Michael H Whitworth

@ProfMHWhitworth
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Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, UK. #LitSci, #Modernism, #BookHistory, #VirginiaWoolf, 20s&30s poetry. Co-Founder, The BSLS. All posts in a personal capacity.
Michael H WhitworthFeb 15
Pleased to see that *Beyond Modernism* (Bloomsbury) is moving towards the printing press: I received some final author queries for my chapter today. My chapter concerns popular science writing and the unsteady and contested claims made about its literariness. Big thanks to Andrew and Katie for steering this ship on its long voyage.
Michael H WhitworthFeb 3
Drawn back here because I was told about an impersonator account (the sincerest form of flattery), I should draw attention to A History of the Bloomsbury Group, ed. Derek Ryan, to which I’ve contributed a chapter on Bloomsbury and Science.
Michael H WhitworthAug 11, 2023

Congratulations to my former Oxford English Faculty doctoral student David Shackleton, whose monograph *British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time* is published today by OUP

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/british-modernism-and-the-anthropocene-9780192857743?cc=gb&lang=en&

British Modernism and the Anthropocene

British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time assesses the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene—a proposed geological epoch in which humans have fundamentally changed the Earth System. The early twentieth century was marked by environmental transformations that were so complex and happened on such great scales that they defied representation.

Show threadMichael H WhitworthDec 28, 2022
“Of Layla: Qasim Haddad” (1998)
Michael H WhitworthDec 28, 2022
Powerful and intriguing works by Dia al-Azzawi in a small exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford #AshmoleanMuseum #DiaalAzzawi
Michael H WhitworthNov 5, 2022
The early career colloquium on #HerbertRead on Wednesday was excellent: lots to think about in terms of his politics, his networks, and the nature of gift-giving. Thanks to the organisers for inviting me to chair a session.