@dr-braid.bsky.social's musings on counterfactuality and metafictional biofiction are always fun to read!

All set for today's book club... A bagful of Count Fosco's bonbons - #PageTurners, brace yourselves!

All set for today's book club book... A bagful of Count Fosco's bonbons - #PageTurners, brace yourselves!

The third and final conference of the Changing Narratives cycle is coming 👇 This time the theme is Visibilising Victims in/of (Serial) Killing #VVSK26 We are waiting for your proposals: changingnarratives.weebly.com

📚Folio A Students' Journal #12 is out now! This special issue gathers papers from QAQV’s Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 3, showcasing works of young scholars on Spectres of Gothic Literature across novels, animation, webtoons and more. Read the issue here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-liter...

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces? This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/ You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

Dears, check out the CFP for ESSE conference 🥳 in Santiago de Compostella 🕍(31.08-04.09.2026). www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par... Session 29, organised by Sarah Beyvers and myself, is on non-literary and non-filmic engagements with the Victorian culture (e.g. games, comics). More info in the link.

Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?

Welcome @dr-braid.bsky.social!

She hath risen.

✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was! We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙

Can't wait! #QAQV9 starts tomorrow: 👉 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqv9-keynot...

Another #QAQV programme is out there. Putting this together was a pleasure!

Yay! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The submission portal for our 2026 CfP is open! Join us for Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación 💥 - English: in-csa.com/2026-call-fo... - Español: in-csa.com/2026-convoca... - @ncsascholars.bsky.social #INCS #19thC

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them" (MUSG) Apparently, I share some habits with Watson's friend...

Still super annoyed with geoblocking #BBCSounds It really worked for my Radio Gaga: Updating Literary Classics course. Some of my students have only just learnt to listen to & analyse audio adaptations and all of them enjoyed the access... Not to mention my afternoons with McLevy, Poirot & Co. ...

QAQV9 conference is coming! 📅 24–26 Sept 2025 📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw Here's more of our panel highlights: 🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes ⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms 👀 The Victorians Look Back 📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back Stay tuned for more! #victorian #conference

QAQV9 conference is coming! 24–26 Sept 2025 📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw Here are some of our panels highlights: ✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK 🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS 🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME 🦇 GOTHICISING Stay tuned for more!

To o mnie i o żonie, gdy wracamy z wakacji.

One week to go! Thanks to those who have already registered - if you haven't, here's the programme and link, again

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers! The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...

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Remember to send us your historicising/contextualising/rewriting true crime abstracts!

⏰ Have we heard from you? 🔽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉 We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past." His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.

And here we are;)

Here it is! A huge thank you to everyone who made it possible! www.wuw.pl/product-eng-...

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed! The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8... The deadline is 16 May!

My birth date doesn’t make me feel middle-aged, these almost do

Aca-Carmilla-Colleagues. Exciting new collection on new directions/imaginings of Carmilla: CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and its legacy’ If interested see the image attached or contact us at: [email protected] & [email protected]

Don't forget: #QAQV9 is coming! qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl

Finally😌

Attenta #ArthurConanDoyle fans. Don't forget to register for these two great online events taking place soon: ACD Society Honors 2025 - Thurs 16 Jan, 11:15 EST / 16:15 GMT https://buff.ly/3DFhkGZ The Literary Agents 2025 - Fri 17 Jan, 10:30 EST / 15:30 GMT https://buff.ly/402BLFl

How to gift wrap a book… my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

This has been a hectic year but one of its highlights was #PageTurners I'm really chuffed with the students meeting every 3 weeks and talking books 📚 Bookish Christmas and a bookish New Year, one and all!

The Draft Programme for the HFRC 2025 at Manchester is out now! historicalfictionsresearch.org/hfrn-confere...

Happening today: Monika Coghen in conversation with Lisa Vargo

Any #MaryShelley fans here? Save the date for this one: uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A huge thank you to @madelinepotter.bsky.social for being such a great guide on this intertextual voyage 👏👏👏

You can still register for the Historical Fictions Online Workshop on Historical Fiction and Pleasure, to be held this Saturday 30 November: historicalfictionsresearch.org/online-works...

In 10 days, the QAQV group is organising another event for PGRs & ECRs. This time the theme is Spectres of Gothic Literature: Reflections, Reworkings, Reinventions and the keynote speaker is @madelinepotter.bsky.social - have you registered yet? 👉 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-liter...

I haven't seen an adaptation studies #starterpack doing the rounds, so thought I'd create it myself! One for you if you're interested in #adaptation in a cultural context in all of its wonderfully various forms. Let me know in the replies if you'd like to be added.

@ruthheholt.bsky.social has just complicated my TBR list with her keynote on ‘Chock Full of Unease’. Frieda Klein and Tony Hill: The Psy-Detective and the Space for Empathy and insights into 2 series of novels 📚 Thank you!

@drangelabuckley.bsky.social's keynote on The Science Of Sleuthing: The Evolution of English Detective Practice in the Investigation Of Homicide, 1836-1914 was truly fascinating👏 Thank you!