🧛 New on the QAQV blog The Tragic Fate of Vlad Tepes: Postcolonial Criticism in Japanese Anime Fate/Apocrypha (2017) ✍️ Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz How did Vlad III become the world’s most famous vampire? How Anime revisits his story and cultural memory Read more: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/the-tragic-f...

QAQV lecture! Mary Carr – Who Was She Really? Fact, Adaptation & Fictionalities of a Female Victorian Gang Leader 🗓 23 April | ⏰ 19:00 CEST | 💻 Zoom Register: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/ Join Emma Woodhouse as she explores Mary Carr’s life and legacy — from archival records to modern portrayals.

QAQV Chats #4 💬 Neo-historical Biofiction: Counterfictional Lives 19 March 2026 | 19:00–20:30 CET | Zoom Barbara Braid (Univ. of Szczecin) in conversation with Anna Gutowska (Jan Kochanowski Univ.), followed by Q&A moderated by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko. Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqvchats/

🎉QAQV Research Group celebrates its 4th anniversary! 🎊 It has been an amazing year! QAQV9 conference, blog posts, guest lecture, new issue of Folio based on the papers from the third WLM RS 3, and so much more! Read our anniversary blog post for a full recap! Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/year4/

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference Friday 26th June 2026 Edge Hill University For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

📣CFP Only One Week Left!📣 WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

If you've been to #QAQV9, you got a glimpse into the revised edition - here's more!

📚Folio A Students' Journal #12 is out now! This special issue gathers papers from QAQV’s Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 3, showcasing works of young scholars on Spectres of Gothic Literature across novels, animation, webtoons and more. Read the issue here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-liter...

New post on the QAQV blog! Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish explores The Last Witch of Scotland (2023) and the tragic fate of Janet Horne, asking how fiction restores silenced women’s voices and confronts fear, gender, and historical erasure. 👉 Read more here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/thelastwitch...

📣CFP Reminder📣 WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/ #cfp #victorian #QAQV

💃 New QAQV Blog Post! What is the Dance of the Seven Veils really about? Konrad Zaręba explores Oscar Wilde’s Salomé from biblical roots and decadent aesthetics to myth, orientalism, and its reinvention by suffrage-era performers. Read the full post here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/danceofthese...

For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks. Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!

📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more. 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces? This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/ You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

🧵 New QAQV Blog Post! Discover the brilliance of Mary Linwood, the 18th/19th-century embroideress who transformed needlework into fine art. A fascinating look at artistry, innovation, and legacy. 👉 Read the post by dr Paweł Rutkowski here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/mary-linwood...

📢 Just one day left! Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, 13 November (Thursday) at 7:00 PM CET on Zoom for the next QAQV Lecture! 👉 If you haven’t yet — register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/ 📚 Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act

📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture: “Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.” Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature. Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/ #QAQV #Dickens

🏛️ New on the QAQV blog! 🏛️ Our latest blog post by Dr. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko looks back on three inspiring days of papers, keynotes & conversations during our QAQV9 conference. 👉 Read the full post here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqv9-24-26-...

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Barbara Braid to the QAQV Research Group! Barbara is based at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, where she explores Neo-Victorianism, biofiction, the Gothic, comics & graphic novels, and much more See more lit.usz.edu.pl/instytut/pra...

✨ Here are some moments from the 9th From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ✨ 📚 So many discussions had, presentations heard, and ideas exchanged. 📚 #QAQV9 #AcademicConference

✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was! We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙

🎉The QAQV9 Conference is over — and what a success it was! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing contributions. We’re so grateful for this community and can’t wait to see you at the next one! 💙 Your energy and engagement made it unforgettable. #QAQV9 #Academicconference #Victorian

It's the final countdown🎶 🎤Jerome De Groot A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich 🎤 Valerie Purton Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria 🎤 Mina Gorji Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry #QAQV9

🎉 Don't forget about our QAQV9 conference and the amazing keynote speakrs that we host! 🎉 Jerome De Groot 🗓 24 September | 🕙 10:15 Valerie Purton 🗓 25 September | 🕟 16:30 Mina Gorji 🗓 26 September | 🕐 13:00 Venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room: 1.110, Warsaw #conference2025

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026! You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

+ an opportunity for remote participation

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/

Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org

Ruth Richardson in @thelancet.com discusses how “The Body-Snatcher” shows RL Stevenson’s “acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie” #C19th #horror www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Chinoiserie in History, Culture, and at a Conference In our latest blog post, Dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz comments on the #BACS2025 conference and discusses #chinoiserie, both as an element of #Victorian culture, but also as a theme that resonates in the present qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/chinoiserie/

Our Agnieszka also wrote about her some time ago👇 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/forgotten-wo...

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'. You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest. Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

We’re excited to share the full schedule for #QAQV9 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” conference ⤵ qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

The QAQV9 conference’s list of panels concludes with bold rewritings and radical retellings. These panels explore evolving visions of womanhood—poetic, political, and deeply personal. 🌹 WOMANHOODS 📚 20th-CENTURY REWRITINGS See you soon! 📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

📚 Here's another set of panels from our upcoming QAQV9 conference: 🌐 BORDER CROSSING IN THE 18th CENTURY II 🕰 DICKENS & THE PAST 🎨 RECOVERING THE PAST THROUGH THE ARTS 🌏 TRANSCULTURAL & TRANSTEMPORAL 📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 5 #victorian #conference #dickens

🏴‍☠️ Outlaws, Borders & Dangerous Books ✒️ Here's another set of panels for the upcoming QAQV9 conference: 🎭 BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE 1750s 🗡 REBELS & OUTLAWS 🌍 BORDER CROSSINGS 🚻 DICKENS & GENDER 📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55 We just can't wait!

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Magdalena Pypeć explores Dickens’s fight for education and sanitation — twin causes he saw as inseparable. From A Christmas Carol to 19th‑century ragged schools, she traces how cleanliness shaped learning. Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/dickens-dirt... #dickens

QAQV9 conference is coming! 📅 24–26 Sept 2025 📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw Here's more of our panel highlights: 🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes ⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms 👀 The Victorians Look Back 📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back Stay tuned for more! #victorian #conference

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Dorota Osińska explores how AI is reshaping the way we research, write, and teach. From students’ cautious curiosity to ChatGPT’s “hallucinated” Victorian poetry, she shares firsthand insights on the AI in academia. Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/reflections-...

QAQV9 conference is coming! 24–26 Sept 2025 📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw Here are some of our panels highlights: ✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK 🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS 🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME 🦇 GOTHICISING Stay tuned for more!

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC

Dearest Viewer, #VirtualJaneCon begins in two weeks. We hope you are as excited as we are. See you very soon, Virtual JaneCon

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰 PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶 #MedHum #19Century #Victorian shorturl.at/ePhU5

SAVE THE DATE! BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms 25th July 2025, 3pm - 6.15pm BST View the programme at the link below ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST) Current research on Romanticism will be explored by bringing together speakers across the world, addressing different areas of Romantic writing, its production and intercultural connections. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052

The free electronic version of my book Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain is OUT TODAY! You can download it from the link. Paperback ($35 USD) and hardback versions will be released on July 10. www.cambridge.org/core/service...