Lecturer @NCL_English. Writes about literature, politics, and place. First 📖 on devolutionary fiction in the English North (Routledge, 2023).
York / Newcastle
Joined December 2011
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Feels surreal to say that my first book was released into the world last week!
Rewriting the North explores how contemporary writers - including Sunjeev Sahota, Sarah Hall, Sarah Moss, and Fiona Mozley - engage with devolutionary questions. (1/4)
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🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/0… Please share widely.
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CfP here for a special issue of Key Words on foreclosure as an aesthetic and material theme in 20thC British literature edited by @ChloeAshbridge and me - looking forward to reading people's abstracts!
🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/0… Please share widely.
Pleased (and very surprised) to see Rewriting the North given an honorable mention in @BACLS_official monograph awards. Many thanks to the judges for putting me in such good company!
Honorable mention goes to @ChloeAshbridge for "Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution" (Routledge 23) & to @GrahamRiach for "The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature (Liverpool UP 23) 👏
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One week to go until #WorldEnglishes #Capitalism and #Colonialism at @LeedsUniEnglish!! We'll be joined by @drjohnoregan who will be building on his brilliant book Global English and Political Economy (2021) to think about material considerations for critical approaches to WE ...
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I'm super excited to share registration details for the two-day symposium COLLECTIVE FORM AND NATIONAL LIBERATION, taking place at Newcastle University on 6-7 June 2024.
Check out the full programme and register via the website: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/collectivefo…
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ALT Symposium poster. Register for free now. Featuring papers from established and emerging researchers in the humanities and social sciences with connections to Postcolonial, African and Black Atlantic Studies, and keynote speakers Dr Christian Høgsbjerg (University of Brighton) and Dr Asha Rogers (University of Birmingham). View the programme and register to attend in-person via https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/collectiveform2024.
Sometimes I worry about being on a fixed-term contract, and then Facebook reminds me that 12 years ago, my job was to be Hello Kitty at kids' parties. Always nice to have a backup, I suppose 🥲
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Just a few more days to submit an abstract for the two-day symposium COLLECTIVE FORM AND NATIONAL LIBERATION. Details below and here: tinyurl.com/collectiveform. Work-in-progress very much welcome. Any questions or concerns, please get in touch. RTs appreciated!
It’s hard to express what an amazing evening I had yesterday with colleagues and students discussing the new book and all things to do with the literary North, cultural devo, and Britishness. Special thanks to James Procter for such thoughtful questions.
Thank you also to @shaliniseng and @YonghiBonghi for chairing and being wonderful co-organisers!
V. excited to see my article on the literary North, book prizes, and Black British writing in @Routledge_JPW this morning. Available Open Access here ⬇️
Full article: New northern voices: Black British writing and the devolving politics of prize culture tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🚨🚨UPCOMING BOOK LAUNCH🚨🚨
The Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group (NPRG) is co-hosting the launch of @ChloeAshbridge's book Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution (Routledge 2023).
PGR or recently minted ECR working on contemporary lit? Do consider sending us an essay! ⬇️
Very happy to answer any questions!
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✨BACLS Prizes 2023 ✨
Entries are invited for the BACLS Monograph Prize, BACLS Edited Collection Prize & BACLS Postgraduate Essay Prize for work published in 2022 in the English language on any area of ‘contemporary literary studies’.
Download the PDF: we.tl/t-vxxavoezGC
Several review copies are available! Please DM or email me if you edit a journal and/or are interested in writing a review. (3/4) @BACLS_official @C21Literature
Finally, an academic monograph is never the work of a single person; particular thanks the colleagues and friends named here, including Joe Jackson, Michael Gardiner, @GemmaEEdwards @corinne_fowler @_Joel_Evans_ @DrAMEvans @bethamyrobinson @UoNEnglish @NCL_English @YSJLit (4/4)
I was privileged to have read an earlier draft of this absolute stonker of a book. One for @NCL_English Contemporary Cultures students for sure!
Now the proofs are in, I'm chuffed to share the cover of my book! It explores a number of rural plays (inc ones by @NellLeyshon, @testamentonline and @bea_roberts) and uses these to open up - and critique - broader understandings of the histories and politics of the English rural
ALT This image is a photo of my book cover which reads ‘Representing the Rural on the English Stage: Performance and Rurality in the Twenty-first Century’. It has the title, and my name Gemma Edwards, in white. The photo - which forms the background - is of a green / brown grass field, with white wind turbines dotted in the horizon of a blue sky. There are buildings in the distance.
