RIP Faith Ringgold, a dauntless and astonishingly inventive artist, activist, author, illustrator, sculptor, and children’s-book legend. The great ideas just kept coming. She was one of the signal cultural figures of our times.

🎉Announcing our #JanetFrameAt100 workshop at St John's College on 24th June, 1-5pm. Speakers inc Catherine Taylor, Fleur Adcock, Clare Bogen, Thirza Wakefield & others.

ANZ lit enthusiasts: get in touch if you're interested in giving a 5-10 min 'flash paper'. Students especially welcome💚

reminder that if you're an early career researcher/phd working on global feminism, you can join our group.

every 2 months we zoom, read a chapter/ draft article that someone from the group has written & offer feedback.

non-competitive, friendly, space 4 u in this squad.

Bouncing about for the brilliant Noreen Masud !! ✨✨✨

In his lifetime, Anthony Comstock battled the radical women of 1910s NYC. He died shortly after shutting down Clara Tice's 1915 exhibition of 'obscene' nudes at Polly's, a hangout for feminist & anarchist activists- overnight, Tice became famous as the Queen of Greenwich Village

Many congratulations to all the exceptional writers and scholars on our book prize short-list
Noreen Masud Doug Battersby
Robert Stagg Natalie Ferris
Alison Knight
We're delighted to announce that the prize this year goes to Noreen's Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language

Pleased to see this piece on Dancing Bodies and Medical Narratives published in The Polyphony💃 It's part of the MovBodLab-IMH takeover. Delighted to be in the mix with so many interesting contributions from across the medical humanities.

Congratulations to our Natalie Ferris, shortlisted for the University English book prize! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

Peeking out from my mat leave cave to thank University English — such joy to see my Abstraction in Lit book shortlisted for the book prize. And alongside books & colleagues I so much admire ✨ Noreen Masud Doug Battersby Robert Stagg Alison Knight universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

Call for papers: special centenary issue on #JanetFrame for JCL, inviting new readings of Frame's fiction, poetry, life writing, & reception

🗓️Abstracts due 15th Feb
📚Postgrads & ECRs very welcome
#JanetFrame At100

Leaving here for foreseeable, while I wait for wee arrival & find my way into mat leave 🌱 But before I do, just wanted to share some work from final gender & experimentation course…festive alternative cards/collage 💚 Some of our inspo below & brilliant student work🎄

Clarice Lispector on punctuation.

Call for papers for Inscription 5 -- 'containers'!

Don’t forget! FiMA3: Feminist Provocations proposals due January 15, 2024! fimassociation.org/conferences/

I'm delighted to announce a funded PhD opportunity with me and Dr Jane Moore CUEnglishCommPhilos open to people from groups underrepresented at university. Bridging contemporary and Romantic poetry, the project explores the work of Caleb Femi & William Blake: cardiff.ac.uk/colleges/arts-…

How books by women were introduced in 1974.

Last day of teaching before mat leave ⚡️ It’s been a ride working up to week 38! Carried along by brilliant, kind ✨ colleagues and students English@Bristol Bristol Common Press Coupla the things I was lucky to teach/get up to this term:

There's a job in my department--Lecturer in Contemporary Art History--please apply or encourage others to! tinyurl.com/yv2fvfu3

Sheer joy engaging with this galvanising, vital & timely thesis on autistic storying in contemporary literature of the global north & neuroqueering as radical critical practice. One of best parts of the job! All the congratulations Dr Abs Stannard Ashley ✨✨