Ellie Byrne
@gylph.bsky.social
Researching borders, queer form and hospitality. Editing a book on Ali Smith. Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University
Today’s task. Finish the intro to the Ali Smith essay collection. Need to stop reading and get writing!
June 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Today’s task. Finish the intro to the Ali Smith essay collection. Need to stop reading and get writing!
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Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress"
is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de
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Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress"
is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de
☝️
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicConference
#EnglishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #FUBerlin
May 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Please share!
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Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress"
is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de
☝️
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicConference
#EnglishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #FUBerlin
👇
Our conference " #NeoHistorical #Fiction @ 2025. #PrizedTemporalities & Contested Progress"
is happening /2-4 June @temporal-communities.de
☝️
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicConference
#EnglishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #FUBerlin
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‘Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders’ So it’s now clear that commitments of global companies to inclusion & equality was conditional-they drop the gender/pink washing so easily. It’s always about profit & patriarchal power!! jrnl.ie/6616454
Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders
The global company, which has its headquarters in Dublin, is reacting to executive orders signed by Trump
jrnl.ie
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
‘Accenture, employer of thousands in Ireland, abandons diversity measures after Trump orders’ So it’s now clear that commitments of global companies to inclusion & equality was conditional-they drop the gender/pink washing so easily. It’s always about profit & patriarchal power!! jrnl.ie/6616454
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Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social
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www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social
The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social
Head of Collections, Teaching and Research:John Rylands Library
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social
The John Rylands Library is looking for a new Head of Collections. Please do share widely. I'd like a good boss 😁 @historyhannahb.bsky.social @janeydonald.bsky.social @bronterre1.bsky.social
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“How does anyone do anything if they’ve lost their bearings, and their bearings are in the machine?”
—in an interview with Anna Russell in the @newyorker.com, Ali Smith discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” & her new novel, GLIFF
www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
—in an interview with Anna Russell in the @newyorker.com, Ali Smith discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” & her new novel, GLIFF
www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
Ali Smith’s Playful Dystopia
The author discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” and her new novel, “Gliff.”
www.newyorker.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“How does anyone do anything if they’ve lost their bearings, and their bearings are in the machine?”
—in an interview with Anna Russell in the @newyorker.com, Ali Smith discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” & her new novel, GLIFF
www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
—in an interview with Anna Russell in the @newyorker.com, Ali Smith discusses why she has a dumbphone, how to “meet reverses boldly,” & her new novel, GLIFF
www.newyorker.com/culture/drin...
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THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK
The Bottle Imp special issue
Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918
“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”
A 🎂 🧵…
1/9
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...
The Bottle Imp special issue
Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918
“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”
A 🎂 🧵…
1/9
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...
That Promethean Spark - The Bottle Imp
In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they wer...
www.thebottleimp.org.uk
February 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK
The Bottle Imp special issue
Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918
“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”
A 🎂 🧵…
1/9
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...
The Bottle Imp special issue
Muriel Spark was born #OTD, 1 Feb, 1918
“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”
A 🎂 🧵…
1/9
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/that...
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I have been appalled & disgusted by the silence of academic colleauges on the genocide in Gaza (but not surprised). So I expect little from them. For everyone else who cares about knowledge, humanity & truth, this is an powerful film on the scholasticide perpetrated by Israel youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE
Our Universities Live On: Testimonials of Hope from Gaza
YouTube video by Fobzu (Friends of Birzeit University)
youtu.be
January 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I have been appalled & disgusted by the silence of academic colleauges on the genocide in Gaza (but not surprised). So I expect little from them. For everyone else who cares about knowledge, humanity & truth, this is an powerful film on the scholasticide perpetrated by Israel youtu.be/G5MmIDc1LXE
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The South Asian Literary Association's virtual conference is this weekend. Keynotes are open to the public: Gurminder Bhambra Friday, and Tahmima Anam and Mirza Waheed Saturday. (Zoom links at the link below)
My own panel is Friday morning 9:15 ET.
southasianliteraryassociation.org/2025-confere...
My own panel is Friday morning 9:15 ET.
southasianliteraryassociation.org/2025-confere...
2025 Conference Program : SALA
southasianliteraryassociation.org
January 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The South Asian Literary Association's virtual conference is this weekend. Keynotes are open to the public: Gurminder Bhambra Friday, and Tahmima Anam and Mirza Waheed Saturday. (Zoom links at the link below)
My own panel is Friday morning 9:15 ET.
southasianliteraryassociation.org/2025-confere...
My own panel is Friday morning 9:15 ET.
southasianliteraryassociation.org/2025-confere...
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I’m organising a conference: 'Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the University of Kent, 23-24 June 2025.
Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley.
#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies
Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley.
#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies
November 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
I’m organising a conference: 'Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the University of Kent, 23-24 June 2025.
Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley.
#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies
Keynote presenters: Leah Cowan and Agnes Woolley.
#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies
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I still recall the first line that rushed from my head to the page: “The people choose their poets exactly as they please.” Legions of people chose, lauded and loved Nikki, flocking to her readings & standing in long lines for her to sign their 📚. Rest in Peace our dear Nikki.💕
December 10, 2024 at 3:26 AM
I still recall the first line that rushed from my head to the page: “The people choose their poets exactly as they please.” Legions of people chose, lauded and loved Nikki, flocking to her readings & standing in long lines for her to sign their 📚. Rest in Peace our dear Nikki.💕
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The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
December 10, 2024 at 3:39 AM
The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress.
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
A man must be buried.
It is not unusual that the old bury the young though it is an abomination.
