Dr Jenny Woodley
@jennywoodley.bsky.social
Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum
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RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
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I'm an American Studies grad from Nottingham, and the beneficiary of an AmStuds/History fellowship that launched me into grad school in the U.S. I literally wouldn't have the career I have without it.
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm an American Studies grad from Nottingham, and the beneficiary of an AmStuds/History fellowship that launched me into grad school in the U.S. I literally wouldn't have the career I have without it.
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Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
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This campaign needs you now
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
c.org/26qjPmffNy
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As a graduate of the BA, MRes and PhD programmes, the department has a special place in my heart and has been instrumental in my career.
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
c.org/26qjPmffNy
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SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
As a graduate of the BA, MRes and PhD programmes, the department has a special place in my heart and has been instrumental in my career.
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American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
c.org/26qjPmffNy
c.org/26qjPmffNy
This campaign needs you now
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
c.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.
This little creature landed on my parents' window... Looks kind of weird... And then I zoomed in...
November 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This little creature landed on my parents' window... Looks kind of weird... And then I zoomed in...
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
Loved that Celebrity Traitors final. We weren't sure the 'end game' was gonna bring the drama, but oh boy,it did! My daughter in actual tears at the betrayal and then Nick's "hopeful little face" at the end 😂
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Loved that Celebrity Traitors final. We weren't sure the 'end game' was gonna bring the drama, but oh boy,it did! My daughter in actual tears at the betrayal and then Nick's "hopeful little face" at the end 😂
Appalling and short-sighted decisions at Nottingham. So sad to see the American Studies programme that saw me through from undergrad to PhD is being closed. Thinking about and sending solidarity to colleagues over the river.
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Appalling and short-sighted decisions at Nottingham. So sad to see the American Studies programme that saw me through from undergrad to PhD is being closed. Thinking about and sending solidarity to colleagues over the river.
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Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.
Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.
My daughter has been learning languages at school and is loving it. By the time she leaves, I wonder if there will be any language provision left at universities in the UK...
Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.
Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
My daughter has been learning languages at school and is loving it. By the time she leaves, I wonder if there will be any language provision left at universities in the UK...
Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.
Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
THIS IS SO GOOD
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
Love that my 12-year-old West Midlander, who has never set foot in the US, gave a little fist pump when I told her Mamdani had won (she mostly knows about him from tiktok!) It's nice to be able to share good news.
This is what hope looks like.
This is what hope looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Love that my 12-year-old West Midlander, who has never set foot in the US, gave a little fist pump when I told her Mamdani had won (she mostly knows about him from tiktok!) It's nice to be able to share good news.
This is what hope looks like.
This is what hope looks like.
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The writers brought into Teen Vogue in 2017 (and through now) lit a spark that hit kindling. There IS a market for content that treats young women (and older women) like they are the smart, savvy, engaged and powerful entities they are. Hopefully something will rise to replace that. It’s so needed.
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The writers brought into Teen Vogue in 2017 (and through now) lit a spark that hit kindling. There IS a market for content that treats young women (and older women) like they are the smart, savvy, engaged and powerful entities they are. Hopefully something will rise to replace that. It’s so needed.
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That Britain has a king, that the king's brother has been involved in serious instances of sexual abuse, that the consequence is for him to be stripped of a handful of abstruse feudal titles and that Britain's elite think this is a fitting punishment, is the mark of a truly fucking weird country.
October 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
That Britain has a king, that the king's brother has been involved in serious instances of sexual abuse, that the consequence is for him to be stripped of a handful of abstruse feudal titles and that Britain's elite think this is a fitting punishment, is the mark of a truly fucking weird country.
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'Rising postgraduate fees combined with the increased cost of living, particularly higher rents, can make it impossible for some students to afford graduate study. Offer holders for these courses may reject places because they cannot secure the finance they need.'
Postgraduate study shouldn’t just be for the wealthy
Many students from underprivileged backgrounds can’t access postgraduate education – and Britain’s universities are suffering for it
observer.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
'Rising postgraduate fees combined with the increased cost of living, particularly higher rents, can make it impossible for some students to afford graduate study. Offer holders for these courses may reject places because they cannot secure the finance they need.'
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer
Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%