Happy Bisexual Visibility Day to all the bisexuals who did not get raptured.

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...

Panel 2 today is Bill Mooney talking about post adaptationism.

This morning for the last day of @adaptstudies.bsky.social I’m chairing a panel on arthouse adaptations. After Wickham Flannagan’s video essay on Eggers, we have Yuri Caribe talking about I’m Still Here.

The final panel of day 2 is television adaptations, starting with @paranoidstylist.bsky.social talking about Le Carre adaptations

Also yesterday we got to celebrate 10 years of the Palgrave Adaptation series, run by @grossmjj.bsky.social and Barton Palmer. There was an excellent cake, and I’m so happy to have been on a cake in such excellent company

The post lunch panel is a round table on true crime adaptations, kicked off by the wonderful @grossmjj.bsky.social

Last night, the House of Lords defeated the Government for a fourth time by passing an amendment establishing meaningful transparency measures for the use of rightsholders’ works in AI systems, many of which are being used without recognition, permission or remuneration. (1/3)

Our second keynote of the @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference is @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social talking about the digital afterlife of the transnational film remake

Day 2 of @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference is kicked off by a video essay on self adaptation as rebirth by Ada Özduran

Coming up on the conclusion of day 1 of @adaptstudies.bsky.social. Many thanks to @stinaface.bsky.social for capturing this photo and for hosting me at U of Birmingham last week

The last panel of the day was a fascinating one on aurality and adaptation.

First up in our panel this afternoon on multiplicities and multiverses is Olgahan Yalçin talking about Jumanji adaptations. @adaptstudies.bsky.social

The @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference is kicking off with a panel on AI and adaptation, chaired by the excellent @cbkenkar.bsky.social

Had a fantastic day talking about adaptation ideas at UoB today - I structured it as a series of workshops so we had space for thought and curiosity. Some great discussions with @faywinfield.bsky.social @huntressleine.bsky.social @iriskb.bsky.social @rosemaryaj.bsky.social among others!

Our last podcast episode of the season for Queer Film Pod! This time @ninajonesfilm.bsky.social and I talk about I Saw The TV Glow, with guest appearances from two of our fantastic students. A really fun ep to record! open.spotify.com/episode/3Q4Q...

Very excited for the upcoming @adaptstudies.bsky.social conference in Istanbul this weekend/next week.

Interested in showcasing your own research in #MentalHealth Humanities? Our Network website offers space for you (esp useful for new PhDs/those in precarity, but open to anyone) 👇 Get in touch with me or @stinaface.bsky.social - we'd love to support you #ECR #ECRChat #PhDChat #Interdisciplinary

Listening to The Cure's Disintegration when doing your emails definitely adds a more dramatic vibe to the morning

Today!

The Flatpack event last night went well - good to chat to @duncancowles.bsky.social and James Mason about male mental health. (The only photo I took wasn’t great, but here we go)

My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!

The exhibition has been getting many lovely responses from nostalgic adults, but we'd love to know what today's kids think too! It remains open this week through to Saturday.

This Wednesday!

Our next joint MHHRN/Digital Wellbeing event is this Thursday - sign up below!

Great to now have a physical copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, ed. Christina Wilkins (@stinaface.bsky.social). Looking forward to exploring the rest of the volume!

I'm marking so obviously the urge to procrastinate is through the roof.

Awareness days have their place, but let’s not only make #mentalhealthawareness just about hashtags - let’s make space for people to speak, be believed, be treated in a trauma-informed and accepting way, and get the support they need #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Got the seeds for a new book idea. This is one of the best (and scariest) feelings.

Want to discover what's going on in #MentalHealth Humanities, or profile your work? Read our Meet the Researcher profiles or contact @stinaface.bsky.social or me to submit your own 1/3 #MedicalHumanities #MedHums #MHHums

Got a great haul for free comic book day!