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Sarah C E Ross
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Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hi everyone and welcome! So great to see everyone here. A promo: I edit @parergon.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social with Rosalind Smith: we publish excellent scholarship in medieval and early modern studies: art, architecture, literature, theatre, music, philosophy, theology and history ... 1/3
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Wonderful work in the @elccprogramme.bsky.social at @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social! Congratulations @nikkihessell.bsky.social
nikkihessell.bsky.social Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 12d
This essay began its life a long time ago, in conversation with an @elccprogramme.bsky.social Summer Scholar, Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa. It’s taken years to bring some of that early thinking to fruition.

Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award
defoesociety.bsky.social The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 15d
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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I need to share my euphoria and sense of complete f***ing triumph that it is 5 November, grading done, and I’m in actual stacks with 7 weeks to go til shutdown 💪 [antipodean academic calendar] also we still have stacks
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I reposted a repost of this a couple of days ago but @mehr.nz articulates with such clarity and precision here the state of the NZ research sector. This is a crisis for all of us - including our students and their opportunities. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their brightest.
newsroom.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Fascinating Katherine Philips find!
martinevanelk.bsky.social Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 14d
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Media and Communication job at Victoria University of Wellington - come work with us!
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Pūkenga | Lecturer in Media and Communication
A permanent, full-time Lecturer opportunity in Media and Communication is available from 2026—ideal for someone ready to inspire through innovative teaching and research.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Our book gets launched in Wellington in a few weeks and youse are all welcome. The Tokyo launch is in November!
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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And while we're on @parergon.bsky.social, we're just sending to print issue 42.1 (2025) - and loving Agnolo Bronzino's Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour on our cover, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
July 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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And don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions about submitting a proposal - we'd love to hear from you
July 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741
Newsletter | ANZAMEMS Inc | Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Incorporated)
www.anzamems.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
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Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing
Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.
theconversation.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!
Image is a series flyer for new Bloomsbury series Book History for the Future. Flyer reads: Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative ethodologies, digital tools, and global contexts. About the Series Editors Lisa Gitelman is Professor of Media History at NYU, USA. Her work puts book history in conversation with media studies and the histories of technology. Her most recent book is Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents and was published by Duke. Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History and Principal of Van Mildert College at Durham University, UK. Before coming to Durham he was Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. With Michelle Levy he wrote The Broadview Introduction to Book History and edited The Broadview Reader in Book History. Sarah Werner is the author of Studying Early Printed Books 1450-1800: A Practical Guide and the companion site EarlyPrintedBooks.com, resources that have been widely taught with and recommended by book historians, librarians, and booksellers. For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact: Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Spread the word: 3-year Shakespeare and early modern literature job at the University of Auckland:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...
Alice Griffin Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literatures
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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June 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.

Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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February 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Boston and Harvard you were lovely, but this beauty did a good job of welcoming me home today
March 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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17thC ms question: are these random numbers/squiggles or am I missing a key? V grateful for any thoughts.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Boston sunset last night #Shax2025 #RenSA2025
March 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Wellington, NZ friends and more: get to Wellington Opera’s world premiere of Dame Gillian Whitehead’s Mate Ururoa - a wonderful and unique opportunity to hear this work www.wellingtonopera.nz/2025/mate-ur...
Gillian Whitehead, Mate Ururoa — Wellington Opera
www.wellingtonopera.nz
March 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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So delighted to share that Te Herenga Waka is taking up partnership with SGCNZ in the beloved annual Shakespeare festivals: www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2025/03...
Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand welcomes Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington as a naming sponsor of their festivals | News | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
What’s in a name? A significant amount, it transpires, when you get a new sponsor. The Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) annual Shakespeare festivals for young people are now the SGCNZ Vict...
www.wgtn.ac.nz
March 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
February 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The top-up funding adds $1.67 into our research system for every $1 spent. An absolute bargain...unless you actively want to discourage certain research.
December 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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nikkihessell.bsky.social Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · Dec 19
Horizon Europe's overall budget is 95.5 BILLION euros. The gov't has decided that NZ's access to the portion of those $ that relates to humanities & social sciences isn't worth pursuing.

Horizon investment in our researchers would cost the NZ taxpayer next to nothing for huge investment & reward
te-ara-paerangi.community Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · Dec 19
And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬
December 20, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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lcsnz.bsky.social Dr Lucy Stewart @lcsnz.bsky.social · Dec 19
To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded *by the EU* to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)
te-ara-paerangi.community Te Ara Paerangi Com - Research Advocacy Capability @te-ara-paerangi.community · Dec 19
And funding opportunities for the social sciences and humanities have been cut from the Horizon Europe programme. 🤬
December 20, 2024 at 12:36 AM