Ben Doyle

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Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, STS, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.

Image shows two copies of the book 'Black Feminist Theories'. Jacket image is of Nana Buku by Brianna McCarthy.
Image shows a Bloomsbury branded book stand complete with books on modernism
Image is of a series flyer for the Bloomsbury series 'Blue Humanities'. Text reads: SERIES EDITORS: Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today. The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies. Forthcoming in the series The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change By Simon Estok December 2026 This book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship to water in an age characterized by climate change. Hydropoetics Briony Hughes June 2027 Examines work by innovative poets to think about the ‘hydro’ not simply thematically but also in terms of methodology, material, and practice. Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water Kate Lewis Hood October 2027 This book develops an interdisciplinary approach that reads poetic work in dialogue with anti-colonial spatial practices.
Image is a series flyer for the series Critical Memory Studies. Text reads: Critical Memory Studies Critical Memory Studies ranges across diverse cultures of memory and histories of remembrance while simultaneously synthesising and disrupting the legacies of cultural memory studies with fresh interventions from newer interdisciplinary areas of study. These includes studies of gender, queer LGBTQIA+ issues, race, indigeneity, disability, social movements, animals and posthumanism, and environmental and digital humanities. This exciting new series explores how cultures of memory are shaped by the legacies of colonisation and decolonisation; the remembrance of nonhuman actants and agencies in event-formation; the recalibration, beyond human-centred perspectives, of the temporal and spatial scales by which event-formation can be measured; the socioecological effects of climate change; and new digital technologies and their mediations of memory. This dynamic series ensures the field’s immersion in lived experiences across social, cultural, political, economic and geographical contexts and its agile responsiveness to challenging real-world scenarios. Series Editors: Lucy Bond, University of Westminster, UK Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Jessica Rapson, King’s College London, UK Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Forthcoming in the Series: Slowing Down Memory Studies: Theory and Practice for Transformative Change Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Joanna Wawrzyniak Critical Indigenous Memory Studies Edited by Ethan Madarieta Enabling Memory: Ambivalence and Frames of Mourning the Empire By Pia Bakshi
Photo shows a table in a pub beer garden with a bottle of beer partially poured into a pint glass alongside a copy of the book 'Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination'
Image shows a table of contents which reads: Prefatory Poem: Juan Carlos Galeano Preface: Anna Iltnere Part I: Discourses 1. Blue Postcolonialism, Mohammed Muharram and Kerstin Knopf 2. Black Hydro-Logics, Mapule Mohulatsi 3. Blue History, Matt McKenzie 4. Blue Philosophy, Melody Jue 5. Blue Ecology, Michael Blackstock 6. Blue Religion, Justine Bakker 7. Blue Linguistics, K. David Harrison 8. Blue Law, Irus Braverman and Sofie Quist 9. Blue Anthropology, Nils Bubant 10. Hydro-Feminism, Tamara Sheffer and Vivienne Bozalek Part II: Networks 11. Indian Ocean, Rila Mukherjee 12. Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Pastore 13. Pacific Ocean, Antonio Ortega Santos 14. Southern Ocean, Charne Lavery 15. Arctic Ocean, Hester Blum, Part III: Forms 16. The Non-Human, Simon Estok 17. Currents: Dan Brayton 18. The Surf, Keven Dawson 19. Storms, Alison Maas 20. Clouds and Rain, Alison Glassie 21. Ice, Lowell Duckert 22. Fresh Water, Ellen Arnold 23. The Deep, Laurence Publicover 24. The Seabed, Killian Quigley 25. Coasts and Ports, Isaac Land 26. Human Bodies, Gulsah Gocmen and Adem Balci 27. Oceanic Feelings, Steve Mentz Part IV: Representations 28. Underwater Photography, Margaret Cohen 29. Blue Acoustics, Stefan Helmreich 30. Visual Art, Jaimey Hamilton Faris 31. Theatre and Performance, Maurya Wickstrom 32. Poetry of Oceania, Craig Santos Perez 33. Blue Literature, Meg Samuelson and Maria Geustyn 34. Indigenous Poetics: Hsinya Huang Conclusion: The Blue Humanities and the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann Index
Image shows a jacket proof for the book 'Images of the Plant Humanities'. Across both the front and back are botanical drawings of plants.
Image shows a full spread of the front, spine and back jackets of 'Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel' by Nicola Simonetti. The jacket is green, with a graphic featuring c. 10 distorted, wavy Alice in Wonderland style clocks
Image shows the jacket proof for the book 'Madness in Literature and Visual Culture' by anna six. Jacket depicts a tornado rendered in charcoal, billowing up to the top left of the jacket. The title is in block caps in yellow in the top left.
Image shows a copy of the book Vonnegut's War on a desk
Photo shows a table with six Bloomsbury books on it, along with some flyers and a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth.
