At the beautiful University of Copenhagen this week for the Otherworldly Entertainments conference on Horror, Gothic & the Occult in video games! #videogames #gothic #horror @dreframss.bsky.social

TODAY is the abstract deadline for this year's AHSN Halloween Symposium on the apt theme of 'Apocalypse'! This free, online symposium welcomes interdisciplinary scholars from all over the world! Send in your abstracts! #horrorstudies #gothic 👻

🧬 Out now — M/C Journal issue 28.2: 'mutation', edited by Ashleigh Prosser, @kirstinmills.bsky.social, and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Everything from Robbie Williams to mutant fungi, with a side order of cannibalism and bishōjo... #mcjournal journal.media-cultur...

Ever want to review something from/inspired by the 19th century that isn't a book - like a film, TV series, podcast, documentary, music recording, or other recorded media? That's handy - we have a recordings reviews editor (me!) Do get in touch with proposals and queries ⬇️

Is there a long 19th-century-ish book you'd like to review? Or have you written one? We've got an editor for that! Meet Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social - book reviews editor here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

Got an opinion piece on the boil? Meet @dremilyvincent.bsky.social - our Forums Editor: she is commissioning bold, informed discussions of topical, controversial, or neglected research questions in long 19th century studies around the work.

Looking for a venue for that inspiring 19th-century-esque article you're writing? Look no further! Paul Watt is our General Editor with responsibility for articles - get in touch here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org

The Morgan Library digitized Mary Shelley's personally annotated copy of #Frankenstein and made it available online! #TwoForOne #TCMParty www.themorgan.org/collection/f...

Always good to have an appreciative audience for newly published research! I’m delighted that my chapter “Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead” is now published in the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie edited by @baconetti.bsky.social Read it online: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Good morning all! We'd love you all to meet Karen Sayer, our Practica Editor here at Advances. What is a practicum? It's the how, what, why & where of teaching the nineteenth century - & Karen would love to see proposals for reflective pieces, provocations, best practice, resources, & more #INCSA

Call for recordings reviews! ⏰🚨

🚨CFP REMINDER The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference in August 2025. The CFP is still open and we have some bursaries available. Deadline for proposals is 31 March 2025. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

Have you heard or seen any recordings inspired by/from the 19th century recently? A period film or TV series? A music album? A documentary or biopic? A streamed 19th c. theatre piece? A podcast? We're looking to publish recordings reviews - email hannah.scott at ncl. ac. uk for more info! 📃

There is still time to submit a proposal to the CFP for Otherworldly Entertainment (details found via link below). The deadline is 31 March 2025. It is sure to be an incredible event with two amazing keynotes: @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social Best of all, you get to visit Copenhagen

There is already a lot of positive buzz about the new journal with several top-notch submissions coming in. Even so, I am very interested in receiving more special issue proposals for the journal. Do get in touch with your ideas, and please share with your networks!

Our speaker can't make it this Saturday so I'm throwing myself into the breach this Saturday! Come here me talk about VICE! Virtue! and Gothic Sensibility in Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest 10am - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273198584... 7pm - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273199577...

Another reminder that we are hosting an amazing conference at Copenhagen this summer in August 2025, and our CFP is still open for submissions. I hope to see some of you there. Please share widely!

What a pure joy today to give a public lecture to a room full of such engaged and intelligent people at Ashfield Library! Thank you to all who attended and spoke to me afterwards. I had such a blast talking about the weird & wonderful History of Gothic and Fantastic Literature!

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚 #INCSA

Welcome, new followers, it's a pleasure to see you. Over the next few months, we're going to introduce the team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research. First, our General Editor, Prof Bennett Zon 👋

New soon-to-be-launched journal, Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, is on Bluesky! Give them a follow & do send in your research articles or get in touch about the other exciting ways to contribute! Some really exciting things in the works for the first issues already…

New CFP: Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2025 Conference, ‘Victorian Modernities’, with keynote speaker Professor Sally Shuttleworth. Paper and panel proposals due by 31 March 2025. #victorianstudies #nineteenthcentury

Fresh from the spirit world! It’s publication day for the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird collection ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’! Peek at its spooky contents: 14 stories of spectres, spiritualism & occult detectives ft. Dickens, Marryat & more!👻

Edith Nesbit is one of my favourite ghost story writers so I am VERY EXCITED that this week's free online talk from Romancing the Gothic is all about Edith Nesbit's Ghostly Fictions! With popular return speaker Han O'Flanagan! Come join us www.eventbrite.com/cc/december-...

It's important to remember that the "crisis in the humanities" is deliberate and not because of a lack of funds or lack of student interest, but because of how those with power choose to wield their power.

I was told recently that a major reason humanists aren’t in as many upper admin positions is that we’re viewed as annoying progress blockers because we ask inconvenient questions and also because we’re comfortable sitting w ambiguity & discomfort and also don’t rush to the nearest solution as an end

Submissions are open for the IGA early-career essay prize - the deadline is 1 March 2025 and the full details are here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int... Queries to the convenor @jendeavour.bsky.social

Gothic Studies has joined Bluesky! Thank you @kirstinmills.bsky.social and @alexiamandla.bsky.social for the starter packs and hello @edinburghup.bsky.social

A highlight for 2024: spending Halloween night at the gorgeous State Library of New South Wales speaking to a sold-out crowd of 350 spook-loving people for ‘Haunted Sydney’! We explored the grim ghost stories & curious histories of Sydney & enjoyed a stunning display of related archival objects 👻🖤

Here's a list of journals, scholarly societies, and book series devoted to 19th-c. Britain. If you're aware of others that should be added, please let me know. www.victorianresearch.org/journals.htm...

I’m excited to be giving a talk this weekend for The Friends of Coleridge Seminar Series! I’ll be exploring some of my research on Coleridge & the Gothic, focusing on his extensive Notebook writings about the nightmares that haunted him & how we can best understand them via the lens of the #Gothic!

Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join! go.bsky.app/Si2MduA

JOIN US go.bsky.app/UMEXvim

you could ask your library to order if you want

I cannot wait for this conference, & I’m STOKED to be a Keynote speaker! “Otherworldly Entertainment” - see the CFP linked below! 🖤👻🎮

Tag in, gothic/horror scholars!

And that's all, folks! Parts 1 and 2 of the 19th Century starter pack (300 entries in total!) are now FULL. I have a bananas week ahead of me, so I'm going to bow out now, but I hope these packs are useful to the community and that, if there's appetite for a Part 3, one of you will start it. ❤️

Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join! go.bsky.app/Si2MduA

Sneaking in a new publication before the end of the year! ‘Vampires in Digital Mobile Media’ is now out as part of the extensive Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire! 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🩸📲 Read it here 👉 link.springer.com/referencewor...

I’m delighted to be one of the series editors for this exciting new book series in nineteenth-century studies with Clemson University Press! Do take a look and send in your proposals! libraries.clemson.edu/press/series...

Our new @incsa.bsky.social book series with Clemson University Press is open for submissions. We are interested in any topic connected to nineteenth-century studies. Please share widely! Details 👇 libraries.clemson.edu/press/series...