'While we can’t address all of the volume’s essays in this post, together they reframe nineteenth-century Ireland by offering new theories of racialization, new approaches to colonial violence, and new understandings of Irish literary forms.' Mary Mullen and Renée Fox discuss their new book here:

Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:

Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!

The 2026 Festival of Monsters CFP is now available! Come talk monsters in Santa Cruz with us this October 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2026cfp

We’re so excited that this will be out in March!

When the federal government is blockading schools at every level, shooting citizens, and kidnapping people and disappearing them, there is no other choice. Another shooting just now in Minneapolis, in case you hadn't heard.

I’m excited that The Necromantics is now out in paperback! Link in the comments if you have a loved one that would treasure a holiday gift full of reanimated corpses 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time

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

Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book

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?...