Tobias W. Harris
@tobias-w-harris.bsky.social
Researcher into the avant-garde, modernity and technology with a particular focus on Irish literature. Host of the podcast at radiomyles.com
I'm so pleased to see the Einat Adar's review of my book, 'Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics', appear in the esteemed Litteraria Pragensia!
The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...
The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...
litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
September 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I'm so pleased to see the Einat Adar's review of my book, 'Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics', appear in the esteemed Litteraria Pragensia!
The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...
The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...
It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!
I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"
Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....
September 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!
It was amazing to say a few words on Friday at an absolutely packed launch for Joseph LaBine's first collection of Niall Montgomery's poetry, Terminal I: Arrivals, which is available now from Flat Singles Press! Truly a belated launch for a seminar Irish poet.
June 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was amazing to say a few words on Friday at an absolutely packed launch for Joseph LaBine's first collection of Niall Montgomery's poetry, Terminal I: Arrivals, which is available now from Flat Singles Press! Truly a belated launch for a seminar Irish poet.
In collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich I have launched a new podcast! Check it out 👇
🎙️ New podcast just dropped!
*Themes and Variations* kicks off with a deep dive into Aldous Huxley — visionary, mystic, ecological thinker, and pacifist.
Why read Huxley today? Because he saw *this* future coming.
themesandvariations.substack.com/p/why-read-a...
*Themes and Variations* kicks off with a deep dive into Aldous Huxley — visionary, mystic, ecological thinker, and pacifist.
Why read Huxley today? Because he saw *this* future coming.
themesandvariations.substack.com/p/why-read-a...
June 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich I have launched a new podcast! Check it out 👇
I'm excited to share that I’ve been appointed as Research Fellow at the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich!
I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here:
www.huxleycentre.ch/news/
I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here:
www.huxleycentre.ch/news/
News - Aldous Huxley Centre Zurich
This newly created post is intended to broaden academic and popular engagement with the ideas of Aldous Huxley through multiple channels, including: a new
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June 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'm excited to share that I’ve been appointed as Research Fellow at the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich!
I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here:
www.huxleycentre.ch/news/
I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here:
www.huxleycentre.ch/news/
The second panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Eoin McGloin, Bryan Counter and Cristian Horgos.
The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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May 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The second panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Eoin McGloin, Bryan Counter and Cristian Horgos.
The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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The first panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Patrick Armstrong and Harun Šiljak!
The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The first panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Patrick Armstrong and Harun Šiljak!
The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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We were so honoured to have the brilliant writers and scholars Konai Helu Thaman, Vanessa Griffen, and Akanisi Kedrayate speaking at our book launch at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Such a privilege! @columbiaup.bsky.social
Book launch celebrates roots of Pacific Literature - The University of the South Pacific
A book documenting the emergence of Pacific writing at USP in the 1970s and 1980s...
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May 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
We were so honoured to have the brilliant writers and scholars Konai Helu Thaman, Vanessa Griffen, and Akanisi Kedrayate speaking at our book launch at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Such a privilege! @columbiaup.bsky.social
The keynote speaker on 19 May is the brilliant Joe LaBine!
His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait!
It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait!
It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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May 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The keynote speaker on 19 May is the brilliant Joe LaBine!
His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait!
It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
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His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait!
It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Thank-you to the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social for sharing this podcast - it's certainly unmissable if you want to learn new and surprising things about #flannobrien
📻 Wind up the phonograph, warm up the gramophone, tune in your radio, the next instalment of Radio Myles is here! 📻 Listen to Oisín Ó Nualláin share fascinating insights about his uncle, Flann O’Brien himself, as well as his father, Micheál Ó Nualláin. Hosted by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social
9. Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders (6 May 2025) – Radio Myles
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May 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Thank-you to the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social for sharing this podcast - it's certainly unmissable if you want to learn new and surprising things about #flannobrien
New podcast episode! Join me and Oisín Ó Nualláin, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, to explore the the writer as a paternal figure, an accomplished joiner (!) and member of a formidable Northern family: the Ó Nualláins as voracious intellectuals, inventors and ‘ex-centros’ builders of the Irish republic.
Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders
Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · Episode
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May 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
New podcast episode! Join me and Oisín Ó Nualláin, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, to explore the the writer as a paternal figure, an accomplished joiner (!) and member of a formidable Northern family: the Ó Nualláins as voracious intellectuals, inventors and ‘ex-centros’ builders of the Irish republic.
Very excited to be shortlisted!
