@DougBattersby

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

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Joined July 2011
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My review of Claire-Louise Bennett's Big Kiss, Bye-Bye now up on the FT: ft.com/content/25912c4f-def8…

Big Kiss, Bye-Bye — a work of extraordinary subtlety from Claire-Louise Bennett

The writer explores the limits of language and feelings in her novel about a woman’s unorthodox relationship with an elderly man

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Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine 9 September (Online) Register here (free): tinyurl.com/y529huhs Please join this online event to celebrate Ulrika Maude's groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (CUP, 2025). @modernistudies @Mod_Ireland

Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine

This online event will celebrate the publication of Ulrika Maude’s groundbreaking new book, Samuel Beckett and Medicine (Cambridge UP, 2025)

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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: tinyurl.com/bdfnpe4r @BAVS_UK @navsa @incsscholars

Victorian Bodies

Hybrid panel on "Victorian Bodies" hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester

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BAVS@BAVS_UK17 Feb 2025
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: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs202… @BAVS_PGs
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BAVS Postgrads@BAVS_PGs17 Feb 2025
University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme victorianist.wordpress.com/2…

University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme

The University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies is delighted to invite you to the hybrid Spring Seminar Series. The programme is outlined below; each talk starts at 5.15 pm (UK time) and…

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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.
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📢📚 My monograph, 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture', is hitting the shelves in Spring 2025! Here's a sneak peak... cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/th…

The Pen and the Scalpel: Vivisection & Late-Victorian Literary Culture - Fifteen Eighty Four |...

In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot lecture in the next room to a shrieking...

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Helen Tyson@HelenTyson125 Nov 2024
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! woolf2025.uk/ @IntVWoolfSoc @msatweet @modernistudies @VirginiaWoolfGB

Woolf 2025

5-8 July | University of Sussex

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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! oxford.ly/4end5wH
Early Career Researcher First Book Prize. Oxford University Press proudly presents the annual First Book Prize for ECRs, launching in January 2025. Explore the information page for further details.

ALT Early Career Researcher First Book Prize. Oxford University Press proudly presents the annual First Book Prize for ECRs, launching in January 2025. Explore the information page for further details.

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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: academic.oup.com/pages/early… Do share widely!
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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 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…

Jobs at Lancaster University

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Jack McNichol@Jack_McNichol7 Nov 2024
I'm no cinematographer, but I am at #msa24 in Chicago, with wonderful books which are *40% off* with code EXMSTA24 @msatweet @OWC_Oxford
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Rebecca Hamilton@BeccaLHam7 Nov 2024
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: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup…
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James Green@jaarongreen5 Nov 2024
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ageing-pr…
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What are the emotional and ethical risks of writing the lives of our lovers? In our first Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop of Michaelmas 2024, Prof Santanu Das (@engfac) turns to #EMForster's archive for answers. 1 November. Limited spaces remaining: t.ly/zmOM1
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Marc Farrant@MarcFarrant22 Oct 2024
I am launching my book this Thursday. @EdinburghUP @UvA_Humanities . All in Amsterdam are welcome to join!
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NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Doctoral Research in Health Humanities. The Health Humanities Research Group welcomes research projects that investigate all aspects of health humanities within our wide and diverse research specialisms. lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua…
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Tomorrow from 5pm (BST)! Please join Sally Shuttleworth, Anne Stiles, and Andrew Mangham for an online seminar on “The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities” Register for free here: tinyurl.com/y2pjuupw
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NEW PHD OPPORTUNITY: Cultural Currents in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Continuities between 'Victorian' and 'Modernist' Literature lboro.ac.uk/study/postgradua…
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