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Jack Quirk
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Ph.D. candidate at Brown | Assistant Editor at NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
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proofs! HACIA LA NOVELA CRITICA

the first Spanish translation of a big piece, coming soon, thanks to the careful smarts of @pavelandrade.bsky.social !
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Apropos of nothing whatsoever, I'm posting my talk from last month on "Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius." Thanks very much to ANU Center for Australian Literary Cultures (@calc-anu.bsky.social, @moniquerooney.bsky.social, @tynedaile.bsky.social) for having me!

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Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
YouTube video by Arts & Social Sciences at ANU
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October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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There are more fictional Australian Country Towns With A Secret than there are actual living Australians.
Seeing trailers for some upcoming Screen Australia backed films and it’s amazing how so few Australian Stories involve cities at all. Everyone in our cities are completely devoid of stories. Our streets are narrativeless. Only the Bush has agency.
September 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Fosse translates Murnane's The Plains.
September 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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"I don't believe for one second that Meanjin's financial solvency was the reason for the shutdown". Meanjin's ex-deputy editor speaks about the demise of the journal on The Battler podcast (interview starts around the 55-minute mark). thebattler.substack.com/p/ep-25-mean...
Ep. 25 Meanjin Streets ft. Eli McLean
on the untimely murder of Meanjin
thebattler.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Looking for a place to start with Murnane's work? You could do worse than LANDSCAPE WITH LANDSCAPE. Phenomenal work. Each chapter is authored by the narrator of the previous. The entire work folds in on itself.
www.andotherstories.org/landscape-wi...
September 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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One of my many TBR projects. Three mystery novels written in Nigerian pidgin by Adaora Lily Ulasi and published by Fontana in the 1970s. I'm intrigued because Ulasi 's work seems to have been completely forgotten.
August 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
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...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
For those interested in Sam Selvon, I've just published a piece in EJES for a special issue on "The Place of Race in Law and Literature," edited by @elisewang.bsky.social, Andrew Bricker, and Cedric Essi. Check it out over here: doi.org/10.1080/1382...
Colour bar forms in Sam Selvon’s Windrush novels
In this essay I discuss two novels by Trinidadian Sam Selvon – The Lonely Londoners (1956) and The Housing Lark (1965) – which together I call Selvon’s Windrush novels on account of their shared co...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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You should put two spaces after a period when:
- Writing a fax to your travel agent
- Penning a eulogy for your uncle who just died of "confumption"
- Addressing the constable or lorde of the duchy
July 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Job Posting: Berkeley Law's Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program Seeks Applications for an Assistant Professor of Law and History
 We have the following job posting: The Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) PhD Program in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley invites entry-level and early-career lateral applicants for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position focused on law and history. We seek applications from scholars whose primary research focus is law and history in the United States, and also from those engaged in comparative analysis in which American law and history is a component. We seek a scholar versed in qualitative and/or quantitative research methods and theories, and ready to enter into the intellectual life of a unique multidisciplinary PhD Program. Within the broad ambit of law and history our search is open as to the field and/or period of specialization. However, we are particularly interested in candidates whose research relates to race and inequality. The JSP Program attracts a diverse student body with a variety of experiences before graduate school. The JSP Program is committed to methodological pluralism and encourages scholars who are willing and able to mentor graduate and undergraduate students whose research uses a range of methods. JSP faculty members also teach in Berkeley’s interdisciplinary undergraduate Legal Studies major, which operates under the auspices of JSP. The JSP Program is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit: http://ofew.berkeley.edu/new-faculty. The law school strives to educate responsible, effective, and forward-thinking advocates who serve the public through legal practice, public policy, academic scholarship, and related fields. In doing so, the school addresses some of society’s most pressing challenges by leveraging its strengths in teaching and research to improve law, policy, and public institutions. At the heart of Berkeley Law’s public mission is a commitment to access, affordability, and empowering students from all backgrounds to pursue impactful careers across a wide range of professional paths. For more information, please visit: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/public-mission/. Read on here. -- Karen Tani   
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July 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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New at PB: @ivan812.bsky.social unravels the troubling Thomas Carlyle-to-Curtis Yarvin-to-JD Vance intellectual pipeline. "Sometimes the Fascist jackboot," Kreilkamp writes, "just slides right onto the foot."
In the Führerbunker with Carlyle and Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin—and, through him, arguably, Thomas Carlyle—has now emerged as a significant source of ideas for the present administration.
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July 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Looking forward to this new collection, Realism and the Novel: A Global History, edited by Paul Stasi and out on Cambridge UP. Looks like it'll be an invaluable resource!

Read an excerpt from the intro here: assets.cambridge.org/97810092/968...
July 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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We've just received the first issue of the year, number 58.1. It should be available online soon. Fantastic articles by Marta Figlerowicz, Peter Sloane, Kelly Yin Nga Tse, Deirdre Canavan, Liam Kruger, and Priya Joshi!
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
For those interested in Aus Lit, de Krester, Brian Castro, and some other great names here!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Why this year's Miles Franklin shortlist is the most 'radical' yet
ABC experts unpack the shortlist of Australia's biggest book prize: who made it, who missed out and who they think will win.
www.abc.net.au
June 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Book reviews by Richard Godden, Marian Eide, Paul Stasi, Bruce Robins, Justin Mitchell, and Tom Perrin!
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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currently reading!
June 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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What are you reading at the moment?
June 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
For those interested in new Aus lit, 2025 MUD Literary Prize shortlist announced:

www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/202...
MUD Literary Prize 2025 shortlist announced | Books+Publishing
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February 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Caelum Nullius (Sky/heaven belonging to no one): Worth checking out for those interested in neocolonialism.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - <i>Caelum Nullius:</i> Outer Space and the Colonial Logic of Property Rights
muse.jhu.edu
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM