Yen-Chi Wu
@yenchiwu.bsky.social
Lecturer and researcher in Irish literature. Based in #Taiwan.
#IrishStudies #PeriodicalStudies
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yenchi-wu/home
#IrishStudies #PeriodicalStudies
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/yenchi-wu/home
My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My little book will be available for pre-order in January 2026. Please consider ordering a copy for your library. I'll be eternally grateful if you would like to review the book. Happy reading! 😊 www.routledge.com/Irish-Writer...
My Department has a job opening in English literature! Come work with us! 🤗🧋 #JobFairy #AcademicJobs
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
My Department has a job opening in English literature! Come work with us! 🤗🧋 #JobFairy #AcademicJobs
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I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍
Sad 😢. This also means that the job market in the higher education sector is shrinking.
🧵 1/8 My latest for @theworld.org: Taiwan's birthrate is among the lowest in the world. Fewer babies means fewer kids going to school, and fewer still onwards to university. 15 colleges have closed here in the past decade as a result - four of them just last year. theworld.org/segments/202...
Taiwan's colleges closing amid dropping enrollment - The World from PRX
Due to Taiwan’s falling birth rate, enrollment at many universities and colleges has been declining for years, forcing many higher education institutions to shut their doors or merge with other univer...
theworld.org
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Sad 😢. This also means that the job market in the higher education sector is shrinking.
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Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
My article on Maeve Brennan is included in the annual survey of American Studies in Humor. Can I claim expertise in American humor now? 😆
March 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My article on Maeve Brennan is included in the annual survey of American Studies in Humor. Can I claim expertise in American humor now? 😆
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Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’
Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’
Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career
www.irishtimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’
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Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
January 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Delighted to announce that, funded by a grant from @forarthistory.bsky.social, I am organising a symposium on 9 June 2025 entitled 'Artists' Books: Structures/Infrastructures'.
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
Academics, doctoral students, artists, curators, librarians - anyone involved in the artists' books ecosystem may apply!
Went to #Kaohsiung city to visit my alma mater. Always lovely to see this harbour city 🥰
January 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Went to #Kaohsiung city to visit my alma mater. Always lovely to see this harbour city 🥰
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The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature
CFP:
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
January 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature
Really enjoyed this novel! It's about food and travel in Japan-occupied Taiwan. It also asks serious questions about the subtle power dynamics in colonial society.
The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃
The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃
January 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Really enjoyed this novel! It's about food and travel in Japan-occupied Taiwan. It also asks serious questions about the subtle power dynamics in colonial society.
The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃
The English translation of "Taiwan Travelogue" won the National Book Award in 2024. Highly recommend it! 😃
For my "Intro to literature" class, I taught Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" I wanted them to think about the changing significance of Barbie. Turned out that only half of them saw the movie 😱
a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror
ALT: a woman in a pink dress is smiling in front of a pink mirror
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November 22, 2024 at 11:49 AM
For my "Intro to literature" class, I taught Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" and Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" I wanted them to think about the changing significance of Barbie. Turned out that only half of them saw the movie 😱
June 5, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Happy publication day! I co-edited with Phyllis Boumans a themed issue of RISE @efacis.bsky.social on "Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-20th Century." It's open access: risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... 😀
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century
| Review of Irish Studies in Europe
risejournal.eu
April 29, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Happy publication day! I co-edited with Phyllis Boumans a themed issue of RISE @efacis.bsky.social on "Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-20th Century." It's open access: risejournal.eu/index.php/ri... 😀
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Join the editors and contributors on 16 may
at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1!
Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
#irishstudies
at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1!
Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
#irishstudies
April 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Join the editors and contributors on 16 may
at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1!
Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
#irishstudies
at 7pm CET for the online #launch of Review of Irish Studies in Europe 7.1!
Remapping Irish Literary and Cultural Landscapes in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Register for the online launch at www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
#irishstudies
The new issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, which I coedited with Phyllis Boumans, is coming out soon. There will be an online launch and roundtable. You can see more info here: 🙂 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
April 18, 2024 at 12:17 PM
The new issue of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe, which I coedited with Phyllis Boumans, is coming out soon. There will be an online launch and roundtable. You can see more info here: 🙂 www.efacis.eu/content/efac...
Happy to share the provisional programme of the "Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace" conference coming up in June. #IrishStudies
www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...
www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...
Programme
www.arts.kuleuven.be
March 12, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Happy to share the provisional programme of the "Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace" conference coming up in June. #IrishStudies
www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...
www.arts.kuleuven.be/conferences/...
Charles Addams's Christmas cartoon for folks who don't celebrate it, published #OnThisDay in the New Yorker 1946. Happy holidays 🙂
December 21, 2023 at 3:44 AM
Charles Addams's Christmas cartoon for folks who don't celebrate it, published #OnThisDay in the New Yorker 1946. Happy holidays 🙂
Dear Bluesky hivemind, does anyone recognise the signature of this cartoon artist? It appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Appreciate your help! 🙂
December 3, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Dear Bluesky hivemind, does anyone recognise the signature of this cartoon artist? It appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Appreciate your help! 🙂
Repost to follow the thread. Would be very interested to find out.
Historians / literary critics! What might an upper-middle class family in the 1890s have eaten for breakfast on Christmas Day? Where do I even find this kind of information?
October 26, 2023 at 6:30 AM
Repost to follow the thread. Would be very interested to find out.
