Ben Doyle
@bendoyle.bsky.social
Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Great that Prof Murphy is now able to continue her important work, but worrying that it came to this at all... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
www.bloomsburycollections.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Happy publication day to the latest in our #medicalhumanities series, 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic'. Available in paperback or FOR FREE, open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... Feel free to drop me a line to learn more about the series!
A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
www.bloomsbury.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A stream of blue humanities projects is flooding my desk (ok, done with the watery language now, I promise) for our new series. 1st manuscript is also now out with peer reviewers! Check out the series' overview and get in touch if working on anything relevant! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...
Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just started watching Mythic Quest and it is SO GOOD!
Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Hypernormalisation: my new favourite concept. Oh, also, that Adam Curtis documentary is brilliant
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...
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“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday.
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
October 22, 2023 at 1:37 AM
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sprinting towards dystopia thanks to big tech. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...
Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
www.shawnaross.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Really, really excited to see what comes of this. A great topic and a book that I'm excited to look at for the list here, when the time comes!
Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury
Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of friends, lovers, spouses,…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Really nice review of 'Love, Friendship and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury' in the Journal of Modern Literature, which calls it 'deeply researched and tightly argued'. Check the book out here: www.bloomsbury.com/love-friends...
Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Day one of MSA - heading down to set the stand up now. Swing by to say hi if you're around!
Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
At Heathrow now killing time pre-MSA flight. Looking forward to a few days of modernism and Boston! Drop me a line if you're around and keen to chat at the conference!
October 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
At Heathrow now killing time pre-MSA flight. Looking forward to a few days of modernism and Boston! Drop me a line if you're around and keen to chat at the conference!
Throwback pre-evening out listen open.spotify.com/album/7gXuEl...
Let's Get Free
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October 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Throwback pre-evening out listen open.spotify.com/album/7gXuEl...
Bit of a throwback for the commute today: open.spotify.com/album/5OwsAU...
Love Ire & Song
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October 2, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Bit of a throwback for the commute today: open.spotify.com/album/5OwsAU...
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This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD.
The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1
The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD.
The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1
The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1
Just giving another shout out to 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television', available in paperback now! www.bloomsbury.com/representing...
Representing the New AI in Film and Television
The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities tha…
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September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Just giving another shout out to 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television', available in paperback now! www.bloomsbury.com/representing...
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Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!
Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
Just starting to arrange meetings for #MSA25 in Boston in a couple of weeks. If you're in town and want to talk publishing or research, let me know!
September 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Just starting to arrange meetings for #MSA25 in Boston in a couple of weeks. If you're in town and want to talk publishing or research, let me know!
A raft of new titles announced in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/cr... - if you work in the area, please do get in touch as I'd love to hear what you're up to!
www.bloomsbury.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A raft of new titles announced in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/cr... - if you work in the area, please do get in touch as I'd love to hear what you're up to!