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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · Apr 16

We are the @dfg.de -funded Specialised Information Service (Fachinformationsdienst) Anglo-American Culture #FIDAAC at SUB Göttingen & Branch Library North American Studies at University Library, FU Berlin.
Follow us for publications from all anglophone cultures & news for the scientific community!

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 21h

So nerdy & niche! I love it #Linguistics

Foone @foone.bsky.social · 22h

signing up for the hot new linguistic dating site

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22h

Today is, however, not only #MonsterMonday but also Margaret #Thatcher was #BOTD 100 years ago
Find arguments against #Thatcherism in the #BritishStudies & #PoliticalStudies literature in our collection

2 bookstacks of books on Margaret Thatcher on a bookshelf

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22h

For #MonsterMonday you might also want to take note of the #CfP #CallforPapers for next year's #Inklings symposium:
#Inklings2026 conference will focus on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic" - #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #ComicsStudies #DnD #TVStudies & more

🧌s.gwdg.de/HwZ1bY

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22h

Today is #MonsterMonday (which in the halloweenest of months needs extra attention). Here is a new study by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter on the rise & fall of black-and-white 1950s-70s popular #horror mags or #MonsterMagazines

link: s.gwdg.de/en3TQ1

#PopCulture #PulpFiction #MarvelComics

Holding the book "The Great Monster Magazines" by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter in front of a small decorative body of water at SUB Göttingen

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 2d

"It's time"...to say good-bye to Heidelberg! A great #GASt2025 conference is coming to a close after four days of inspiring presentations and discussions. Safe travels home! 🐨 #AustralianStudies

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 2d

Enjoying the last coffee break of the day at #GASt2025. Lots of great talks today (about Australian fiction, Swiss entomologists & vampires)!

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

More info on the film: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

A daughter's quest to bring her father's monumental bark petition home

New documentary One Mind, One Heart tells the incredible true story behind the Yirrkala bark petitions and follows their repatriation journey back home.

www.abc.net.au

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 3d

Day 3 of #GASt2025 started off with an online conversation with lawyer and film-maker Larissa Behrendt about her documentary 'One Mind, One Heart' which was shown yesterday evening.

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

#AustralianStudies

IxTheo @ixtheo.bsky.social · 6d

Die Artikel der Zeitschrift „The Australian Journal of Anthropology“ sind jetzt für den gesamten bisherigen Erscheinungsverlauf (1990–2025) vollständig in IxTheo nachgewiesen. Alle Artikel haben einen Link zum Volltext:
ixtheo.de/Search/Resul...

Search Results - superior_ppn:341898244 :: IxTheo

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

Written for the sesquicentenary: Jack Davis's play 'Kullark' (Home). opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=...

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/titledata

opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

#GASt2025: The second opening keynote by Shino Konishi discusses WAY 79, the Western Australian 150th anniversary, and the struggle for Aboriginal self-determination. Here are some books published as part of the event: opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/SET=5/T...

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/shortlist

opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

Day 2 of #GASt2025 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Check out the programme here: australienstudien.org/de/gast-okt-... #AustralianStudies

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 4d

It's time! Follow the kangaroo to the 2nd floor of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. Coming up: The opening keynote by Les Malezer. #GASt2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 5d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d

I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him

I have to limit myself to three pages at a go, once per day, with the first cup of coffee

by Mark Migotti

thewalrus.ca/i-have-a-wod...

P. G. Wodehouse at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

Image of the writer PG Wodehouse from 1930.

Wodehouse is shown standing outdoors, dressed in a suit and overcoat, with a hat. He looks relaxed and content, smiling broadly.

He holds something in his hands, giving a casual, informal air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse#/media/File:P.G._Wodehouse,_1930.jpg

https://archive.org/details/screenland21unse/page/n424/mode/1up

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 5d

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce
thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/members-pages/john-bryce.php

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 6d

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

Thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7d

The comments 🫀

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 9d

Auntie Zelda stung by jellyfish and shed her skin.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 10d

WHY HAS THE MOTHER GOT DRUNK.
WHY IS THE WORLD GOING ROUND.
WHY IS THERE FOOTBALL ON TV.
WHY HAS THAT PINK DUCK ONLY GOT ONE LEG.

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7d

Is this call still open? It says the deadline for a first proposal was in June 25?

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7d

This study by Donna Varga looks at the interplay of colonialism & monstrous Othering of animals in #ChildrensLiterature & culture, considering a variety of canonical & non-canonical animal characters

#PostColonialStudies #CulturalStudies #monsters #animalstudies #nonhumanstudies #ecocriticism

The book "The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children’s Books, Films, and Toys" on a tree trunk

Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 7d

Today it's 2 new #NonHumanStudies / #animalstudies books with wolves on the cover! 🐺🐺
Editors Kenneth K. Brandt & @karinmd.bsky.social present essays on the nonhuman in literary naturalism, w #AmericanLiterature authors #JackLondon #Hemingway #WillaCather #EdithWharton & more

#ecocriticism

The book "The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism" on a large tree trunk

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 8d

What intriguing cover art!