Green's image provides an intriguing reinterpretation of John Leech's original illustration, "The Last of the Spirits". Green is slightly more faithful to Dickens's text in representing Scrooge clutching at the Spirit's robe, but the miser's name is not evident on the gravestone as in Leech.

not to let down this fine academic organization, but this announcement had me at killer squirrels

CFP of potential interest to AAS members & friends! www.facebook.com/events/63988...

EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!

"‘Jeust twa folk ken’: Adapting and Performing The Seven Sages of Scotland" by Jane Elizabeth Bonsall and Daisy Black: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal SC: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

A British professor who has turned his latest book into a Europop dance album is hoping his genre of “academic trance” will engage new audiences with scholarly research, reports @jgro-the.bsky.social https://ow.ly/MyOU50XLvvj

The Transgender Media Portal (TMP): an award-winning, trans-made film database is in the final stretch of its fundraiser. Lehman-Stamm Family Fund is matching donations and TMP seeks your help to raise final 25% to fight trans invisibility and sustain this resource. Scan the QR code to donate!

EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!

The LFA/AAS 2026 Conference programme for Feb 19/20 is done - great papers (as you can see from a snapshot of some of the Friday panels below). I'll be speaking about mental health/adaptation. If you'd like the full programme, DM me. And to sign up, here's the link: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

TODAY ONLY! Squeak in those final registrations ✍️

Call for Papers: The Third International Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference The Technologies of Asian Stardom, Celebrity and Fandom Conference University of Nottingham Ningbo China Date: 23–25 October 2026 live-china-uon.cloud.contensis.com/en/humanitie...

TODAY ONLY! Squeak in those final registrations ✍️

Thank you @edelsemple.bsky.social for flagging this great post and piece! Such a unique show that #WillScheibel and I decided some years back to put this book together. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Applications are open until the end of this week! We already have some great applicants but there's space for a few more 😊 @goetheuni.bsky.social #fanfic #fanfiction #fanstudies @fanstudies.bsky.social

Anyone have some research on podcasting & adaptation they'd like to share? 🎧

“Who ate the baby? ‘Canis’’ adaptation history visualized” by Lilli Hölzlhammer: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection: Global Premodern Literature in the Digital Age: The Seven Sages of Rome/ Sindbad/ Syntipas/ Dolopathos

Knives Out filmmaker Rian Johnson has steadfastly denied the wishes of scores of internet users asking for a Benoit Blanc mystery in which Daniel Craig’s character is surrounded by Muppets. Sesame Street, however, has found a loophole.

⏱️ COUNTDOWN to the AAS 2026 proposal deadline, 15 Dec! Adaptation & Aurality, echoing through the Canadian Rockies at Burman University...sounds amazing!👂 Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

⏱️ COUNTDOWN to the AAS 2026 proposal deadline, 15 Dec! Adaptation & Aurality, echoing through the Canadian Rockies at Burman University...sounds amazing!👂 Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

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⚠️ DEADLINE TODAY!!! ⚠️ Get your abstract in for the LFA/AAS joint conference on Adaptation & Collaboration, to be held online February 19-20 2026 🖥️

Interested in the #Shakespeare #Academy 2026 and want to find out more about it? 👀 Visit #dsg_shakespeare on Instagram to hear from former participants 📢

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

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...

Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.

CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026

I am fascinated by the Unfilmable Book designation. We don’t say Unalbumable Book or Unpaintable Pop Single or Unstageable Sculpture. The book-to-film pipeline was powerful from the dawn of film but so were plays, short stories, magazine pieces, paintings-to-film

Need a mentor in adaptation practice? Look no further!

CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026

Really looking forward to this! Join us!

Come for the Creature, stay for a chaotic digression into Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the sexy sexy 90s. Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341

Counting down to Public Domain Day 2026 The New Classics Collective turned Fire!!, a 1926 Harlem magazine for young Black artists, into a play at Philadelphia’s Quintessence Theatre, featuring works by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston. via @[email protected] #books

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a monster.

Many thanks to @drchrislouttit.bsky.social for putting this together and helping us all get settled in over here! #adaptstudies

Need a mentor in adaptation practice? Look no further!

👉 👉 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...

@adaptstudies.bsky.social is inviting applications for Editorial Board Members starting January 2026. Join our community of scholars and make a meaningful contribution over a two-year term: oxford.ly/4oZKnHX Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

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...

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...