Katie Harling-Lee
@katieosha.bsky.social
Literature academic and bookish person based around Edinburgh, Scotland, curiously crossing disciplinary boundaries in work and life 📚
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Hello Bluesky! I'm an Edinburgh-based early career literature academic & bookish person, with a brain addled by books. I research music & sound in modern & contemporary literature, but often venture across disciplines & genres — and I was previously (and sometimes still moonlight as) a bookseller 📚
Intrigued and excited for this forthcoming publication!
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/beyond-mo...
Beyond Modernism
Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism? See…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Intrigued and excited for this forthcoming publication!
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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
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...
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🔊 CfP: New Work in Modernist Studies 15
🗓️ Friday 9 January, online
⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December
bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...
A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.
🗓️ Friday 9 January, online
⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December
bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...
A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔊 CfP: New Work in Modernist Studies 15
🗓️ Friday 9 January, online
⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December
bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...
A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.
🗓️ Friday 9 January, online
⏰ Apply by 5pm (GMT) Friday 12 December
bams.ac.uk/new-work-in-...
A great opportunity for postgraduates & early career researchers to share work on modernist cultures in a supportive environment. See link above for full details.
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On Saturday 8 Nov at 4pm we celebrate the new ‘Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre’ with editors Greg Walker and Randall Stevenson and literary legends Linda McLean and Donald Smith.
Don't miss out and book your tickets now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4oNJpOQ
Don't miss out and book your tickets now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4oNJpOQ
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
On Saturday 8 Nov at 4pm we celebrate the new ‘Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre’ with editors Greg Walker and Randall Stevenson and literary legends Linda McLean and Donald Smith.
Don't miss out and book your tickets now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4oNJpOQ
Don't miss out and book your tickets now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4oNJpOQ
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On 7 November at 2:30pm we welcome Abi Millar to talk about ‘The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age’ (Duckworth Books). From ayahuasca to astrology, reiki to raves, Millar explores a desire for meaning in the modern world. Chaired by Suzanna Millar. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3Wq2pqu
edin.ac/3Wq2pqu
October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
On 7 November at 2:30pm we welcome Abi Millar to talk about ‘The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age’ (Duckworth Books). From ayahuasca to astrology, reiki to raves, Millar explores a desire for meaning in the modern world. Chaired by Suzanna Millar. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3Wq2pqu
edin.ac/3Wq2pqu
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‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
After watching the news about the Paris robbery, managers at Böcker decided to make the most of the publicity
A family run German business unwittingly became wrapped up in the crown jewel heist at the Louvre museum in Paris and is turning the use of one of its furniture lifts into a publicity coup.
“When you need to move fast” is the new tongue-in-cheek advertising tagline for the company Böcker, which is based in the town of Werne near Dortmund, in a campaign on Facebook and Instagram mounted within a day of the brazen thefts. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist
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We’re excited to launch Liz MacWhirter’s moving prose poem ‘Blue: A Lament for the Sea’, along with an underwater film by Jonathan Kearney, on 8 November, 2:30pm. MacWhirter will be joined by creative writing teacher Jane McKie. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3WNlZwV
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
edin.ac/3WNlZwV
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We’re excited to launch Liz MacWhirter’s moving prose poem ‘Blue: A Lament for the Sea’, along with an underwater film by Jonathan Kearney, on 8 November, 2:30pm. MacWhirter will be joined by creative writing teacher Jane McKie. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3WNlZwV
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
edin.ac/3WNlZwV
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
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As the UK Nature’s Rights Bill is unveiled today in the House of Lords, explore how recognising nature as a legal entity could transform conservation.
🪶 Our Rights of Nature page offers blogs, context & resources:
🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/toolkits/rig...
#RightsOfNature #NatureRecovery
🪶 Our Rights of Nature page offers blogs, context & resources:
🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/toolkits/rig...
