📢 Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies 📌 Online, 25th July - 4th August Programme bams.ac.uk/difficult-conv… Register (free event, pre-registering recommended) eventbrite.com/e/difficult-co… In collab with MSA (Modernism) @modernism_asia Société d'études modernistes (SEM) British Association for Modernist Studies AMSN

Come work with us! Permanent Lectureship in Contemporary Literature here at the School of English and Creative Arts at Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway. Circulate widely and consider applying! universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/.

Congratulations Elaine - the best news!

A sunny start to the new term. Good luck everyone!

The deadline for applications for a new position as Lecturer in Contemporary Literature here at @SchoolENCA is fast approaching (Sept 15). universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/# Consider applying and please spread the word!!

I was just waiting for the university open day to pull out my new Virginia Woolf socks…

Exciting news is out - we're editing a special issue of Echinox Journal, titled "Integrated Modernisms," centering around modernism's integration into various aspects of our contemporary experience! CfP: caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/?page_id=11840 DL: 31 January 2024 Please spread the word!

Notes on moving from Blackboard to Canvas: one could do without seeing the marking 'To Do' list every time one logs in!

‘The work is the death mask of its conception.’

A pleasure to work with Alexandra Peat on this project as well as with all of our brilliant contributors! Note that our introduction is currently freely accessible. Happy Monday all!

pleased to have an article about sensitivity readers in this special issue of Women: A Cultural Review on "Discourses of Emotional Labour" (w/ thanks to excellent editors Alexandra Peat & Emily Ridge) DM for PDF tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

article on catherine lacey's the answers and the subsumption and surveillance of care work is out today in a special issue on emotional labor, superbly edited by Emily Ridge and Alexandra Peat. tandfonline.com/toc/rwcr20/34/4

Verdict on Poor Things: the brain of Virginia Woolf's Orlando transplanted into the body of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Or something like that?

A happy delivery this morning! Very proud that this special issue, which began as a fledgling idea in the summer of 2021, has finally materialised! Alexandra Peat

What to read today?

A full list of talks taking place on #OpenDay is available here: universityofgalway.ie/media/courses/…

The time period for completion of the Student Voice Survey has been extended until March 22nd psychologygalway.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cV…

Congratulations to our colleague Elaine Feeney who launched her new collection of poetry last night, All the Good Things You Deserve. Pictured here in conversation about her work with Dan Carey. Maith thú, Elaine! University of Galway CASSCS @HarvillSecker

We have a job opening here at professorial level for the role of Head of School of English, Media and Creative Arts (comprising disciplines of English, Drama, Music, Film and Journalism). Deadline next Thursday May 16. Please share widely!

A real pleasure to contribute to this volume. Congrats and many thanks to the editors, Dr Megan Faragher, Ravenel Richardson and Melissa Dinsman for bringing it all together and into being!