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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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All work and no play ... not with us! Find 4 new books on play & work in #culture & #literature in our collection!
Liam Connell's study "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" examines work depictions in novels from India, USA & the UK, incl 2025 Booker winner #DavidSzalay

#LiteraryStudies
Holding the book "Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel" in front of a row of wooden lockers
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Followers! If you don't know #KitWilliams "Masquerade" and the scandal around it, you should change this now. It was a hare-raising (pun intended) mystery

#childrensliterature #LiteraryHistory #MaterialCulture #BritishStudies #BritishCulture #riddles
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#ScottishHistory
oldedinburghclub.bsky.social Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social · 2d
Good News! The Old Edinburgh Club’s Bibliography site is being updated. It's an online ‘must visit’ to explore Edinburgh’s history, with works from the late 16th century to today. Check it out and tell us if anything else should be included.https://buff.ly/8gAkNs6
OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History - The Old Edinburgh Club
Explore the OEC Bibliography of Edinburgh History, covering social, cultural, economic and architectural heritage in books, articles and dissertations
oldedinburghclub.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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ceyingst.bsky.social
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"

*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#Libsky #Librarians
wokestudies.bsky.social Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d
Christmas vacation ? Library wish list ?
#HigherEd #Edchat
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
"Beteiligt [am #graduiertenkolleg] sind d Anglistik, Germanistik, Romanistik, Slawistik, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Psycholinguistik u d Human-Centered Data Science-Gruppe. ... Spracherwerb, kognitive Verarbeitung, historische Entwicklung u Variation v Sprachen u Gebärdensprachen"

#Linguistics
uni-goettingen.de Uni Göttingen @uni-goettingen.de · 2d
Juhu, die @dfg.de verlängert zwei unserer Graduiertenkollegs: „Nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme“ erforscht Wechselwirkungen zwischen Landwirtschaft, Konsum, Ernährung und mehr. „Form-meaning Mismatches“ befasst sich mit Form und Bedeutung in Sprachen. Mehr dazu: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
Prof. Dr. Meike Wollni: Sprecherin des Graduiertenkollegs „Nachhaltige Ernährungssysteme“ © Marco Bühl Prof. Dr. Hedde Zeijlstra: Sprecher des Graduiertenkollegs „Form-meaning Mismatches“ © Universität Göttingen
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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drsallybd.bsky.social
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... such a significant collection of materials for Victorianists and Lee scholars.
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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easlce.bsky.social
#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage

Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025

Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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katrinhorn.bsky.social
Come work with us!
#JobPosting #HigherEd #Anglistik #Amerikanistik
part-time, permanent
Screenshot: Job Ad 25/E17 University of Greifswald Department British and North American Studies, Teaching Associate, starting April 1, 2016. part-time, permanent position, focus on "primary education"
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment

#TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory
Colby Gordon in front of his presentation, title Nonsecular Colby Gordon in front of his presentation showing 2 Bible illustrations with Eve emerging from Adam's body's side
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
#Frankenstein #ichbinhanna (look at this reposted thread for more #ichbinvictor gallows humour)
theresaheyd.bsky.social Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 8d
Idee für die nächste Verfilmung: Victor Frankenstein, ein wissenshungriger early career researcher, forscht an der Universität Ingolstadt, doch das WissZeitVG zwingt ihn, sein Projekt in die Schweiz und bis nach schottland mitzunehmen. Die Folgen für seine Karriere sind verheerend.
November 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Check these slides if you are interested in comic collections & #ComicsStudies / #ComicStudies

Also hooray for #Fachinformationsdienste cooperations! We enjoyed our collab with our colleagues @fidromanistik.bsky.social 🫶

#comics #graphicnovels #LibSky #LibrarianSky #Librarians #FIDAAC
fidromanistik.bsky.social FID Romanistik @fidromanistik.bsky.social · 8d
Mit dem @libraryaac.bsky.social haben wir in einer FID-Coffee-Lecture " #Comicsammlungen in FIDs" vorgestellt. Für die Romanistik: Forschungsinteresse & Publikationen, FID-Sammelprofil, Erwerbungswege, Erschließungspraxis & Recherche, Öff.-Arbeit & Vernetzung wikis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/webis/index....
Gliederung Comicsammlungen in FIDs Comicsammlungen in FIDs: Recherche Romanistik Comicsammlungen in FIDs: Comic-Literatur in der Romanistik
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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melissaschuh.bsky.social
Some pretty Bamberg sights on the first day of the #BritCult2025 conference…

