
Matthew Sangster
@mjrsangster
Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History @UofGlasgow. President @BARS_official. Working on @books_borrowing, institutions, intros.
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📢EVENT ALERT📢 Where? University of Glasgow When? 3rd April 2025 We are ecstatic to launch the #CfP for our upcoming #symposium: '#Publishing #Fantasy for Younger Readers' featuring a #keynote by the fantastic Frances Hardinge! #Glasgow #WhatsOnGlasgow #Academia #Conference


Applications are open for a new open-ended Research & Teaching Lectureship in Text/Image Studies at UofG Modern Languages & Cultures University of Glasgow. The post is supported by the generosity of the late Dr Peter Davies jobs.ac.uk/job/DKF401/lec… Stirling Maxwell Centre UofG Arts & Humanities

The touring version of Fantasy: Realms of Imagination opens Bowers Museum tomorrow! A few quick preview shots below of some of the objects installed in the gallery.


Join UofG Fantasy at the Mitchell Library and discover current PhD research into the horror genre as part of an after-hours event this Friday. Friday 1 November 6pm Mitchell Library Buy tickets ow.ly/Q75Z50TUbAC #Horror #Research #PhDResearch







Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), guest edited by myself, Matthew Sangster, and Dr Maxine Branagh-Miscampbell, is now out in the world and ready to read! euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3


So, the “Perspectives on Fantasy” book series (Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing) I’m co-editing with Matthew Sangster + Brian Attebery has grown! 6 books out (left) and more commissioned and due out soon (right)! (And even more that don’t have a cover as yet! Will post updates as we go!) UofG Fantasy


📢GIFCON 2025 REVEAL📢 We are excited to launch the call for papers for #GIFCon 2025! Theme: Queering the Fantastic Dates: 7-9th May 2025 Place: Online Read our CfP and propose your paper, workshop, or roundtable by visiting the UofG Fantasy blog: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024…



Happy that Remediating the 1820s is now available as a (relatively) affordable paperback. One of the reasons we wanted to publish with Edinburgh University Press was their commitment to paperback releases: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-remediati….



The 7th book of our Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing Perspectives on Fantasy series is out in hardback + #OpenAccess! Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill Link to both formats: bloomsbury.com/uk/justice-in-… UofG Fantasy UofG Arts & Humanities


We’re recruiting for a Lecturer in Book & Archival Materials Conservation! The post is full time and open ended. Closing date is April 9, 2025. UofG Arts & Humanities jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-i…

Thank you to everyone who came to our PFYR Symposium! We are grateful to our speakers and participants for a wonderful day of presentations, insights, critical reflections, practical advice, and conversation. See you at GIFCon 2025 in May?
