Doug Battersby

Lecturer in Modern Literature. Teaching & writing about the anglophone novel. Books: Troubling Late Modernism (OUP, 2022); Cardiac Realism (OUP, c. 2027)

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

My review of Claire-Louise Bennett's Big Kiss, Bye-Bye now up on the FT:

https://t.co/0UNIADDpYW

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

@S_Insley_H @thomasmanganaro An inevitable rabbit hole, but may require at least looking at the most popular books over a few decades for any potential shifts in FID use & correlations with literary fic. (And I know 😭 It was his bday yesterday, and I added about 10 years to my internal age-image in a day)

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine
9 September (Online)

Register here (free): https://t.co/2kotHzOHuT

Please join this online event to celebrate Ulrika Maude's groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025).

@modernistudies @Mod_Ireland

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

@becimay But also to suggest a greater uniformity amongst critics than there really is? Sure, there are a lot of American critics who are burdening close readings with unnecessary descriptors etc., but also plenty of others who view it as Guillory does – just "showing the work of reading"

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

Please join us @CentreVictorian for a panel on "Victorian Bodies" on 18 June from 5:15pm (GMT), with papers from @WillAbberley and @JessJCox.

You can book a (free!) ticket here: https://t.co/zvamDJftNo

@BAVS_UK @navsa @incsscholars

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

@navsa @BAVS_UK folks – please join Leicester's @CentreVictorian last hybrid seminar of the year tomorrow (14 May) at 5:15pm (GMT), when Anja Hartl will talk about "The Politics of Shame in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South"

You can book here:
https://t.co/V3rKz0Uetz

[Doug Battersby @DougBattersby]

@BAVS_UK @navsa folks – please join Leicester's @CentreVictorian hybrid seminar tomorrow (14 May) at 5:15pm (GMT), when Anja Hartl (Innsbruck) will give a talk on "The Politics of Shame in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South"

https://t.co/V3rKz0Uetz

[BAVS @BAVS_UK]

We're delighted to announce that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July @UniofOxford

We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!

CfP information can be found here: https://t.co/5kLy9lDBZ7

@BAVS_PGs

[BAVS Postgrads @BAVS_PGs]

University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme https://t.co/pI9Q1HpPVg

[Thomas Hardy Society @hardysociety]

The Thomas Hardy Journals are looking for a reviewer for Timothy Carens' 'Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel'.
If you are interested in reading and reviewing this publication please get in touch at [email protected] with a short bio! Open to all.

[Dr Asha Hornsby @AshaHornsby]

📢📚 My monograph, 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture', is hitting the shelves in Spring 2025!

Here's a sneak peak...
https://t.co/a5iZ9hk9jo

[Helen Tyson @HelenTyson1]

It's very exciting seeing proposals come in for 'Woolf & Dissidence' @SussexUniMAH @kingsenglishdpt The deadline for proposals is 13th December, so do submit your proposal soon! https://t.co/kuSn70IYHD @IntVWoolfSoc @msatweet @modernistudies @VirginiaWoolfGB

[Oxford Academic @OUPAcademic]

Great opportunity for #EarlyCareerResearchers: OUP’s First Book Prize opens in Jan 2025. Publish your work fully #OpenAccess with a full OA fee waiver & hardback edition.

Don’t miss out! https://t.co/I5fkiIqSDw

[Romance, Revolution & Reform @RRRJournal]

An exciting announcement for our ECR followers: @OUPAcademic has announced plans for their new, annual First Book Prize for Early Career Researchers. Opening for submissions in January 2025; initial information is available to read here: https://t.co/fIsouUnkso

Do share widely!

[Prof Joanne Begiato She/Her @JBHist]

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃
https://t.co/P4Yijl18Oz

[Jack McNichol @Jack_McNichol]

I'm no cinematographer, but I am at #msa24 in Chicago, with wonderful books which are *40% off* with code EXMSTA24 @msatweet @OWC_Oxford

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

I am giving a talk on Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and asylum practices online with @aberdeenuni @EnglishAberdeen @CentreNovel and the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine on 20th November 4-5pm.
Teams link:
https://t.co/RluvtT9Y0W

[James Green @jaarongreen]

Excited to announce our one-day online workshop on Ageing, Progress and Decline in the Victorian period on Fri 6 December. Join for papers on a range of topics by expert speakers - inc. a keynote by @jacob_jewusiak. Register via Eventbrite or email me: https://t.co/6auPi2N73Y