"The Disabled Detective" by Susannah B. Mintz analyses representations of disability & chronic illness in #CrimeFiction from #SherlockHolmes & #AgathaChristie 's works to contemporary literature & TV shows such as Jeffery Deaver's books or #Monk #LiteraryStudies #FilmStudies #DisabilityStudies

Did you know that July is #DisabilityPrideMonth ? Check out these 2 new books in our collection combining #DisabilityStudies & #LiteraryStudies Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond edited this collection of 19 own-voices essays on writing w #neurodivergence & #chronicillness & #disabilities

Today starts the joint #conference "Concepts of Freedom and the Development in Democracy in Great Britain in Historical Comparison" by the German Association for #BritishStudies #AGF & the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum - w rep.s N. Fabian, S. Berger & M. Guderjan welcoming us #History

British #Euroscepticism in 8 #dystopian novels by British authors, published in the wake of the #Brexit referendum is the focus of Lisa Bischoff's 2023 monograph "British Novels and the European Union - DisEUtopia" #EnglishLiterature #BritishStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies #EuropeanUnion

Red, White and Gree-... um, #AmericanFlagBlue are the colours of the Stars & Stripes, the American flag. For the semiquincentennial of the foundation of the United States of America, find a selection of books from our collection, here at our very own #reflectingpool at the SUB Göttingen #America250

We are at the #Inklings #conference at TU Braunschweig on "Enmonsterisations in the Fantastic"! Yesterday, organisers Aylin Dilek Walder & Carsten Kullmann as well as Inklings Society president Armin Wallau welcomed us warmly to nicely air-conditioned rooms #FantasyLiterature #LiteraryStudies

A new addition to our #openaccess repository The Stacks - Vol. 42 of the Inklings Yearbook - on children in #fantasy literature & on fantasy for children! 📖 Follow the link to read & download for free s.gwdg.de/kzWLox #childrensliterature #EnglishLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies #RPG

Today is the 100th birthday of beat poet #AllenGinsberg Browse our collection to explore his writings like the famous "Howl", as well as biographical material & criticism of his writings & their relation to other arts (esp #photography & film) #BOTD #AmericanPoetry #AmericanLiterature #Poetry

Beautiful, glamorous, tragic - #MarilynMonroe was #BOTD 100 years ago. Torn between her image of naive sex symbol and her wish to be taken seriously, "MM" continues to dazzle in her pictures and in the fictions & non-fiction texts written about her - not least because of her mysterious death at 36.

Day 3 of #DGfA2026: Chair Stefanie Schäfer opens the Workshop "Narratives of Human/Animal Kinship Relations on Turtle Island " and shares some reading recommendations which also make for great teaching material. #DGfA26 #IndigenousStudies #AnimalStudies

That's it for day 2 of #DGfA2026!

#DGfA2026 A view from the Schloss. And no, that's not a moat, just a very wet street after a thunderstorm. Starting now: Current events panel on the rise of book banning in the USA.

Now at #DGfA2026 (Münster): Session on #AI / #LLMs and teaching.

1st keynote of day 2 of #DGfA2026 at beautiful Schloss Münster: Katharina Gerund, "Military Spouses Making Kin: Families, Friends, and Foremothers".

Irish Studies & Cultural Theory Summer School for whom: students of all levels (BA, MA, PhD) theme: "Resistance and Adaptation" where: Uni Flensburg when: 19-25 July, 2026 incl. intro class to Irish language ECTS-accredited! more info: www.uni-flensburg.de... #IrishStudies #CulturalStudies

Jetzt auf der #BiblioCon26: Treffen der Regional-FIDs, Raum 15. Come and join us (we'll be here until 4), we have snacks!

Last night at #GAPS #PostColonialStudies #conference Ugandan-British author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi read us excerpts of several stories of Ugandans in Britain - and made everyone very curious to read more of her unique, funny narrative voice! #GAPS2026 #PostcolonialLiterature #EnglishLiterature

The 1st #GAPS keynote, by Leila Neti, was a lively & fascinating insight into attempts at aestheticisation and/or critique of war & colonial violence in traditions traced back to 19th c #EnglishLiterature - from Trump's "banger memes" to recent #IndianFilm #RRR #PostcolonialStudies #FilmStudies

Today starts the 36th #GAPS #conference for #PostcolonialStudies - title: "Postcolonial Transfers - Translation, Transition, Transformation" in Osnabrück. Organisers Lucy Gasser & Laura Zander & Institute Director Peter Schneck & GAPS President Timo Müller welcome us at the halls of Osnabrück Castle

In "Wise Women", Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne re-narrate a selection of European #folktales mostly from the British Isles on old hags, witches, grandmothers, fairy godmothers and other mature women, of middle age & beyond #MothersDay #Folklore #FairyTales #Witches

This #LiteraryStudies collection edited by Nicole Anae reads women in #menopause through the lens of #Ecocriticism Covering a variety of topics (incl #menophobia ) & literary genres of #fiction & #autofiction - from #VictorianGothic & #fairytales to contemporary literature #mothersday #Ecofeminism

What does it (or can it) really mean to decide for or against #Motherhood in this day and age is the question Sheila Heti grapples with in her 2018 book of the same name #mothersday #CanadianLiterature #WomenWriters

This Sunday is #MothersDay in the US & Germany. Here's a 🧵 on books celebrating #womanhood across all ages - beyond #motherhood - starting w #Girlhood by Melissa Febos - texts at the intersection of #essay & #memoir about growing up as a girl under patriarchy #AmericanLiterature

Today in #newbooks in our #library - 2 new #biofiction novels on #AgathaChristie 👑 The Queen of Crime disappeared for 11 days in 1926. These 2 novels by Marie Benedict & Nina de Gramont fictionalise this real #mystery in different ways #AmericanLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Ending today's set of books on the #MiddleAges chronologically, this essay collection edited by Daisy Black & Katharine Goodland traces continuities & transformations in early English plays from #medieval to #Renaissance drama #EnglishLiterature #MedievalLiterature #EarlyModernDrama

Reading medieval romances with philosophical theory from Leibniz to Kant, Gadamer, Latour & others, James & Peggy Knapp present a study on 6 core works of #MedievalLiterature and the relation between #aesthetics & reality within them #MiddleAges #LiteraryStudies #Hermeneutics

Robin Hood - what were the historical roots of his legends, and how can their success in the later #MiddleAges be explained? This collection, edited by Stephen H. Rigby, presents 16 essays that examine the myth with various angles & sources #History #folklore #RobinHood #EnglishHistory

"The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain" by Sara Harris analyses the understanding(s) & associations 12th c authors had of the complex history of Britain's languages, in context of social, political & linguistic changes #Linguistics #Medieval #MiddleAges #EnglishLanguage #LinguisticHistory

5 new arrivals on the #MiddleAges for the middle of the week! This book by Ian Cornelius attempts a reconstruction of #alliteration in #MedievalLiterature such as Caedmon's Hymn, Beowulf, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight or Piers Plowman #EnglishLiterature #metre #MedievalPoetry #LiteraryStudies