💙 So so excited for and proud of our contributors!

❗COVER REVEAL❗ This photo symbolises so much to me, and I am grateful to the Lilly Library at Indiana University for granting me permission to use it. Pre-Order it here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

❗COVER REVEAL❗ This photo symbolises so much to me, and I am grateful to the Lilly Library at Indiana University for granting me permission to use it. Pre-Order it here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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...

Something wicked this way comes… on 31 January 2026!

Important choice under setting --» data privacy on LinkedIn

CAUTION! From November 3, 2025, #LinkedIn will use members' data to improve the content-generating AI the company uses (excluding the messages). You can opt out checking the settings and disabling the corresponding option. Do it now, if you wish, but check again in November.

In 2019, I saw The Bell Jar on stage. For my PhD viva, my mum got in contact with the actress playing Esther who sent me a congratulatory message. Today, my mum works at that theatre and does the hair and makeup in the stage adaptation of the novel. theplathwitchcraft.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/t...

Just a reminder that if you like the work Romancing the Gothic does - free talks, free book groups and author visits, charity days, conferences, free workshops... you can support it here The project is supported by donations only www.patreon.com/romancingthe...

It was lovely to see familiar faces at my talk "Sylvia Plath and the American Witch-hunts". There is still time to register for the evening talk if you are interested in hearing about Salem, The Crucible, Plath, burning witches, and Joan of Arc. 🔥 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pla...

Still time to register for my talk on Sylvia Plath and the American Witch-Hunts: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pla... eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pla...

Barbie publication and Plath talk My chapter ‘Dreaming in Plastic: Branding, Iconography, and the Evolving Domesticity of Barbie’s Dreamhouse from the Kitchen Debate to Barbie (2023)’ is now available in the edited collection The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 2, published by Routledge: If anyone…

My chapter ‘Dreaming in Plastic: Branding, Iconography, and the Evolving Domesticity of Barbie’s Dreamhouse from the Kitchen Debate to Barbie (2023)’ is now available in the edited collection The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 2, published by Routledge: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

One week to go! Register in the links below.

Part time at 5.5 hours per week— for shame! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOK805/l...

Proofreading my book

“The non-binding deal could give OpenAI access to government data and lead to its software being used in education, defence, security and the justice system” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excited to give a talk on 'Sylvia Plath and the American Witch-Hunts' on 13th September in the Romancing the Gothic online lecture series. I'm drawing on the materials from my forthcoming book. Donations are welcome :)Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pla... eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pla...

My mum told me she pre-ordered my book. :') I have at least 1 sale haha Anyway, here is the Waterstones link: waterstones.com/book/sylvia-... Ask your library to pre-order the physical copy: cambridge.org/gb/universit...

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

So, someone has written this before me 🥲if anyone knows Maggie would love to get it touch and exchange ideas. www.penguin.co.uk/books/477789...

Today was my last official day of employment as a Lecturer in Modern English at the University of Groningen. 1.5 years of Dutch living. I’m a jobless academic now going back to England. Desperate for any #academic #teaching role, #postdoc or any #writingopportunity

extremely important to remember that you DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT A LAWYER

Book haul ☺️

My book is now listed and has an ISBN. 🥰 www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness is so far my best read of 2025. A fever-dream folk horror story with allusions to One Hundred Years of Solitude, witches, devils, the Spanish Civil War. Generations of women in a whispery poetic cacophony. Always looking for new #witchstories

A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

While the decision of the city of Budapest to co-organize Budapest Pride is unprecedented in its defiance of government pressure, the wider struggle for LGTBQ+ rights continues, writes Mici Kornis www.eurozine.com/banning-prid...

This thread is really important. I'm leaving my job in the Netherlands & moving back to Devon with no job prospects yet. I'm worried, tired of job applications. I'm trying everything right now to have institutional access which is so key for research but precarious employment makes everything hard.

I wrote a book review about Meredith Martin's Poetry’s Data. It was a somewhat challenging but very important read. Essential for anyone working in #digitalhumanities #poetry @TheBSLS bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/mart...

Got a professional head shot 📸

When hobby meets research #SylviaPlath #TaylorSwift #witches #conference

What is a University Press? On the acquisition of AUP by T&F (and my anger at it), the governance link between universities and university presses, and putting one's labour where one's values are. eve.gd/2025/06/08/w...

Share your thoughts on the future of research publishing online1.snapsurveys.com/Interview/27...

Lovely to have this in my hands and can’t wait to read it! Wonderful work @madelinepotter.bsky.social !! And thank you

So so happy❤️ Rep is too perfect to replicate it, same as Style OG.

🚨| Taylor Swift now owns the masters of all her albums—the masters, the recordings, the videos, everything!

Why are so many academic publishers producing ugly, unusable e-books of nicely typeset print books. Just give us the PDF already.

Check out the programme for Unquiet Shores here haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shor... You can join us online or in person. Register by 2 June 🌊👻

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

Every day, I'm grateful to teach in my research area: I so enjoyed discussing in my MA class the Grimms' tales' wicked witches, evil stepmothers, absent fathers, Baba Yaga, and Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes on witchcraft, domesticity, queerness, and escapism.

I was lecturing on psychoanalysis today to first-year students, discussing Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, and feminist criticism of psychoanalysis and bragged about @torilmoi.bsky.social following me on Bsky

My revised biographical entry on Sylvia Plath is now available at The Literary Encyclopedia. litencyc.com/php/speople....

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

We hold the business archive of Agatha Christie (EUL MS 99) here at @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social, comprising correspondence with her literary agent Edmund Cork, and having read many of her letters regarding reuse of her work, I have no doubt she'd have been appalled by this idea

There is a link! www.routledge.com/The-Barbie-P... Forthcoming chapter ‘Dreaming in Plastic: Branding, Iconography, and the Evolving Domesticity of Barbie’s Dreamhouse from the Kitchen Debate to Barbie (2023)’ in The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 2 (Sept, 2025) #Barbie #plastic #ColdWar #Routledge