Becky Guest
@beckyguest.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literature/Literary Studies journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis
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Becky Guest
@beckyguest.bsky.social
· Sep 11
Global South Literary Studies
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Global South Literary Studies.
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Delighted to announce the launch of a new journal from @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social: Global South Literary Studies 🎉 Editor-in-Chief: Goutam Karmakar. Learn more, sign up for new content alerts & consider submitting at www.tandfonline.com/rgsl 🎉
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An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long part-time editorial placement. The internship will provide invaluable experience within an internationally-recognised academic and literary journal.
Deadline: Thurs 26 Feb
Deadline: Thurs 26 Feb
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January 29, 2026 at 12:02 PM
An opportunity is available for a @chase-dtp.bsky.social-funded PhD student to join Wasafiri on a year-long part-time editorial placement. The internship will provide invaluable experience within an internationally-recognised academic and literary journal.
Deadline: Thurs 26 Feb
Deadline: Thurs 26 Feb
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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👇:
Apple Trees and Plastic Ducks: Gardens as Post-pastoral Landscapes in Contemporary British Fiction
Gardens have long occupied a prominent place in the British cultural imagination. Recently, the compounding crises of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic brought both the degradation of the en...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:37 AM
📚🌳 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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I love surprises like getting cited in a literary critique journal article about the "whiteness of the megalodons". I haven't read the books or even seen the films but I am entertained by the notion that there is an undercurrent about male anxiety.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Monstrous Reproduction, Monstrous Evolution, and Extinction Anxiety in Steve Alten’s MEG Books
This article examines Steve Alten’s MEG series (1997–) as a gothic narrative of survival that transforms the prehistoric-survivor fantasy into an allegory of male vanishing. Drawing on the intertwi...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I love surprises like getting cited in a literary critique journal article about the "whiteness of the megalodons". I haven't read the books or even seen the films but I am entertained by the notion that there is an undercurrent about male anxiety.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A Roundtable in Memory of Helen Carr, who sadly passed away last year, leaving an epic legacy in modernist studies and as a founding editor of Women: a cultural review. London Modernist Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social 9th May 2026 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @modernistudies.bsky.social
A Roundtable in Memory of Helen Carr
ies.sas.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
A Roundtable in Memory of Helen Carr, who sadly passed away last year, leaving an epic legacy in modernist studies and as a founding editor of Women: a cultural review. London Modernist Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social 9th May 2026 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @modernistudies.bsky.social
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I spoke with Martin Peterson, the philosophy professor at Texas A&M University who had to remove Plato readings from a course syllabus to comply with school policies against teaching "race and gender ideology." He says he's replaced that material with media coverage of this censorship.
Professor Forbidden to Teach Plato Assigns Article About University Censorship Instead
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is using the censorship of Plato from his course syllabus to teach his students about freedom of speech
www.rollingstone.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 PM
I spoke with Martin Peterson, the philosophy professor at Texas A&M University who had to remove Plato readings from a course syllabus to comply with school policies against teaching "race and gender ideology." He says he's replaced that material with media coverage of this censorship.
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Here's a new article from IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:
“Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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January 20, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Here's a new article from IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:
“Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Space, Time, and Progression: Narrating Chinese Americans Between Worlds in Literature,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-14
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions, once made a documentary about human–elephant conflicts in Zimbabwe. My essay on the film – and what it says about species conservation in a postcolonial world – is now online at Interventions. DM me if you'd like a PDF. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of Nervous Conditions, once made a documentary about human–elephant conflicts in Zimbabwe. My essay on the film – and what it says about species conservation in a postcolonial world – is now online at Interventions. DM me if you'd like a PDF. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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wow - honoured to be here
Overjoyed to have my first article published in Textual Practice today on life-writing, network infrastructures, and formal experimentation in work by Kathy Acker and Joanna Walsh.
It’s open access too! Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s open access too! Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Network(ed) confession: disidentification, digitality, and the politics of self-representation in the work of Kathy Acker and Joanna Walsh
This essay examines the intersection of life-writing, network systems, and literary experimentation. Confessional forms of literature have inevitably transformed with the proliferation of mass comm...
