Dominic Dean
@drdominicdean.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature at the University of Essex.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Researcher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
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Dominic Dean
@drdominicdean.bsky.social
· Jan 21
My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.
'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.
sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...
'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.
sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...
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A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
Tech Billionaire Mocks Pope Leo’s AI Warning — and Reveals Silicon Valley’s Original Sin
A billionaire tech guru openly mocked Leo's call for moral AI — and quickly backtracked after backlash. It’s a telling collision of Silicon Valley hubris with a pope they cannot buy, bully, or ignore.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A tech billionaire mocked Pope Leo XIV’s call for ethical AI.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
The post was deleted — but not before exposing Silicon Valley’s deeper discomfort: a pope they can’t buy or bully.
It also revealed something older: the Valley’s original sin — the desire to be God.
David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh! Earlier this year I interviewed David (who is a lovely guy as well as a very fine author!) about this fantastic book for @englishstudies.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The English Studies Interview with David Szalay: In Conversation with Dominic Dean
David Szalay is a Hungarian-British author. His first novel, London and the South East (2008), won the Betty Trask Award, while in 2016 All That Man Is was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Sza...
www.tandfonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh! Earlier this year I interviewed David (who is a lovely guy as well as a very fine author!) about this fantastic book for @englishstudies.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Lovely to see that Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 was shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize! Huge congratulations to winners, @drdominicdean.bsky.social and @dremmaparker.bsky.social, and fellow shortlister @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
News - BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Winners
bacls.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Lovely to see that Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 was shortlisted for the BACLS Monograph Prize! Huge congratulations to winners, @drdominicdean.bsky.social and @dremmaparker.bsky.social, and fellow shortlister @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
News - BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Winners
bacls.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!
On the drive into Colchester on the A12 there's a former Little Chef that has been turned into a (prominently labelled) adult store, and it would make a great cover the for the right modern British history book.
November 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
On the drive into Colchester on the A12 there's a former Little Chef that has been turned into a (prominently labelled) adult store, and it would make a great cover the for the right modern British history book.
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It is both ethically wrong & fundamentally anti-democratic for one man to command this much wealth and power.
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It is both ethically wrong & fundamentally anti-democratic for one man to command this much wealth and power.
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
States spent centuries trying to tame the power of over-mighty subjects. The rise of the global barons is not compatible with democracy as we've understood it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is what we like to hear!
I've just ordered a copy of your book, so I'll let you know.
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is what we like to hear!
Important thread
Updated thread on The Lost King film:
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
I’m digging over old ground but I have to challenge Steve Coogan's line. He claims it’s all true (as has Philippa Langley): Langley will be celebrated for her achievement, Richard Taylor & his personal gripes will be forgotten
So what’s the real story? 1/15
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Important thread
Recently heard Maggie Haberman give a deep dive and Q&A. Despite issues with NYT editorially, I'm struck how well she compares to many of her UK equivalents - treats a public audience as adults, astute about personalities but properly cognisant of policy, neither sugarcoats nor overstates reality.
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Recently heard Maggie Haberman give a deep dive and Q&A. Despite issues with NYT editorially, I'm struck how well she compares to many of her UK equivalents - treats a public audience as adults, astute about personalities but properly cognisant of policy, neither sugarcoats nor overstates reality.
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A big problem in politics is that politicos think the rest of the humanities are beneath them. Most political texts and speeches are best read via literary analysis where you’re trying to parse what’s trying to be said and how. Most politicians could benefit from an actor teaching them how to talk
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A big problem in politics is that politicos think the rest of the humanities are beneath them. Most political texts and speeches are best read via literary analysis where you’re trying to parse what’s trying to be said and how. Most politicians could benefit from an actor teaching them how to talk
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers (matthew.chambers@uj.edu.pl) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
Was he worried peoole wouldn’t be able to find it?
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Was he worried peoole wouldn’t be able to find it?
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Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
This new retelling of A Christmas Carol, from Gurinder Chadha (of Bend it Like Beckham) opens in cinemas soon. Please make it part of your and your family's viewing this Christmas! My partner wrote lyrics for several of the songs and I'm incredibly proud.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGC...
CHRISTMAS KARMA | Official Trailer | Only in cinemas from November 14
YouTube video by True Brit Entertainment
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November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This new retelling of A Christmas Carol, from Gurinder Chadha (of Bend it Like Beckham) opens in cinemas soon. Please make it part of your and your family's viewing this Christmas! My partner wrote lyrics for several of the songs and I'm incredibly proud.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGGC...
Taught on Therese Raquin this morning - probably the text I've most enjoyed teaching since I started my job at Essex. In celebration, please enjoy this line from the novel.
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Taught on Therese Raquin this morning - probably the text I've most enjoyed teaching since I started my job at Essex. In celebration, please enjoy this line from the novel.
This is true and it is the fundamental problem with the establishment’s inability to deal with the generational - and broader - shift on Palestine and Israel: their assumptions are too far from reality to be tenable, and they’re psychosocially incapable of dealing with that.
The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.
What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is true and it is the fundamental problem with the establishment’s inability to deal with the generational - and broader - shift on Palestine and Israel: their assumptions are too far from reality to be tenable, and they’re psychosocially incapable of dealing with that.
*Principal Skinner voice* ‘Let’s have a round of applause for the REAL Bill de Blasio’…
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
*Principal Skinner voice* ‘Let’s have a round of applause for the REAL Bill de Blasio’…
Cheney embodied how the elite US Right, by combining the security state, overseas lawlessness and internal politics of paranoid populism, created a monster that eventually took power from its creators' hands. Like Frankenstein, later clarity about his creation only underlined the creator's own role.
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Cheney embodied how the elite US Right, by combining the security state, overseas lawlessness and internal politics of paranoid populism, created a monster that eventually took power from its creators' hands. Like Frankenstein, later clarity about his creation only underlined the creator's own role.
This looks wonderful!
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
November 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This looks wonderful!
Given that the academic arts and humanities, the creative industries, and the arts sector all retain - despite challenges - both a broad and deep reach across the UK, one might imagine that by chance if nothing else there would be a few senior politicians with genuine interests in them, and yet...
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Given that the academic arts and humanities, the creative industries, and the arts sector all retain - despite challenges - both a broad and deep reach across the UK, one might imagine that by chance if nothing else there would be a few senior politicians with genuine interests in them, and yet...
Stating the obvious probably, but it's a real sign of how much Britain (and the world) have changed that Prince Andrew has now faced full de-royalling while Edward VIII was able to remain Duke of Windsor (and hold on to considerable wealth and privilege) to the end, despite everything.
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Stating the obvious probably, but it's a real sign of how much Britain (and the world) have changed that Prince Andrew has now faced full de-royalling while Edward VIII was able to remain Duke of Windsor (and hold on to considerable wealth and privilege) to the end, despite everything.
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We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
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Author Guidelines
c21.openlibhums.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We've refreshed out author guidelines for submissions to our journal, including new guidance for anyone looking to submit an interview. We'd love to hear from you!
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...
c21.openlibhums.org/site/authorg...