#RightsOfNature #NatureRecovery
Rights of Nature
A shift from anthropocentric legal systems to an ecocentric framework where nature has independent rights to exist and flourish
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
As the UK Nature’s Rights Bill is unveiled today in the House of Lords, explore how recognising nature as a legal entity could transform conservation.
🪶 Our Rights of Nature page offers blogs, context & resources:
🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/toolkits/rig...
#RightsOfNature #NatureRecovery
🪶 Our Rights of Nature page offers blogs, context & resources:
🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/toolkits/rig...
#RightsOfNature #NatureRecovery
Delighted to see my blog post for @gladlib.bsky.social has been published today — wonderful to be reminded of that magical week I had back in August! One day I'll be back among the silent books 📚
Reading Silence: My Scholarship Week at Gladstone's Library, by Katie Harling-Lee - Gladstone's Library
Dr Katie Harling-Lee is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, for a project titled ‘Quiet Literary
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Delighted to see my blog post for @gladlib.bsky.social has been published today — wonderful to be reminded of that magical week I had back in August! One day I'll be back among the silent books 📚
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#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
New Writing Scotland Submission Manager
New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (mon...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#WritingCommunity!
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!
Submit free via Submittable 👇
nws.submittable.com/submit
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Can't wait for this one! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
Hear from the award-winning poet and storyteller Nadine Aisha Jassat on 8 Nov, 1pm. Her poetry & fiction transforms young lives and expresses a heritage that can only be told in stories. This event is chaired by Emma Wild-Wood. Book now! 🎟️👇
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
October 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Can't wait for this one! @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
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Hear from the award-winning poet and storyteller Nadine Aisha Jassat on 8 Nov, 1pm. Her poetry & fiction transforms young lives and expresses a heritage that can only be told in stories. This event is chaired by Emma Wild-Wood. Book now! 🎟️👇
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
October 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Hear from the award-winning poet and storyteller Nadine Aisha Jassat on 8 Nov, 1pm. Her poetry & fiction transforms young lives and expresses a heritage that can only be told in stories. This event is chaired by Emma Wild-Wood. Book now! 🎟️👇
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
edin.ac/46LtB92
Nadine Aisha Jassat Photo ©Danielle Watt
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Limited tickets remain for our creative writing workshop, ‘Entangled Forest’, run by Liz MacWhirter as part of #NCFestival on 8 Nov, 11am ⌛
This guided, reflective space offers a chance to respond creatively to challenging times. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/42FSO2d
This guided, reflective space offers a chance to respond creatively to challenging times. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/42FSO2d
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Limited tickets remain for our creative writing workshop, ‘Entangled Forest’, run by Liz MacWhirter as part of #NCFestival on 8 Nov, 11am ⌛
This guided, reflective space offers a chance to respond creatively to challenging times. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/42FSO2d
This guided, reflective space offers a chance to respond creatively to challenging times. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/42FSO2d
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Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)
Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks
Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks
Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion
Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)
Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks
Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks
Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.
raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk
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What are the ethical questions we should be asking at this tipping point in AI development? On 7 Nov, 7pm we welcome expert in AI ethics, robotics and data science Shannon Vallor to speak with Jeremy Carrette about her book, ‘The AI Mirror’. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4h1Eh72
edin.ac/4h1Eh72
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What are the ethical questions we should be asking at this tipping point in AI development? On 7 Nov, 7pm we welcome expert in AI ethics, robotics and data science Shannon Vallor to speak with Jeremy Carrette about her book, ‘The AI Mirror’. Book now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/4h1Eh72
edin.ac/4h1Eh72
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New College Festival of Books and Belief, our annual book festival, takes place this year from 7-8 November! 📚🍂
Tickets are live so don't miss out and secure your place now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3BCM6iW
Tickets are live so don't miss out and secure your place now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3BCM6iW
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New College Festival of Books and Belief, our annual book festival, takes place this year from 7-8 November! 📚🍂
Tickets are live so don't miss out and secure your place now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3BCM6iW
Tickets are live so don't miss out and secure your place now 🎟️👇
edin.ac/3BCM6iW
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In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities.
