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Autism researcher at Swansea University | PhD in found-footage horror film
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Steve Jones
5 months ago
Publication day! Looking forward to the new I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream VII? Then check out my new book The Postmodern Slasher Film (or order it for your library) 30% off with the code NEW30 at
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Society for the Study of the American Gothic
5 months ago
CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture Special Issue of American Gothic Studies Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria
6 months ago
Our own
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was interviewed for this article about zombies by
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28 Days Later started a zombie debate that's still raging today
28 Years Later will bring fast zombies back to cinemas, but some horror fans still think the undead should move at a snail's pace. What do the experts think?
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/28-days-later-fast-zombies-debate-111231270.html
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was lovely meeting you at the conference! Hope your journey back home wasn’t too nightmarish!
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The line-up for Horror Studies Now
@horrorstudies.bsky.social
is looking really great!
research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...
I’ll be presenting a paper on the Thursday ~ “Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire” 🧛🏾‍♀️
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Horror Studies Now 2025 – #horrorNU
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https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudies/?p=1910
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Dr Daniel Sheppard
7 months ago
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA:
bit.ly/CECFP
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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria
7 months ago
Registration is now open for Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) For information on how to register and to see the line-up, visit:
research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie...
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Catherine Grant
8 months ago
A new award graduate students who are working with video essays organised by the SCMS Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism special interest group (SIG). Please share this info with students you know and submit if you qualify (deadline this year will be June 1st).
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Dr Krysia Waldock
8 months ago
2 - 12th June - online
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#AutRes
#ReligiousStudies
#DisabilityStudies
#Inclusion
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Dr Krysia Waldock
8 months ago
I have 2 webinars coming up where I'll be sharing my doctoral research and autoethnographic work I carried out alongside!
#AutRes
#ReligiousStudies
#DisabilityStudies
#Inclusion
1 - 8th May - online
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Ben Bowsher
10 months ago
Boosting this as I am employable again as a graphic designer/illustrator over the next few months. Got a project of some kind that I can make look sharp? Message me here or email
[email protected]
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Amy Pearson
9 months ago
My MSc student Jess is looking for autistic and non-autistic people to take part in her study. If you have 20 mins spare and fancy taking part it would be hugely appreciated!
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Dr Krysia Waldock
9 months ago
Still time to book! Please share widely, and any issues please direct to
[email protected]
#ReligiousStudies
#DisabilityStudies
#AcademicSharing
#Events
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I have a book review published in the latest Open Screens Journal
www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/1...
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Book Review: Cecilia Sayad, The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Cecilia Sayad The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the HorrorGenre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). pp. 168, ISBN: 9780190065775(pb), ÂŁ20.99; ISBN: 9780190065768 (hb), ÂŁ81;...
https://www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/10549/
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Open Library of Humanities
10 months ago
Published today! Read the new issue of Open Screens, the
#diamondopenaccess
journal of BAFTSS / British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. Volume 7, issue 1:
www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/1296/i...
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Open Screens | Issue: Issue: 1(7) Volume 7, Issue 1 (2025)
https://www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/1296/info/
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Maybe someone should study these films in the context of the current climate, but I for one cannot stand Nazi zombies
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10 months ago
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Harriet Axbey
10 months ago
🌟Autistic people wanted!🌟 I would love to hear from autistic people who would like to contribute to a new book on growing up autistic. Please email
[email protected]
for more information.
#Autistic
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
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Maxine
10 months ago
I’ll soon be commissioning for the June issue of Mslexia and am open to pitches on any element of creative writing/publishing. Features are ~1,800 words and fall into one of the following broad headings: CRAFT, CREATIVITY & WELLBEING, CAREER, OFF THE PAGE
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Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria
10 months ago
CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here:
shorturl.at/XmTjU
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CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 – #horrorNU
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https://shorturl.at/XmTjU
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Tanya Goldman
10 months ago
Reading student participation assignments in my "Contemporary Women Filmmakers" class. Reminded why John Alberti's "Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation & the Gender Politics of the Set" remains one of my all-time favorite essays to teach! [Shelton đź’”]
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Amy Pearson
11 months ago
Are you a supervisor wondering how to better support your neurodivergent postgrads? Go read our latest article in
@timeshighered.bsky.social
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...
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How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers
How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-support-neurodivergent-postgraduate-researchers
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Ben Bowsher
12 months ago
Spent the morning printing to distract from how tough a career in academia is looking:
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