
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK289/a...