Fancy escaping the heat this weekend? Follow @maethorath.bsky.social and me into the abyss of the enmonstered🧚🏼

Zum Tag “Zusammenhalt in Vielfalt” der Initiative Kulturelle Integration hat uns das Phantastik-Autor*innen-Netzwerk eingeladen, einen Beitrag zu gestalten und da konnten wir natürlich nicht Nein sagen ✨👏🏼 Wir freuen uns auf regen Austausch mit euch und unseren Gästen bei einem Show&Tell am 21.05. 🧚🏼

Recap of @easlce.bsky.social in Utrecht: it’s been amazing 🌿 Dipped my toes into the EASLCE waters — and then went for a dive 🤿 reconnecting with old friends, making new ones, discussing my project, and even finding time to explore the local bookshops 📚 already excited for next time in Bremen 2028 ✨

Join us for another weekend of discussions on Speculative Ontologies 🚀 this time co-organised with @gianlucacalio.bsky.social ✨ looking forward to some heated debates on Speculative Climates in Cologne 🔥🌏 deadline for abstracts is April 30 🗓️

Just a few more hours ⏳⚡️ tomorrow - thx to the Faculty 6 @tu-braunschweig.de - the workshop on “Speculative Cultures” that I co-organize with @lisacristea.bsky.social begins 🙌🏻 it’s the first in a longer future series for a new project on “Speculative Ontologies” 🚀🐉 #futurestudies

exciting news 🎉 thank you for including my paper on #NKJemisin in this amazing interdisciplinary volume 📚 I’m really grateful to you and Zeynep for your encouraging words along the way - your care and dedication made it such a pleasure working with you both 🍀 thank you! 💫

best way to end the week: my abstract for @easlce.bsky.social conference on Nonhuman Resistance was accepted 🐋✨ so excited to present on what I call #affinity studies and material identity in dark eco SFF 🌿 1/2

As #Anglistiktag2025 comes to a close, an era of the journal ends with the editorial office heading to Graz for a fresh start 🗞️ it’s been a pleasure working with @victoriaherche.bsky.social and @gianlucacalio.bsky.social in the past ☀️ all the best to the new editorship @juliahoydis.bsky.social 🍀

back home from #GfF25 with an enjoyable keynote by @forgottencreatures.bsky.social on the history of beastiaries 🐲🦄 it’s been fun delving into the realm of creatures & animals again 🪼 also quite happy with the great feedback on my PhD project & talk about The Devourers @indrapramitdas.bsky.social 🐾💫

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

for my Cologne peeps (and anyone willing to travel a little) 🍃 join Ahmet from the @ucy1.bsky.social and me to discuss #ElifShafak and what it means to be human 🌈🎓 a key question also guiding my own research 💫 #PhDSky #envhum

Reminder: We would love to see you join us at this year's Virtual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (VICFA 4): Embodied Spirits! The deadline to submit paper proposals, panel proposals, and creative proposals is June 30, 2025. Please visit our VICFA page for more details.

attended my first #DGfA25 ✨ fantastic community ~ inspiring keynotes ~ insightful panels ~ great coffee chats ✨ thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for making it such a wonderful experience ✨

The second day of this year's annual conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA/GAAS) in Siegen started gloriously with an amazingly rich & entertaining talk on 19th-century epistolary culture & queer intimacy by @katrinhorn.bsky.social. #AmericanStudies #QueerStudies #DGfA2025

“There are legends of people with the gift of making music so true it conjures spirits from the past and future.” 🎶 #Sinners cinematic exploration of temporality is so captivating it conjures its own affective spirits 👀

Lost in the world of medical drama and nearly done with my talk for our BritCult workshop on illness and health next week. Super excited to see and meet everyone! 🩺🏥⚕️💊 More info here: www.britcult.de/category/wok...

switching from one great team to another is a total emotional rollercoaster🎢 I’m so grateful for all I learned from @judithrauscher.bsky.social @jpitettiheil.bsky.social @victoriaherche.bsky.social @sarahbusch.bsky.social❣️and also so touched by the heartwarming welcome @tubraunschweig.bsky.social 💫

Excited to join this workshop on illness and health @uni-hamburg.de 🏥 while also taking some time to explore the city during its 836th Port Anniversary 🎉

Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Looking forward to the #envhum lecture by Malcom Ferdinand - author of #decolonial #ecology 🌿

I had the best time these the 2 days at the conference "Ecoterrorism in Anglophone Media." I was so proud of my student assistant, Una, who gave a great talk & loved that several Cologne students came to support her & another student who presented. Thank you, Burak & Sascha, for this amazing event!

Am 22. November veranstaltet das DFG-Netzwerk „Energie & Literatur“ online den Workshop „Energy & Gender“. Herzliche Einladung! Weitere Informationen & Zugangsinformationen unter: energyandliterature.wordpress.com/events/ @victoriaherche.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @juliaditter.bsky.social

Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈 For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...

Just wrapped up an incredible time at the #FantasticClimates conference 🌍 Thanks to the incredible organisers and @anotherdramakid.bsky.social for the opportunity to dive into #EcoGothic themes in #GameofThrones ❄️ who knew Westeros had so much to teach us about our own climate challenges? 🩵

back from the interdisciplinary #conference on Communicating #Climate Hope at the Tilburg University 🌿 it’s been a pleasure to talk about #fantastic stories of climate #hope and ideas on reconciliation with Nature 🌻

back from the fabulous @sfrareview.bsky.social conference @ Tartu 🚀 speculating with old and newfound friends has truly been a pleasure 🔮 discussions on #materialism 🧬 #cofuturism ✨ #science 🔬 and #games filled me with inspiration for my journey to unknown terrains 🪐