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Alex Calder
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ECR in Contemporary Writing | teaching at University of Cambridge | co-editing Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social‬ | from Caithness, Highland | he/him
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Higher education: Got No Jobs
A admin/university generic portal type thing under heading "Manage Jobs". Below, an ostentatiously long and malevolent pastel yellow bar reads (in small text in the centre) "Got No Jobs"
May 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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So not only did I give a lecture to an empty room, but the only attendee was, in fact, this post-it atop my webcam
A yellow post-it with a surprised cartoon face (big cartoon eyes, eyebrows raised, etc) atop a black plastic laptop webcam
March 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Banger
Bird's eye view of the cover of the novel "Praiseworthy" by Alexis Wright, featuring the first few sentences of the book: "Once upon a fine time for some people in the world, but not so plenteous nor perfect for others, there lived a culture dreamer obsessing about the era. He was no great dreamer, no greater than the rest of the juggernauts in his heart-broken, storm-country people's humanity. They knew just as much as he did about surviving on a daily basis, and about how to make sacrifices of themselves in all the cataclysmic times generated by the mangy dogs who had stolen their traditional land..."
August 31, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Delighted to receive a contributor copy of this collection on Max Porter; my piece is about the novel Lanny's experimental storytelling encompassing genre hybridity, social othering, eco-crisis, and play. Thanks so much to the editors! Full book info here: www.routledge.com/Critical-Per...
Hand holding book, showing the cover of "Critical Perspectives on Max Porter" edited by David Rudrum, Paweł Wojtas, and Wojciech Drąg. Open book showing first page of chapter 5 on "Compassionate Experimentatlism in Lanny" in the academic collection "Critical Perspectives on Max Porter".
February 22, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Some books I'm teaching/excerpting this term for classes based around textual analysis and critical theory
Vertical stack of books showing their spines/titles. From top to bottom: The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith; Assembly by Natasha Brown; Refugee Tales (Vol 1) edited by David Herd and Anna Pincus; Attrib and Other Stories by Eley Williams; Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume; Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann.
January 29, 2024 at 5:22 PM