Frederik Van Dam
@frederikvandam.bsky.social
Three exciting CFPs for contributions to EJES!
Call for Contributions. European Journal of English Studies, volume 31 (2027). #essecfp. 👇
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Three exciting CFPs for contributions to EJES!
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Finishing this book got me through the pandemic & made a dream come true!
A deep history of the agential autonomy of short narrative forms since 1700 – topos, lettre de cachet, fable, novella, fairy tale, proverb, commonplace, epiphany, enacted story, videotale …
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A deep history of the agential autonomy of short narrative forms since 1700 – topos, lettre de cachet, fable, novella, fairy tale, proverb, commonplace, epiphany, enacted story, videotale …
www.zonebooks.org/books/150-ci...
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Finishing this book got me through the pandemic & made a dream come true!
A deep history of the agential autonomy of short narrative forms since 1700 – topos, lettre de cachet, fable, novella, fairy tale, proverb, commonplace, epiphany, enacted story, videotale …
www.zonebooks.org/books/150-ci...
A deep history of the agential autonomy of short narrative forms since 1700 – topos, lettre de cachet, fable, novella, fairy tale, proverb, commonplace, epiphany, enacted story, videotale …
www.zonebooks.org/books/150-ci...
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The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 31 (2027).
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July 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The European Journal of English Studies is inviting proposals for special issues in volume 31 (2027).
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As if these days could not get any darker. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94
Widely regarded as the ‘musicians’ musician’ Brendel was the first pianist to record all of Beethoven’s piano works during a much-garlanded career spanning 60 years
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June 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As if these days could not get any darker. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
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In Karakter 89: een pleidooi voor contemplatie (Antoon Vandevelde), de laïcisering van KU Leuven (Marc Vervenne), Aby Warburg (Barbara Baert), chronische pijn (Iris Coppieters), hoe de indeling van een tekst ons doet denken (@frederikvandam.bsky.social), en meer!
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March 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
In Karakter 89: een pleidooi voor contemplatie (Antoon Vandevelde), de laïcisering van KU Leuven (Marc Vervenne), Aby Warburg (Barbara Baert), chronische pijn (Iris Coppieters), hoe de indeling van een tekst ons doet denken (@frederikvandam.bsky.social), en meer!
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Publication and issue: EJES (European Journal of English Studies Volume), 30 (2026): “Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming”. Deadline for proposal submissions: 7 April 2025. #essecfp.
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March 16, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Publication and issue: EJES (European Journal of English Studies Volume), 30 (2026): “Cabinets of Curiosities: Collecting, Displaying, Consuming”. Deadline for proposal submissions: 7 April 2025. #essecfp.
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The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope is now out in paperback! Still feels and reads as if it was published yesterday. PAPER30 will give you a 30% discount when ordering directly from Edinburgh UP (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...).
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope is now out in paperback! Still feels and reads as if it was published yesterday. PAPER30 will give you a 30% discount when ordering directly from Edinburgh UP (edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edi...).
Uses of literature.
November 16, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Uses of literature.
Preparing for my next class on 18C literature. Ironic - or fitting - that I am turning to a French book?
November 15, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Preparing for my next class on 18C literature. Ironic - or fitting - that I am turning to a French book?
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It's really heartening - to see student outspokenness about the negative effects of running universities like a business & making every aspect of life transactional. There's a growing call for a university education to be centered in intellectual life & not whims of job markets & donors.
ARNOLD | Kotlikoff to Retire: Who’s Next?
We don’t need another technocrat to usher us into the future — Cornell needs to return to its roots, where our education is valued more than our future donations as alumni.
cornellsun.com
September 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
It's really heartening - to see student outspokenness about the negative effects of running universities like a business & making every aspect of life transactional. There's a growing call for a university education to be centered in intellectual life & not whims of job markets & donors.
Schrödinger’s pancake.
August 27, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Schrödinger’s pancake.
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From The New School's 1919 course catalog: “courses of study have not been arranged under usual departmental headings — political economy, sociology, history, psychology, etc. — for this tends to obscure the constant connection and interplay of the various interests and activities of mankind.”
Speaking of progressive teaching, it's always nice to revisit these landmark classes from The New School:
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June 29, 2024 at 4:27 AM
From The New School's 1919 course catalog: “courses of study have not been arranged under usual departmental headings — political economy, sociology, history, psychology, etc. — for this tends to obscure the constant connection and interplay of the various interests and activities of mankind.”
