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"‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities" (2025)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (in press). "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities". The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2477773

English parish registers listing baptisms, marriages, and burials are commonly source mined for curiosities, but are rarely examined holistically. Building on recent work that has seen sixteenth-century registers as records of memory, this article an... Read More about "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities".

House of Pain: Home Invasion and the Gentrification Sublime (2025)
Journal Article
Peacock, J. (in press). House of Pain: Home Invasion and the Gentrification Sublime. English Studies, 106(1 (2025)), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2025.2462886

This article proceeds from the observation that fictional residents of homes in gentrifying neighbourhoods are rarely permitted to get too comfortable. They perceive their domestic havens always to be under threat: sometimes from malevolent invaders... Read More about House of Pain: Home Invasion and the Gentrification Sublime.

Book review: Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. (2025)
Journal Article
Archer, N. (in press). Book review: Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. Open Screens, 7(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.16995/os.18424

Chris Pallant and Christopher Holliday (eds.), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy. (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2022), pp. 328, ISBN: 9781501373961, pbk. £28.99.

The Byronic Hero: Independence, Comradeship and Community (2025)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2025). The Byronic Hero: Independence, Comradeship and Community. Byron Journal, 52(2), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.3828/bj.2024.17

The Byronic Hero is a Romantic byword for gloomy isolation, alienation, introspection and aloofness and these features have been well documented. However, some of Byron’s tales and drama which include Byronic Heroes – such as The Bride of Abydos , Th... Read More about The Byronic Hero: Independence, Comradeship and Community.

A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers (2025)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (in press). A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers. Social Media + Society,

How do Instagram sustainability influencers communicate criticisms of consumer culture, and try to promote more sustainable alternatives, in the context of a platform and industry that seeks to promote consumption by design? Drawing on an ethnography... Read More about A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers.

“It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016) (2025)
Journal Article
Bentley, N. (2025). “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016). English Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2446873

This article examines narratives of gentrification with respect to post-industrial landscapes in the context of contemporary Britain. As Tom Slater (2009) has argued, underneath the rhetoric of regeneration and renewal, gentrification often involves... Read More about “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016).

Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification” (2025)
Journal Article
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (in press). Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification”. English Studies, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2446875

The contributors to this special issue share the understanding that literature has an important contribution to make to scholarly discussions of gentrification. Their articles on a wide variety of contemporary novelists and poets writing in English r... Read More about Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification”.

King George II as an Ass: The Dunciad Variorum Engravings and Their Consequences (2025)
Journal Article
McLaverty, J. (in press). King George II as an Ass: The Dunciad Variorum Engravings and Their Consequences. Review of English Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgae078

This essay explores the significance of the Dunciad Variorum engravings (1729) and their role in the antagonism between Pope and the court in the years 1729 to 1735. It argues that the images of a burdened ass and of asses’ ears have been correctly i... Read More about King George II as an Ass: The Dunciad Variorum Engravings and Their Consequences.

Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Giraud, E. H., Poole, E., De Quincey, E., & Richardson, J. E. (in press). Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis. The Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241305260

There has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deployed both by platforms themselves and within academic research. At the same time, recent so... Read More about Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis.

Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control (2024)
Journal Article
Bright, R. K., Cleall, E., & Kain, J. S. (2024). Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control. Migration Studies, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnaf002

Recent work on migration has increasingly demonstrated that, in order to understand the complexity of the current border regimes, we must take the history of their development seriously. This article argues that, in foregrounding complexity, historic... Read More about Reconsidering the history of eugenics and discrimination in migration control.

Queer and Trans Martyrdom (2024)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (in press). Queer and Trans Martyrdom. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs,

Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs (2024)
Journal Article
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (in press). Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs. Adaptation, 18(1), Article apae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae025

Despite the many pop and rock songs adapted from literary texts, there has been little scholarship on the theory and practice of adapting novels and short stories into short-form musical works. This article is part of a British Academy-funded pilot p... Read More about Stories into song: theory and co-creative practice of adapting literary fiction into pop and rock songs.

Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, M. (in press). Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 150(2), 47

Discussions of sample-based music as found within academic literature traditionally operate as single authored documents, despite the frequency of multi-genre content found within this repertoire, enabled so via sampling. This article builds a case f... Read More about Multi-voice commentary for sample-based music: an inclusive approach.

Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia (2024)
Journal Article
Bright, R. K. (2024). Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia. Genealogy, 8(4), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8040140

In recent years, scholars have increasingly recognised the ways that colonialism, and related racism, embedded intergenerational trauma within families and communities. The role of domestic violence within families is widely accepted as important, bu... Read More about Women’s Histories in a Digital World: An Exploration of Digital Archives, Family History, and Domestic Violence in Early Twentieth-Century Australia.