Really happy to be doing an event at the end of May with my excellent colleague, @lukekennard.bsky.social - talking about masculinity and writing. More details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/mascu...

NEW BOOKS 📚 in the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series! link.springer.com/series/14654 🎮 John Sanders, Literary Game Adaptations: A Systems Approach (Monograph) 🍄 Pamela Demory, ed. Ecoadaptation: Mediating Nature and the Environment (Collected essays)

Great event last night for Flatpack Festival - screened the film and the discussion afterwards with the audience was so engaging and gave me hope.

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

11-17 May is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. Every day this week I’ll share an open access resource that invites us to know more about what it is like to experience things differently and feel overwhelmed. Glad to work with Mind to pursue research that matters and to be part of #projectEPIC.

This week!

Just over a week to go until this!

At Cheltenham Jazz Fest today, saw an adaptation/arrangement of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue for an orchestra. So good to see new ways to appreciate a classic.

A reminder that you can win a copy of this book by listening to the latest episode of Utopian and Dystopian Fictions (on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube) and following the instructions there.

Really happy to be doing an event at the end of May with my excellent colleague, @lukekennard.bsky.social - talking about masculinity and writing. More details here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/mascu...

Starting soon!

📣Event Tomorrow (29 April)📢 'Teaching Mental Health Humanities', feat. @harbottlestores.bsky.social & Grace Lucas. Come, think, & share methodologies & leave with new ideas! Online, 3-4.30pm BST. Deets 👇 For the link, email/DM me @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan #MedHums

A week today! Come along if you're interested in Mental Health Humanities.

In May (14th) I'll be doing an event with Flatpack Film Festival - a screening and discussion on The Fall of Douglas Weatherford, focusing on male mental health in film - come along! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/the-fa...

Watching the new/final season of The Boys and it feels painfully on the nose 😬

Had a great time at @baftss.bsky.social 2026 - so many interesting papers, the beach, and just generally very good vibes. Well done to everyone involved!

All good things must come to an end - thank you to all who have made #BAFTSS2026 at the Marriott Bournemouth very special. Profound thanks to our outgoing Chair, Gábor Gergely, for his robust stewardship of the association over the last few years 👏 #baftss #conference #filmstudies

The final day of BAFTSS 2026! Currently in the Sci-Fi panel (great papers), will be speaking on Russian Doll after lunch and then hosting our second Adaptation SIG panel.

Kicking off the men and masculinities panel is Callum Ratcliffe talking about performative masculinity #baftss2026

Arrived early this morning to a misty Bournemouth for the #baftss2026 conference - lots of great panels ahead, and excited to see everyone!

While registration for AAS 2026 at Burman U 🇨🇦 remains ongoing, applications & expressions of interest to host AAS 2027 are now open! Reach out to us here or our Board chairs @cbkenkar.bsky.social & @stinaface.bsky.social to learn more.

Starting now!

Voting in Lit Hub's Best Adaptation bracket was easy peasy until the very last choice: Arrival vs. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Brutal choice! lithub.com/what-is-the-...

A non-academic related thing - last month I published a collection of short stories. They're a mix of speculative and contemporary fiction, and if you know anyone who is interested, send them here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GTSG9B6...

In May (14th) I'll be doing an event with Flatpack Film Festival - a screening and discussion on The Fall of Douglas Weatherford, focusing on male mental health in film - come along! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/the-fa...

I already cannot wait for this: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Was not expecting to see a Méliès today in Malaga, but happy I did.

Just shared news of our next MHHRN event: Teaching Mental Health Humanities with @harbottlestores.bsky.social and Grace Lucas. Weds 29th April, 3-4.30pm, online. Get in touch if you're not on the mailing list and want the link!

Ryan Gosling sure is watchable.

I did an immersive video game experience thing in London today and I loved it but also spent some time thinking ‘I wonder if I could write about this’ 🙃

Weirdly, my lecture today in my 'Identity and Cultural Narratives' module was on technology and how it's shaped our sense of self - think I'll have to use this for future discussions.

Forgot to post this last week but a new episode of our Queer Film Podcast is out, where we talk about The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson: open.spotify.com/episode/7vJl...

I’ve just started watching Vladimir and I have two words: RACHEL WEISZ

Deadline today!

Starting soon!

Sent round details of our next MHHRN event happening in April: 'Teaching Medical Humanities' with Jennifer Wallis, online (29th April, 3pm). More details to follow soon.

An amazing #TwinPeaks Day to all my fellow freaks.

A reminder that abstracts are due THIS FRIDAY. If you're interested in coming to and speaking at a free symposium, see below:

Also, our March event on Adaptation and Authorship will take place on 4th March at 4-5pm (UK time) with William Proctor and Katrijn Bekers. DM if you've not got the zoom link!

This week I'm doing a webinar with the Centre for Policy Research for Men and Boys on Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. For more info and to register, look here www.menandboys.org.uk/nce/webinar-...

LFA/AAS continues today! Tune in once again at 9:00 a.m. EST / 14:00 GMT for another full program of online conferencing. Follow the link in the OP for registration info 💻

STARTS TODAY! Our LFA/AAS joint online conference on Adaptation & Collaboration launches at 9:00 a.m. EST / 14:00 GMT. It's not too late to register! For more info: www.adaptation.uk.com/adaptation-c...

Starting tomorrow! I'm the very last paper of the event, speaking on intersections between mental health and adaptation.

Today!

Reminder: our Adaptation SIG event is this Wednesday 4pm (UK time) on Adaptation and Franchises! DM if you've not got the zoom link.

Found a reason to share some text from this article in my class yesterday (of students who were wanting to be writers) on the value of writing and how it is shifting with LLMs. Really trying to hammer in the consequences of GenAI: thewalrus.ca/if-chatbots-...

Misty morning on campus today.

Second this - if you're interested, I've hosted an AAS conference before/am on the board and more than happy to chat!

Not long to go before the LFA/AAS online conference - more details/link to sign up below!

My partner bought me a poster to put in my office: