Starstruck 🤩 Got to meet one of my academic heroes today and hear her amazing keynote on sex work and care work in Victorian Pop Fiction. How can we be more caring and sympathetic in our community social care systems? #VPFAPublics @tara-macdonald.bsky.social

"Gaslighting can be many diff things...But in any manifestation, it is a form & function of narrative. [It] depends on the power to propagate a false story that negates another person’s reality." Get a taste of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING on the @sunypress.bsky.social blog sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Ga...

In fabulous news, the paperback of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING: GENEALOGY OF AN INJUSTICE is now available for preorder: sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... DYK that SUNY P *always* comes out with a paperback a mere 6 months after the hardcover?? We do, we do!!

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

Well look at that, Victorian Gaslighting made the list! www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

Member Publication Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (Bellonby, Gilbert, MacDonald) navsa.org/Member-Publi...

My Gaslighting book arrived! It was such a pleasure to work on this with my brilliant co-editors and such a wonderful group of feminist scholars. ❤️

It's alive! Editor copies of "Victorian Gaslighting" arrived yesterday, and the book is now available for order at sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... Go get (or go ask your library to get) yours! #gaslighting #Gaslight @dbellonby.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!

My office view is really stunning. Pre and post snow!

hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come! + thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!

Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

We launched the Centre for Feminist Research to a packed room of colleagues, students, and friends this morning. A good day! www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/articl...

Cover image for our new book! The essays are really phenomenal and the topic is, sadly, just as urgent today. Doesn’t that Bergman expression sum up a lot?! Available March 2026!

I love this so much!

The book prize is especially validating as my book came out when my son was 9 months old and I was returning as Dept Chair (a combo I do not recommend), and I did not have the energy or time to promote the book. So this feels great.

THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉

Sobering and no doubt accurate. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Bluesky peeps: please help! This is for the book I'm working on. Did you have family fire drills when you were growing up? (And what generation are you?) If you have kids, do you have family fire drills now? THANK YOU for your help and please REPOST this question! 😘 #AcademicSky #Writing #History

And in more book news, my book on affect theory and sensation fiction is now out in paperback: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-narrati...

Eek! Our Gaslighting book has a date! (And an amazing editor!)

Wanna know the history of #gaslighting? My co-edited book of essays, *Victorian Gaslighting*, will make you an expert! This juicy guide, co-created with @noragilbert.bsky.social and @tara-macdonald.bsky.social, is officially in pre-production at @sunypress.bsky.social and slated for pub in 2026!

Watching Mary Poppins with a sick toddler and forgot that the first song is the brilliant Sister Suffragette: “Though we adore men individually / We agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”

Friends, big news: starting this July, we are moving back to Canada! I’ll be Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Very excited!

Come hear me talk about my new(ish) book!

CFP: The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Abstract Deadline: 5/15/25) bit.ly/42mhg7J

This is so terrifying and alarming and cruel: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western US conference will be in St Louis in October. Abstracts are due March 1! Consider applying: this is a great group. Friendly, collaborative, and creative. www.visawus.org/visawus-conf...

#Valentines week mood. #Persuasion #JaneAusten (With everything going on around us, that agony:hope ratio is starting to look quite attractive...)

Not sure if this is accurate but…going to see if I can use all these words in my lecture on Oscar Wilde this morning and in my next article! No to this nonsense.

At least we finally have snow here.

Grateful to these publishers! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

My kid’s activity in daycare yesterday was “painting with hammers” and that actually sounds like a great way to end this intense week.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