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January 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
wow - honoured to be here
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New article by IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:
“Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Empathy, curiosity, and critique: an AI-assisted mapping of non-academic reception of Asian American literature
This study investigates how non-academic readers engage with Asian American literature through AI-assisted sentiment analysis of online reviews of Celeste Ng's novels. Ng's novels represent two mot...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:48 PM
New article by IEHS members Shuyue Liu and Changkang Li:
“Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Empathy, Curiosity, and Critique: an AI-assisted Mapping of Non-academic Reception of Asian American Literature,” Textual Practice (2025): 1-23.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If your friend doesn’t make you a t shirt promoting your book, are they really your friend? @zugenia.bsky.social #mla26
January 9, 2026 at 3:41 AM
If your friend doesn’t make you a t shirt promoting your book, are they really your friend? @zugenia.bsky.social #mla26
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New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:08 AM
New year, new issue of the Keats-Shelley Review! Articles on Mary Shelley and The Liberal, Percy Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener, Frankenstein and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, update from Rome and poems and essays from Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics prizes
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yksr20/c...
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We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
thelondonjournal.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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Very pleased to say that the new issue of Shakespeare on 'Adapting Romance in Indian Cinema' , guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcia-Periago, is now out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...
Shakespeare
Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Very pleased to say that the new issue of Shakespeare on 'Adapting Romance in Indian Cinema' , guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa Garcia-Periago, is now out at www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...
A few more days left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable #digitalhumanities experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd be interested to hear from you!
📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
A few more days left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable #digitalhumanities experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd be interested to hear from you!
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Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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une publication de Hisham Bustani: Preparing for revolutionary times? Chronic crisis of authority and constructive subversion in contemporary Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social
Preparing for revolutionary times? Chronic crisis of authority and constructive subversion in contemporary Jordan
Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach rooted in the methodology of participatory action research, this essay uses the lens of praxis to explore how Gramscian concepts, in conversation with ideas p...
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July 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
une publication de Hisham Bustani: Preparing for revolutionary times? Chronic crisis of authority and constructive subversion in contemporary Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social
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Article Abstract: Fugitive sounds: A reappraisal of enslaved people’s music in antebellum New Orleans, 1814–1861 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The study reveals a complex, diverse musical network, where Black musicians performed covertly in taverns, boardinghouses, and private residences.
Fugitive sounds: A reappraisal of enslaved people’s music in antebellum New Orleans, 1814–1861
This paper examines the clandestine musical culture of enslaved people in antebellum New Orleans as documented by a previously unexamined archive of police records, dating from 1814 to 1861. Moving...
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October 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Article Abstract: Fugitive sounds: A reappraisal of enslaved people’s music in antebellum New Orleans, 1814–1861 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The study reveals a complex, diverse musical network, where Black musicians performed covertly in taverns, boardinghouses, and private residences.
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David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh! Earlier this year I interviewed David (who is a lovely guy as well as a very fine author!) about this fantastic book for @englishstudies.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The English Studies Interview with David Szalay: In Conversation with Dominic Dean
David Szalay is a Hungarian-British author. His first novel, London and the South East (2008), won the Betty Trask Award, while in 2016 All That Man Is was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Sza...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh! Earlier this year I interviewed David (who is a lovely guy as well as a very fine author!) about this fantastic book for @englishstudies.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just over a week left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable publication experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd welcome your application! @tandfresearch.bsky.social
📢 Call for Senior Editor: Literature & Literary Criticism on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 19 November 2025 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgelit.bsky.social
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Just over a week left to apply 📢 If you have a relevant PhD, demonstrable publication experience, & are interested in supporting open access scholarship, I'd welcome your application! @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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📚 In “A Possible Way Out? The Paradox of the Multitude in Cloud Atlas and Slade House,” Hua Tan and Siyu Cao examine David Mitchell’s networked fiction as an emblem of how cosmopolitan vision views are challenged in light of utopian images of the multitude. Read the entire article👇:
A Possible Way Out? The Paradox of the Multitude in Cloud Atlas and Slade House
The multitude depicted in David Mitchell’s networked fiction is frequently interpreted as a stark articulation of the potential for political emancipation of the oppressed under global capitalism. ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
📚 In “A Possible Way Out? The Paradox of the Multitude in Cloud Atlas and Slade House,” Hua Tan and Siyu Cao examine David Mitchell’s networked fiction as an emblem of how cosmopolitan vision views are challenged in light of utopian images of the multitude. Read the entire article👇:
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This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This came out online a while ago, but now there are some free e-prints available: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
think.taylorandfrancis.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
📢 Call for Senior Editor: #DigitalHumanities on our growing broad scope open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities ✨ Apply by 23 November 2025 👇
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @routledgehistory.bsky.social
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I have written about Satantango, his masterpiece, in the article "Destroying necessity with necessity – on László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango" (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) - I will be happy to share a pdf!
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I have written about Satantango, his masterpiece, in the article "Destroying necessity with necessity – on László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango" (www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....) - I will be happy to share a pdf!