Huw Marsh
@huwmarsh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL | contemporary fiction, comedy and work http://tinyurl.com/32zydzav | he/him
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/marshhuw2.html
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/marshhuw2.html
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💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
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November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
(For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)
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Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
News - BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Winners
bacls.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
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Solidarity with the @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library who are on strike this week and next. I've been going to the library for over a decade, the staff are the ones who make it the space it is - they need to be respected and, importantly, paid enough for the all the work they do
October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Solidarity with the @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library who are on strike this week and next. I've been going to the library for over a decade, the staff are the ones who make it the space it is - they need to be respected and, importantly, paid enough for the all the work they do
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“Physically, you’re bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories are the same.” I Interviewed Dev Hynes about moving back to Ilford when his mum got sick & how it inspired the incredible album Essex Honey www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
‘It’s scary how many St George’s flags there were’: Blood Orange on coming home to Essex and mourning his mother
After grief brought Dev Hynes home, he reconsidered the county that shaped him. The result is a masterful new album – made with a little help from Lorde and Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“Physically, you’re bigger: your shape has changed. But the space is the same. The memories are the same.” I Interviewed Dev Hynes about moving back to Ilford when his mum got sick & how it inspired the incredible album Essex Honey www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?
September 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Can we shift away from low-quality UUK leadership?
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On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision
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Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
forms.gle
August 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...
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Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
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Job alert! We're looking to hire a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature here at the University of Essex. We're particularly interested in candidates with specialisms in C20th and C21st literature, comparative literature, critical theory, and Holocaust writing. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Job profile
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Job alert! We're looking to hire a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature here at the University of Essex. We're particularly interested in candidates with specialisms in C20th and C21st literature, comparative literature, critical theory, and Holocaust writing. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Heads-up: this, in August @grantabooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicola-bar...
Nicola Barker in Conversation with Isabel Waidner
The Booker shortlisted author of Darkmans launches her profound and comic new novel, TonyInterruptor, in a conversation with Isabel Waidner
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Heads-up: this, in August @grantabooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicola-bar...
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If anyone feels it's important to be exposed to 'views they find offensive', they can just look at Twitter for ten seconds. Universities have more serious work to do www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
If anyone feels it's important to be exposed to 'views they find offensive', they can just look at Twitter for ten seconds. Universities have more serious work to do www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told
Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
*first year lecture, academic strides in*
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“right you sickos, im here to tell you once and for all THE FOOTNOTE GOES AFTER THE PUNCTUATION”
*students wail, gnash teeth, vomit*
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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ENGLISH LIT JOB! A rare beast spotted in the wild! Come work with us! I’ll provide snacks!
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in English
We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in English, you will be required to make a significant contribution to the ...
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
ENGLISH LIT JOB! A rare beast spotted in the wild! Come work with us! I’ll provide snacks!
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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A rare thing to see in the wild these days: a Creative Writing lectureship (fixed term) at the University of East Anglia vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies(ATS1307) in University of East Anglia | UEA
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies(ATS1307) vacancy in University of East Anglia.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Literatur...
vacancies.uea.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A rare thing to see in the wild these days: a Creative Writing lectureship (fixed term) at the University of East Anglia vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...
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Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues.
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues.
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
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A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline: 30 May. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
The Birch Family Scholarship
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
April 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline: 30 May. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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For the sake of 10FTE jobs, UEA are still pressing ahead with compulsory redundancies. Some of these folk are friends & colleagues in my department. This doesn’t have to happen & is an enormous error of management #SaveUEA
May 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For the sake of 10FTE jobs, UEA are still pressing ahead with compulsory redundancies. Some of these folk are friends & colleagues in my department. This doesn’t have to happen & is an enormous error of management #SaveUEA
This looks excellent, and is available open access too!
’Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature,’ edited by @emilyjhogg.bsky.social and me, is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Working on this book has been an absolute dream – a study in feminist community building and the importance of critically and socially engaged scholarship. 1/
May 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This looks excellent, and is available open access too!
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The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year.
A huge thank you to the team at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for helping me bring it to life.
Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year.
A huge thank you to the team at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for helping me bring it to life.
Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
April 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The cat’s out of the bag! 🐈⬛
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year.
A huge thank you to the team at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for helping me bring it to life.
Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my weird, slippery biography of Muriel Spark, will be out in April next year.
A huge thank you to the team at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for helping me bring it to life.
Please tell your libraries and favourite bookshops!
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The Crab Museum is the best thing in Margate. Maybe the best thing in all of Kent.
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Crab Museum is the best thing in Margate. Maybe the best thing in all of Kent.
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Hello, BlueSky! We're happy to be here!
April 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Hello, BlueSky! We're happy to be here!