Doug Battersby
dougbattersby.bsky.social
Doug Battersby
@dougbattersby.bsky.social
Writes on the history & theory of the novel. Lecturer in Modern Literature at Leicester. Book: TROUBLING LATE MODERNISM (https://tinyurl.com/592f5me2).
Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine
9 September (Online)

Register here (free): tinyurl.com/y529huhs

Please join this online launch event for Ulrika Maude's Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025).

@moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine
This online event will celebrate the publication of Ulrika Maude’s groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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September 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies

Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social

Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26.

Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4
April 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Lots going on in our 'Critical Interventions in the Medical & Health Humanities' series! Some fascinating proposals under consideration and some excellent books in production. Please do reach out with any questions/ideas for the series that you may have! www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The Close Reading Archive is a tremendous gift to our discipline -- thank you to Scott Newstok for this incredible work.

www.closereadingarchive.org

Alongside other varieties of wonder, it's a thrill to see @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and my forthcoming book here.
Close Reading Archive
www.closereadingarchive.org
December 2, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Delighted that Troubling Late Modernism has been shortlisted for the University English Book Prize!

If it's in your wheelhouse I'd be very grateful for a review (& can ask OUP to send out a copy)

universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

@univeng.bsky.social
March 14, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Oxford folks – I’ll be giving a talk, “Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Brontë, Eliot, Hardy,” next Monday (12th Feb). Do come along! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/aa5...
February 5, 2024 at 10:38 AM
A final reminder about our exciting panel on Modernist Fiction & the Health Humanities this Wednesday!

Please register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...
Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...
December 4, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Modernists & HealthHum folks – please join our online panel on “Modernist Fiction and the Health Humanities” on 6th December. Papers on Proust, Joyce, & Woolf by Liz Barry (Warwick), Derek Ryan (Kent), Arthur Rose (Exeter) & Stefanie Heine (Copenhagen)!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist-...
November 9, 2023 at 1:25 PM
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Welcome @dougbattersby.bsky.social whose wonderful first book was just shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize!
#lit #modernism
September 22, 2023 at 3:05 PM