Photo shows a man in a khaki shirt holding a BSLS lanyard and smiling
Picture shows a bus stop advertisement for the Wuthering Heights film half pulled out of its casing.
Image displays the front and back jacket of 'Unsettling Extinction', a book in the Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities' series. The jacket image depicts a bird on a perch in a bell-jar with a spike through it. Jacket blurb reads: Biodiversity loss threatens to transform the ecological foundations of all biological life on the planet, yet solutions to this crisis are fiercely contested. This book addresses extinction by exploring species decline and conservation with a particular emphasis on divergent cultural framings, temporal scales, and media. Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, cultural geography, environmental history, philosophy, literary studies, media studies, and studies of religion, this book explores how the engagement with biodiversity loss challenges basic assumptions in these disciplines and opens up new avenues of thought and activism for shaping the multispecies communities of the future. Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the environmental humanities.
Image shows the jacket proof for 'Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches'. Front cover has a green background with multicolour leaves edging it and an illustration of a Black figure in profile, wearing colourful dress. Back cover copy reads: An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts. Featuring ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North America to showcase a diverse range of continents and perspectives. The collection includes not only standard academic essays, but also vital statements, interviews, manifestoes, and creative work, which transmit and embody Black feminist thought. The book is broken up into five carefully curated sections: - Black Feminist Foundations - Statements and Manifestos - Cultures and Aesthetics - Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities - Black Feminist Futures Timely and important, this is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Black Studies, Women & Gender Studies and Black Feminist Studies, as well as more generally to American Studies, African Studies, Caribbean Studies, and African Diaspora Studies. A number of endorsements are also included from Amina Mama, Rhoda Reddock, Barbara Smith, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
Image shows a jacket spread (front and back) for new book 'Vonnegut's War' by Susan Farrell. The front cover is a cartoonish image of a stickperson being beamed up by the icon of a UFO. This image is surrounded by icons of eyes. The back jacket contains endorsements from John Irving, Ken Kalfus and Suzanne McConnell.
Picture is of a Bloomsbury academic book exhibit, with one table in the front and three in a horseshoe shape behind it. The tables are covered with books.
Photograph shows the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' on a bookshop bookshelf, jacket out.
Photo shows two tables with blue Bloomsbury tablecloths covered in books on book stands.
Photo shows a copy of the book 'How to Weather Together' on a desk.
Photo shows two empty airplane seats next to the one I'm sitting in
Image shows the full jacket spread for new Bloomsbury book 'Listening In'.
Image shows a hand holding the book The American Sentence. The paperback jacket is navy blue, with the outline of a pen nib in lighter blue, with the title and author name - Ira Nadel - embossed in gold on it.
Picture shows a greyhound on her back 'roaching', stretching across the whole length of a double bed.
Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'
Photo shows a copy of Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie Marsh' in the foreground against a backdrop of a view of the Douro valley.
Photograph is of the list of books displayed at the conference. For details of specifically what titles these are, email me at ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com
Photograph is of Thomas Pynchon's new book 'Shadow Ticket', publishing October 7 2025.
Photograph shows a Bloomsbury Academic book stand with ten digital humanities books on it, along with some flyers. There is a hand holding a DH 2025 lanyard in the foreground.
Photograph of a table with a Bloomsbury tablecloth on it, along with six books all on Jane Austen
Photo shows a table with a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth, with ten Bloomsbury books on the table.
Photo shows an unconstructed book easel/stand for an individual book
Jacket is for the book How to Weather Together. The jacket is bright green with pink font and small icons relating summer and water (ice creams, wellington boots, umbrellas etc). Blurb reads: In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation that brings together climate justice and community engagement. Translating feminist theory into practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually change the world as the world changes us. Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and Hamilton propose ‘weathering’ as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. They ask how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice by connecting the planetary to the personal. ASTRIDA NEIMANIS is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University of British Columbia, Canada on unceded syilx territory. JENNIFER MAE HAMILTON lives and works on unceded Anaiwan Country as Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of New England, Australia.
Photo is a BBC news article with the headline Trump says relationship with Musk is over
Image is a series flyer for new Bloomsbury series Book History for the Future. Flyer reads: Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative ethodologies, digital tools, and global contexts. About the Series Editors Lisa Gitelman is Professor of Media History at NYU, USA. Her work puts book history in conversation with media studies and the histories of technology. Her most recent book is Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents and was published by Duke. Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History and Principal of Van Mildert College at Durham University, UK. Before coming to Durham he was Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. With Michelle Levy he wrote The Broadview Introduction to Book History and edited The Broadview Reader in Book History. Sarah Werner is the author of Studying Early Printed Books 1450-1800: A Practical Guide and the companion site EarlyPrintedBooks.com, resources that have been widely taught with and recommended by book historians, librarians, and booksellers. For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact: Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com
Image shows a book jacket with the title 'The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction' by Ira Nadel inside the outline of a pen nib. The jacket is navy blue and the pen nib is lighter blue, while the font is gold. The jacket blurb reads: A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed? While sentences have become the subject of their own form, literary histories, cultural narratives, and personal writings have not centred on the sentence as a singular object. There is no history of the sentence. This book addresses that absence, reviewing American style through American literary history for evolutionary moments in the development of the American sentence from the Puritans to the present day. Reading sentences from writers as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lydia Davis, Cormac McCarthy and Colson Whitehead, we find ourselves asking if a poetics of the American sentence actually exists, whether good sentences are the reason we read, and what the future of the American sentence might be.
