Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world! Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️ The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gothic-ce...

Pleased to say that I am now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy! Thank you to Anglia Learning and Teaching at @angliaruskin.bsky.social for all their support 🎓⭐️

Some pictures from a fantastic evening at Elemental Cinema - an exhibition of experimental film featuring work by three talented @angliaruskin.bsky.social colleagues

Some of my favourite shots from my visit to the #LeighBowery exhibition at #TateModern last week. An audacious and inspiring collection - Bowery really was one of a kind!

As a lifelong fan of #LindsayLohan, I had a great time watching this film! You can read my @uk.theconversation.com review of #FreakierFriday here theconversation.com/freakier-fri...

Film and Media at ARU are hiring two new lecturers! Come and work with us! Job adverts can be found via this link jobs.aru.ac.uk/vacancies.ht...

Watched #28YearsLater this weekend. Some great tense moments, good jokes, beautiful scenery, Ralph Feinnes being brilliant...but also felt kind of jumbled to me? I've not worked it out myself just yet, but I'm really enjoying reading people's thoughts on it (maybe more than actually watching it?!)

Had a wonderful time attending the Doing Women's Film and Television History conference for the first time last week, and presenting my paper on #MeganFox. Such a welcoming space and many fascinating discussions were had! #filmstudies #starstudies #celebritystudies #academia

It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD! #NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️ forms.gle/rY1vageMxmFe...

The #Cambridge #Poetry Festival returns in 2026. This year it's the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 festival, so under the CPF branding, we're helping to promote a whole load of Cambridge-based poetry events over the summer. bsky.app/profile/angl... bsky.app/profile/angl...

Symposium: Transmedia True Crime in the Algorithmic Era 11th June 5-7:30pm @tanyah.bsky.social on Luigi Mangione @memorieschild.bsky.social on AI true crime & Dr Michael Goddard on true crime on YouTube READ MORE: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Some pictures from the opening night of @angliaruskin.bsky.social annual Graduate Showcase. It's always a pleasure to see our students' incredible creative work!

PROJECTIONS: Lynchian Women. My online lecture hosted by Freud Museum London. 5 June, 6:00 pm. Laura Palmer, Renee Madison, Diane Selwyn, Dorothy Vallens, etc. Revisit these solid gold ladies and pay tribute to a Master of cinema. Open to international registrants 🌎➡️ www.freud.org.uk/event/projec...

✨COVER REVEAL✨ I'm thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema. This stunning artwork was created by the talented Suspirialand, who perfectly captured my vision with haunting beauty and intuitive brilliance.

SUBMISSIONS EXTENSION. Want to be part of the Ten Poets series? Fancy playing the part of Jacquotte Delahaye or Jonathan Harker? We've extended our latest call for submissions to 19 June. Share far and wide! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/subm...

I recently finished Netflix's #CobraKai and... I am so goddamn impressed. I can't even express all the positive things I have to say about this. A great example of 'kind TV', with some incredibly thoughtful explorations of masculinity, male friendships and male role models. Would HIGHLY recommend!

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...

Had the pleasure of listening to this excellent talk today by guest speaker Dr Jessica Ford! Kevin Can F**k Himself is such an important and innovative TV show in its depiction of domestic abuse - would highly recommend.

Interesting! Versace gets a few mentions in my book #GothicCelebrity (via Lady Gaga and Ryan Murphy), so I'm looking forward to hearing more about this exhibition. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

for folks interested in the SINNERS edited volume, the CFP has been edited with an earlier deadline now for the abstract submissions — due now in June instead of July docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This is a fantastic course. I've done it before and loved it so much I have signed up again this year! More info here for anyone who might be interested 👇

A good #GothicCelebrity find 🩸😱 Very excited for Charli XCX's scream queen era! bloody-disgusting.com/movie/386623...

This is SUCH a brilliant idea. Registered my attendance!

Ali Din, one of our fantastic PhD students at ARU, is featured on @bloomsburylit.bsky.social's blog! You can read about their research here: bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/04/from...

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

Pleased to see that a campaign I worked on with Tin Man Comms has been well received in the media! We examined depictions of stepmothers, the impact on single parents when dating and stepping into blended families, and how negative stereotypes are being reframed www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

I'm writing a book about the relationship between celebrity and the Gothic in literature, media and culture. So... I've decided to start the hashtag #GothicCelebrity to share some of the weird and wonderful content I often find. Feel free to engage and share with your network!

Hello friends! I'm a writer and academic interested horror, the Gothic, celebrity culture and feminism. I'll be sharing fun updates from my research on this account, watch this space! 💀⭐️