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Dr Francesca Benatti
@rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
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Wandering scholar at Open University. Digital Humanities, Book History, Comics and Thomas Moore. Irish/Italian. She/her. Views my own.
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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · Sep 4
Just published! My CUP Element Innovations in Digital Comics: A Popular Revolution. Available Open Access at doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Innovations in Digital Comics
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Innovations in Digital Comics
doi.org
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ryancordell.org
Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
Thanks for the repost @trendingworld.bsky.social
The conference is online, and free!
The Sigrid Nunez and Karen McCarthy Woolf talks will be hosted by OU writers @emmaclairesweeney.bsky.social and @janeyeh3.bsky.social

#literature
#freeonline
A composite image showing Emma Claire Sweeney and Jane Yeh
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch

@littlebrown.bsky.social
@viragopress.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social
@sarahsavitt.bsky.social
A flyer for the OU Letters and Literature conference, featuring photos of the guest authors, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Sigrid Nunez. It says 'Still time to get tickets for our guest authors on Friday 7th of November. Karen McCarthy Woolf - 1800 GMT. Sigrid Nunez - 2000 GMT.'
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
We are delighted to host Sigrid Nunez at our Letters and Literature conference on the 7th of November. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
@sarahsavitt.bsky.social
@hachetteuk.bsky.social @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social
@viragopress.bsky.social
#sigridnunez
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
And we are thrilled to host @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social
on 7/Nov at the Letters and Literature conference. One week to go! Tickets here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

@carcanet.bsky.social
@tseliotprize.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@rsliterature.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
“How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter" (Haruki Murakami). Join the Open University for an international celebration of Letters and Literature, November 5-7. Full programme at
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

@carcanet.bsky.social
@thepostalmuseum.bsky.social
Cover of the book The Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan, showing a bright red letter box.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Lovely to see a postcard of my Alma Mater Bologna
ouliterature.bsky.social OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 21d
“A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person" (Alice Steinbach) Registration is now open for The Open University's Letters and Literature conference: full programme here: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
#literature #writing
A view of Bologna in Italy, showing a piazza wet with rain and reflecting the grand buildings around it. The sky is overcast and dramatic.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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ucu.org.uk
We’re into week two of the ballot, time to get back to basics.

Why vote? Because your voice is the only way to change what’s happening in our sector:
📉 Falling pay
⚠️ Rising insecurity
💬 Broken national agreements

Every vote counts.
Vote YES. Post your ballot.

#WeAreTheUniversity
What is dispute about
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
We are delighted to be supporting the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2025 with
@writersandartists.bsky.social
@ruppin.bsky.social, @societyofauthors.bsky.social and @openuniversity.bsky.social
Submissions open on 1st November 2025. www.writersandartists.co.uk/about-wa-wor...
PLEASE SHARE
October 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
Postcards continue to arrive from speakers all over the globe as we prepare for the upcoming international conference, Letters and Literature. Full details of the programme at
digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
@modernistudies.bsky.social
@mklitfest.bsky.social
@ies-sas.bsky.social
A map of Jane Austen's Hampshire showing locations connected to the writer
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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mklitfest.bsky.social
Sigrid Nunez, one of the USA’s most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.

mklitfest.org/sigridnunez

#openuniversity
#creativewriting
#lettersandliterature
#sigridnunez
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
The first of a series of postcards for our free online conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025, 5-7 November 2025. Full programme: digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Every day we'll share a postcard sent to us by one of our guest speakers. Watch out for tomorrow’s!
A postcard showing scenes from the town of Chapel Hill
October 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
How do different ways of reading affect our experience of literature? In collaboration with the BBC, Open University lecturer @shaftowheed.bsky.social has developed a short quiz to show how different formats affect our reading experience. You can find the quiz here:
www.instagram.com/ouconnect/re...
OU Connect on Instagram: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live welcomes The OU’s Dr Shafquat Tow...
10 likes, 0 comments - ouconnect on September 8, 2025: "📚 How do you read? 🧐 How much detail can you remember after reading in different formats? 🌍 For International Literacy Day, BBC Morning Live wel...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
And to his further appearance on BBC Radio 4 this evening!
ouliterature.bsky.social OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · Sep 18
Ed will also feature on tonight's episode of Front Row on BBC Radio 4 at 19:15: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A picture of author Ed Hogan
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
Looking forward to listening to my colleague Ed’s award-nominated story this afternoon!
ouliterature.bsky.social OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · Sep 18
We are delighted to reveal that our colleague Ed Hogan has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His story, Little Green Man, will be broadcast today at 15:30 on BBC Radio 4: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award, BBC National Short Story Award 2025, Little Green Man by Edward Hogan
Edward Hogan's tender story is in the running for the 20th BBC National Short Story Award.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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ddasousa.bsky.social
The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music is now in paperback! So happy that this is now a very affordable book. A big shoutout to all the brilliant contributors!
June 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
Welcome to Bluesky to my colleagues at @ouliterature.bsky.social !
September 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
Excited to see the preparations for our upcoming Conference:
‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’
Online only from the 5th to 7th of November 2025. More details soon!
‘Letters and Literature 1500-2025: histories, forms, communities’ Online only conference from the 5th to 7th of November 2025.
September 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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ouliterature.bsky.social
A fascinating article in @theconversation.com on Jane Austin heroines co-written by OU English and Creative Writing lecturer Dr Emma Sweeney. Check it out: theconversation.com/who-was-jane...
Who was Jane Austen’s best heroine? These experts think they know
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
theconversation.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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ucu.org.uk
VCs don’t run universities.

We do.

After another real terms pay cut, UCU is launching a UK-wide strike ballot.

Ballot opens October.

Vote YES.

#WeAreTheUniversity
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
rhymesontheroad.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the winners and judges!
July 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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eliterature.bsky.social
Full announcement of the 2025 ELO Awards

eliterature.org/2025/07/2025...

#elo25
2025 ELO Awards – Electronic Literature Organization
ELO is excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Electronic Literature Awards.  These awards were coordinated by. Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson.  ELO gives 4 juried awards that come with a cash prize and the esteem of the international e-lit community.
eliterature.org
July 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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ernestopriego.com
¡MAÑANA YA! Looking forward to chairing Linda Berube's and @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social's session on Digital Comics and user-centred approaches #HCID2025
June 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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natacha.bsky.social
ANYONE who thinks ANY group should accept fewer human rights than everyone else is totally unfit to serve as an EHRC commissioner.
June 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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oulibrary.bsky.social
Open Access is changing research! Traditionally, institutions paid to read journals, excluding anyone who could not afford it. But now, anything published #OpenAccess can be freely read by anyone.

Much of the OU's #research is Open Access: read it on ORO 👉 oro.open.ac.uk
A man is sitting at a bus stop in a grassy landscape, reading from an open laptop balanced on his knee. The text says 'What is Open Access? Open Access (OA) research is free to read, available online to anyone, anywhere in the world. Photo credit David Clode on Unsplash.'
June 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM