Andrew Thacker

I’ve been quiet about my redundancy for a while, trying to move on. But I’ve been trying to pursue a claim for maternity discrimination because I was assessed in the scoring over a three year period against a series of criteria, during which time I was on mat leave for 8 mos 🧵

A new book out in the Material Modernism series I coedit with @AndrewThacker1 and Faye Hammill. Written by the inimitable Maud Ellmann and the first Pivot book in our series. @PalgraveLit @Palgrave @msatweet

📢 Teaching Modernisms 📌 25 July - 5 August 2024 📍Online, free A collaboration between 7 international organisations! Programme: shorturl.at/S6JP4 @AustModernist @modernistudies @msatweet @modernism_asia @SEM_France

The Tories gave Michelle Mone £203m for useless PPE. She bought a yacht. Vote tactically. StopTheTories.Vote

"Wer nicht wählt, sägt sich selber den Ast ab, auf dem er sitzt" (1953 poster issued by the Bundeszentrale für Heimatdienst). Make your voice heard today in #Elections2024.

Zadie Smith in today's @guardian remembering English higher education as a publicly funded public good.

Delighted to receive the latest book in our series on Material Modernisms - congratulations to @axchristie on a superb book! @CeliaMarshik @PalgraveLit

The founder of Handheld Press, Kate Macdonald, has revealed more about the pressures behind the indie’s closure, including the impact of Brexit and the cost-of-living crisis. 👇 #Echobox=1716540478" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thebookseller.com/news/handheld-…

@kerriandrewsuk So sorry to hear this - you’ll know that our institution has been through something similar. Sending best wishes for the future.

Well shit.

I was one of the 300. Memorable.

Sad to see what is happening to my hometown. theguardian.com/culture/2024/a…

"Universities are in crisis" newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

The jaw-dropping mess of UK higher education is starkly revealed by a series of news stories all on the @timeshighered website in the last week or so: 1.) There are job cuts right across the sector (44 universities and counting): timeshighereducation.com/news/portsmout…

We are appalled that the Government is once again singling out arts & creative subjects for funding cuts in Higher Education. Many courses have already closed and a growing number are at risk. This attack on the arts must stop now. #ArtsEducationMatters theguardian.com/education/2024…

ICYMI: Students in England are supposed to be protected when their course gets cut. Jim Dickinson reads the plans in place to determine if that's happening in practice wonkhe.com/blogs/are-stud…

The UCU at Queen Mary Uni in the UK has put together a list of the redundancies in British universities. It’s a scary list qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

RIP Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024). Marjorie was one of the most important, influential scholars of modernist and contemporary poetry, and a generous mentor and friend to me and countless others. She was a force of nature and she'll be deeply missed. facebook.com/andrew.epstein…

Fantastic end to a very stimulating conference! Thank you @spa_tr #TRANSLATION #periodicals #postwar