Here's a little Christmas piece I wrote about ETA Hoffman - an interesting character to say the least! theconversation.com/the-macabre-...

Delighted to report on another Cambridge Element, just published, and on OA for next two weeks. The wonderful Coastal Gothic by @jfpackham.bsky.social comes with an introductory video by the author too! @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Very pleased to be part of this great collection, edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social for @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and to have worked with a wonderful young colleague in @ellasbaraini.bsky.social on our chapter. #historyofemotions #suicide #eighteenthcentury

Trying to get back in the habit of posting... so, apropos to nothing, today I'm working on a paper on Madelina Forbes Mitchell - 'The Persian Nightingale' - the granddaughter of #CharlotteSmith who moved to Adelaide in 1838. British #Romanticism meets colonial Australia and local history.

This #Halloween, delight in a concoction of spellbinding Gothic titles from MUP and get 20% off our Gothic Collection until 31 December 2025. Read more about the collection: manchester.bmeurl.co/132936EE Download the title list: tinyurl.com/gothic-list #gothic #spooky #lit #film

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

The CFP deadline for the 2025 David Nichol Smith Seminar (for ANZSECS & RSAA) in Wellington has been extended to 31 July. Come along - it'll be a hoot! www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Apropos to nothing: so disappointed to belatedly learn that Apple TV+ pulled its funding for Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country. I'll file that one with Todd Haynes' doomed biopic of Peggy Lee as 'abandoned projects I would've loved to see'.

Very excited to receive these books in the mail today - one new, and one I've been eager to read for a while now. Can't wait to dive in. #sarahsiddons #davidgarrick #eighteenthcentury #poetry #drama #celebrity #loneliness

We are delighted to announce that all content from Studies in Romanticism published in 2025 will be available on the Project Muse platform via an Open Access model: muse.jhu.edu/journal/754. @projectmuse.bsky.social

Very pleased that our Routledge History of Loneliness is now out (& reasonably priced) in paperback - 30 multidisciplinary essays exploring the history of loneliness, its form and development across cultures c.17C to the present. #skystorians🗃️ www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Looking forward to diving in to this one, and bumping into my old mate the Wandering Jew.

Happy to see this edited volume on the cultural history of love with @katieebarclay.bsky.social finally out in the world, the fruit of many labours during the pandemic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... 💕

Get it while it's cheap(er)! Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium 20% of printed and e-books until April 17. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Double book launch! Graveyard Gothic (Manchester UP) and Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave). Join as the Tavern at Flinders Uni for some food, drink, and conversation. Wed 10 April, 5.30-7pm The Tavern, Student Hub, Bedford Park Campus Registration: trybooking.com/CQBZK

Are you an Adelaide honours or postgraduate student or an academic interested in body horror? Join us for a masterclass from Xavier Aldana Reyes on ‘Contemporary Body Horror: Becoming “Other(-)Wise”. Wed 10 Apr, 10am-12pm Social Sciences South 145, Flinders University RSVP: trybooking.com/CQBZF

Adelaide peeps! Come along to a special screening of Hatching (2022, dir. Bergholm) at The Mercury, introduced by Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University). Entrance is free. Free drink on arrival. Tuesday 9 April. 6.30 for 7pm start. Register here: trybooking.com/CQAAV

Picked up these lovelies at Adelaide Booksellers. The Grenadillo Box is, in part, a fictionalisation of Lord Montfort's suicide in 1755. Suicide also features prominently in Sarah Siddons' great career. And a lot of these Victorian love stories end... well, you know.

Stoked to have received my copy of this bad boy... I mean, this sombre tome. I've missed working on poetry, so perhaps this will inspire some new work.

Have just seen all Oscar-nominated shorts at the Capri Theatre. I'd be very happy to see Pachyderme (Fra) win the animated category, and either Knight of Fortune (Den) or Invincible (Can) win for live action. #oscars2024

University of Hong Kong is advertising for a Prof/Assoc. Prof on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Prof in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century). Applications close March 29. @19birkbeck.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social