Just completed four lecture/ workshop plans, ready for classes to begin next week. Am expecting admin to spring new slides on us imminently that force various changes .
UK university managers have never been great fans of Erasmus because to make it run evenly they'd have to spend money on language teaching for UK students and incentivise them to opt for languages in the first place.
"I thus talk quite guardedly, for fear should I be led into a discussion of Negro life, a Dictaphone might be around which could relay my talk to a voracious scenario hound." --Wallace Thurman, circa 1929. Fears of AI-style stealing of artistic work are long-standing.
Co-editor Myrto Drizou spotted the first (appreciative, cogent) review of our Freeman essay collection in Studies in American Naturalism! Freeman's questioning of monolithic whiteness is celebrated.
Great podcast on Jennifer Sdunzik's analysis of the erasure of Black people in the small-town Midwest. Connection to German unification unexpected. newbooksnetwork.com/the-geograph...
Make that Cather, minus autocorrect!
Just signed a book contract with University of Nebraska Press for my new eco critical literary history of the revolt from the village. Really excited.
A bit behind in terms of NTU, where the 'restructuring' already happened but thanks for the long list.
In case you, too, have been finding the drip-drip of news about redundancies and closures in UK Higher Education worrying and want to REALLY worry seeing it all laid out on one handy and ever-growing page: qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
This is a live page of all the redundancies and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country's future and the vandalism to it unconscio...