42 and a heatwave 🔥

A little München week-end/start

📢 Call for contributions! Special thematic dossier "Aesthetics, Performance, Discourse and Spectacle in the Age of Trumpism" in the journal REDEN. 📰📺👀 🔎 Editor: @annamartamarini.bsky.social ❗ Submission of full papers by November 1, 2026. erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.ph...

📣 we extend the CFP for our international in-person conference Futures and Frontiers of US American Culture(s) held at FU Berlin, 30 September – 2 October 2026 Extended deadline for proposals: June 14, 2026 Find the call and details at www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

Müggelsee sundaying

At last, author's copies in my paws!

Happy to share the info for an online talk I will be giving soon for NTU, kindly invited by Manuel Herrero-Puertas and the Ex-Position team! The link for the free registration is available at forms.gle/PLCJTEDs2Vrc...

"The US-Mexico Borderlands in Contemporary Horror" looks at the clash of two powers in monstrous allegory, incl. in BORDERLAND, BLOOD MOON, and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN: THE SERIES. New from author @annamartamarini.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-us-...

At last, out in March! Thanks to Frederick Luis Aldama for the great preface, the series editors (@ahbryan.bsky.social) and the staff at @edinburghup.bsky.social.. I can't wait to see it in print 🎉

The world of 2026 in Metropolis's eyes, 99 years old @ Deutsche Kinemathek

Feels like a good time to remind people (or fellow academics at least) that it is fine and appropriate to use "US American" and "United States" vs America(n)--even just for precision's sake, if tone-deafness is not a concern. Eddai su.

It's been exhausting and bleak, both as an editor and as an author who actually reads papers and writes her own. Let alone knowing that people do this for projects to apply to positions they very possibly get.

We closed today our annual in-person conference after two and a half days of great panels and discussion. We thank our participants for contributing to create a space of (academic) belonging! PS please remind to plant our identifier 😁

Went to rewatch this last night, to pinpoint how it fits the framework I am shaping on current right wing extremism in relation to political trauma and misguided historical interpretation. It has a nice iteration of fantarealismo as well, which is always a treat 💜

Alexanders Gummibärchen

Home for the weekend and caught this out of nowhere 👻

Death, Mexico and Depeche Mode.. so glad I caught this, gave for a marvelous evening 🖤

Somewhat Hamletic, shitty-weather Monday

Caught this beauty at the Hamburger Kunsthalle after the ComFor conference and couldn't be more delighted 💜 #hamburg #exhibition #surrealism #surrealismus #kunst

Samstagnachmittag ins Kino und zurück

We closed our virtual conference with the keynote roundtable "Making It Online: Affinities and Aesthetics of Digital Subcultures" kindly organized and led by @kmsweeneyromero.bsky.social.. such a great way to round off our event, showcasing great work done by ECRs!

Yesterday we had a great first day of virtual conference and it was such a pleasure to have Shellie McMurdo as a keynote on how witnessing and identity work in found footage horror!

As I hadn't had the chance to share it yet, this volume recently came out.. editors were great and it is packed with diverse essays (including mine on the usual 👻) #horror #comics #academia

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED! You can send us your proposals for the virtual conference until JULY 21 🗓️ Digital Projections and Screened Identities in US American Culture | Virtual Conference on September 4–5, 2025 Find all the details at www.popmec.com/virtual-2025/

📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED! You can send us your proposals for the in-person conference until JULY 14 🗓️

Crabby teeth #dental #crab #summervibes

The ways in which I love a good mezcal / last night in Spain #mezcal #mezcalartesanal #ahumado #smoked #tuesdayvibes

POPMEC CFP 📣 We’re happy to share the call for our 2025 in-person conference Frontiers and Un/Belongings in US American Culture! Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) | November 24–26, 2025 🗓️ deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2025 ➡️ www.popmec.com/frontiers-20...

Getting started here! #USAmericanStudies #popculture #academia

Done at last | #phd

Berlin vibes | typewriter parts as mouth lettermaking #designpanoptikum

Annual reindeer duty

New furbabe in town and her name is Mina #tuesdayvibes

After a neverending day (and an overworked summer) back to home2 aka the batcave #mondayvibes