Owain Burrell
@oburrell.bsky.social
Early Career Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick. Writing on grammar schools and British literature
Pinned
Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to have let it go but pleased to have it in!
I passed my viva today with no corrections - couldn't and still can't quite believe it! Very grateful to my examiners, Mike Niblett and Nick Bentley, and as always a constant debt of gratitude to my supervisor Michael Gardiner
I passed my viva today with no corrections - couldn't and still can't quite believe it! Very grateful to my examiners, Mike Niblett and Nick Bentley, and as always a constant debt of gratitude to my supervisor Michael Gardiner
Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to have let it go but pleased to have it in!
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I passed my viva today with no corrections - couldn't and still can't quite believe it! Very grateful to my examiners, Mike Niblett and Nick Bentley, and as always a constant debt of gratitude to my supervisor Michael Gardiner
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Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here:
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
@uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Definitely contemplating this. Anyone interested in doing a panel on Scottish SFF. I'm thinking modern modern or contemporary but always open to ideas. #fantasy #sciencefiction #ScottishSFF
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👻 Preparing for my book launch on Friday (Hallowe'en!) 1pm UK - if you'd like to join online drop me an email!
You can read and access LIVING WITH GHOSTS here link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with institutional access 👻
You can read and access LIVING WITH GHOSTS here link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with institutional access 👻
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
👻 Preparing for my book launch on Friday (Hallowe'en!) 1pm UK - if you'd like to join online drop me an email!
You can read and access LIVING WITH GHOSTS here link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with institutional access 👻
You can read and access LIVING WITH GHOSTS here link.springer.com/book/10.1007... with institutional access 👻
Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to have let it go but pleased to have it in!
September 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Finally submitted my PhD yesterday - feels very odd to have let it go but pleased to have it in!
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Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!
'Bad Feelings: Sadness and Gender in Contemporary Culture' - @darlingorlaith.bsky.social and Fionnula Simpson
'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson
'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou
'Craft: Activism, Literature, Labour' - Katherine Fama and Benjamin Anderson
'Energy, Creativity, Sustainability' - Derval Conroy, Jane Grogan, and Jeanne Riou
August 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thrilled that Fionnula and myself have been granted generous funding by @ucdhumanities.bsky.social to run this conference. Anyone interested in women's lit/mental health/disability studies keep your eyes peeled for CfP!
Just under two weeks to send in abstracts for this special issue!
🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.
Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…
raymondwilliams.co.uk
July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just under two weeks to send in abstracts for this special issue!
Had a great time at the Dis/Trusting the Institutions of Literature conference at UCD - a brilliant series of panels and papers across themes of sociology and literature.
Here I am chatting away about the grammar school, disciplinary English Literature, and the British constitution.
Here I am chatting away about the grammar school, disciplinary English Literature, and the British constitution.
June 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Had a great time at the Dis/Trusting the Institutions of Literature conference at UCD - a brilliant series of panels and papers across themes of sociology and literature.
Here I am chatting away about the grammar school, disciplinary English Literature, and the British constitution.
Here I am chatting away about the grammar school, disciplinary English Literature, and the British constitution.
Reposted by Owain Burrell
🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.
Call for Contributors: Foreclosure, a Special Issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism
British cultural production has a long history of foreclosure. Understood as a premature abandonment, or an abortive failure, of radical political projects, foreclosure has an imaginative and mater…
raymondwilliams.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.
Pleased to say that mine and Michael Gardiner's paper on meritocracy and its discontents in Textual Practice is now open access
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The satire of the meritocracy: foreclosed futures in Michael Young, Raymond Williams, and Muriel Spark
The high summer of the post-war British consensus is often seen as a period of social promise, in which the opportunity for social mobility was made available to all through the technocratic basis ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Pleased to say that mine and Michael Gardiner's paper on meritocracy and its discontents in Textual Practice is now open access
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I've been learning Welsh for two years now with mixed success - very grateful to my Welsh colleague who will talk to me about books in Welsh! I think I'll have to start trying to slowly read something on my own, but that's probably a post-PhD project
December 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
I've been learning Welsh for two years now with mixed success - very grateful to my Welsh colleague who will talk to me about books in Welsh! I think I'll have to start trying to slowly read something on my own, but that's probably a post-PhD project