I'm pleased to do a big cover reveal for my book, on Children's Publishing in Cold War France, forthcoming Feb '25 with Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing Perspectives on Children's Literature Series. It will be fully open access thanks to the University of Reading Connecting Research cbcp_UniRdg

New publication! Our own Dr Marrisa’s article on the Publishers Association in Victorian Britain 🇬🇧

Some very happy news: we're part of the Uni of Reading, and we've just been named the UK's Sustainable University of the Year! 🥳 reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Univ…

So proud of this fantastic achievement! 🙌🎉🙌We raise our students’ awareness also by addressing -in our teaching- the multicultural dimension of living with and combating the #climate #crisis in many communities across the 🌍🗺️

Just a quick reminder that the Call for Papers for the SHARP 2025 conference ‘Communities and Values of the Book’ (7-11 July 2025) is now open at library.rochester.edu/rbscp/sharp202… - the deadline is 1 December so get writing ✍🏽 💻 SHARP News OU Arts & Social Sciences The Bibliographical Society of America btb - by the book. Publishing Research Network

Ebook is out - hardback edition available at the end of October with Palgrave Macmillan. Thanks to everyone who made this possible. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

They have a tough act to follow obvs, but #sharp2025 sounds pretty hot! 👉 CFP library.rochester.edu/rbscp/sharp202… SHARP News SHARP (@[email protected])

1 lovely husband + a lovely lady named Kate + 1 trip to Scotland = 8 boxes of Book Society Choices = much happy unboxing of 424 books! A complete reader’s collection (after all these years…)

Three (and many more) cheers for this! Congratulations Kanupriya Dhingra

Join cbcp_UniRdg & Outside In World for a free webinar on El Cuento Fantasma/ The Invisible Story from Lantana Publishing - speakers incl. Jaime Gamboa & Wen Hsu Chen, Daniel Hahn, Alex Strick & Kyla on braille and translated books Connecting Research tinyurl.com/ybfnfy2m

Very excited for next Thursday's research seminar and social: join us at 5.15pm UK time to hear our visiting fellow Hyei Jin Kim's talk: “Economic, and Not Political”: The Beginnings of the Traditional Market Agreement' Details & registration: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-boo…

Just arrived. link.springer.com/book/978303164…

Its tonight! 😍With Outside In World we'll be exploring the beautiful Cuento Fantasma/ Invisible Story from Lantana Publishing- incredible speakers incl. Jaime Gamboa & Wen Hsu Chen, Daniel Hahn, Alex Strick & Kyla on braille and translated books Zoom link: tinyurl.com/ybfnfy2m

This special issue of Fabula, co-edited by the ever brilliant @BoulaireCecile with Dominique Perrin on theorising the picturebook looks incredible 👇👇

In case you missed it, here is the recording for the cbcp_UniRdg x Outside In World webinar on translating The Invisible Story Lantana Publishing Feat: Jaime Gamboa, Wen Hsu Chen, Alex from OIW, Kyla a VI student on braille and Daniel Hahn: youtu.be/H1-In-IKdvQ?si…

I am so pleased to publish my first book with Palgrave Macmillan. If you are interested in book censorship and the recent history of Spain, please check out my new book, Censorship and Ideology: The Translation of Children’s Literature in Post-Civil War Spain.

Just a reminder that registration is OPEN for our FREE online ‘Literature Matters’ conference, 4-6 November. Please register for each session you’re planning to attend by 1 November, details here: www5.open.ac.uk/arts/research/…

Spreading some positivity today: be inspired by this beautiful piece written by our former Department of Languages and Cultures at Reading student, Merryn, on her experiences on the year abroad in Grenoble and Florence as a wheelchair user: reading.ac.uk/languages-cult…

The Curriculum and Assessment Review Call for Evidence closes Friday 22nd Nov 24. Calling #mfltwitterati to make the case for languages. all-languages.org.uk/news-events/... In this 35 min video, René Koglbauer addresses the key questions from an ML perspective:youtube.com/watch?v=HL6THm…

Make some noise: Help spread the word on AI & copyright. The UK govt’s consultation on AI & copyright closes on 25 Feb. Email your MP about the importance of copyright in underpinning creators’ rights via this link 👉 creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP #PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans