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Moveable Type 14: Unfeeling is now live and can be accessed here: student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/MT/issue/122/i… . A massive thank you to all our contributors and editors for helping to put together such a fine issue. We hope you enjoy reading!

Petition to replace "quantitative" and "qualitative" with "numbery" and "feely"

The cluster you didn’t know you were waiting for is here! On form, style, taste, academic professionalism (& unprofessionalism), dialogue, digression, definition, & playing truant, it is: The Contemporary Essay, edited by Lola Boorman, Ella Barker, & @lukewyoung.

"If we come to those we love already knowing — who they are, what they can give us, what they want — we foreclose the possibility of encounter." @ENOgden, in conversation with @johannawinant. lareviewofbooks.org/article/knowin…

Harriet Smith-Hughes' research looks at the function of 'I's & 'we's in late-20th & early-21st century critical nonfiction. In this post, she looks at two moments in which Eve Sedgwick's 'I' appears to performatively write a queer collective into being english.web.ox.ac.uk/problem-person…

Imagine sending a letter including the line “I’m not made for attachments” to Melanie Klein

currently reading around American deconstruction (esp. the 'Yale Critics') & wondering: are there any standout (good, bad, both!) critical studies I shouldn't miss?

@harrietsh_ Denise Riley's essay, 'On the Lapidary Style' has some wonderful thoughts on style, memory, & memorialisation -- pretty sure it's available online, too!

@stone_grunge ah, it's out! beaming. endless congratulations, pal -- I hope celebrations are on the horizon! 🎉

Delighted to welcome @Plathbiography for this term's Weinrebe Lecture: Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life. The lecture will go live 2 March, 5:30, here: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/article/sylvia… #biography #lifewriting #SylviaPlath #redcomet

I wrote about shade, also known as reading, as a way to call out the navel-gazing of the so-called "reading debates" in literary criticism. I hope you enjoy this very nichey piece, which like all my recent work, is the subtweet: "but what about blackness?" post45.org/2021/01/serpel…

£10 is enough to prepare a food parcel to last a family of 4 in #Oxford for 7 days. Could you donate that that to us? buff.ly/2C5PVyx

Issue 5, Part 1 FORMALISM UNBOUND ed. @taubrybaruch & @Florence_dore Articles by @Florence_dore Yi-Ping Ong @GillyWhite8 @franciscondine @sarahchihaya Amber Jamilla Musser post45.org

“Aesthetic experience is mediated; aesthetic experience can feel intensely immediate. Both propositions hold true, and neither cancels out the other.” Yay--Hooked is finally out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book….

Literature friends: "close reading" and "close analysis" have become increasingly contested and theorized over the last couple of decades right? Can anyone recommend a reading or two that unpacks so I can help a friend?

hi i feel extremely weird about doing this, but i am raising money for transition-related expenses to try to get some medical support for my transition for the first time, several years after i came out. shares deeply appreciated. thank u gf.me/u/yzdnay

Attention doctoral students & EC researchers working on essayists across all periods, we would love to hear about your research! Send in a presentation proposal :) Life-Writing and The Essay: Afternoon Symposium (2nd February 2021, Wolfson College, Oxford, 1:15-4:30pm)

@lividaylap 💗 this is wonderful (!!) & despite the terfy nonsense, this is so helpful for so many. hope you had a fab first week on the job -- so deserved, massive congrats!