Next in our shortlist for the book-length Flann O’Brien Society award is💥Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist💥 by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. Harris reveals links between O’Brien and English comic magazines, Dadaist photomontage, Expressionism, Borges & Kafka.
Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45
Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from inte…
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May 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Very excited to be shortlisted!
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💥'The weak heads of the dead’, a free, online conference on Flann O’Brien and Aldous Huxley, 14.30 - 18.30 GMT, 19 May 2025.💥
Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:
Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:
MInd, style, technics in Huxley and O'Nolan
Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL ‘The weak heads of the dead’: mind, style and technics in Huxley and O’Nolan All times given in GMT / UTC Day: Monday 19 May 2025 Time: 1430 - 183...
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April 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
💥'The weak heads of the dead’, a free, online conference on Flann O’Brien and Aldous Huxley, 14.30 - 18.30 GMT, 19 May 2025.💥
Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:
Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:
Announcing 'The weak heads of the dead', 1430 - 1830 GMT, 19 May 2025
We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes.
Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL
We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes.
Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Announcing 'The weak heads of the dead', 1430 - 1830 GMT, 19 May 2025
We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes.
Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL
We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes.
Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL
Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!
February 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!
Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!
February 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!
The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!
February 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!
The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!
On Saturday morning at #BraveNewWorlds we'll witness a panel with some truly remarkable material on the ties that connect O'Nolan and Huxley in an era of mass media and censorship 🗞️
#zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien
#zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien
February 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
On Saturday morning at #BraveNewWorlds we'll witness a panel with some truly remarkable material on the ties that connect O'Nolan and Huxley in an era of mass media and censorship 🗞️
#zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien
#zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien
Eek! I am extremely excited to share the first panel for #BraveNewWorlds. Friday morning will see us explore intoxication, sedation and the experience of time across the work of Huxley and O'Nolan in this most pharmacologically exciting set of papers! 💊
#aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien
#aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien
January 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Eek! I am extremely excited to share the first panel for #BraveNewWorlds. Friday morning will see us explore intoxication, sedation and the experience of time across the work of Huxley and O'Nolan in this most pharmacologically exciting set of papers! 💊
#aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien
#aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien
Travelling and weaving together these texts, with a dollop of Derrida, as I work on my paper for #BraveNewWorlds, 'Subversive Refunctioning: Writing as Pharmakon in Huxley and O'Nolan'
January 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Travelling and weaving together these texts, with a dollop of Derrida, as I work on my paper for #BraveNewWorlds, 'Subversive Refunctioning: Writing as Pharmakon in Huxley and O'Nolan'
😵💫 It now befalls me to announce my OWN featured session at #BraveNewWorlds! 🤭
In Zurich on 8 February I, Tobias W. Harris, will present:
🤖 "Subversive refunctioning: Writing as pharmakon in Huxley and O’Nolan” ✍️
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
In Zurich on 8 February I, Tobias W. Harris, will present:
🤖 "Subversive refunctioning: Writing as pharmakon in Huxley and O’Nolan” ✍️
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
January 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
😵💫 It now befalls me to announce my OWN featured session at #BraveNewWorlds! 🤭
In Zurich on 8 February I, Tobias W. Harris, will present:
🤖 "Subversive refunctioning: Writing as pharmakon in Huxley and O’Nolan” ✍️
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
In Zurich on 8 February I, Tobias W. Harris, will present:
🤖 "Subversive refunctioning: Writing as pharmakon in Huxley and O’Nolan” ✍️
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
🤯 It's time to announce the next featured speaker in Zürich for Brave New Worlds!💥
On 7 February David Dunaway will present:
💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
On 7 February David Dunaway will present:
💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
January 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🤯 It's time to announce the next featured speaker in Zürich for Brave New Worlds!💥
On 7 February David Dunaway will present:
💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
On 7 February David Dunaway will present:
💌 "Huxley, Heard and O’Brien: Literary Correspondence” 🕰
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
🤫 Hush now! in Zürich for Brave New Worlds on 8 February, Chiara Sciarrino will present:
🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
January 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🤫 Hush now! in Zürich for Brave New Worlds on 8 February, Chiara Sciarrino will present:
🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
🎼 "Music, Counterpoint, and Narrative Complexity in Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point and Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds” 👏
#aldoushuxley #flannobrien #zurichevents
Join us in Strabane!
💥We’ve extended the deadline for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference💥
Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)
Get your proposals in by 14 February 2025. Join us and amazing keynote speakers Dr Tobias W. Harris (Birkbeck), Dr Michael Pierse (QUB), Dr Emily Ridge (Galway)
Deadline extension for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference
An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 24-27th June 2025 Keynote speake...
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January 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Join us in Strabane!