People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.

Victorian Network's special issue "Victorian Pedagogy" is out today, including my article "The Moralist Critic and the Student Activist: A Reconsideration"! www.victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn...

Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

My interview with David Szalay is now out in @englishstudies.bsky.social. We discussed his latest novel, Flesh (since longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize); his explorations of migration and masculinity; and the affective and neurological dimensions of his style. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Publishing today! Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy #Ghosts #GothicStudies Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

Incredibly excited to be able to announce the launch of our London Journal database, compiled by Robert Shoemaker and David Green, with help from @tandfresearch.bsky.social, which offers a valuable insight into how the study of the metropolis's past and present has shifted over the past 50 years. 🧵

Heads-up that the CFP submissions deadline for the 2026 Dickens Society NeMLA panel has been extended until September 30th!

What day is it sir? Why it's DICKENS DAY sir! Join us in London on 11 October for a day of readings and papers on the theme of Dickens and Art. More details and booking form here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!

📣Only one week left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

Join us for Musical Adaptation in Practice -an @adaptationtoday.bsky.social event exploring how composers and performers bring stories to life through sound, puppets, and live performance. Dec 12, 12PM EST Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #AdaptationStudies #FilmMusic #TheaterAdaptation

📢 Our most recent special issue on Posthumanism and English Studies explores the literary #posthuman, with a poignant focus on environmental studies & speculative fiction. Read the #openaccess introduction by guest editors Prof. Başak Ağın and Dr Z. Gizem Yılmaz here 🌱: #anthropocene #ecocriticism

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Quite fond of the retro, 70s-style poster for the new Wuthering Heights, with Jacob Elordi doing his best impression of Timothy Dalton.

The ‘Showtime’ exhibition now on at the dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-ev... has playbills, annotated copies of the scripts of Dickens’s reading texts and interviews with adaptors and performers of Dickens and his works and more.

Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .

We are delighted to announce that English Studies has officially joined this digital space! 📖 Looking forward to sharing the wonderful contributions from scholars working on language, literature & culture in the English-speaking world. More details on the journal 👇: @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Reminder that I am open for business for all your research, writing, editing and copy-editing needs! Recent projects include creating a personal archive catalogue, and copy-editing English academic manuscripts for authors of other languages. Get in touch via website or DM! www.drvicclarke.co.uk

Thank you @drchrislouttit.bsky.social you were an amazing president. I feel very honoured to be able to pick up the baton from you. Looking forward to serving the @dickenssociety.bsky.social in this new role. To first days!

Our Ways of Reading module starts off with Jane Eyre looking at classic feminist readings moving thru postcolonial readings to disability studies - what are we missing? Suggest me some recent, undergrad-friendly criticism (ideally in article form) please and thank you 🙏

A day of firsts on September 1st: just taught my first seminar of the term, and after three years it's also my first day of not being President of @dickenssociety.bsky.social. Feels a bit odd, but I can relax as I'm passing on the baton to our brilliant new President @michamahlberg.bsky.social!

Join us to rethink the transformations and afterlives of ideas! #CfP

I'm so excited for the conference "Children on the Move" which will take place at the University of Angers on March 26-27 ! If you haven't already sent us your proposal, there is still time (deadline: September 12). Full call for papers available here: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...

Dickens was the best author in history at identifying and portraying that everyone has a “thing they will talk about too much”

Rebecca F Kuang: ‘A Tale of Two Cities is deeply silly camp – I love it!’:

Jocko, The Horse-Riding Monkey, arguably the most neglected historical figure of the nineteenth century.

Don't forget to join us next week Friday (5 September) for our first #RSVPDigiEvent post-conference. We'll learn some tips + tricks on crafting a *standout* grant application to fund your next book project or archival research trip. Say, aren't Curran Fellowships still open? 😏 tinyurl.com/yc5fsdva

Here's the link for my @greenhouseuis.net talk about my new book: newnatures.org/greenhouse/e.... It'll be at 3–4pm UK time on 1 September. Be there or be square! Or be a hollow globe filled with concentric spheres.

Rare sketches made of Dickens's plays in rehearsal are now on display at the Dickens Museum. I've been lucky enough to see these up close and really enjoyed studying these - a must see! www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

We have new coffee machines in our building, and not only is the coffee slightly better but they have oat milk options! Will be trying my best not to drink too much & end up jittery like Fry by the end of the day...

Only a few days left to register for our "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archive" study day, to be held at the #BritishLibrary on November 7. Information and registration here: pictorial-punch.sciencesconf.org/registration

CFP: Teaching Dickens’s Compositional Process & Serial Form (Submission Deadline: 1/31/26) bit.ly/3HLOtmX

Got to introduce myself to our new first years, and just sent off a long-delayed book review to the editor. Please send cookies.

CFP 📣Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body📣 DEADLINE EXTENDED: abstracts by 14 Sept 2025! Keynote: prof. Jack Halberstam 🗓️ 11–13 February 2026 📍 University of Wrocław, Poland 🌐 Hybrid Format 📌 Our site: wordpre150.wordpress.com

Interesting, reflective piece by Nicholas Blincoe about his family connection to Robert Blincoe and to the multiverse that is Oliver Twist - might have a look at his literary memoir Oliver Twist & Me:

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Still time to apply!

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website! rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

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Looking forward to this (I think!): this year's Scroogical is Christmas Karma, a Bollywood-inspired, updated take on the Carol directed by Gurinder Chadha. Kunal Nayyar is Scrooge, Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, Boy George the spirits, and Hugh Bonneville features as the Ghost of Jacob Marley.

Jumping on the Jane Austen bandwagon and offering a short course from Halloween to her birthday (approx!) - join me! Or help me spread the word! Please and thank you!!

Four details of carved fonts, Greyfriars Cemetery, Edinburgh 🤩

Abstracts due September 8th!

Thanks @rs4vp.org for sharing this. Any questions, email me & Clare Walker Gore, co-editors of the special issue. I look forward to lots more Oliphant!

It's not so much the horse rein sex and suggestive egg yolks mentioned in this that shocked me, but the fact that Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is already 14 years old. It does sometimes feel like I measure out my life in classic adaptations.

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.