English Studies

Anneloek Scholten & Usha Wilbers's wide-ranging Interview with @RitaFelski on multidisciplinary scholarship & the reception of postcritique is currently #freeaccess. You can read it 👇. @tandfonline tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It’s publication day and my author copies have arrived! 😊 📚🥳 The book is open access (and downloadable) for another week: cambridge.org/core/elements/… #horror #bodyhorror

Finally a helpful acknowledgement of the damage that's being done across the sector, and of its consequences theguardian.com/education/2024…

Registration now open for our FREE 'Writing and Reading the Pandemic' public event on Saturday 11th January. Find out about the project and hear poetry from @poetrybylisa @JamieRHale and George Sandifer-Smith eventbrite.co.uk/e/110250427295…

My article, Orwell, Class, and Consumption: The Desecration of Bread in The Road to Wigan Pier, is now live in @ES_Routledge! doi.org/10.1080/001383…

Tomorrow from 5pm (BST)! Please join Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Stiles, and Andrew Mangham for an online seminar on “The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities” Register for free here: tinyurl.com/y2pjuupw

😷📔'Reading Habits in the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective' (2024) by @DrAbbyBoucher, @mmgiovanelli, @ChloeELHarrison, @lovermob & @Caro_Godfrey was such a pleasure to read and to review! 👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @ES_Routledge

The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen - then got written out of the canon: theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

On the latest episode of @shakespeareany1, #Shakespeare scholar @Freeburian discusses his new book, Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers, which explores how The Bard was influenced by his fellow contemporary dramatists, and how he also influenced their work: youtube.com/watch?v=kfA-bg…

Trending in #Literature: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Thomas Nashe: Balladeer 2) Masculinities in Wulfstan's Homilies (@ES_Routledge) 3) Making TV in the Age of Streaming 4) Refugee Identity & Hospitality in Richard Powers’ Generosity 5) Conspiracy Theater of the Absurd

The second edition of our Cognitive Grammar in Stylistics (‘Noodlehead’) textbook is published today! 🎉 For more info (and a 30% discount 👀) please check out the Bloomsbury website bloomsbury.com/uk/cognitive-g…

My inaugural professorial lecture @kingsartshums on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Folk Revival, and Maureen Duffy’s sword dances: 2 October, 6 pm reception to follow, book here tickettailor.com/events/kingsar…

Aston Stylistics Research Group is back with another research seminar series for 2024-25. Once more we have a brilliant line up of speakers. Further details of titles and how to register soon! @PoeticsLinguist @LitSemantics @UnivEnglish @EnglishAssoc appliedstylistics.com/research-semin…

Very happy to say that my article, “Sufficient Tragedy: Masculinity as Cruel Optimism in Beowulf” is now published in English Studies. doi.org/10.1080/001383… (should be ☀️OPEN ACCESS☀️shortly!)

My article on the construction of masculinities in Wulfstan’s homilies is out (and open access)! Massive thanks to @quothgareth and Caz Batten for all their work as editors: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thrilled to share that my article Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers' Generosity (2009) has been published!📚✨ Check it out here: tandfonline.com/eprint/2PUG8MX…