I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring

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Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.

Ah, mud and history… 😂

This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us

Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...

We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style! At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17 At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!

Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.

I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau! wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!

This such an excellent CFP. @navsa2025.bsky.social navsa.georgetown.edu

years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"A Modern Irish Canon - We asked critics for the best Irish novels published in the past 15 years." www.vulture.com/article/best...

CFP: Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield Organised by me and Adam Kelly Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/... Please consider submitting, and share widely!

Come talk about A Christmas Carol with us on Thursday at the Santa Cruz Public Library downtown!

Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.

This might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen 🐓🫏🍂

you could ask your library to order if you want

Join the Dickens Project in making literature come alive—support Dickens Day of Writing on November 20! Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024

I’m having so much fun as dramaturg for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol. Santa Cruz people, get tickets! santacruzshakespeare.org/book/?event=...

Warm welcome to all new followers! To my fellow Victorianists: the VICTORIA discussion group remains a generous, welcoming space, supportive without at all overwhelming your inbox. And the archives are a great resource. If you’re not already a member, check it out: list.iu.edu/sympa/info/v...

I’m so looking forward to reading this!

PSA Naomi Levine’s The Burden of Rhyme is (finally!!!) out and I cannot wait to read it. ✨ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A great article about the new Curse of the Mummy class Elaine Sullivan and I are co-teaching. Happy almost Halloween! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/popular...

So thrilled that The Necromantics received Honorable Mention for the NAVSA First Book Prize!

Just in time for Halloween, a fun article about the UCSC Center for Monster Studies and our recent Festival of Monsters 🧛🏻‍♀️💜 voicesofmontereybay.org/2024/10/24/m...

Elsa Lanchester born Oct 28, in 1902 - Over 95 roles including Witness for the Prosecution, Bell Book & Candle, The Glass Slipper, Mary Poppins, The Bishop's Wife, Lassie Come Home, That Darn Cat - & of course The Bride of Frankenstein! #botd http://www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/elsa-lanchester/

Registration for the 2024 Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (Oct. 16-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.) is coming very very soon. Meanwhile, you can check out www.youtube.com/@ucscmonster... to see videos from last year's talks.

I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻‍♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...

I *loved* Isabelle Greenberg’s Glass Town, a graphic novel take on the Brontë juvenilia, so I bought Young Hag as soon as I recognised the illustration style - it’s a fun feminist retelling of Arthurian legend with some Christina Rossetti thrown in - go buy!

My continuing obsession with open access to sources for exploring the 19th century has resulted in a new edition of this guide to free, searchable full texts of magazines www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...

finally located a copy of the greatest nineteenth century novel of them all: Middlemarch: or, The Whale

Romanticists! Coleridgeans! Who will join me in the Albatross Death Cult?

Talking about dead bodies, reanimation and monsters with @cookiegoth.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-necroman...

t’s not too late to send in a proposal for our 2024 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline is Monday 🧛🏻‍♀️🧟‍♀️❤️ www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp?...

Get it while it's cheap(er)! Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium 20% of printed and e-books until April 17. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I encourage #skystorians to read Christopher Newfield's MLA presidential address. He outlines a profoundly different vision for what a discipline can be than what @ahahistorians.bsky.social now offers; & gives a powerful riposte to doomerism about possible futures for history tinyurl.com/mryhtmp3

CALL FOR PAPERS: Have a monstrous idea? The Center for Monster Studies is soliciting abstracts for 20-minute papers or presentations on any aspect of monsters or monster studies for its 2024 Festival of Monsters, October 16-19 in Santa Cruz, CA. Learn more at www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp

Time! Time! Don't forget to submit your abstract for our conference Time in Nineteenth-Century Ireland! Deadline 29 Feb 2024 #ssnci2024 #Irishstudies ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Great article on recent Frankenstein adaptations that have women’s autonomy at their centers www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Many thanks to Aidan Beatty for giving me a chance to talk about The Necromantics on New Books Network 🧟‍♀️🧛🏻‍♀️ newbooksnetwork.com/the-necroman...

If you'll be anywhere near Boston on March 27, come join a conversation about genre and Irish literary history! www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

The Artful Dodger review - this Dickens sequel is fast, furious and really great fun:

📄 Why are fictional monsters often hybrids – that is, consisting of several parts of various creatures? And why are these hybrids so aggressive-looking – with sharp claws & teeth? @oliviermorin.bsky.social & I explore these questions in a new paper (1/3) read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-toda...

My newsletter starts with a few recent articles on monsters and what's monstrous, before the news section on multi-agent simulations tools, weird & esoterica of the past month, NLP and scatterplots, some RAG news, etc.