Andrew Thacker
@andrewthacker.bsky.social
Professor of Twentieth Century Literature, Nottingham Trent University. Modernism, periodicals, cricket.
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Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
Invading the American Canon
Through case studies of émigré literary translators and editors, this open access book traces how Russian literature kindled the American imagination in the 20t…
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October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Open-access and in print - Muireann Maguire (@muireanndinosaur.bsky.social), Invading the American Canon: Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984 (@bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social, 2025; h/t @jrdwrrn.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.bloomsbury.com/us/invading-...
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Postdoc Opportunity!
University of Rochester - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities
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University of Rochester - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Postdoc Opportunity!
University of Rochester - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities
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University of Rochester - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities
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“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
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#UKHE
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University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
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#UKHE
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Private Eye nailing it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Private Eye nailing it.
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Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel…
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel…
Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel (Université Paris Nanterre) & Frédéric Gros (Sciences Po) 10:00–10:30 – Coffee break (for speakers and audience) 10:30–12:00 – Panel 1: Building Feminist Agency Beyond Foucault’s Elusions…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Relectures féministes de Michel Foucault. Colloque International (2025)
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel…
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po, Paris Registration link for anyone who might wish to attend online Friday, November 7, 2025 (room K011) 9:15–10:00 – Introduction Judith Revel…
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Southampton Solent University accused of “unprecedented” attempt to move staff on to “inferior” pension schemes, with those not complying facing losing their jobs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Southampton Solent pensions row ‘sets concerning precedent’
Union claims that professional service staff have been told to move on to subsidiary firm with less generous pension scheme, or face losing their job
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Southampton Solent University accused of “unprecedented” attempt to move staff on to “inferior” pension schemes, with those not complying facing losing their jobs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history
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September 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
New at Print Plus: "Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling, and Digital Practice" by Alice Staveley et al sheds light on the business of modernism and reads order books as digital portals for literary history
modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
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Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA
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October 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
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Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
Peter Lang Verlag - Utopian Variations
Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
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'And some academics are angry that universities are allowing or even encouraging the use of AI tools — many of which are controlled by companies, have unknown cognitive impacts and are dogged by ethical and environmental concerns.'
Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
'And some academics are angry that universities are allowing or even encouraging the use of AI tools — many of which are controlled by companies, have unknown cognitive impacts and are dogged by ethical and environmental concerns.'
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New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
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In Cultural and Social History
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
There are some eighty-five county magazines across England, read by millions. This case study of 1930s Cheshire Life explains their appeal and demonstrates their value for twentieth-century social ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
New open-access article on a peculiar type of periodical, the county magazine:
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History
Rural Modernity in an Interwar English County Magazine: Cheshire Life, 1934–39
doi.org/10.1080/1478...
In Cultural and Social History
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“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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September 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”
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ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
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Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
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Tony Harrison’s poem ‘V.’ is to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it.
The day of site-specific readings will now also serve as a tribute to the poet, who died last week.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
Book tickets here: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
The day of site-specific readings will now also serve as a tribute to the poet, who died last week.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
Book tickets here: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
Tony Harrison’s poem V to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it
The site-specific performance of the once controversial poem was planned for its 40th anniversary in October, but will now double as a tribute to the writer who died last week
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Tony Harrison’s poem ‘V.’ is to be performed in the Leeds cemetery that inspired it.
The day of site-specific readings will now also serve as a tribute to the poet, who died last week.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
Book tickets here: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
The day of site-specific readings will now also serve as a tribute to the poet, who died last week.
Read the article: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...
Book tickets here: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
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‘Them & [uz]’ by Tony Harrison (1937–2025)
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
‘Them & [uz]’ by Tony Harrison (1937–2025)
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Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…
September 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…
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Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
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Jeremy Noel-Tod on the importance of ‘unfunded’ or ‘hobbyist’ research in academica.
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Unfunded Hobbit Research
In defence of academic inspiration
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September 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Jeremy Noel-Tod on the importance of ‘unfunded’ or ‘hobbyist’ research in academica.
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We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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The Modernist Review Issue #57
8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…
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September 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
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We’re delighted to announce a CFP for a Virginia Woolf special issue of TMR, marking the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Please see the details below:
September 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We’re delighted to announce a CFP for a Virginia Woolf special issue of TMR, marking the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Please see the details below:
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📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026)
Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
September 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📢📢📢 Upcoming Conference: 'Rethinking Weimar Cinema' (University of Oxford, 17 - 19 June 2026)
Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
Full Call for Papers: drive.google.com/file/d/1pxBI...
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please share widely with anyone who may be interested in joining us in Oxford next year!
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very much enjoyed reviewing Jane Cholmeley's excellent A BOOKSHOP OF ONE'S OWN for Publishing Research Quarterly
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August 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
very much enjoyed reviewing Jane Cholmeley's excellent A BOOKSHOP OF ONE'S OWN for Publishing Research Quarterly
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This is what I'm hearing too. A total failure of public policy all the more staggering for having been totally predicted and predictable. A disaster.
Hearing a lot of Russell group unis are taking on staggering numbers of Home UG students to offset weaker international recruitment. This has been a recent trend, but it seems to be out of control this recruitment cycle. Downstream impact on newer unis will be catastrophic @gsoh31.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is what I'm hearing too. A total failure of public policy all the more staggering for having been totally predicted and predictable. A disaster.