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.
Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
The American Sentence
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - t…
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December 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Just published in paperback from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'The American Sentence'. A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book asks what an American sentence is and how has it changed? www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
Felicity, character, consequence: Jane Austen’s enduring way with words | Maria Frawley on Jane Austen in 50 Words
Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with insights into her most-used words - like ‘felicity’ and ‘character’ - revealing the genius behind her timeless fiction.
www.bloomsbury.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Lovely piece on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social blog from Susan Allen Ford on Jane Austen’s enduring way with words: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...
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Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir'
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
The Creative Community 2 Author Suzanne Jill Levine
YouTube video by TV Santa Barbara
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December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Author Suzanne Jill Levine sat down with TV Santa Barbara's The Creative Community to discuss her book, 'Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir'
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
Watch the full interview👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktn2...
On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!
What does it mean to make knowledge truly accessible?
In this era of global political unrest and government censorship, can open scholarship be a tool for democratising knowledge?
Join us on 5 February 2026 for a free online webinar: bit.ly/4iXRKO6
In this era of global political unrest and government censorship, can open scholarship be a tool for democratising knowledge?
Join us on 5 February 2026 for a free online webinar: bit.ly/4iXRKO6
December 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On Feb 5th I'll be moderating what promises to be a fascinating discussion on Open Access: Responsibility, Censorship and Resistance. Join us online!
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;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
‘Beware trade-offs’ of removing REF funding for 3* outputs
Review of formula used to allocate £2 billion QR funding could downgrade or withdraw money for ‘internationally excellent’ research, some fear
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
;Eliminating funding for 3* research in the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling into how potential changes to funding formulas may play out.' 1/3
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Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Excited to see this out from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social after many excited conversations about it - thanks to the editorial team, who have been a dream to work with!
To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
To all DH/AI folks, Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $800k available. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...
Jane Austen in 50 Words
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December 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
At @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we LOVE Jane Austen. Check out some of our more recent Austen-related offerings in our most recent newsletter (and please sign up if you haven't already!): mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/j...
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What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
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You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.
Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks, targeting the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide buff.ly/5IFJ9hH
Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We don’t have to be stuck with bullsh*t like meta. We left twitter/x; we can find or build a new platform for what meta offers, right? I’m right now looking at @hardcover.app as an alt to Goodreads—and @shepherdbooks.bsky.social too. People are building alts. We gotta make a better world.
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We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
‘The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering’ Conference Programme – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference!
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social
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December 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social
Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...
Unsettling Extinction
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinc…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Newest paperback entry in our Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities series now on the website! 'Unsettling Extinction' (ed. Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby) presents cutting-edge work on species extinction across the environmental humanities. www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...
Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...
Online Talk: Susan Allen Ford, Hester Mulso Chapone, Jane Austen, and Pride and Prejudice - Chawton House
Visit our digital living room for the fifth event for our Jane Austen Book Club, and the third Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture with Austen scholar Susan Allen Ford.
chawtonhouse.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Sign up for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social own Susan Allen Ford's Deirdre Le Faye memorial lecture, hosted online by Chawton house! chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl...
Today's commute listen - lovely new album from a real talent. open.spotify.com/album/3Brw2X...
Blizzard
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December 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today's commute listen - lovely new album from a real talent. open.spotify.com/album/3Brw2X...
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If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
Aardman Animations will ’embrace AI’ while also being ‘cautious’, says Nick Park
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.
Wonderful to see Pramod Nayar's new book with @bloomsburylit.bsky.social launched at the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad. herald.uohyd.ac.in/postcolonial... It's a fantastic book and one you can find here: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
Exploring the Depths of Ecological Precarity: A Conversation with Prof. Pramod K Nayar |
herald.uohyd.ac.in
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Wonderful to see Pramod Nayar's new book with @bloomsburylit.bsky.social launched at the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad. herald.uohyd.ac.in/postcolonial... It's a fantastic book and one you can find here: www.bloomsbury.com/postcolonial...
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Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Celebrate the festive season with exclusive deals on academic books until midnight, December 7th!
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'James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures' repositions Joyce among his Irish contemporaries, showing his narrative experiments as a renegotiation—not a rejection—of earlier conventions.
📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc
#irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism
📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc
#irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
'James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures' repositions Joyce among his Irish contemporaries, showing his narrative experiments as a renegotiation—not a rejection—of earlier conventions.
📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc
#irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism
📗Out now: https://bit.ly/4qU2voc
#irishliterature #jamesjoyce #modernism
Cannot stop listening to this - it's just so...GRAND! Full-sounded and totally OTT but also absolutely beautiful.
open.spotify.com/track/4DAYMx...
open.spotify.com/track/4DAYMx...
Mahashmashana
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Cannot stop listening to this - it's just so...GRAND! Full-sounded and totally OTT but also absolutely beautiful.
open.spotify.com/track/4DAYMx...
open.spotify.com/track/4DAYMx...
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
'Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876- 1930' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in the BAVS newsletter: 'The 1st significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' available open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876–1930
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November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
'Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876- 1930' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in the BAVS newsletter: 'The 1st significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' available open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...