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H R Milligan
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Research Fellow in contemporary literature & ecocriticism at Loughborough University // studying cultural forms & eco-activism // writing a book about ecogothic // she/her
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H R Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 12
Excited to have a short provocations piece, 'Against Entanglement', in the first issue of American Gothic Studies.

In a time of pandemics, militant land grabs, and extinctions, the Gothic uses tales of zombie infections and nuked landscapes to show us the dark side of being entangled with others.
cypheractive.bsky.social Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock @cypheractive.bsky.social · Jul 11
The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....
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ross-greer.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥

Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
BBC headline: More North Sea drilling to be allowed in new Labour plan
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
hrmilligan.bsky.social
nice to spy my former PhD supervisor @timothycbaker.bsky.social and fellowship mentor @sadiseshiah.bsky.social in this cambridge companion to british utopian lit & culture!
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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timothycbaker.bsky.social
This is going to be pretty useful for all of you and your students! Available for pre-order now! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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profsarahparker.bsky.social
Even more time to get Weird with us @lboroenglish.bsky.social in July 2026!
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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chrisbataille.bsky.social
I’m really surprised this isn’t bigger news. Just under 10 million people live in Tehran. Where can they go? Where else in Iran will have enough water? This will undoubtedly strain the country’s and the region’s politics, finances and governance capacity.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 8d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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moderniststudies.bsky.social
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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profmhwhitworth.bsky.social
Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on Science & the Modern World, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.

Email me by 25 November on michael.whitworth@ell.ox.ac.uk if you’re interested! #WeirdModernisms #BAMS2026 #MSA2026
Jacket of CUP’s 1932 “cheap” edition of Science and the Modern World, bearing a quotation from Herbert Read’s review for The Criterion.
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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smillermcdonald.bsky.social
I have a piece on Post-Holocene Progress at St Martin's Press History Reader: 'we cannot assume an ever-increasing energy expenditure...fossil energy use must stop and everything dependent on it must be abolished or reformed'

www.thehistoryreader.com/world-histor...
Post-Holocene Progress - The History Reader : The History Reader
Samuel Miller McDonald's Progress is a bold and wide-ranging argument about the idea of progress that offers a new vision of our future.
www.thehistoryreader.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
hrmilligan.bsky.social
excellent state-of-the-field conversation about the energy humanities
calebwellum.bsky.social Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks to @modamhist.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @imreszeman.bsky.social, Bob Johnson, Cara Daggett, and Jennifer Wenzel on history and the energy humanities. We hope it is helpful! Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Energy Humanities and American History” | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Energy Humanities and American History”
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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argonautbooks.bsky.social
We need your help.

@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.

Please read on for more information

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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currentaffairs.bsky.social
If you email us proof of cancellation of your New York Times subscription (send to help@currentaffairs.org), we’ll give you a FREE year-long digital subscription to Current Affairs.
currentaffairs.bsky.social Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 11d
NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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jenniferacooke.bsky.social
I'm giving a short talk about my new book, The Help Deficit and the Stories We Tell to Dispel It, in my department's research seminar series on 3rd December, 4.15 pm - 5,30 pm. It's hybrid so let me know if you'd like the Teams link.
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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profsarahparker.bsky.social
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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lboroenglish.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher, Liam Young, is co-organising the first @bacls.bsky.social graduate conference, held at the Uni of Leeds on 20 May 2026. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the journal Alluvium. Deadline for abstracts: 4 January 2026. CFP here: bacls.org/news/188/
News - BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies Conference 2026 CFP
bacls.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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lboroenglish.bsky.social
Heather aims to curate an original history of protest and sabotage in mainstream culture to better understand how fiction influences both activism and its suppression.”

www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng...
Dr Heather Ray Milligan, Loughborough University
Staff profile for Dr Heather Ray Milligan, Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellow at Loughborough University
www.lboro.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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lboroenglish.bsky.social
This open letter to COP30 calling for the arts and humanities to be central to responses to the climate crisis chimes with the current research project of our Vice Chancellor’s Independent Research Fellow @hrmilligan.bsky.social

www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/op...
Open letter to COP30: Use storytelling to fight climate crisis - University of Birmingham
Actors, authors, and public figures have signed an open letter calling for the cultural sector to have a prominent role in the fight against the climate crisis.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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easlce.bsky.social
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage

Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025

Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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moneyontheleft.bsky.social
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.
The Activist Humanist with Caroline Levine
We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in…
moneyontheleft.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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annehelen.bsky.social
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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jacobrosenberg.bsky.social
This put words to the thing I keep coming back to: "Ducks, Newburyport" is the only novel that makes sense of this moment

thebaffler.com/salvos/ameri...
American Gothics | Chris Lehmann
Literary elites have greeted the great crisis of the present age with little more than a collective puzzled shrug.
thebaffler.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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miriamposner.com
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
hrmilligan.bsky.social
lovely to visit Toppings bookshop in Edinburgh today for @smillermcdonald.bsky.social to sign copies of his book Progress - a street over from where we used to live and the final edits were completed
Author Samuel Miller McDonald sits in Toppings bookshop in Edinburgh at a round table with stacks of books PROGRESS: A History of Humanity's Worst Idea
October 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Those pesky double endpapers in full...
A snowy Dickensian London night-time scene... there's snow on the ground and on the roofs, light in the windows, and smoke coming out of the chimneys. Some men huddle round a brazier. They sky is greenish with a full moon. St Paul's Cathedral peeps out from behind the roofs. A snowy Dickensian London day. It's Christmas morning and the streets are crowded with folks meeting and greeting and shopping etc. Pigeons fly in the morning sky which is tinged with pink. Carol singers crowd round the brazier. A lad draws a turkey on a sled and shows it to a reformed and jolly Scrooge.
October 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
hrmilligan.bsky.social
absolutely blown away by this introduction – immediately requested my library acquire a copy!
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 4
In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8
Cover of Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness by Jonathan Howard. The cover features a dark blue background with a painted image of a Black figure in a sheer white garment on the right-hand side. The figure appears to be deep underwater, based on the patterns of refracted light on the figure's body. On the left-hand side is a distorted reflection of the figure, as though seen from above the water's surface.
October 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM