My short article on the nineteenth-century Bengali poet Toru Dutt's sonnets has been published in the @jofvictculture.bsky.social online. I am deeply grateful for this incredible opportunity. Please find the link to the blog post: jvc.oup.com/2025/09/04/r....

Poised to publish my first article this year. More details soon. Have been working on an ecofeminist reading of Ann Radcliffe for quite some time, so glad to have built a paper on the same.

And the cover for Nigel Kneale and Horror is now up on the @livunipress.bsky.social website! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @dianearodgers.bsky.social @davidcottis.bsky.social @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social

Join us for the return of our Gothic Reading Group June 20th at 2 PM EDT. We will be reading Stephen Graham Jones' Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SSAG #GothicLiterature #HorrorLiterature #ReadingGroup

The CFP for our 2nd Biennal Conference is live. We will be in Salem, MA from March 19-21, 2026 and the deadline for submissions is October 1. More details here: americangothicsociety.com/symposium/ #SSAG #Conference #GothicLit

Hello all! The American Gothic Studies Journal is calling for papers for its provocation section. See the link for more details and the post below for general information on the Provocations section and the deadline. tinyurl.com/28k72wk2 #SSAG #GothicLiterature #CFP

Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻

Don't miss our last session before the un-Gothic summer approaches‼️ 🗣 Dr Emma Merkling 🖼️Occult Art Gothic 👁️ 📅Thurs 19th June 🕐6pm - 7.30pm 📍Zoom Emma will look at Gothic British art, the ‘artist-as-witch’, (un)gendering & occultural approaches to art history. Dm to join!

Fancy a trip to horror traditions around the world? Check out the Romancing the Gothic talk map! padlet.com/hollyhirst84...

THE BIG REVEAL! You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference 'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious' Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO! buytickets.at/romancingthe...

The @judencrc.bsky.social had a wonderful reading yesterday with @emilieslaurent.bsky.social's incredibly insightful talk on cultural haunting in Vernon Lee's work, and much more.

Incredibly excited to announce the publication of my flash fiction in the journal 'The Criterion'. Here's a link to the PDF: www.the-criterion.com/V16/n2/Dipya.... Would be grateful if there are feedbacks!

Delighted to announce that @emilieslaurent.bsky.social will interact with @judencrc.bsky.social tomorrow, May 12 at 7 pm IST for a discussion on Vernon Lee.

Less than three weeks to go before Dr. Deborah Russell's FREE public lecture, 'Ann Radcliffe and Women's Gothic Writing'! Get your tickets now and treat yourself to an evening of Gothic goodness ☠️ www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-radcli...

Had an amazing time learning about the Gothic in Icelandic sagas with @nrhopwood.bsky.social. And thanks a lot to @romgothsam.bsky.social for organizing the RtG talks.

A spooky Easter treat dropping tomorrow⬇️ 🗣 Xanthe Pajarillo 🧒Children's Horror Gothic 📅24th April 🕐6 - 7.30pm GMT, Zoom @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social investigates children as audiences of horror. She co-hosts the Kindergeist Podcast & is a member of @baftss.bsky.social 📽️

Please find a CFP for a conference in Jadavpur University, scheduled on 23-24 May, 2025. The final date of abstract submission is 30 April. Please find additional details below: drive.google.com/file/d/1soGy...

The @judencrc.bsky.social is overjoyed and deeply grateful to announce that our next online reading session will be chaired by Dr. Octavia Cox on 23 April at 7:30 pm IST. We will be discussing Jane Austen's seminal 'Emma'.

We @judencrc.bsky.social had a fascinating online reading with Dr. @nishipulugurtha.bsky.social on 4 April. Dr. Pulugurtha conversed on the tempestuous life and times of S. T. Coleridge and shared valuable insights on the Gothic, ecological strains in his oeuvre and a lot more!

Attended a fantastic and deeply enriching workshop on abstract writing with the brilliant and insightful Dr. @romgothsam.bsky.social and Dr. @madelinepotter.bsky.social at Romancing the Gothic online.

