Erin Forbes
@eeforbes.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English. University of Bristol, UK. Writing about Poe, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Hawthorne, ghosts, crime, race, environment. Author of Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins UP 2024)
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BrANCA has extended our deadline to 30th Sept for our symposium in Paris (12-13 December). Please share! We invite individual paper or group proposals on long 19th-c US literary culture. Abstracts up to 200 words and 100-word bios to BrANCAinPARIS@gmail.com. branca-2025.weebly.com/cfp.html
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Borders and Ethno-Nationalism: The State of/in Americanist Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century BrANCA: The British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists seeks proposals to its...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
BrANCA has extended our deadline to 30th Sept for our symposium in Paris (12-13 December). Please share! We invite individual paper or group proposals on long 19th-c US literary culture. Abstracts up to 200 words and 100-word bios to BrANCAinPARIS@gmail.com. branca-2025.weebly.com/cfp.html
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Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...
June 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...
Delighted that my book has received an "Honourable Mention" from the British Association of American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize!
@officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!
@officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!
June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Delighted that my book has received an "Honourable Mention" from the British Association of American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize!
@officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!
@officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!
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No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/
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TODAY the final part of Sean O'Brien's series 'Marx and the Climate Crisis' comes out on your Youtube channel along with a transcript on theHythe ✨ This lecture focuses on Marx and and Environmentalism 🌿
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
March 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
TODAY the final part of Sean O'Brien's series 'Marx and the Climate Crisis' comes out on your Youtube channel along with a transcript on theHythe ✨ This lecture focuses on Marx and and Environmentalism 🌿
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio
#letscreate #lecture #marx
Am I the only one (still) using Text Edit?
January 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Am I the only one (still) using Text Edit?
Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo
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December 18, 2024 at 11:03 PM
Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
December 16, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it
Fara Dabhoiwala acts as historical detective, sifting literature, art, astronomy, libel to uncover this fascinating exemplar of the recrudescence of Anglo-American racism AND the extraordinary lives nevertheless lived in its wake. A true story of pre-1900 anti-racism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
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November 28, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Fara Dabhoiwala acts as historical detective, sifting literature, art, astronomy, libel to uncover this fascinating exemplar of the recrudescence of Anglo-American racism AND the extraordinary lives nevertheless lived in its wake. A true story of pre-1900 anti-racism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...