The #VWSGB has a new reading group for members! We’ll read the works of #VirginiaWoolf & #Bloomsbury to find connections &, influences. Face-to-face and online discussions. Starts online 6 April. Join VWSGB for only £25 (£10 students): virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/membership

One of the highlights of the Sinéad & Shane tribute - Billy Bragg 'A Rainy Night in Soho' at Carnegie Hall 💚youtu.be/9wXB7VM5ZfI?si…

For the future we need poetrye, creativitye, historyes, languages, dreames, dialogues, bettir storyes, & new wayes of being. Not just pixels, profits, & apps.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

In 2017 I joined a room of 6 other students interested in starting a union. From 2018-2019 I was co-president of EmoryUnite!. It was a small union of 7 or 8 ppl but we slowly grew. I doubt anyone in the room today knows me but today Emory voted to unionize and I’m crying. ✊✊✊

I've watched and taught John Berger's Ways of Seeing approximately 888 times and it's still so charming

We’re all set up at the #MSA2023 conference. Come visit the Edinburgh University Press stand to browse our books and journals, pick up a bargain and chat with me.

Remembering the talent of Kirsty MacColl on her birthday today.

This article by Rebecca Colesworthy is so helpful and full of wonderful information: Advice | Why I’m Wary of Publishing Advice, but Will Offer It Anyway chronicle.com/article/why-im…

Happy birthday to Elizabeth von Arnim 🎂🎂🎂 Celebrating with the latest publication of her novels by ⁦British Library Publishing⁩ — coming September

Stuart Clarke and Stephen Barkway are searching for unpublished letters from Virginia Woolf for EUP. If you know about any please let me know (I have one!)

I am delighted to announce the full programme for 'Difficult Conversations in Modernist Studies', an international series of events, ONLINE, 25th July - 4th August. So exciting!! - bams.ac.uk/difficult-conv…! MSA (Modernism) Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) Société d'études modernistes (SEM) British Association for Modernist Studies AMSN

‘She knew, with a firm determination, that there is a glorious expenditure of pain in beauty, and that happiness requires a wastefulness that is heedless of saving something for a better day.’

theconversation.com/gabrielle-care… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Kitchen sink spring is here in the mountains

Tonight! I’ll be Webster Hall with my Queen Lucinda and wonderful Jesse Malin who has very kindly invited me to sing his beautiful tribute to Shane MacGowan - I’m honoured and will do my very best to do it justice!💚 Wishing everybody a great weekend, support live music!💚 #NYC

My beloved undergrad Alma Mater, UC Irvine, is almost as beautiful as Paul Newman in this silent film clip. (And … sigh … this transplanted Californian is always homesick by the end of a Pennsylvania winter—I miss a warmer, kinder, happier climate.) youtu.be/YLQB5s1oRTc

Happy Valentine’s Day. Celebrate with von Arnim’s ‘Love’, a comic & ultimately dark novel exploring the complications of romantic love & its other forms ⁦Isobel Maddison⁩ ⁦Literature Cambridge Online⁩ images.app.goo.gl/dsUiad8rYQcE4C…

Fascinating article from Aimee Gaston & good to see The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society mentioned. Mansfield’s first collection of stories, In a German Pension, owes much to von Arnim’s earlier use of food & uncomfortable tropes tying food to nationality ahead of the Great War