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CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026. Abstracts due 31st January! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237...

My awesome friend (and colleague) @sharonchoe.bsky.social is organising a cool conference @ucph.bsky.social. Check out the call 👇

📢📚🎉 We’re excited to share that recent English / CECS PhD @sharonchoe.bsky.social has placed her debut novel under contract with Atheneum. Many congratulations Sharon!! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Delighted to announce my YA debut THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS is coming out with Atheneum, Fall 2026! The first in a duology inspired by Korean history, you can expect: 🍄 Palace political intrigue 🍄 A magic system grounded in Korean shamanism 🍄 Dae Jang Geum vibes (iykyk)

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more buff.ly/JBxonYK

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more

Congratulations to @sharonchoe.bsky.social on the sale of THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS! #TeamTriada #BookSky

My first #OpenAccess article of the postdoc has come out, just in time to celebrate being 50% through the #MSCA Fellowship! Have a read about Death Songs, gore, & necropolitics in 18th Century British translations of Ragnar Lodbrok 🥳 litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025... #EUFunded

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

CFP: Games and Learning Alliance Conference. Seeking original contributions in game-based learning. Includes: (1) Gamification, (2) Games for Learning (i.e., Serious / Applied Games), and (3) Playful Learning. Deadline 2nd July! #GBL conf.seriousgamessociety.org/call-for-pap...

Time for Norse at MAMO! 'Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain'. Sharon Choe (@sharonchoe.bsky.social, Copenhagen), Maggie Pavleszek (@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social, York) and Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social‬, York). 👇 #MAMOmonth

An interesting article for anyone who teaches #archives #collections #subcultures & the problems of preserving historical ephemera. He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

Such a fulfilling couple of days in Paris at the London-Paris Romanticism Symposium. What a group of generous scholars. It was a pleasure to meet & laugh with everyone, & listen to incredible papers on Shock and Surprise. Thanks to David Duff & Laurent Folliot for organising a wonderful event!

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection" www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

This week, the Society advertised two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time. "You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

Literature serves as the basis of so much of our gaming, often sitting quietly in the background as the allegorical base of our play superstructures. Books never left us; we play in their conjured inspirations.

What tiny grief poem will you write? New piece published today. Have you joined us in The Mortal Portal yet? Come on in and have a rummage around in our back catalogue. We're not for everyone but we're just right for you. open.substack.com/pub/deadgood... >KV

A wonderful week at the Bodleian digging through Thomas Percy’s Notebooks to confirm a couple of research hunches! But a favourite surprise for me was seeing 18yo Percy’s book catalogue where he had decorated and titled the cover with the 18C version of bubble letters. 10/10, no notes 👌🏼😌

#YWES 👇 is still recruiting! Want to stay up-to-date with relevant publications? write for THE oldest & most comprehensive review of scholarly work? & join a supportive @englishassociation.bsky.social & OUPAcademic community? Come join the #c18th & #RomanticPeriod chapter teams! 1/4

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right

Alright, let's see how big this gets! ❤️ 1 Like = 1 Video Game Book 📚

Thank you for listening!! 🥹 Had such a great time talking about all the fun things I’ve discovered about James Johnstone in Copenhagen!

"Academia is fit only for those who ‘fit’." Powerful and important piece on being disabled in academia, DEI, and "career blocking" (HT @Dr_Tre_Crew) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01417789241232664?s=09

What grief do you carry? How do you tend to it? What grief do the people around you carry? How do they tend to it? Creative DIY community approaches to grief & remembrance can sometimes help. www.deadgood.org/blog/mortali... #griefsky #deathsky #deathwork #griefwork #communitydeathwork

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

Offre d’emploi – PhD position in Medieval History and Digital Humanities (Ghent University) rmblf.be/2025/01/20/o...

Lev Grossman's Arthuriana fantasy 'The Bright Sword' makes the Saxons climate refugees crossing the channel in small boats (topical), fleeing floods. Can any Early-Englishers give me sources for the climate history this is based on?

A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

UK bound end of Jan! My comfy Giza apartment will be up for grabs. Prime location facing the Giza Plateau & a stone's throw from the Grand Egyptian Museum. 2 double bdrms, study, spacious living area & all mod cons. Perfect for exploring ancient wonders! DM for details! #Egypt

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Inclusive Histories - 12 months)- Royal Holloway, University of London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI088/p...

Lovely to receive print copies of my latest essay, “How Disability (re) Invents Poetry” (in SEL @sel1500to1900.bsky.social 64.2).

I keep thinking about how curiosity is such a powerful part of a critic’s toolkit, but it is paradoxically under more and more threat the more experience & knowledge the critic (and/or academic) has.

Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames? We've got the event for you! The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

US pre-orders are ready so here I go again Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, September 2025 A North Korean spy, a Korean CIA Agent, and a South Korean restauranteur get entangled in a spy game. A metaphor for the lives of the diaspora Canada pre-orders: a.co/d/10a8EcM US pre-orders: amzn.to/3DlvSvr

2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th

More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

Exciting news to end the semester—I’m delighted to announce I’ll be joining the London-Paris Romanticism symposium on “Romantic Shock & Surprise” in May! I’ll be presenting some work on gore & the Norse-Gothic spectacle to think about resistance & necropower in 18th-century poetry✨🪦✨ #EUFunded

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I got called 'fairy bookmother' today by @sharonchoe.bsky.social and I am so into it. Might rebrand. ✨

We have posted two tenured positions as assistant professor in #Anthropocene history at our centre, please help share widely: www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/... One is in #envhist and one is in history of science.

A companion to our history lists, here's a list of books, chapters, and articles published in 2024 in lit studies by scholars working off the tenure track. Compiled by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social and @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social.

Sharknado Sharknadas Sharknadat Sharknadamus Sharknadatis Sharknadant

Back at det KGL. Bibliotek today. I’ve been enjoying spending time with this collection of James Johnstone texts over the last 2 weeks & thinking about translation approaches… also there’s a lot of fun death imagery which is a big win 🪦

Flagging this up again! More reading, concepts, terms welcome! ✨

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6