In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.
In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.
October 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
In case you missed it: our latest report explores a growing crisis in universities.
In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.
In many regions, students risk losing access to vital humanities, social science and arts subjects. Swipe to see our key findings and recommendations.
📣 Bookish Edinburgh event: I’m running a guest session of the Bookless Bookclub at Till’s Bookshop (off the Meadows) this Sunday at 10:30am! No reading required, and I’ll be introducing Persephone Books (“cult” UK publisher who re-issued Canfield Fisher!) and their idea of domestic feminism 📚
www.tillsbookshop.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📣 Bookish Edinburgh event: I’m running a guest session of the Bookless Bookclub at Till’s Bookshop (off the Meadows) this Sunday at 10:30am! No reading required, and I’ll be introducing Persephone Books (“cult” UK publisher who re-issued Canfield Fisher!) and their idea of domestic feminism 📚
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📢 On 8 October, starting 3.30pm (UK time), @kristingrogan.bsky.social will talk about her research to @edinburghnapier.bsky.social's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture. Kristin's talk focuses on Gertrude Stein and is drawn from her new book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.
September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
📢 On 8 October, starting 3.30pm (UK time), @kristingrogan.bsky.social will talk about her research to @edinburghnapier.bsky.social's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture. Kristin's talk focuses on Gertrude Stein and is drawn from her new book, Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.
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Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
edinburghuniversitypress.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
Edinburgh-based bookish folk (or those looking for an excuse to visit) - another book festival is on the horizon! New College Festival of Books & Belief is happening 7-8 Nov—including talks on spirituality in the secular age with Abi Millar & Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin discussing her debut Ordinary Saints:
The programme for this year's New College Festival of Books and Belief is now live! Book your tickets at divinity.ed.ac.uk/new-college-...
September 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Edinburgh-based bookish folk (or those looking for an excuse to visit) - another book festival is on the horizon! New College Festival of Books & Belief is happening 7-8 Nov—including talks on spirituality in the secular age with Abi Millar & Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin discussing her debut Ordinary Saints:
Just a few photos from my journey last week to Oxford and back for the @oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social Summer School - a delight to meet and chat with fantasy enthusiasts coming from varying backgrounds in academia, publishing, writing, and education 🐉📚 Some fascinating & thought-provoking talks, too!
September 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Just a few photos from my journey last week to Oxford and back for the @oxfordfantasylit.bsky.social Summer School - a delight to meet and chat with fantasy enthusiasts coming from varying backgrounds in academia, publishing, writing, and education 🐉📚 Some fascinating & thought-provoking talks, too!
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From developing your PhD, adapting to UK higher education structures, or navigating LinkedIn – is there one right way to be an Early Career Researcher? Join Leonie Smith with @deseonu.bsky.social and Burcin Baskurt in Ep 1 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR podcast. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/...
September 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
From developing your PhD, adapting to UK higher education structures, or navigating LinkedIn – is there one right way to be an Early Career Researcher? Join Leonie Smith with @deseonu.bsky.social and Burcin Baskurt in Ep 1 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR podcast. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/audio-video/...
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For National Translation Month, check out this list of 7 new queer books from around the globe. At Book Riot:
7 New Queer Books in Translation Out in 2025
September is National Translation Month, which is a good time to spotlight some of the queer books in translation out in 2025!
bookriot.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For National Translation Month, check out this list of 7 new queer books from around the globe. At Book Riot:
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Gorgeous shout-out about the project from the fantastic folks in @iashedinburgh.bsky.social: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw... Feeling very lucky to be supported by and collaborating with such brilliant #interdisciplinary centres and institutes!
UKRI Awards IASH Affiliate Patrick Errington a Future Leaders Fellowship | IASH
www.iash.ed.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Gorgeous shout-out about the project from the fantastic folks in @iashedinburgh.bsky.social: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw... Feeling very lucky to be supported by and collaborating with such brilliant #interdisciplinary centres and institutes!