Marisa Mercurio
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PhD in 19c literature | Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan | (she/they)
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Marisa Mercurio
A Meal of Thorns
20 days ago
ICYMI: Marisa Mercurio of HOWEVER IMPROBABLE (
@marmercurio.bsky.social
) joins to discuss Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE, a melodramatic Gothic horror about shape-shifting cultists and imperial anxieties that reads a bit like DRACULA's louder sibling!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/12/a...
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Victorian Egyptomania! Gender-fluid bugs! Cults! And⦠lots and lots of transportation.
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28 days ago
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Marisa Mercurio
Ancillary Review of Books
30 days ago
For the first 2026 episode of
@mealofthorns.bsky.social
,
@marmercurio.bsky.social
is our guest and guide for Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE, a melodramatic Gothic horror-mystery with a lot going on under the carapace:
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A Meal of Thorns 41- THE BEETLE with Marisa Mercurio
If you read Dracula and thought: āI like the ancient shapeshifting nemesis and the homoerotic subtext, but I donāt like how subtle the sexual and national anxieties are,ā you&rsquā¦
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/12/amot-41-the-beetle/
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Marisa Mercurio
A Meal of Thorns
about 1 month ago
If you read Dracula & thought āI like the ancient shapeshifting nemesis & the homoerotic subtext, but I donāt like how subtle the sexual & national anxieties are,ā youāre in luck! Editor, reviewer, & scholar
@marmercurio.bsky.social
talks us through Richard Marsh's THE BEETLE:
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A Meal of Thorns 41- THE BEETLE with Marisa Mercurio
If you read Dracula and thought: āI like the ancient shapeshifting nemesis and the homoerotic subtext, but I donāt like how subtle the sexual and national anxieties are,ā you&rsquā¦
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2026/01/12/amot-41-the-beetle/
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
about 1 month ago
š± NEW CRITICAL FRIENDS š± š With
@marmercurio.bsky.social
and Shannon Fay, on the flat affect of cosy horror. š¢ "Horror is a series of, like, stasis, stasis, stasis, spike, right? And if it's not being delivered, then that becomes a generic problem for the novel."
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Critical Friends Episode 19: On Cosy Horrors
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland is joined by Shannon Fay and Marisa Mercurio to discuss horror, and especially its cozy variety.
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/podcasts/critical-friends-episode-19-on-cosy-horrors/
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
about 1 month ago
š§ Also out with this weekās issue of
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
:šØthe latest episode of the Critical Friends podcast.šØ This time Iām joined by
@marmercurio.bsky.social
and Shannon Fay to discuss horror, the gothic, and coziness: what can, should and do reviewers look for in these texts? And why?
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Critical Friends Episode 19: On Cosy Horrors
In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Dan Hartland is joined by Shannon Fay and Marisa Mercurio to discuss horror, and especially its cozy variety.
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/podcasts/critical-friends-episode-19-on-cosy-horrors/
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Marisa Mercurio
Strange Horizons
about 2 months ago
The reviews are in! Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby reviewed by Marisa Mercurio Link ā¬ļø
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
#speculativefiction
#specfic
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
about 2 months ago
Splendid review to start the week at SH today -
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on the curious Neo-Gothic of Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby (
@berkleypub.bsky.social
). āA novel filled with such potential should be a pleasure to untangle.ā
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Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
Scholarly analysis of an historical oddity may not be paramount to the success of a Neo-Gothic novel; but this context speaks to Slashed Beautiesās larger issue of flattening gender relations.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/slashed-beauties-by-a-rushby/
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Marisa Mercurio
404 Media
3 months ago
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
https://www.404media.co/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-americas-nuclear-weapon-scientists/
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Marisa Mercurio
Academic Publishing News
5 months ago
"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs."
@marmercurio.bsky.social
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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AI Exacerbates Labor Issues for Library Workers | H-Net
A guest post fromĀ Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Guest post by Marisa Mercurio, acquisitions editor, University of Michigan.
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20124830/ai-exacerbates-labor-issues-library-workers
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Marisa Mercurio
The H-Net Book Channel
5 months ago
"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs," writes
@marmercurio.bsky.social
for
#FeedingTheElephant
. How has the embrace of AI affect publishing, research, and teaching. Find out! ā”ļø
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Feeding the Elephant | H-Net
https://networks.h-net.org/feeding-the-elephant
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My article with
@crimereads.bsky.social
on one of the best, longest-running, and somehow overlooked Holmes adaptations.
crimereads.com/elementary-i...
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Elementary is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation
In 2012, the cable network CBS introduced the world to a new Sherlock Holmes. And he was going stateside. Set in the present day, Elementary places Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in New York City where ā¦
https://crimereads.com/elementary-is-a-masterclass-in-sherlock-holmes-adaptation/
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Marisa Mercurio
Alice Speri
7 months ago
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvardās feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an āeducation and Palestineā issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the āPalestine exceptionā to academic freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
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Let's get vegetable Gothic going as a subgenre. Bunnicula takes first spot.
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
8 months ago
Wednesday's review is the excellent
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on Margie Sarsfield's Beta Vulgaris. She goes in excited to discover the vegetable gothic, and finds surprises: "readers of Strange Horizons should know that Beta Vulgaris might not fulfill your expectations of a horror novel."
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Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
These beets arenāt destined for dinner plates.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/beta-vulgaris-by-margie-sarsfield/
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Marisa Mercurio
Joe Katz
10 months ago
They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
11 months ago
Today at
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
,
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on Marx and horror in the Pacific Northwest. āCarson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.ā
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A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter
Carson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/a-spectre-is-haunting-greentree-by-carson-winter/
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