As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!

The CFP deadline for BAMS/ MSA is TODAY!

The CPF deadline for BAMS/MSA Weird Modernisms is tomorrow (Mon 29 Dec)! Get your abstracts in before that window closes...

The deadline to apply for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough, July 1-4, 2026, is now exactly 1 week away!

Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Deadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.

No Microsoft Word dictation, his name is not 'Have a look Ellis'...🙃

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

'She [Meynell] deserves to be recognised as a pioneering female voice, rescued from dusty obscurity, and this volume may be the one to begin this process.' M. C. Caseley for Stride Magazine, on Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Read the review: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/anot...

What a fabulous programme!

Even more time to get Weird with us @lboroenglish.bsky.social in July 2026!

Join us this Thurs (27 Nov), 18.30-20.00 (online and in person) to discuss the future of Michael Field studies and to celebrate the publication of Michael Field in Context. Roundtable featuring @veryverso.bsky.social, Alex Murray and graphic artist Gareth Brooks. bads.gold.ac.uk/future-fields

Update: Took the newly dubbed 'Radclyffe Ball' to the lecture and somehow conjured a queer rainbow in the process 🌈

Appear to have gone low-key viral with my Hall/Troubridge head, as is only mete and correct. I've now successfully transported it to my office (phew) and it will be shown to the students in their Well of Loneliness lecture today if @drclaireocall.bsky.social allows me to interrupt proceedings...

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.

Omg this is HUGE - *screams, runs to Cambridge* www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link

My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...

Coming very, very soon… Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

Obsessed with Michael Field's Musico - he's so cute

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

So jealous of all the happenings lined up @moderniststudies.bsky.social Boston, esp the queer modernist panels. You'll just all have to come to Loughborough next year to make it up to me!

So excited that my article 'Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle', co-written with the fantastic @frankiedytor.bsky.social, is out in the world! & in great company with @preraphsrule.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social & more!

If you want to celebrate the launch of Michael Field in Context, save the date for a hybrid launch/roundtable event on Thurs 27 Nov, 18.30-20.00: bads.gold.ac.uk/future-fields

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

2/2 Followed by Dr Nick Freeman "Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum In collaboration with @healthhumslboro.bsky.social Wed 29 Oct, 16.15-17.30 - hybrid, DM for Teams link.

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/.... We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche

Join us tomorrow in Nottingham @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social! fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/100-y...

This evening at 7-8pm, really looking forward to discussing Alice Meynell's poetry and prose. Come along and join us (link below 👇)

Come along to @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 10 Sept to hear all about the new edition of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/100-y...

'The humane beauty, sensitivity and moral force of her work, [...] depend significantly on this open-eyed and generous acuity. The balance, or harmony, of sharpness with sympathy is one of Meynell’s finest features' - Alex Wong on Alice Meynell carcanet.substack.com/p/selected-p...

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Join us to launch Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell on 3 September, with the book's editor Alex Wong, Meynell's great-granddaughter, the renowned feminist critic and theorist Laura Mulvey, and literary critic Sarah Parker! 📔 🎟️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/selec...

I'm delighted to be chairing the online launch of Alice Meynell's Selected Poems and Essays, in conversation with the editor Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey (yes that one!), Meynell's great-granddaughter - 3 Sept 2025, 7pm: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/selec...

Come and get Weird with us in Loughborough! Save the date for 1-4 July 2026 (also coincides with my birthday!) @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Come to our talk @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham! 10 September, 7-8.30pm - book here: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/100-y...

Just looking at scanned copies of The Ladder with an article on Romaine Brooks and the images are accidentally (yet appropriately) inverted. Aren't they cool?

Research Assistant (unpaid, unless biscuits count)

29th Lesbian* Lives Conference will take place in University College Cork, Ireland from 15-17 May 2026. CfP & more info available here: (Spread the word—) #LGBTQ #Lesbian #Queer #Feminist #Speirgorm www.ucc.ie/en/lesbianli...

We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE! We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates. Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻

Really looking forward to tomorrow's ECR Professionalisation Day, kicking off the amazing @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference! Careers advice, jigsaw puzzles, séances all in one day - what more could you want?

You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)