Image is of a flyer for the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words'. Jacket of the book in the top left corner is a mock-up of a playing card with the title in the middle. Flyer offers 20% off using the code AUSTEN20 - paperback list price is £14.99/$19.95. Blurb of the book reads: What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and 'delicacy', or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence'? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a person's 'air' and 'address'? These questions and more are answered in this Janeite treasure trove, which examines the distinctive language woven through Austen's signature stories. Much of the language used in Austen's time has either fallen out of common use or changed valence in significant and surprising ways. Maria Frawley takes 50 of those words - words that are integral to the fabric of Austen's fiction - and explores them in short, accessible and lively entries. With juicy morsels for lifelong Austen lovers as well as new students of the great writer, Frawley offers new perspectives on Austen's world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
Picture shows a table in a beer garden with a pint of beer and the book 'Tenth of December' by George Saunders.
Image is of a flyer for the series 'Blue Humanities'. Series title at the top with a small series logo consisting of an icon of the globe, the vast majority of which is coloured blue. Flyer text reads: SERIES EDITORS: Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today. The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies. Have a proposal idea? The series editors would like to invite proposals for monographs, multi-authored books, and edited collections that engage with the Blue Humanities in all its forms. Please send any proposals or expressions of interest to Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic (ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com). For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact: Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com
Picture shows a tweet from the white house account depicting Donald Trump as the pope
Image is the book jacket for 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities'. The jacket features a black background with a colourful circle depicting cells under a microscope in yellow and orange, on a blue and pink background.
Image is of the book 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic' by Janet Harbord. Jacket is a sky blue background with the title in yellow in the top left and the author in white in the bottom right.
Image shows the jacket for the book 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies'. Book jacket is an abstract of ink shades.
Image shows an image of the jacket of the book 'Resisting Big Tech'. Jacket depicts a dish brush against a blue to pink gradient background
Picture of the book jacket of Jonathan Lethem's 'Fortress of Solitude'.
Image of a green book cover with pink font, title and subtitle are How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change. The cover has small, drawn icons in blue of various different day-to-day objects such as umbrellas, glasses and bathing suits.
Image shows the 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' book jacket. The jacket imitates the back of a playing card in blue, with Jane Austen's profile top and bottom.
Chicken standing perched on my arm
Image is of a typographical book jacket for the new book 'Theory Across Disciplines'. Theory is in orange font while 'across disciplines' is in white, on a navy blue background. The volume's editor is Jeffrey di Leo
Very cute black greyhound lying on bean bag with stuffed toy caterpillar and head on colourful pillow.
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Image is of the jacket proof for 'Reading Literature and Chronic Pain', the illustration is of a dark bird flying against a red and black background.
Image shows a typographical jacket for the book Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn by Eleanor Careless
Jacket for Activism and the Literary Self in 20th and 21st-Century Literature by Jeff Keuss shows a statue of Lady Justice with weighing scales and a sword
Image shows jacket with illustrated image of a solar eclipse for the book Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction by Kiron Ward
Image displays typographical jacket for Experimental American Poetry and the New Organic Form by Joao Paulo Guimaraes
Picture is of a flyer for Bloomsbury's Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series. Flyer depicts five book jackets, followed by the series blurb, a list of published titles and a list of forthcoming titles. Series blurb reads: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities promotes a broad range of scholarly work across the medical and health humanities, including both larger-scale intellectual projects and argument-led provocations, to present new field-defining, interdisciplinary research into health and human experience. Published titles reads: Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 by Douglas RJ. Small Available open access Medical Humanities and Disability Studies by Stuart Murray COVID-19 and Shame by Fred Cooper, Luna Dolezal & Arthur Rose • Available open access Relating Suicide by Anne Whitehead Abortion Ecologies in Southern African Fiction by Caitlin E. Stobie Forthcoming titles reads: Forthcoming titles: Critical Neurodiversity Studies edited by Jenny Bergenmar, Dr Louise Creechan & Anna Stenning Autism and the Empathy Epidemic by Janet Harbord
Book jacket shows a dish scrubber against a coloured background with a pink to blue gradient. The title 'Resisting Big Tech' is in bold sans serif at the top of the jacket, followed by the subtitle 'The Personalized is Political'.