RIP 🕯️
Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
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We're glad you liked our 2024 book list. We've done one every year we've been publishing. It's a lot of work done by contingent historians, work that's often not rewarded professionally even as people in the profession consume it. See all of our book and article lists here. 🗃️
Contingent Book & Article Lists Archives - CONTINGENT
contingentmagazine.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
We're glad you liked our 2024 book list. We've done one every year we've been publishing. It's a lot of work done by contingent historians, work that's often not rewarded professionally even as people in the profession consume it. See all of our book and article lists here. 🗃️
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@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit
December 5, 2024 at 5:12 PM
@bacls.bsky.social has just launched the CfP for the next BACLS-WHN conference (10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling)!
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit
Find it here forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3... and send abstracts by Friday 24th January 2025. #lit #C21Lit
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❤️🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize:
“I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down”
youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY
“I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down”
youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY
Turner Prize 2024 Jasleen Kaur
YouTube video by chunkymark
youtu.be
December 3, 2024 at 11:57 PM
❤️🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize:
“I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down”
youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY
“I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down”
youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY
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Jean Rhys worked on “Wide Sargasso Sea,” her 5th and final novel, in her 60's & 70's while in precarious health and devotedly coaxed by two editors, Diana Athill + Francis Wyndham.
Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit.
free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...
Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit.
free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...
The Many Confrontations of Jean Rhys
In her life and in her writing, the author of post-colonial works such as “Wide Sargasso Sea” met adversity—inflicted and self-inflicted—with an unflinching eye.
www.newyorker.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Jean Rhys worked on “Wide Sargasso Sea,” her 5th and final novel, in her 60's & 70's while in precarious health and devotedly coaxed by two editors, Diana Athill + Francis Wyndham.
Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit.
free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...
Published in 1966, it became a key text in feminist and post-colonial #Lit.
free link: archive.ph/2022.07.06-0...
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Congratulations @lenakt.bsky.social on the National Book Award for Poetry 💫
Read Lena in conversation w Anna Rajagopal on Something about Living in @palestinestudies.bsky.social here:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Read Lena in conversation w Anna Rajagopal on Something about Living in @palestinestudies.bsky.social here:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
‘Something About Living’: In Conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Palestine Square
www.palestine-studies.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Congratulations @lenakt.bsky.social on the National Book Award for Poetry 💫
Read Lena in conversation w Anna Rajagopal on Something about Living in @palestinestudies.bsky.social here:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Read Lena in conversation w Anna Rajagopal on Something about Living in @palestinestudies.bsky.social here:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
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5. On Dec. 7, we present "Past Continuous: Reading Darwish in a Time of Genocide" with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2024). She will lead a discussion of Mahmoud Dawish's Memory for Forgetfulness. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
Past Continuous — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Othman here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Past Continuous” here . In this workshop led by award-winning poet Lena Tuffaha, participants will rea...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
5. On Dec. 7, we present "Past Continuous: Reading Darwish in a Time of Genocide" with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2024). She will lead a discussion of Mahmoud Dawish's Memory for Forgetfulness. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/pas...
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4. On Dec. 5 we will have "A Poetry Reading for Gaza II," featuring Indigenous poetic geniuses Natalie Diaz, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. This follows our first online poetry reading, which was held in October. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
A Poetry Reading for Gaza II — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $25 USD). Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza II” here . Join Workshops4Gaza for our second online poetry reading...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
4. On Dec. 5 we will have "A Poetry Reading for Gaza II," featuring Indigenous poetic geniuses Natalie Diaz, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. This follows our first online poetry reading, which was held in October. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...
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2. Also on Dec. 1 is "Follow the Water: A Writing Workshop" with Rita Wong, author of many original works, and co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water (2017). Participants will think about what waters around teach us when we listen to them? www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fol...
Follow the Water — Workshops 4 Gaza
This writing workshop invites participants to pay attention to the watersheds where they live & to connect the local flows of life-giving water with a love & care for the planet that keeps us ...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
2. Also on Dec. 1 is "Follow the Water: A Writing Workshop" with Rita Wong, author of many original works, and co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water (2017). Participants will think about what waters around teach us when we listen to them? www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fol...
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1. Dec. 1 is "Gaza Kitchen: A Cooking Workshop" with Laila El Haddad, a Palestinian-American author and speaker from Gaza, who will teach ppl to make Rummaniya, a vegetarian stew popular in the sw of Palestine. She was on "Parts Unknown" with Bourdain in 2013. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/gaz...
Gaza Kitchen: A Cooking Workshop — Workshops 4 Gaza
Step 1: Donate to Laila’s family here (suggested donation $60 USD). Step 2: Register for “Gaza Kitchen: A Cooking Workshop” here . In this workshop with renowned author and speaker L...
www.workshops4gaza.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
1. Dec. 1 is "Gaza Kitchen: A Cooking Workshop" with Laila El Haddad, a Palestinian-American author and speaker from Gaza, who will teach ppl to make Rummaniya, a vegetarian stew popular in the sw of Palestine. She was on "Parts Unknown" with Bourdain in 2013. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/gaz...
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To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 AM
To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️
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This article shamefully normalises an ultraright corporate takeover of the US government. It's particularly distateful given Musk's targeting of named federal employees, exposing them to harassment or worse. I'm appalled to see it in @uk.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/love-him-or-...
theconversation.com/love-him-or-...
Love him or loathe him, Elon Musk is a champion of efficiency and could save the US government a fortune
The richest man in the world knows how to make savings.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:38 AM
This article shamefully normalises an ultraright corporate takeover of the US government. It's particularly distateful given Musk's targeting of named federal employees, exposing them to harassment or worse. I'm appalled to see it in @uk.theconversation.com.
theconversation.com/love-him-or-...
theconversation.com/love-him-or-...