Dr Rose Harris-Birtill

A huge thank you to Dr Souvik Mukherjee @Prosperoscell & Dr Emil Hammar @elhammar for joining me and @Paula_C_Vega for yesterday's @openlibhums live chat on Postcolonial Perspectives in Games Studies - a real pleasure! Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=iEz42rR6…

A delight to return to the School of Computer Science @univofstandrews this morning for my annual Narratology for Video Games lecture-all those childhood years with my gameboy weren't wasted!Thanks @IanJMiguel for the invite, and good luck to all @StAndrewsCS CS4303 Video Gamers!

First copies of David Mitchell's Post-Secular World are in! Thanks @BloomsburyLit @martin_eve @SlowTimeProf @PadraigMacaoidh @drsarahdillon @profberty @infomodernist @staenglish @univofstandrews @david_mitchell for helping to make the book a reality & @AliceMarwick for fab cover

Now on at #whn18 @BACLS_official: excellent talk from @martin_eve from @BirkbeckNews on ‘Close Reading with Computers’, discussing his research using digital close reading techniques to analyse Cloud Atlas by @david_mitchell - looking forward to the full book-length study!

Now on at #whn18 @BACLS_official: the wonderful @zoebulaitis from @UniofExeter explores the vital topic of why reading matters and the future of the humanities in the paper ‘Valuing the Human within the Context of Catastrophic Crisis’

Now on at #whn18 @BACLS_official: the brilliant Dr Caroline Edwards @the_blochian from @BirkbeckNews on The Multivalent Times of Miraculous Realism, discussing post secular contemporary fiction and temporality

Now on at #whn18 - great paper from @Ben01Davies discussing Agamben and contemporary fiction on the @BACLS_official panel on Theorising the Novel Now

Jane Austen: the video game - fascinating session on literary game design with Judy Tyrer @judy3t in conversation with @DrKatieGarner from @staenglish in day 2 of Video Games and Literature conference @univofstandrews @StAModLangs @AbertayUni @UofGlasgow #vglit

Brilliantly engaging talk from @cbrookmyre on retro video games and writing at the Video Games and Literature conference @univofstandrews @StAModLangs @AbertayUni @UofGlasgow #vglit

Book cover sneak peak: 'David Mitchell's Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion' out early 2019 @BloomsburyUK New Horizons in Contemporary Writing ed. @martin_eve & Bryan Cheyette. Other new titles inc by @tedilta & @DrMagennis: martineve.com/2018/05/21/boo…