Things I didn’t expect to see at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival: a film with Rory Culkin in. I didn’t even know there was another Culkin.

Tonight I’m at the International Film Awards for the @mhfestival.bsky.social - looking forward to seeing some of the films that have been shortlisted.

I’ve just been walking around Glasgow in November without a coat, which feels very wrong.

Physical copies of my book have arrived, yay! I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.

Here today for the AHTV event in London run by @thetvfoundation.bsky.social - looking forward to a day of interesting panels!

Tonight is a Halloween party. I’m the ghost with the most.

👉 👉 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...

Queer Film for Halloween: Rocky Horror Picture Show screening starts now. 💃🏼

Tomorrow!

Some news! The @queereast.bsky.social festival is coming to UoB. To sign up (free), click here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/queer...

This afternoon!

For Asexuality Awareness week, we recorded a special episode of the B Film Queer Podcast with one of our fantastic PhD students who is researching into asexual representations - see their short blog post and link to the podcast here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/co... #asexuality #aceawareness

This Wednesday (22nd) there will be a webinar for the Unspool collection - all about time loops onscreen, online at 4pm (BST). I'll be taking part, talking about Russian Doll, as well as @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social and others! Registration link is here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

An interesting evening at the Cheltenham Lit fest: particularly interested research wise in Suzanne O’Sullivan’s thoughts on diagnosis and then an event on conspiracy theories.

Tomorrow!

Want to profile your own work on the 'Meet the Researcher' page? Open to all, but especially useful to those in between jobs, in precarity, and new researchers. Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan. #MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

✨️New 'Meet the Researcher' on the #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network site✨️ ✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️ Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social #MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

It’s Cheltenham Literary Festival time! This afternoon I’m off to an event on masculinity and the manosphere.

💫New on the updated website for the Mental Health Humanities Research Network, our occasional 'Meet the Researcher' slot features Dr Grace Lucas💫 Want to join the Network and gain space for your own profile? Read on 👇 mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/meet... #MHHums #MHHRN #MedHums #Interdisciplinary

It's World Mental Health Day. I wrote something briefly on male mental illness on television for The Conversation to mark it: theconversation.com/the-evolutio...

A reminder that our first event - Adaptation and AI - with @huntressleine.bsky.social and Reece Goodall - is next Weds 15th at 2pm (online) - DM us for the link!

We've updated our MHHRN website to include a new 'Meet the Researcher' page with Dr Grace Lucas: mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/2025/10/meet... take a look! #medhums #mentalhealthhums

Got a skeleton.

The event I did last night at The Exchange was in the vaults. I’ve never spoken in vaults before. It was very cool!

First queer film screening of the (academic) year!

If you're about in Birmingham tomorrow - come to the first event for Booktober - me, talking about male mental illness in literature! (it's free!) www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/male-...

Good thing about getting to campus early: the light on the autumnal trees

We'll shortly be putting a call out for the BAFTSS SIG Panel next April in Bournemouth - check your inboxes this afternoon. If you didn't get it, but would like to be on the panel, get in touch.

The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.

As part of UoB's Booktober Events, I'll be running one on Male Mental Illness in Literature in Birmingham at The Exchange. Tickets are FREE and you can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/male-menta...

Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

Out of office: on 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Have sent round an email about getting involved in upcoming events for the SIG later this year - if you'd like to be involved but didn't get the email, get in touch!

Anyone else been watching the new Wednesday series and just feeling utterly underwhelmed? It feels a lot more generic than the first season.

The latest issue of Lit/Film Quarterly has a great line up, and also features my article on 'The Work of Adaptation' where I use Haynes' May December to think through approaches to adaptation. lfq.salisbury.edu#gsc.tab=0

At the Edinburgh Fringe for the weekend, and have realised that most of the shows I’ve booked are about mental health. Next up I’m watching Joe Tracini:

This week I'm pushing to finish off my book so I can submit it. Preparing myself for screen-based migraines (and then a weekend of feeling relief)

Finally catching up with Sirens. Man, I love Julianne Moore.

FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:

I shall be sending this article in response to every university admin who spams my inbox with “How to use AI in your teaching” nonsense: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Our panel on adaptation and television studies had an interesting mix of ideas. I spoke about what the fields could offer one another, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social spoke about intertextuality, hierarchies and televisual MCU adaptations and Liam Burke spoke about kids TV adaptations, policy & culture.

An insightful and provocative paper from James Walters to kick off another panel at the CST conference this morning - asking what the costs of television studies are. (Subscriptions, access etc)

Today kicks off the Critical Studies in Television conference! I'll be watching online today (looking forward to Catherine Johnson's keynote) and heading up to Manchester tomorrow to present on adaptation and television.

I hope scholars interested in adaptation studies will consider submitting a proposal (SAMLA in Atlanta in Nov.) for this roundtable on knowledge and adaptation! @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social samla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19316

In doing a second round of edits for my book, I discover I’m obsessed with things being ‘key’. Anyone else have words they (overly) rely on in their academic writing?

The Teenage version of me is very happy. Got to go see the Kurt Cobain exhibition, *and* a vampire themed pizza bar (before NIN) yesterday.

Off to Munich tomorrow (for a mini-break) and will be doing a day in Salzburg. Obviously this meant I had to rewatch Amadeus last night. What a film. Salieri looking furious will never cease to make me laugh.

Come work with us in the Film department! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...