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Peter Adkins
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Lecturer in Modernism at University of Edinburgh | Author of 'The Modernist Anthropocene' and editor of 'Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene' | Judge of James Tait Black Prize in Fiction | Views here not necessarily those of my employer etc etc | He/him
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We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
What a line-up!
We’re picking up right where we left off as the 2025 Fall Term Woolf Seminar Series gets underway!
All seminars will be held online and conducted in English.
Registration details will be shared ahead of each talk. Stay tuned! #virginiawoolf #woolfseminars
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Exciting opportunity here for doctoral students with funding for travel.
Click here to apply: www.uis.no/en/research/...

#EnvHum #Petrocultures
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NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.
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We are recruiting!

An exciting new opportunity has opened up here at Gladstone’s Library.

We are looking to recruit an Archivist who will work in the Library’s busy Reading Rooms. Working in a team of five, this role is a mix of public-facing and office-based work.

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Ah, that makes it even more interesting and entertaining!
We had a virtual screening and discussion of the film with Nariman at Crude Representations. It is *so* good! Apparently DT could see the oil tankers from his childhood bedroom window arriving at Llandarcy. So it's only fitting he'd be sent to Abadan!
Does anyone want a free month's premium subscription to @edinburghminute.bsky.social? Got some promo codes when I signed up!
I love the idea that there might be a Triestine easter egg (so to speak) smuggled within the cat's miaow.
Thanks for the clarification - deleting my original post at risk of spreading misinformation.
I had never even considered this, but it tracks!
I always have to try to make the sound aloud when I read it!
Rereading Woolf's 1917 diary and finding myself tickled once again by the anecdote in which she and Desmond McCarthy stay up late trying to vocalise the cat's "Mrkgnao" in Joyce's Ulysses (she can't have disliked it *quite* as much as she professed).
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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex is looking to hire both a fixed-term Lecturer in Literature and a fixed-term Lecturer in Theatre Studies. For full details about each post, see the link below. vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
Exciting day to see what the postman has for me.
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Lots of bad solutions proposed for UK universities in the press:
Limit research to Oxford and Cambridge, curb VC pay, teach more “efficiently” etc

But
1. Fees have flatlined meaning they don’t cover the costs of
2. the massive loans that VCs took out for buildings when unis were privatized.

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we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
Quoth the raven, "baguette".
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Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?”
Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”
This is how.

Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.
Congrats! Can't wait to read it!
This #modwrite I am trying to be super organised by starting my paper on fossil fuel in The Voyage Out for the Woolf conference in Sussex next month. Will I actually get it written early for once?
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