Becky Guest
@beckyguest.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for 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 🎉
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
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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 👇
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Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
Senior Editor needed for Cogent Arts & Humanities
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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 👇
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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!
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Very happy that my new article has just been published in _Green Letters_ - "‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies
Hadestown is a musical play that is preoccupied with the importance of cycles, both in life and in art. That characteristic is evident musically, theatrically, thematically and dramaturgically – as...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very happy that my new article has just been published in _Green Letters_ - "‘To Know How It Ends/And Still Begin to Sing It Again’: Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the Climate Crisis, and Recursive Ecodramaturgies"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Now published in the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing: our research on YA Book covers, showing that book covers may be as powerful a driver of sales as author fame
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YA book covers: likability and sales
Book covers have been an important aspect of book selling for the 20th and 21st centuries. In order to provide Young Adult (YA) authors with data about YA book covers, we asked: what makes a cover ...
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October 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Now published in the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing: our research on YA Book covers, showing that book covers may be as powerful a driver of sales as author fame
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This is an editorial that role that I currently hold, and from which I'll soon be stepping down to focus on new priorities. If anyone would like a conversation about the role I'd be very happy to chat - drop me a DM if so.
📢 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
October 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is an editorial that role that I currently hold, and from which I'll soon be stepping down to focus on new priorities. If anyone would like a conversation about the role I'd be very happy to chat - drop me a DM if so.
📢 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
October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
📢 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
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📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors
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October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Assistant Editors
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"Using academic English in philosophy is now almost inevitable... But academic English is no one’s native language."
The Hidden Costs of Being a Non-Native English Speaker in Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
Last year, a group of scholars launched an international survey of philosophers on the dominant language of philosophy today---"academic English"---and the challenges faced by native and non-native speakers of everyday English as they work in this language. The survey was completed, and the results of their study were published yesterday in Review of Philosophy and
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Using academic English in philosophy is now almost inevitable... But academic English is no one’s native language."
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We are open for submissions, but also to your suggestions! Do you have an idea for a special issue related to Global South Literary Studies? Is there an author, theorist, or translator who you think should be interviewed, a book that begs reviewing? Send us your pitch at the link below.
Learn about Global South Literary Studies
Learn about Global South Literary Studies aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We are open for submissions, but also to your suggestions! Do you have an idea for a special issue related to Global South Literary Studies? Is there an author, theorist, or translator who you think should be interviewed, a book that begs reviewing? Send us your pitch at the link below.
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my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reading and writing race in law and literature
Published in European Journal of English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism
Introduction: Towards an Ecological Posthumanism in English Studies
Since Ihab Hassan’s 1977 “Prometheus as Performer” that heralded the posthuman as a model reaching beyond the postmodern, the concept and its related theories known as posthumanism(s) have prolifer...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism
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Just wanted to share news that the second paper based on the study I conducted earlier this year with Rory fans has now been published! This one focuses on four 'rites of passage' in the fan experience, as told through material objects:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@rorygallagher.com
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@rorygallagher.com
Materialising music worlds: heritage-as-praxis in everyday music objects and vernacular memories
This paper extends Crossley’s concept of ‘music worlds’ by foregrounding the role of material assemblages in shaping collective memory, fan practices and vernacular heritage. Drawing on object-orie...
www.tandfonline.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just wanted to share news that the second paper based on the study I conducted earlier this year with Rory fans has now been published! This one focuses on four 'rites of passage' in the fan experience, as told through material objects:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@rorygallagher.com
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@rorygallagher.com
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Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.
“This Experience Was a Reminder That No Matter How Much We May Try to Distance Ourselves, This Reality Remains Inescapably Present”: An Interview with Professors Osama Jarrar and Sumaya Haj Mohammed
In this interview, which took place virtually at the 2024 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference with the International Conference on Romanticism, Professors Jarrar and Moha...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Professors Jarrar and Mohammed discuss the relationship between Romantic literature and Palestinian literature, as well as what it looks like to teach such literature during a genocide.
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"The Old English grund was chimeric and contradictory: it meant the ‘surface of the earth’, but also the ‘abyss’ and the ‘bottom of the sea’" - Interesting piece on my novel Hummingbird Salamander by Juha Vertanen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘ … then and only then would you be allowed to look to the future’: falling out of the Anthropocene with Jeff VanderMeer’s Hummingbird Salamander
This article offers a detailed close reading of selected key passages from Jeff VanderMeer’s 2021 novel Hummingbird Salamander, focusing on the ways in which this eco-thriller develops and extends ...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"The Old English grund was chimeric and contradictory: it meant the ‘surface of the earth’, but also the ‘abyss’ and the ‘bottom of the sea’" - Interesting piece on my novel Hummingbird Salamander by Juha Vertanen www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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 🎉
Global South Literary Studies
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Global South Literary Studies.
www.tandfonline.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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 🎉
Great to see an exhibition of Gurminder Sikand’s work with the @jpw-routledge.bsky.social team after our meeting in Nottingham yesterday. With huge thanks to @timyoungs.bsky.social 🙏
September 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great to see an exhibition of Gurminder Sikand’s work with the @jpw-routledge.bsky.social team after our meeting in Nottingham yesterday. With huge thanks to @timyoungs.bsky.social 🙏
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📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor
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August 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📣Green Letters: Call for Applications for Co-General Editor
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We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the exciting news that the CFP for the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference - next year called Weird Modernisms - jointly held with @modernistudies.bsky.social at @lborouniversity.bsky.social is now live! More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
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This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.
Víctor Sierra Matute looks at the figure and ideological function of the ‘prince of Spanish lyric poetry’ Garcilaso de la Vega to trace how literary canonization is a historically layered process shaped by evolving disciplinary frameworks in RQ vol. 72.3.
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
doi.org/10.1080/0883...
August 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.
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Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher
The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social
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New Publication Alert
Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)
Published in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
New Publication Alert
Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Chatterjee, Jacob Donald. "The Art of Writing Bad Poetry in Eighteenth-Century England: A Study of the True-Born Britain (1707)." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2025): 1-12.
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
📢 Cogent Arts & Humanities open access article collection now live: Narrative in Board Games 🎲 Guest Advisor
Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social
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@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social
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@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Narrative in Board Games
think.taylorandfrancis.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
📢 Cogent Arts & Humanities open access article collection now live: Narrative in Board Games 🎲 Guest Advisor
Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
Professor Gordon Calleja @indigitalgames.bsky.social
think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...
@tandfresearch.bsky.social