John Gardner
@profjohngardner.bsky.social
Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project.
'da, in my part of the world, means father'--Samuel Beckett
June 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
'da, in my part of the world, means father'--Samuel Beckett
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New post in Theology and Religious Studies in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New post in Theology and Religious Studies in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
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2 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:
* Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
*Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
* Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
*Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
April 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
2 new posts in English Literature in our School of Critical Studies @uofglasgow.bsky.social:
* Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
*Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
* Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
*Lecturer in Postcolonial or Indigenous Literature
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
#AcademicSky
Just got hold of this very rare pamphlet for the first art exhibition organised by a trade union, the AEU, which I joined at age 16, and is now part of @unitetheunion.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Just got hold of this very rare pamphlet for the first art exhibition organised by a trade union, the AEU, which I joined at age 16, and is now part of @unitetheunion.bsky.social
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Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!
Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you!
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
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The Guardian has published an obituary of my dear friend Brian, written by his wife Maxine. I love the photo she chose for it. www.theguardian.com/education/20... #C19
Brian Maidment obituary
Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Guardian has published an obituary of my dear friend Brian, written by his wife Maxine. I love the photo she chose for it. www.theguardian.com/education/20... #C19
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Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
Archives and Collections Visiting Fellowships
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Visiting Fellowships call for University of East Anglia’s archive of contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, nature writing, scriptwriting children’s literature and more. Deadline: end of March. Please share! And if you’re interested in applying, let me know. www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
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I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.
Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
February 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students.
Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch!
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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Really excited to be talking with @danielwilson.bsky.social and @fedenanni.bsky.social about collaboration at this event!
Please join us on 28.02 (1-2pm) for the next @englishassociation.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social Thinking Forwards event on collaboration with @ruthahnert.bsky.social and Living with Machines colleagues 🧵: englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | Living with Machines (28 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00) | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
February 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Really excited to be talking with @danielwilson.bsky.social and @fedenanni.bsky.social about collaboration at this event!
Brian's 2024 essay in the 1830s book
January 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Brian's 2024 essay in the 1830s book
Enjoyed talking and meeting at the London Paris seminar last night. Thanks to David Duff for organising and Chairing. Lovely cycling through central London today
January 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Enjoyed talking and meeting at the London Paris seminar last night. Thanks to David Duff for organising and Chairing. Lovely cycling through central London today
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This is a fantastic opportunity if you're looking to pursue a Romantic Studies PhD with great supervision.
*Please share widely!*
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
January 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is a fantastic opportunity if you're looking to pursue a Romantic Studies PhD with great supervision.
The CMLJ arrived today!
January 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The CMLJ arrived today!
The latest edition of the Charles and Mary Lamb journal is out!
January 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The latest edition of the Charles and Mary Lamb journal is out!
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Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), edited by myself, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, and @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, is now out in the world and ready to read!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
Library & Information History: Vol 40, No 3
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November 26, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), edited by myself, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, and @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, is now out in the world and ready to read!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
I replaced my teenage Leaves of Grass, which had its pages falling out, last week. This new one, that Peter Riley has with OWC, already looks well used. I can't go anywhere without it. 'WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!'
November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
I replaced my teenage Leaves of Grass, which had its pages falling out, last week. This new one, that Peter Riley has with OWC, already looks well used. I can't go anywhere without it. 'WORD over all, beautiful as the sky!'
Out today on open access:Full article: Thread form at the Crystal Palace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thread form at the Crystal Palace
This article establishes that the British Standard Whitworth thread form, suggested in 1841 and not adopted as a standard until 1905, was being used at the Crystal Palace sites (1851–1854).
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September 4, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Out today on open access:Full article: Thread form at the Crystal Palace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I also saw this bit of home there too
October 20, 2023 at 3:13 PM
I also saw this bit of home there too
At the science museum archive in Swindon today measuring romantic period threads. Wonderful.
October 20, 2023 at 3:12 PM
At the science museum archive in Swindon today measuring romantic period threads. Wonderful.
At the Crystal Palace archive on weds measuring threads from brunel's 1854 water tower
October 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM
At the Crystal Palace archive on weds measuring threads from brunel's 1854 water tower
Been writing something on deaf blind poetry. Land of silence and darkness from 1971 haunts me. youtube.com/watch?v=xb1R...
September 26, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Been writing something on deaf blind poetry. Land of silence and darkness from 1971 haunts me. youtube.com/watch?v=xb1R...