If you could bring an author forward in time to watch or otherwise engage with an adaptation of their work, who and what would it be? I’d like to show Austen Clueless, Dickens Muppet Christmas Carol, and Shakespeare 10 Things I Hate About You!

AAS shoutout to AAAS: Austrian Assocation for American Studies, of interest to adaptationists! Call for the AAAS annual conference, November 5-7, 2026 in Linz. Connect here for details: aaas.at/annual-confe...

🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026 ✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada! ✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025 🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026 Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026 ✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

CFP relevant to adaptationists: « La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était »* : Uses and constructions of nostalgia in film & TV *Nostalgia isn't what it used to be Université Bordeaux Montaigne, ARTES Proposals (Fr/Eng) due 19 December 2025 Conference 30 March - 1 April 2026

CFP is up for AAS 2026 let's goooooo ✍️

👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada! ✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025 🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026 Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

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Continue to be Very enthusiastic about this - based on the outstanding Logevall biography, and w/serious talent now attached (in addition to landing Fassbinder as Joe, "Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt, Another Round)...will direct the first and last episodes") www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

It’s #OAweek, and this year we’re also celebrating 10 years since the publication of the first article in the #OLHjournal marking a decade since the launch of the OLH itself. We’re proud to celebrate a decade of scholar-led, #diamondOA publishing, sustained by our incredible community 🎉 🧵 (1/4)

A really good @loisbeckett.bsky.social article about a remarkable and heartening exhibition www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Official Launch Notes on our new release: tracking podcasts for attention to research: updates.altmetric.com/announcement...

Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material. Review: lwlies.com/reviews/fran...

Of interest to adaptationists!

if anyone is looking to commission writing on chloé zhao’s hamnet over the next few months: 💀 @edelsemple.bsky.social is the undisputed queen of shakespeare biofiction studies 💀 i myself specialise in irish shakespeares (especially actors), and celebrity casting. let us write/give talks for u!

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

🧵 The Open Book Collective is pleased to share our 2024–2025 Annual Report: A Year of Important Progress. We’ve made big strides toward sustainability, expanded our collective + strengthened global partnerships for OA books. Read the full report: openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-boo...

Periodic reminder that we have a YouTube archive of talks, video essays, and other adaptation-adjacent academic content! www.youtube.com/@association...

POV Tu as présenté Mulholland Drive la veille et le hall de l’hôtel que tu dois quitter à 5h40 tient aussi absolument à rendre hommage à David Lynch.

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever? Robert Bartlett on a Vital Work of the Western Canon That Barely Survived Multiple Disasters lithub.com/how-close-di... Beowulf at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature #old_manuscripts

🚨Heads up! As some shows are selling fast, we'll be redistributing the remaining season tickets into individual show tickets tomorrow - anyone wanting the best price for the whole season of our Wyrd Revels, do book now! #drama #horror #halloween #wyrd #devils www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

The @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social conference schedule is online and it looks amazing! #FanStudies fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna-25/

Disney World will update the Elsa, Anna and Kristoff animatronics in Frozen Ever After at EPCOT early next year. For the refresh, the animatronics will ditch the projection faces and get a look inspired by the figures featured at World of Frozen in Hong Kong Disneyland.

It's staggering how quickly a 2013 Hollywood speculative sci-fi romance movie became a documentary. I guess props to Spike Jonze for nailing it

📣Check out our brilliant Dr Erin Sullivan's new article, just published in 'Adaptation' (@adaptstudies.bsky.social)🎉🎉🎉 'Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest': academic.oup.com/adaptation/a... #Shakespeare #Adaptation #Ladybird #GretaGerwig #TheTempest #Publications

Mattel is seeing double with the latest Monster High Skullector release arriving next week: Lupita Nyong'o's Adelaide and Red from Jordan Peele's US.

The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Periodic reminder that we have a YouTube archive of talks, video essays, and other adaptation-adjacent academic content! www.youtube.com/@association...

The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The Shifflet Brothers are brilliant. The people and creatures have astonishing detail, and so lifelike. The one below is plausible as a thing that could actually exist.

Terence Stamp Pre-Shot ‘Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had “Time Of His Life” deadline.com/2025/09/tere...

FYI: The first-ever officially licensed ROCKY HORROR SHOW graphic novel, BRIDE OF ROCKY HORROR, is ready to shock and awe readers everywhere.

📣 Join us for the first talk in our Fall World Literature Webinar Series! Prof. Helga Lenart-Cheng: Telling Lives Across Borders Oct 29 | 2PM NY / 7PM Paris / 9PM Istanbul 🔗 Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #WorldLiterature #LifeWriting #Webinar

Today we celebrate the inauguration of the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies @uni-jena.de. Learn more about this important milestone highlighted by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology & Space in a profile article: www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmbf.de/de/News-Einz...

Joe Dante, the filmmaker behind movies like Gremlins, Piranha, The Howling, and The 'Burbs, has strong feelings about the restoration of cult films.

Reposting because we found @stevenleyva.bsky.social on here!

Reading 📖, literacy, & critical thinking are probably the most valuable job skills in this moment of techno-fatalism and fascist hysteria. Poems, Novels, & Memoirs are the strength training for the muscle of your imagination. Journalism is the cardio. Conversation the cooldown

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email [email protected]

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email [email protected]

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Please make sure you catch this new adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Christmas Karma, directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham. My partner wrote lyrics for several of the songs and I‘m incredibly excited to hear his work sung by this all-star cast!

That means there are only two titles still looking for a reviewer: 🌹 The Roses (2025) — Jack Roach ⚔️ The Odyssey (2026) — Christopher Nolan If either of these calls to you—or if there’s another upcoming adaptation you’re burning to review—email me at [email protected]

To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore. To be continued in 2026! 🕰️

One day in the books, one more on the docket for To Be Continued...! Registration is still open: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... On tonight's program: panels on Franchises and Legacies...

THE FUTURE IS HERE! Today the adventure of To Be Continued, umm, continues, now in its FIFTH iteration. adaptation 🤝 seriality

(health) sciences, adapting from (healthcare) science fiction: it has happened before!