@susannegruss.bsky.social @jennyleetsch.bsky.social
Photograph of a tree in front of some rooftops and a cloudy sunset sky Photograph from a bridge onto a bank of south German houses. Photograph of a bridge with locks on the bannister with a river and houses in the background. Photograph of a church with a white sandstone front.
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
This year's #BritCult was off to a great start today with the 1st joint keynote by @femsista.bsky.social & @greta-olson.org on current questions & issues of #Feminism - incl how to avoid getting sucked into anti-feminists' toxic discourses 🧛🦇

#BritCult25 #BritCult2025 #GenderStudies
Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides on the topic of Feminism Elisabeth Lechner & Greta Olson in front of their PowerPoint slides, showcasing the books mentioned in their talk
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
At #BritCult2025 #conference in Bamberg: impressive 🌈🏳️‍🌈 -coloured signs guided us to the university rooms, where the Postgraduate Forum took place.
#BritCult25 #GenderStudies #QueerStudies #CulturalStudies
A rainbow coloured arrow reads BritCult 25 A rainbow coloured square guiding us to the entrance to, as it reads, BritCult 25
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Keeping our fingers crossed 🤞🤞
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 9d
It's cold, there is a tiny bit of snow. Almost 100 conference speakers and participants are on their way to Bamberg today, most of them by train. It's fortunate that DB has a long history of dealing really well with the first snow of the year, right? RIGHT??? #britcult2025
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Green with envy 🌵, because our collection now houses this new 2025 "Cambridge Handbook of Literature & Plants"? No reason! Order the book, ed. by @bonnielj.bsky.social today from our library and explore the essays on #LiteraryStudies & #Ecocriticism & #EnvironmentalHumanities & #CulturalStudies
Holding the Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants in front of a wall overgrown with large green leaves
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
libraryaac.bsky.social
We are already excited for the conference!!
susannegruss.bsky.social Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · Oct 30
Currently finishing a paper and co-ordinating the details of conference. Stressful, but: almost 100 people registered for our feminist/gender studies conference in late November, & that makes me VERY happy (also slightly panicked, because the room might be too small, but mostly happy). #Britcult2025
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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bldigischol.bsky.social
What's available online from the British Library? This guide lists resources including digitised books at Google Books, items from the Endangered Archives Programme, International Dunhuang Programme and the Qatar Digital Library

https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available
Guides: What's currently available: Introduction
This guide provides up to date details of which services are currently available following a cyber-attack, and which aren't.
bl.libguides.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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laicdgroup.bsky.social
📢 Registration now open for our next event: Neurodiversity in Libraries featuring speakers Jo @jofitz.bsky.social & Andrew @playbrarian.uk, co-chairs of @nlisn.bsky.social and Elaine Chapman from TU Dublin

📅 Tuesday, December 9, 6:30pm (AGM 8pm)
📍 Online
🎟️ Free

🔗 www.eventbrite.ie/e/neurodiver...
Neurodiversity in libraries, a free event from the Library Association of Ireland Career Development Group. The event will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday, December 9th at 6:30pm with the group's annual general meeting (AGM) following at 8pm.
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Thank you for the link to the project's website! So great that they share some glimpses inside the book.
sadpphicstanza.bsky.social Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 15d
this looks fucking fascinating !
erasingfrankenstein.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Enthralled by the new #Frankenstein film?
Read on in this #erasurepoetry book, "Erasing Frankenstein", edited by Elizabeth Effinger, on how to use #MaryShelley 's novel to give a voice to inmates via prison education programmes - a remarkable #PublicHumanities work of collaborative art

#poetry
Holdin the book "Erasing Frankenstein" by editor Elizabeth Effinger in front of a stack of transparent and yellow plastic library baskets, the yellow and white mirroring the cover design of the book
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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pjrobichaud.bsky.social
‘Pan is not dead ... in every wood, if you go with a spirit properly prepared, you shall hear the note of his pipe.’

Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD in 1850.

🎨John Singer Sargent
RLS smoking in his chair.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
libraryaac.bsky.social
Happy 175th birthday to #RobertLouisStevenson!

#RLStevenson #ScottishLiterature #BOTD
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 16d
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”

✒️ #RobertLouisStevenson, Scottish author, was #BOTD 13 November 1850. #Literature
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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#CfP #CallforPapers for a panel on Scots Song & its Transcontinental Connections (Silk Road) for Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Nanjing, China.

deadline 6 Jan, 2026 -details see www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

#ScottishLiterature #ScottishStudies

seen via @bsecs.bsky.social
Call for papers for a panel: Scots Song and its Transcontinental Connections - BSECS
The Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Nanjing Normal University in Nanjing, China, on 17-20 June 2027 and its theme focuses on “Scotland Along the New Silk Road”. The Congre...
www.bsecs.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM