Alex Goody
@alex-goody.bsky.social
Academic, killjoy feminist, dog owner, mum to neurodivergent kids; working in modernist studies, sf and speculative fiction, technology studies, poetry
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Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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Can anyone assist Rachele with this awful situation? Seems very poor from UCU.
Actually, what the hell. Have a thread. I went to @ucu.org.uk for badly needed legal advice after being made redundant under truly dodgy circumstances. I was told I wasn’t entitled to support bc I’d only been a member for 3 months. This was news to me! I joined in Oct 2017!! 1/
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July 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Can anyone assist Rachele with this awful situation? Seems very poor from UCU.
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The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
April 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The EHRC guidance isn't just aggressively anti-trans, it's also actively authoritarian and openly anti-LGBTQ+, attempting to break LGBTQ+ freedom of association.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
Any government that does not resist it will be complicit in the most significant shift to social conservatism we've seen in decades.
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Who wants to put together a special issue on Severance so I have a place to pitch a thing in a few months?
There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.
There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.
April 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Who wants to put together a special issue on Severance so I have a place to pitch a thing in a few months?
There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.
There's an edited vol. already, but it's not of stunning calibre, so there is room, I think.
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Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today
pink and blue hearts on a white background with a white heart in the middle
Alt: animated pink, blue and white hearts
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April 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Solidarity with all trans sisters (and brothers) today
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There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
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April 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful.
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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French researcher denied entry to the US because his computer and phone were searched upon arrival and anti-Trump sentiments were discovered in messages he exchanged with colleagues www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
French researcher denied entry to the US because his computer and phone were searched upon arrival and anti-Trump sentiments were discovered in messages he exchanged with colleagues www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We’re taking strike action at UEA next Wednesday, like many other UCU colleagues across the UK facing similar threats of redundancy. Please give our UCU account a follow & support our strike action next week 🌹💪
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It’s an obscure policy detail for anyone outside of academia but deeply unsettling for UK arts and humanities scholars at a time their jobs are increasingly under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-ref...
REF reforms ‘could make it harder for axed staff to get new jobs’
Researchers could struggle to find alternative employment if their previous employers have REF submission rights on their work to date, English scholars warn
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s an obscure policy detail for anyone outside of academia but deeply unsettling for UK arts and humanities scholars at a time their jobs are increasingly under threat: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-ref...
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REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | 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
March 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
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The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
Cash-strapped Welsh universities given £19 million extra funding
Money from Welsh government to be used primarily for estates maintenance and digital projects
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts
#AcademicSky #EduSky
#AcademicSky #EduSky
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The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
inews.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."
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This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
Head of School (School of English) at University of Sheffield
An opportunity for an academic position as a Head of School (School of English) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This is a plum job for someone: Prof and Head of English @sheffielduni.bsky.social Particularly good for someone with knowledge across linguistics and literature, I reckon
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO017/h...
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Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester
We’re not talking fisheries with Farage again when the world is burning and Starmer tries to get at least some kind of rapprochement with Brussels to help British companies? #Today #groundhogday
February 4, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Your regular reminder that the revenue of the entire UK fishing industry is half a billion pounds less than the University of Manchester
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I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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February 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
@modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
February 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
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@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
First London Modernism Seminar of 2025
Saturday 1 February
Political moods
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh)
Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg)
Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House
ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...
ies.sas.ac.uk
First London Modernism Seminar of 2025
Saturday 1 February
Political moods
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh)
Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg)
Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House
ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...
ies.sas.ac.uk
ies.sas.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
First London Modernism Seminar of 2025
Saturday 1 February
Political moods
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh)
Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg)
Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House
ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...
ies.sas.ac.uk
First London Modernism Seminar of 2025
Saturday 1 February
Political moods
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh)
Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg)
Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House
ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...
ies.sas.ac.uk
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Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...
Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion
An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.
www.brighton.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Funded PhD studentship with our lovely colleagues over at Brighton Uni: Supporting trans and non-binary inclusion: wellbeing and dignity in health and social care www.brighton.ac.uk/research/pos...
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#ModWrite
@yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts: 15 February
Articles: 1 July
@yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts: 15 February
Articles: 1 July
January 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#ModWrite
@yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts: 15 February
Articles: 1 July
@yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are very happy to share our CFP for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies on Mina Loy : "The Contour of an Electric Spirit": revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Abstracts: 15 February
Articles: 1 July
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Applications are now sought for the Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English. Research and teaching specialism in 20th and 21st-C Writing in English. Emphasis on Irish writers may be favoured
University of Limerick
www.ul.ie/vacancies
University of Limerick
www.ul.ie/vacancies
Join the team in UL
www.ul.ie
January 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Applications are now sought for the Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English. Research and teaching specialism in 20th and 21st-C Writing in English. Emphasis on Irish writers may be favoured
University of Limerick
www.ul.ie/vacancies
University of Limerick
www.ul.ie/vacancies
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This is what integrity looks like.
Two more speakers, AJ West and Harry McCarthy, have followed author Noreen Masud in withdrawing from 2025’s Oxford Literary Festival in protest against two events with “gender critical” speakers Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce, one third of the entire LGBTQ+ programme.
I have decided to step down from my panel at the Oxford Literary Festival. I hoped to celebrate and share queer stories + highlight the long history of LGBTQ+ lives. Gutted that voices will now be absent, but I stand in solidarity with my trans friends and writers. As the mollies say #AlwaysTogether
January 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is what integrity looks like.
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Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3
Universities failing academics targeted by online abuse – paper
Research found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Sobering, and important. Hannah Yelin (Ox Brookes): 'Her latest paper, published in the journal New Formations, found that 74 per cent of academics had experienced online harms as a result of sharing research publicly – affecting their careers and causing significant physical and mental harms.' 1/3