It's Gothic spring! ☔ Join us for a slightly later witching hour this March for all things religious 🗣 Dr Kristof Smeyers ✝️ Catholic Gothic 📅 Thurs 27th March 🕐 6 - 7.30pm GMT 📍Zoom Dr Kristof Smeyers is a research fellow at the University of Louvain, & a historian of religion, science & magic 🔮

Please join Dr. Ramit Samaddar's discussion of the experiences of Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee who visited in England in 1838 tomorrow online at 3 pm GMT. victoriandiversities.co.uk/events/

Please join us for the March Gothic Reading Group this Friday the 28th at 2 PM EDT. We are talking about The Hacienda. #ReadingGroup #GothicLit #SSAG gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Would be really grateful if folks here can help locate current and extant research on Mary Coleridge, esp. with reference to the poem 'The Witch'. Require it for a term paper. Thank you.

Please find @radcliffecup.bsky.social. Impeccable work on the Great Enchantress of Gothic fiction is being done there.

Attended a brilliant Climate Fresk workshop yesterday at the Alliance Francaise du Bengal. Learned about the scientific basis of environmental degradation and the ways to stem the crisis with the amazing chair: Pauline Laravoire (in.linkedin.com/in/paulinela...).

Spent a wonderful late night with @ssag.bsky.social discussing @riverssolomon.bsky.social's fascinating and deeply intriguing novel Model Home (2024). Many thanks to @ericgaryanderson.bsky.social for organising the reading and eagerly looking forward to the next one!

We @judencrc.bsky.social had a fantastic interaction with Dr. @emmadavenport.bsky.social yesterday. Dr. Davenport spoke to us about her fascinating interdisciplinary work on Victorian legal and fictional worlds and also about avenues of Victorian studies research.

Very excited to attend an amazing online session coming up tomorrow on 21 February 7 pm IST (1:30 pm GMT) with Dr. Emma Davenport of Emory University about conducting research in Victorian Studies with @judencrc.bsky.social.

Thank you to Dr. @jfpackham.bsky.social and @gothicauob.bsky.social for yesterday's enriching session on Gothic love. The talk and comments opened many new avenues of thought. Thank you to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social and @katrinajan.bsky.social. Looking forward to next month's reading!

Eagerly waiting for today's exciting talk from @jfpackham.bsky.social at @gothicauob.bsky.social on Gothic love and a lot else! Please join and here's the reading materials: uobgothica.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/s...

Greetings from the Department of English, Jadavpur University. Please join us in the inaugural Special Lecture Series at 2 PM IST, 7 February, 2025. Will be livestreamed on: www.youtube.com/@judelecture.

Very excited to announce the launch of the @judencrc.bsky.social YouTube channel. The recordings of the online and the offline sessions will be made available here. Please subscribe and "comment" on the videos to engage in the discussions. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/@NineteenthC...

Thank you to the @ssag.bsky.social for the amazing and enriching discussion on 'Every Heart a Doorway' (2016) by Seanan McGuire. Was my first time here and looking forward to participating in future readings!

Had a fantastic online discussion chaired by Dr. Derek Johnston (Queen's University, Belfast) about the Gothic in Steven Knight's 2019 BBC adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol' with @judencrc.bsky.social. We also spoke about Christmas traditions and broader ideas regarding adaptations.

A very happy new year to everyone! Looking forward to an academically-productive, environmentally-conscious year and best wishes to all. Happy reading!

Hello everyone! Please find the NCRC account here: bsky.app/profile/jude... and drop a follow. We are a young group of students of Jadavpur University, India reading the contours of nineteenth c. literature and host online, offline readings with renowned scholars, film screenings and much more.

Wishing everyone a merry Christmas!

We had our first offline NCRC session, led by Dr. Subhashree Basu on 21 December, and it was an enriching afternoon of discussion on Washington Irving at Seagull Books, Kolkata. The discussion was followed by a lively Q/A, and deliberations on the contours of research on Romantic studies.

@carsoncenter.bsky.social's Environmental Humanities Reading group has greatly helped in broadening my ideas on the current research on the eponymous theme. Eagerly looking forward to Monday's reading.

Fantastic colloquium talk on Stoker by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social. Will read Dickens's intriguing 'Well-Authenticated Rappings' now.

Amazingly illuminating talk by Dr. Isabelle Gapp on 'From Áltá to Amadjuak: Archiving Reindeer aboard the RMS Nascopie'. Thank you for organising the conference @hauntedshores.bsky.social.

Thanks @gothicauob.bsky.social for the amazing online session yesterday and thanks to the amazing speakers. Had a fun and spooky night!

Hello! I am Dipyaman Bhowmick. An English Honours Undergraduate student of Jadavpur University, India. Particularly interested in Environmental Humanities, Pastoral fiction, the Gothic and the Romantic and the Victorian eras, I have presented papers on Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and the Pastoral.