Book launch
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature
ed. Gerard Carruthers
16 April, Glasgow University & online – free & all welcome
A COMPANION TO SCOTTISH LITERATURE offers fresh readings of major authors & periods of #Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present, presenting historical background, new critical approaches, & wider cultural & institutional contexts
Recovering Imaginaries of Illness & Disability in Scottish Literature & Culture: Sources, Contexts, Theory
Études écossaises 23 | 2024 – open access
This special issue of Études écossaises looks at what recovering imaginaries of illness & disability in #Scottish#literature & #CulturalStudies might involve. Contributions deal with a number periods of Scottish culture, & a wide variety of sources & media.
🆕 Great news to end the week: Rui Lopes has been awarded a Remarque Visiting Fellowship at New York University’s Remarque Institute, where he will work on the relationship between the Cold War, spy cinema, and comic books. 👏👏👏
FIERY, UNSETTLING, INCISIVE collection of essays delves deep into history and cultural critique as well as the author’s life for a rigorous exploration of power and control, from racism and colonialism to misogyny and sexual violence. A MINUS
On 18 March, we will welcome researcher Patricia López-Gay (Bard College) for a lecture dedicated to the life and work of #JorgeSemprún, a Spanish political activist, public intellectual and writer.
NOTES ON TRUMPSPACE: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home by David Marcus 2023 #punctumbooks
Trumpspace "argues that the fascination and horror Trump has provoked is owing in part to the way he lays bare the obsession with status, self-branding, and achievement-at-any-cost that has been part and parcel of the broader neoliberal ethos. Finally, it analyzes the January 6, 2021 storming of the US Capitol through the lens of spatio-political theorizations of settler colonial power and conceptions of home and homeland."
CFP: “Scotland 30 years after Trainspotting”
Études écossaises, UGA éditions, Université Grenoble Alpes
This issue of Études écossaises seeks to take TRAINSPOTTING’s unique depiction of Scottish society as the starting point for an
investigation into the nature of contemporary Scottish life & how it has evolved between 1993 & 2023. Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2024
Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.
Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound#SoundStudies#SoundArt
Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.
Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound#SoundStudies#SoundArt