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Lecturer in Early C20th English Lit, University of Birmingham / President of the Katherine Mansfield Society @KMSOCIETY / Editor of 'A Passage to India' for CUP

Joined July 2013
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Another chance to catch this hour-long edition of Open Book on Katherine Mansfield, recorded last year in celebration of her centenary. Thanks to Chris Power @chris_power , and fellow contributors Lucy Caldwell @beingvarious and Chris Mourant @CMourant bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwv…
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Delighted to take part in this conversation about E. M. Forster on @BBCRadio4 to mark the centenary of 'A Passage to India'
"Kindness, kindness and more kindness". Revisiting A Passage to India 100 years on with Elizabeth Lowry, ⁦@CMourant⁩ & Neel Mukherjee. #OpenBook Coming up on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ at 4pm today. Perfect Sunday listening. search.app/MdZ3xPjnEBwScPRg8
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Today is the shortest day of the year, and also #NationalShortStoryDay in 🇺🇸! Time to study the development of the #shortstory with this essay collection, ed. by @elke_dhoker & @CMourant! 📏opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/D… #Modernism #MagazineCulture #VictorianLiterature #shortfiction
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Listen in to BBC Radio 4 on Sunday at 4pm, when I'll be discussing the joy to be found in the work of Katherine Mansfield, as we mark 100 years since her death. @KMSOCIETY @modernistudies @EDACS_UoB
This Sunday’s Open Book is an episode-long discussion of the life & work of Katherine Mansfield, the only writer Virginia Woolf admitted to being jealous of. With biographer @claire_harman, short-story writer & expert @beingvarious, & modernism specialist @CMourant @BBCRadio4
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A reminder that this event is taking place on Zoom LATER TODAY. See you there! @modernistudies @msatweet
On Wednesday 14 December at 5pm GMT, we will host a Zoom-based event at which Peter Howarth and Robert Volpicelli will speak on the topic ‘MODERNIST CIRCUITS’. Please register to receive the Zoom link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/modernist… @modernistudies @msatweet #poetry #modernism
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Covid has scuppered my plans to be in Bristol for #HopefulModernisms – gutted I can’t be there in person to meet up with everyone in @modernistudies but I’ll be following online!
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The University of Birmingham ‘Critical Orwell’ online conference 12-14 April 2022, is very pleased to announce our 2nd keynote speaker @LisaMullen3 University of Cambridge, on ‘Orwell and the Politics of Feeling’. Visit: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/eda… @drnjwaddell @CMourant
Come join us next Wednesday for this online event co-hosted by the CMC and @CLEMT_bham - all things archives, material texts, pedagogy!
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Introducing #ArtsMatters, our new series of lunchtime lectures. Each week our researchers discuss their work, sharing the ideas that matter to them - and why these matter to all of us. Watch "Our Haunted Shores", from @jfpackham at 1pm on 27th Oct here: youtube.com/watch?v=-85d3Glz…
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The University of Birmingham ‘Critical Orwell’ online conference 12-14 April 2022, is very pleased to announce its first keynote speaker -@PriyaSatia Stanford University, on ‘Orwell and Empire’. Discover all the details at - birmingham.ac.uk/schools/eda… @drnjwaddell @cmourant
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With articles by @afrayn, James Benstead, Emily Bell & @rfeames, @Contempislesfic reviewing @matthewjchamber's book, and @yenchi_wu reviewing Elke D'hoker and @CMourant's edited collection!
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T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, B.S. Johnson, Virginia Woolf... must be the new issue of Modernist Cultures! edin.ac/3ybLzxQ
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A taste of research that will feature in my book #OrwellinParis revealing how Eric Blair was under surveillance organised by “VV” (an ex-Indian Policeman who later recruited Kim Philby) during 1929. darcymoore.net/2021/07/04/or…
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With all due caveats based on the last year, but... save the date: BAMS Conference 2022, 30 June - 2 July 2022, University of Bristol 🎤📚🤓
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It’s been a corking #ModFest2021 week for me: @FordMadoxFordie letters panel with @DecafB & @McCrackenScott, then a barnstorming Northern Modernism seminar with @DrCDrewery & @CMourant, all rounded off with @afrayn @PeterFifield & @EllenBobTurner on The Sheik & the bestseller 👍
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We’re running a post-doc application workshop on Monday 28th June, 2.30pm-4pm (UK time). Focus is on 19th & 20thC literature and culture. There are a few places left. Open to all. Featuring @emmagenevieve, @dr_r_fallon, & @JackGQuin. Sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/postdocto…
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Thrilled to be co-organising this online conference on Orwell with my colleague @drnjwaddell - save the date! 12-14 April 2022
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Reminder that @LisaMendelman is speaking at @CMCbham (via Zoom) on Thursday 24th June. Details below.
Event alert. 🚨🚨 @LisaMendelman will be speaking at @CMCbham (via Zoom) on 24th June, at 7pm UK time. Her paper title is: ‘The Sentimental Science of Modern Selfhood’. Details and sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senti…
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