Matt Rubery
@mattrubery
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Professor of Modern Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Audiobook Historian. Victorian Cool Hunter. Motto: "Read fast and break things."
London
Joined September 2008
My new book is out today. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences: https://t.co/lPabk8bYiS
@stanfordpress
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“Awakenings at 50: A Clinical and Cultural Retrospective” symposium on Oliver Sacks in Dublin, June 26-27: https://t.co/AL9YOg2OfT
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Join us for Caroline Levine’s public lecture “Studying the Novel in the Climate Crisis” at QMUL on 15 May:
eventbrite.co.uk
Come hear QMUL Visiting Fellow Caroline Levine discuss how novels can help us understand and navigate the climate crisis
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Might you possibly help? If you read & reviewed my book - the Lost Properties of Love - in the UK edition, might you consider reposting your review to the American edition of the book (it’s the same text under a new title) https://t.co/zYewE3DcEM? If you are in the US, it would
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My op-ed on the pitfalls of audiobook streaming out now in the Independent (paywalled):
independent.co.uk
Chapters sold as ‘tracks’? Ad breaks between each paragraph? The streaming platform could fundamentally change the way we consume books, writes Professor Matthew Rubery – which means that it could...
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A big thanks to Syed Khalid and the @NewBooksNetwork for the chance to talk about Reader’s Block: https://t.co/ceWVrEZABs
@stanfordpress
newbooksnetwork.com
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Rita Felski will be giving a lecture titled "How Not to Talk about Experience" at QMUL on Monday if anyone's interested in joining us:
eventbrite.com
A talk by Professor Rita Felski hosted by Professors Scott McCracken and Matt Rubery in the School of English and Drama.
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New episode: @mattrubery, a literature prof who pioneered the study of audiobooks, talks narration, neurodiversity, and "audiobook shame." https://t.co/lhEqR3zjG3
mackhagood.com
Help grow the show: Subscribe to Phantom Power Support the podcast on Patreon Rate and review on Apple or Spotify Today we present the first episode of a miniseries on audiobooks by getting into the...
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Terrific account of falling in love with audiobooks:
We shouldn't be scared of audiobooks, @Sam_Apple1 writes. The pleasure of passive listening can open us up to appreciating books in ways that reading can't.
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Tune in to My Life in Books. This episode: Matthew Rubery on The Untold Story of The Talking Book, which grew from the needs of blind people. Mon 5 June 1pm EST/6pm BST on AMI-audio, or download via: https://t.co/EIaOKXtriH
@AccessibleMedia @mattrubery @QMULsed @BlackstoneAudio
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Looking forward to learning about C19 handwriting at Elizabeth Gaskell's house in Manchester on Thursday:
handwriting19c.wordpress.com
A workshop on the practicalities & materialities of writing, Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Manchester.
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What a spectacular career this woman had: https://t.co/FxIkcWwYGa
#audiobooks
nytimes.com
In her early 20s she co-founded the groundbreaking spoken-word record label Caedmon, which had a hit with Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
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Now that I’m (gratefully) no longer allowed to make further tweaks to the manuscript, I’m ready to formally holler into the digital abyss: My first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, is coming out this summer from @penguinpress!! “Thread emoji”
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Sound Studies postdoc at Rutgers on themes of “Voice: Sound, Technology, Performance” + “Resonance: Sound across the Disciplines”:
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Spreading the word about the “Authoring, Reading, Publishing” track at the ACM Hypertext conference in Rome next September:
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What are you doing? You're reading. How are you doing that? It's a bit weird isn't it? You don't think so? You should listen to this then @DyslexicDebris @Anthony1983 @LouiseCreechan @mattrubery @DrMatthewSweet #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek
https://t.co/my6ueqv4ua
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