I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person or online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ on the theme of Victorian Bodies: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... 🦠 📕

I'm halfway through teaching the 'Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program associated with @kebleoxford.bsky.social. Enjoying 1:1 tuition with enthusiastic study-abroad students on landscapes distorted by industry, resource extraction & colonial expansion🪾🍂

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳 It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like! It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids. Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

Calling BAVS ECRs! Join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom today anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time! DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️

If you’re a BAVS ECR, join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom tomorrow anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the first @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time of 2026! DM us for the link 🫖

Exciting news! I’m now a Teaching Associate in English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on the Astrophoria Foundation Year - a FANTASTIC access scheme for students. I’ll be teaching & assessing a ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed and supervising an extended project 👻 foundationyear.ox.ac.uk

An exciting conclusion to my time as Research Fellow on the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project! Dr Melissa Dickson & I are co-writing a book ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the @manchesterup.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social series🦠

Join the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR team today (anytime between 5pm - 6pm GMT on Zoom) for our festive final BAVS Tea Time of 2025 to chat about all things ECR and nineteenth century. DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for link or to be added to the BAVS ECR mailing list for future events! 🫖 ☕️ 📚

These metaphorical conceptions of #influenza #flu #superflu have been shaping our understanding of epidemic diseases from the late nineteenth century 1890s influenza pandemic to now

Join @gothicauob.bsky.social on Thursday 6pm (Zoom) with @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️

Have a listen to my analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Playing With Fire’ on the fantastic @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social podcast! 👻

Join us next Thursday for an exciting @gothicauob.bsky.social with the amazing @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️

Get your BAVS abstracts in! ⬇️

A little insight into some archival research on influenza I did at the National Archives last week on the unfolding 1890s influenza epidemic in Britain and Barbados and its ties to the current #Covid19 enquiry ⬇️

Reminder that the next @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea Time will take place tomorrow at 5pm - 6pm on Zoom! DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for the Zoom link and join us for an informal chat about all things early career and nineteenth century 🫖 ☕️

Our Media and Epidemics team is clearly on the same (archival) page with an unplanned encounter in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives! ⬇️

Had an exciting invitation on Sunday for a book reading, Q&A, and book signing for my @blpublishing.bsky.social ‘Summoned to the Séance’ #TalesOfTheWeird collection at Hestia Books in Wirksworth! Thanks to everyone who attended and hope you enjoy your spooky tales 👻

Fantastic Sunday afternoon spent listening to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social talk about her new book at Hestia Books

🎃2 days until @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween ‘Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives’ with Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social - join us (for all or part of the day) here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Honoured to be on this spooky starter pack 👻

Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃

Delighted with my copy of Peter Lang ‘Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth-Century. My chapter is on #love, loss, and #spiritualism in texts by Florence Marryat, Oliver Lodge & the Brownings. Thanks to Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen & Victoria de Rijke!

Lovely autumnal views from my office on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🍁

Calling @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECRs! Our next BAVS Tea Time will take place tomorrow (Weds 22nd) at 5pm-6pm (UK) on Zoom - join for all or part of an informal catch up about all things Victorian and ECR. DM me for link! We will also welcome our new BAVS ECR Rep @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🎉🫖☕️

Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️

Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme! 🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃

Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻

Just in time for #Halloween, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird books have merch! Here’s the t-shirt for my Summoned to the Séance collection: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️

Join @cncsi.bsky.social on Halloween 🎃 for 1 day of talks on ‘Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives’. Our 5 expert speakers (announced very soon!) will focus on multimedia (video game, radio, film, TV, art) adaptations, receptions, revivals, and reimaginings. Register here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...

Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️

We have an insightful new blog post from Dmytro Yesypenko about the role of folklore and epidemics in nineteenth-century #Ukranian literature #hstm #histmed #litsci #medhums: mediaepidemics.com/2025/08/29/e...

Fascinating hearing about the highly gendered visual and textual marketing and media representations of the Polidin vaccine in Romania (first marketed as an influenza cure, then a panacea) where female scientists were depicted as industrious yet unnamed #hstm #histsci #histmed #medhums

The Media and Epidemics team and @dremilyvincent.bsky.social really enjoyed presenting at the @euchanse.bsky.social #WeAreCHANSE conference, meeting humanities & social sciences researchers from across Europe to see how digital culture has (& continues to) transform over time @horizoneu.bsky.social

Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉

A free online conference (Oct 2-3rd) organised by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai on #C19 royal asiatic societies and nineteenth-century science. See on @cncsi.bsky.social here: cn-csi.com/conferences/... #hstm

Our project was represented by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social who focused on the necessary diversity of our sources (from historic newspapers, to postage stamps) for examining the range of lived #pandemic experiences and how our research of the past can prepare us for pandemic futures #hstm #medhums

I’ll be presenting our team’s findings later this afternoon 🎉 🇵🇱

I’m looking forward to presenting our findings on historic epidemics and technologies of communication on behalf of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social at the @euchanse.bsky.social conference in Kraków on Monday! 🇵🇱 #hstm #histsci #litsci #epidemics #pandemic #medhums

Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi

Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉

Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻

Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...

A summery day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social for yesterday’s group writing day in the Arts building ✍️ 💻

A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025

The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