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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity — I’m really sorry you had to experience this. So many women have told me that they longed for this distinction.

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 2d

“Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought. ” — Janet Frame

In all seriousness, how lovely to see my book in such excellent company, alongside work by @maebhlong.bsky.social, Matthew Hayward, & Wan-Chuan Kao.

Janet Frame on prizes: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · Sep 9

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · Sep 9

Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 3d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to the conference organisers and @bodleian.ox.ac.uk for facilitating this work, esp while I stagger through the first months of maternity leave.

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 3d

Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers

Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Jul 10

New old Janet Frame coming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in November: her 1966 novel A State of Siege.

Wise words from the chap on the back cover.

Janet Frame’s A State of Siege, in the standard Fitzcarraldo Editions livery: white text on International Klein Blue card

The blurb for the novel, as well as a quote from me:

“[Frame's| writing is engaging and idiosyncratic - full of a character that proves that the best way to strike deep with the reader is not to do what everyone else is doing, but to grasp your distinctive vision of the world and hammer it hard."
- John Self, The Times

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · Jun 30

A bright end 🌞 to my visiting fellowship in women’s history @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, mapping women’s literary contributions to the anti-apartheid movement.

Offering free College lunches to a heavily pregnant lecturer was risky, and I mourn my lost access to the daily dessert trolley. 🍰 💔

Image of Drum magazine, South Africa 1959

Anti apartheid cartoon in the left wing newspaper New Age, South Africa 1958

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Law-abiding protest has so far failed to stop the genocide. More than 50,000 innocent children have been killed or injured. In what circumstances could civil disobedience ever be justified if not now?”

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

www.theguardian.com

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Abs Ashley @ainokash.bsky.social · May 20

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨

📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!

Full call: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

journals.sagepub.com

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · May 16

Beautiful cover, beautiful kitty! Huge congratulations team xx

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 10

‘Janet Frame’s writing is often compared to Faulkner’s, and her family history reads like a Southern Gothic novel. Yet Frame can be an extraordinarily cheerful, funny writer. Language was a source of continual revelation.’

@lucieelven.bsky.social on the novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lucie Elven · Wouldn’t you like to be normal? Janet Frame’s Place

There were her nicknames: Nini with the nits at home as a child, Miss Educated in Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Waldo...

www.lrb.co.uk

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · May 14

Today is the centenary of the publication of Mrs Dalloway! Dr Elizabeth Gourd writes on the novel’s relevance to post-pandemic life in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/essay-it-was...

The original cover of Mrs Dalloway, designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell: abstract curved shapes in black and yellow, with a bunch of flowers just distinguishable.

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · May 8

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · Apr 25

@ainokash.bsky.social, @joanpassey.bsky.social & @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social I thought you might be interested in this focus on alternative/disruptive forms of knowledge production. Or you might know other great humans who would like to get involved...

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Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · Apr 3

"The decisive fact of our time is that, on the whole, we know a lot and yet we can do very little. We are both enlightened and illiterate." – Marina Garcés

How can we know the world in ways that are empowering rather than overwhelming? Where is the future of radical knowledge production?

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Apr 1

Great to read my colleague @drdomdavies.bsky.social on three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance theconversation.com/three-graphi...

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance

Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.

theconversation.com

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · Feb 25

'Frame refuses to bask in her exceptionalism, her almost miraculous escape. Triumphantly, mournfully, her plots are anti-redemption and anti-assimilation.' Audrey Wollen reviews THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET by Janet Frame for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/books/second...

A Writer Whose Novels Explored the Edges of Normalcy

Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for years, Janet Frame was drawn to the inner worlds of people conventionally treated as inside-less.

www.newyorker.com

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · Feb 21

What a brilliant cover! Well done, clever bean.

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Hayley G. Toth @tothhayley.bsky.social · Feb 21

My first book is going to print! All being well, it should be out in paperback and OA on March 28. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
If you read it and enjoy it (or hate it!), let me know.

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Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social · Feb 13

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social.
You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Come join us!
Please share widely!

MA Black Humanities | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · Feb 6

Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

The banner image for this journal special issue shows an oil painting of trees, blue sky, and a meadow.

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Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are building a Hong Kong Collection at @bristoluni.bsky.social! We now call for donation of photos of HK in 19 and 20th centuries. We'd also love to hear about other materials, such as family letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs etc.

Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social · Feb 4

【Call for Donations!】

The Hong Kong Collection, based in Special Collections and part of the Hong Kong History Centre, is accepting donations of significant interest to scholars and students seeking to understand the diverse histories of HK.

More on:
hkhistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/hphk-call/

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Dr Rachel Gregory Fox @rgf26.bsky.social · Feb 3

Abstracts are due for ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics' at the end of this month, 28th February.

See the following link for more info: blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvir....

#hostileenvironment #migration #refugeestudies

Details of CFP, which can be found here: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/hostileenvironments-hospitablepraxes/.

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · Jan 31

Majestic tiger 😍

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