SSHRC and Killam Postdoc @DalhousieU | reading about writers and writing about readers | editing, migration, fiction | previously @IES_London and @Cornell
London, England
Joined April 2015
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Yesterday's @IES_London symposium on "Migrant Institutions" was marvellous. Full of fascinating papers, keen conversations, fizzing ideas. Huge thanks to the Institute and @BritishAcademy_ for their support, to @BeneCarnaghi for running the tech, and to our generous presenters.
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I’m thrilled to announce the UK edition of Dictionary of Fine Distinctions! Pre-orders are now available (link below) and are the best way, I'm told, to kickstart a book's success. Huge shoutout to @ProfileBooks for their support! #FineDistinctions #Books
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Join us in London to celebrate the launch of Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue!
Tuesday, 15 July, 2025, 7-11pm
Where: Reference Point, 2 Arundel St, London, WC2R 3DA
Tickets: Full price £12, with a Pay what you can option.
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Huge thanks to Amanda Hsieh and Friedemann Pestel for inviting me to participate in a workshop that brings together historians and musicologists! We reflect on the recent global turn in fascism studies, and we do it in the most beautiful place! #Tübingen #twitterstorians
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The PENGUIN BOOK of POEMS on the INDIAN CITY is out for pre-orders now!
Profoundly grateful to the poets, translators, estates and @PenguinIndia @Ram_Guha @ae_stallings @sorcerical @nathan_archana for helping make this mammoth book a reality!
amazon.in/dp/014347068X
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o.
A leading light of African and world literature, he was a distinguished Kenyan writer, scholar, and playwright, who served on Wasafiri's Advisory Board for several years.
Please join us in remembrance 🕊️
ALT White background. Black and white photo of a Black man in a patterned short sleeve shirt. Title reads: Remembering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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🚨🌱 The Chancellor is currently reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition to remind the UK Government: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. campaignforthearts.org/petit…
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I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be in conversation with Banu Mushtaq, winner of the 2025 International @TheBookerPrizes for HEART LAMP (@andothertweets), on 16 June @WstoneIslington
Get your ticket here:
waterstones.com/events/heart…
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Wonderful to speak about antifascist satire in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany & Vichy France, in conversation with Olga Galanova’s paper on political laughter in the GDR, contemporary Russia, Belarus & China. Humor makes the unbearable bearable @CentreMarcBloch #twitterstorians
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What is close reading? @dan_sinykin in @booksandthearts on the history and future of close reading.
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Delighted to present my research on ‘Persecuted Satirists: How Anti-Fascist Laughter Could Get You in Trouble, 1922-45’ at the ‘Power of Laughter. Laughing about Power’ conference at the @CentreMarcBloch. We even have a box of jokes that is going around! #twitterstorians
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One last tempo session with the lovely #AdidasRunners bunch yesterday and… I am marathon ready!
I am so excited to run the @Marathon_Mcr for #TeamMND @mndassoc. Here is the link to my fundraiser: justgiving.com/page/benedett…
We’re at 82% of the goal. I truly appreciate your help! 🙏
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My first book, Olympic Opening Ceremonies: Memory and Modernity, is now available for purchase!
Official release: April 25
routledge.com/.../Malanski/p…
Grateful to Research Ireland @Researchirel, mentors, and colleagues who made this possible
@routledgebooks @UnivLyon1 @UCDHistory
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Happy Registration Day, Bulls! Our updated Course Offerings page contains links to the Department of English's Course Bulletins for Summer and Fall 2025. If needed, please don't hesitate to attend a drop-in appointment with our Advisor.
Check the link in our bio for more info.
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Thank you so much @BeneCarnaghi @Dr_Helen_Roche, and @fried_ben for such a wonderful conference! I’ve learned a lot and met amazing people.
A wonderful conference comes to an end. We laughed, we learned, we ranged across media, languages, and periods. It was such a pleasure to listen to our participants and their groundbreaking research. Deep thanks to them, to our audience, to @durham_uni and @durham_history!
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A wonderful conference comes to an end. We laughed, we learned, we ranged across media, languages, and periods. It was such a pleasure to listen to our participants and their groundbreaking research. Deep thanks to them, to our audience, to @durham_uni and @durham_history!
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And the last speaker of our conference on “Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism”: Aidan Jones! Aidan is presenting on “The Death Penalty, Humour, and the United States.”
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A. Austin Garvey deepens our focus on Ukraine, comparing wartime Punch cartoons and contemporary Ukrainian memes in “Visual Humour in European Home Fronts: Britain and Ukraine.”
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Zlata Osipova speaks first, on “We Against Them: Humor as a Unifying Force in Ukraine’s Resistance.” How does humour build solidarity and a collective opposition?
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The final panel begins! “Humour in Extremis” will go from Ukraine to the United States, with presentations from A. Austin Garey, Zlata Osipova, and Aidan Jones.
