My inclination would be to make it 2nd edition, abridged just to be perfectly clear and to not have to worry about any misunderstandings. But you may be right about the description and supply chain data making the relationship clear.

Fantasies of the Subject: Affecting Selves in Contemporary American Literatureedited by Paula Barba Guerrero & Laura de la Parra Fernández
<p style=”text-align: right;”>If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly towards and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core —the fountain— of our powe…[Read more]

Please find below some information concerning our new publication, entitled Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction, recently published by Brill (Youth in a Globalising World Series, volume 15, https://brill.com/view/<wbr />title/60245) and edited by Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido Romero and Noemí Pereira Ares. Please notice tha…[Read more]

The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is pleased to announce a call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2022 with the theme of ‘Fantasy Across Media’.Much of fantasy studies has focused on the genre’s presence in literature, with histories and theoretical frameworks often either implicitly or explicitly centri…[Read more]

Open Book Publishers is looking for a software engineer to support our development of open source infrastructure for open access book publishing. 18 month full-time or part-time position. FTE Salary £24-30k. Closing date 26 September. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/37/1

Taylor and Francis are looking for a Partnership Development Manager for Open Access books, and a Content Development Manager for Open Access books. Closing date 26…[Read more]

“To Thine Own Self Be True: The Oedipal Subject in Hamlet.” Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 5 Sept. 2021.*          https://www.ibercampus.eu/to-thine-own-self-be-true-5418.htm

Hi all, a blog post reflecting upon the outcomes of the Voices from the OA Books Community series is available to view here, and you can download the document that summarises the discussions here. This summary was shared with cOAlition S. We note that cOAlition S have recognised the OABN as a useful forum for community engagement in their statement…[Read more]

Thanks, @kristacoulson! That’s really helpful.

Feminism in Contemporary US Popular Culture /roundtables
Registration is open (and free!) for our Roundtables on Feminism in Contemporary US Popular Culture. I attach the program and you can find further information on the speakers, as well as the registration form, here: http://www.popmec.com/fem

Please find attached the Call for Papers for the “(De)Writing the Borderline: Human and Non-Human Liminal Identities” conference that is being organised at the University of Vigo, with the University of   Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña. The conference will take place on 13th and 14th January 2022 in an  on-site/onl…[Read more]

The registration for the International Conference on Literary Translation and Gender is now open. The conference will be held online between 23 and 24 September and will have África Vidal, Ioanna Nicolaidou, Lawrence Schimmel and  Raffaella Tonin as plenary speakers.
Registration as an attendee is free of charge and can be made from September 1 on…[Read more]

Hi all,

Just a quick note to flag that we’ve switched off the Events calendar function on the site. People weren’t engaging with it, so instead of spending time updating it we’ll be focused on coordinating talks and workshops, fostering discussion, and making more people aware of this network. Anyone interested in a calendar of OA events might…[Read more]

The Fictional Minds of Modernism: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fictional-minds-of-modernism-9781501373701

On a campus novel by Christopher Isherwood – A Single Man: De te fabula https://www.academia.edu/33995375/

FYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]

“Net of Words: El autoengendramiento de ‘Beowulf’.” http://ssrn.com/abstract=3914368