Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture

Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture at the University of Birmingham
(Cover art by Angela Dooley)

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

A new CCLC Profile is up this week! This time, we talked to @LyndseyStonebri, Interdisciplinary Chair and Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at @unibirmingham.

Lyndsey discusses telling stories, @mashagessen, @lea_ypi, & more!

Read it here: https://t.co/mgmo1WQ5b8⚡️

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Continuing with our CCLC Profiles from last summer, we have a new interview with Dr Rona Cran, Senior Lecturer in 20thc American Literature at @unibirmingham and the Co-Director of @ACS_brum!

Read here: https://t.co/Bf5mo4JUeK 📚🌳

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

This Thursday!

[Zoe Hope Bulaitis / @zoebulaitis.bsky.social @zoebulaitis]

FREE LIVE LITERATURE IN BIRMINGHAM!
This Thursday [18th] 5.45pm, The Exchange Building, Centenary Square. Sign up + join us for this @BeingHumanFest event. @MrCaseyBailey @asha_pb @fatmamohiuddin @WritersBlocUoB @CCLC_bham will all be there.
https://t.co/meoyQoaTUp

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Our friends @CMCbham are running this exciting seminar on Modernism & Teaching. Sign-up through Eventbrite, it's going to be a popular one!

[The Centre for Modernist Cultures @CMCbham]

‘MODERNISM AND TEACHING’

We are hosting the wonderful @plathpoem, @Bdavidhagen, @LAHeffernan and @rbuurma in discussion on Zoom.

Wednesday 10 Nov 2021, 12.00 EST / 17.00 GMT

Sign up here: https://t.co/xC1wYcmzJG

@modernistudies @msatweet @CLEMT_bham @EDACS_UoB

[Zoe Hope Bulaitis / @zoebulaitis.bsky.social @zoebulaitis]

Two weeks left! Looking forward to some live poetry from Brum's Poet Laureates @MrCaseyBailey @fatmamohiuddin as well as @WritersBlocUoB students. We will also hear from @asha_pb @EDACS_UoB @artsatbham . Join us at 5.45pm 18th November, FREE tickets here: https://t.co/meoyQnTivP

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

A fully-funded PhD with our co-director @dramyburge - deadline 12th January!

[Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge]

Boosting this Midlands4Cities (M4C), AHRC-funded collaborative PhD at Uni of Birmingham w/ Mills & Boon!

It's fully-funded and open to international students 🎉

Applications are open now, deadline 12 Jan 2022.

Full details and contact info: https://t.co/S6dSRKKZXZ

[Dr. Alison Garden 📚🫀🖊️ @notsecretGarden]

Don't miss the truly excellent @DrFarihaShaikh (@unibirmingham & @bbcthree/@ahrcpress #NewGenerationThinker) in her most exciting role yet: the *C19th pudding detective* for @R3TheVerb. She chats puddings migrating across cultures & South Asian deserts🥮
https://t.co/tGMQVRdjNP

[Fariha Shaikh ☕📚🧶✒️ @DrFarihaShaikh]

The inestimable @asha_pb, author of State Sponsored Literature (OPU 2020), is giving a snapshot of her work at the @artsatbham @unibirmingham #ArtsMatters lunchtime lectures tomorrow at 1pm! Link below 🥳

[Dr Amy Burge @dramyburge]

If you missed our @CCLC_bham @iaspr @cbddepaul roundtable on Black British romance you can now watch the recording! Many thanks once again to our panelists @TaliaHibbert @andiosho and @FrancesMensahW

https://t.co/qI30MTUJqa

[Zoe Hope Bulaitis / @zoebulaitis.bsky.social @zoebulaitis]

@CCLC_bham @BeingHumanFest @EDACS_UoB link for tickets here: https://t.co/meoyQoaTUp

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Our next event is this FREE @BeingHumanFest cafe at UoB's newest city-centre venue. Organised by CCLC member @zoebulaitis and featuring readings from poet laureates, @EDACS_UoB students, and academics, all reflecting on the city, creatively and critically. Sign-up to book!

[Zoe Hope Bulaitis / @zoebulaitis.bsky.social @zoebulaitis]

Excited to be organising a live event!
This time next month [5.54pm on 18th November!] in The Exchange @EngLit_UoB @artsatbham.
It is part of @BeingHumanFest: free and open to all! Details here: https://t.co/d3cBGstfwr

[The Centre for Modernist Cultures @CMCbham]

Event alert. 🚨🚨 @LisaMendelman will be speaking at @CMCbham (via Zoom) on 24th June, at 7pm UK time. Her paper title is: ‘The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood’. Details and sign-up here: https://t.co/Ty5fAVO9Q9

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

We have a new CCLC Profile on our blog with co-director of the Centre @dramyburge!

Amy talks us through her current research, how the pandemic affected her & her work, some favourite recent texts, and what's next...

Give it a read here: https://t.co/5r9o4gLZV5

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Reminder that this is tonight! Be sure to join us, it will be a treat.

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Next Wednesday 16th June at 4pm, we are speaking to @hayfestival's Digital Director Adrian Lambert about organising the festival during the pandemic and their 2021 digital edition🎪

More info & Zoom link can be found here: https://t.co/lCK9fHiLXj

All welcome!

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Next Wednesday 16th June at 4pm, we are speaking to @hayfestival's Digital Director Adrian Lambert about organising the festival during the pandemic and their 2021 digital edition🎪

More info & Zoom link can be found here: https://t.co/lCK9fHiLXj

All welcome!

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Following this event, @ellenaddis wrote a blog reflecting on @jesspres's Bookishness, literary festivals, and how books change the way we look at literary and new media studies.

Read it here: https://t.co/Ekdx4GAl1q

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.

For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV or a.burge[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

Reminder that this is happening today at 5pm! Don't miss.

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.

For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV or a.burge[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

This Wednesday at 5pm, Prof David James and
Dr Rebecca Roach will be talking with Jessica Pressman (@jesspres) about her new book 'Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age'.

For the Zoom link, email r.sykes[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV or a.burge[at]https://t.co/JpzusqupAV

[Centre for Contemporary Literature and Culture @CCLC_bham]

T-minus 2 hours until we chat with Kevin Brazil, with readings from his forthcoming book of essays, What Ever Happened to Queer Happiness?

Find tickets and more info here https://t.co/QEUxPzTG7g