I've been spending the past months learning how to sail. If the academic career doesn't work out, perhaps a different future beckons. www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
My mission? A two-day voyage along the Norfolk coast to deliver potatoes for a chip shop
One man is trying to revive zero-carbon cargo routes by sailing produce along England’s eastern seaboard – and taking paying passengers along for the thrilling ride
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June 5, 2024 at 6:54 AM
I've been spending the past months learning how to sail. If the academic career doesn't work out, perhaps a different future beckons. www.theguardian.com/travel/artic...
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Check out the #cfp for the special issue of Studies in the Novel @lydiacooper.bsky.social and I are guest editing on disease and disability in the novel. Please share widely and please consider auottong www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...
Call for Papers | Studies in the Novel
Call for Papers for a Special Issue: Disability and Disease in the Novel Editors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota)
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May 9, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Check out the #cfp for the special issue of Studies in the Novel @lydiacooper.bsky.social and I are guest editing on disease and disability in the novel. Please share widely and please consider auottong www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...
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I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social about cardboard boxes 📦 as logistical media and designed objects, as pandemic emblems, as capitalist equipment and detritus, as modules for all kinds of modernist imaginings, and as shapers of landscapes!
World in a Box: Cardboard Media and the Geographic Imagination
Cardboard’s ubiquity rests on simple claims: I can hold that, and I can go there. But cardboard boxes hold a world of meaning — a global anatomy of commerce, consumption, disposal, and reuse.
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May 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
I wrote for @placesjournal.bsky.social about cardboard boxes 📦 as logistical media and designed objects, as pandemic emblems, as capitalist equipment and detritus, as modules for all kinds of modernist imaginings, and as shapers of landscapes!
Next week Tuesday I'll be giving a short talk (in Dutch) at Pint of Science. Why do people craft stories about diplomats? Where can we find diplomacy in fiction, and fiction in diplomacy? Register (for free) at pintofscience.nl/events/nijme...
May 7, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Next week Tuesday I'll be giving a short talk (in Dutch) at Pint of Science. Why do people craft stories about diplomats? Where can we find diplomacy in fiction, and fiction in diplomacy? Register (for free) at pintofscience.nl/events/nijme...
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RIP Marjorie Perloff, 28 September 1931 – 24 March 2024.
What an extraordinary body of work.
What an extraordinary body of work.
March 26, 2024 at 12:52 AM
RIP Marjorie Perloff, 28 September 1931 – 24 March 2024.
What an extraordinary body of work.
What an extraordinary body of work.
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This is happening next Tuesday, 5pm, at Princeton! Olga Touloumi and I are talking about tables as interfaces of diplomacy and assemblage! www.instagram.com/p/C5CdWVFOFb...
March 28, 2024 at 2:32 PM
This is happening next Tuesday, 5pm, at Princeton! Olga Touloumi and I are talking about tables as interfaces of diplomacy and assemblage! www.instagram.com/p/C5CdWVFOFb...
What is the OED's problem with intertextuality?
March 18, 2024 at 3:44 PM
What is the OED's problem with intertextuality?
On Thursday I am moderating the second 'Serendipity Session' at the InScience Film Festival. Three academics will give shed some light on what darkness means in their research fields: dark emotions, dark vision, and dark tourism. Please come and join! www.insciencefestival.nl/nl/vertoning...
March 11, 2024 at 3:50 PM
On Thursday I am moderating the second 'Serendipity Session' at the InScience Film Festival. Three academics will give shed some light on what darkness means in their research fields: dark emotions, dark vision, and dark tourism. Please come and join! www.insciencefestival.nl/nl/vertoning...
Exciting developments in Groningen. www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
March 5, 2024 at 7:03 PM
Exciting developments in Groningen. www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
In the past two years, I worked with @drchrislouttit.bsky.social and Joanna Hofer-Robinson to edit an EJES issue on 19th-century interstitial spaces. I am chuffed to announce that this issue has arrived at its port of call! More @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/c....
European Journal of English Studies
Nineteenth-Century Interstitial Spaces. Volume 27, Issue 2 of European Journal of English Studies
www.tandfonline.com
February 22, 2024 at 9:36 AM
In the past two years, I worked with @drchrislouttit.bsky.social and Joanna Hofer-Robinson to edit an EJES issue on 19th-century interstitial spaces. I am chuffed to announce that this issue has arrived at its port of call! More @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/neje20/c....
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Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social
Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
November 30, 2023 at 11:52 AM
Have you checked out the latest issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social? A fav new issue dedicated to Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures guest-edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and @nicolakirkby.bsky.social
Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
Read it here: 19.bbk.ac.uk/issue/915/in...
On opening my pigeon-hole in the office, I found some Iberian ham. A Sicilian message?
February 20, 2024 at 7:30 AM
On opening my pigeon-hole in the office, I found some Iberian ham. A Sicilian message?