Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉

Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books!
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My own article on A State of Siege (repub soon with @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) asks all the important questions for this spooky season:

🎃 Why are white ladies so afraid of the sea in #NZlit?
👻 Did Frame predict man-made climate change?
🌊 Who owns 'a view'?

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Our special issue, Janet Frame at 100, is here!

To mark Frame's centenary we commissioned 10 new essays on her glittering oeuvre, from discussions of working-class cultures to her writing as southern modernism. Out now with Literature, Critique, and Empire Today

journals.sagepub.com/toc/jclb/60/3

Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers

Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies

A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement.

Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔

I loved reviewing these two, fascinating books for #C21Literature, who sorted me out with hard copies AND open access. The dream.

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@bloomsburylit.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social @openlibhums.bsky.social

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun.

Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social