My book is on sale! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/Afri... Books on the UP of Mississippi are 50% off (including pre-orders!), AND you’ll receive free US shipping with no minimum purchase required! This sale will run from August 6 through August 15.

@middleagewitch.bsky.social and I would like to thank everyone who submitted to our call for papers. The call has now concluded.

@middleagewitch.bsky.social & I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror (so many amazing books from women writers coming out this month!) Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/... @intellectbooks.bsky.social

Girl on Girl is out today! And got the review of my literal dreams from the Washington Post—I am truly a bit emotional at someone seeing what I was trying to do with the book so clearly. wapo.st/3ECIW0t

The panel, Gothic II, remains open for submissions! Submit by June 30 or until panel is full. I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the 2025 @pamlaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco. Submit: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19483 #WomensGothic #GothicFilm #GothicHouse #Secrets

I'm on the 1pm panel at #ALABoston

I'm presenting on Saturday #ALA Boston #AfricanAmericanYAHorror

Today's the day! Submit your Gothic abstracts! I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the 2025 @pamlaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco. See link: www.cfplist.com/CFP/44406 Submit: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19483 #WomensGothic #GothicGaming #GothicFilms #GothicNovels

Every time there's a Twitter purge, I share the link to my book. I co-authored "Corpses, Fools and Monsters" and it is about transness in cinema. People seem to like it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

BREAKING: President Donald Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The dismissal was disclosed in statements from three top House Democrats and confirmed by a separate person familiar with the matter.

@middleagewitch.bsky.social & I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror (so many amazing books from women writers coming out this month!) Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/... @intellectbooks.bsky.social

Submit your Gothic abstracts by May 15! It's coming up fast! I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the 2025 @pamlaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco. See link: www.cfplist.com/CFP/44406 Submit: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19483 #WomensGothic #EcoGothic #GothicGaming

Submit your gothic abstracts by May 15! I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the 2025 @pamlaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco. See link: www.cfplist.com/CFP/44406 Submit here: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19483

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405 @intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

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‪Deadline is 1 month from today! Submit your gothic abstracts! I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the 2025 @pamlaorg.bsky.social conference in San Francisco. See link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.

The Department of Education said on Friday that it was moving to cut off all federal funding for Maine’s public schools because the state had ignored President Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports teams.

@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

Our call for papers is out! @middleagewitch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror @intellectbooks.bsky.social Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

I am chairing the Gothic standing session at the @pamlaorg.bsky.social 2025 conference in San Francisco. Deadline for abstracts is May 15! See link for more info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/03/...

PEN America responds to action taken today by the Department of Education dismissing complaints about book bans and referring to them as a “hoax”: "All students deserve to see themselves and the world around them reflected in the books shelved within their public schools.“ pen.org/press-releas...

Submissions Call for Ecofiction Reprint Stories locusmag.com/2025/02...

Saturday coffee

Indigenous Gothic, Ghosts, & Speculative Fiction Proposals due by: Friday, January 24. www.asail.org/asail-2025-c...

#Williamsburg tree with corgi

A colonial Williamsburg sheep

The tree is up! #Williamsburg

2030 Edmonton Worldcon Bid locusmag.com/2024/11...

Join me tomorrow for a panel on resisting the anti-gender agenda with colleagues discussing the situation in Bosnia, Georgia, and Belarus. calendar.boell.de/en/event-ser...

#CFP: Fairy-Tale trouble and the art of fluidity: gender, genre, media Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge 21-22 March 2025 Deadline: 20 December 2024 Email: [email protected] Website: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44790/

For all ecocritics interested in Gothic studies! Join us at ASLE 2025: @asle-us.bsky.social CFP: AIRBORNE GOTHIC ASLE 2025 Panel Organized by the Society for the Study of American Gothic July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park 1/2 🧵

Hello BlueSky! We are a leading feminist academic journal celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. In addition to traditional scholarly work, we also publish freely available work as part of our Feminist Public Intellectuals Project. We have some exciting stuff planned, so give us a follow!

The tree in the square is up #Williamsburg

I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

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#PAMLA was wonderful. Until next year...

My presentation is coming up at 5:30pm #PAMLA #ASLE

In Palm Springs for #PAMLA

#Interdisciplinary19thCenturyStudies conference 2024: my presentation is on at 9am Friday morning!

#Interdisciplinary19thCenturyStudies conference 2024: my presentation is on at 9am Friday morning!

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