Delighted to have rejoined the @rrrjournal.bsky.social editorial board, this time as an Academic Editor! The call for our next issue, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ remains open until 16th April. More details can be found here: www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub.... Please share with your PGRs!

🚨We are more than halfway through of CfS!!!! 🚨

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro... #JaneAusten #WutheringHeights @ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

Was Jane Austen gay? Michel Foucault says ‘non’!

Can't believe I am starting to write the introduction to my thesis today !!! It is actually really hard to put into words the context/framework of ideas you have been thinking and writing about for 4+ years 🤯

I looked for this ALL MORNING and finally found it WOULD YOU SURVIVE VICTORIAN INFANCY? textadventures.co.uk/games/view/l... (The hosting is very 2003, but I made it on Twine in 2021 and must shift to hosting it locally)

Come and join us!!!!!! Amazing experience for PGRs/ECRs in a v friendly and welcoming environment 🤗 There will be scope for progression for PGRs in more senior editing roles

📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers! If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!

In which I essay a little click bait for the conversation 🖤

Did not expect there to be puppy play in Wuthering Heights but here we are I guess

📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).

ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

📢 We're on the hunt for new reviewers! If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact

Alasdair Gray & Robert Burns - Pictured is Alasdair Gray’s 1953 Tam O’Shanter, inspired by Robert Burns. A fierce champion of Scots, Gray shows Tam riding home below as witches dance to bagpipes in the haunted kirk.

Happy Burns day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 My dad was part of a Burns Club and would address the haggis every year. As I little girl I remember looking through his copy of Robert Burns: The Scottish Bard. I never found his book when he passed away but I hope he loaned it to someone who is using it tonight!

We are thrilled to announce that the CfS for Issue 9, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ is now live! Articles should be submitted by 23:59 on 16th April 2026 to [email protected]. Do share widely and we look forward to hearing from you! www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub...

On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

Okay my ‘radio voice’ made me cringe, I described an elegy as a sonnet (?), and flopped at the Austen question (!) but the whole show was a really great deep dive on Charli’s fans and my little segment touched on the nineteenth century’s contemporary relevance in pop culture 😊

I’m going to be on BBC Radio 6 tonight at 11pm! I spoke to Amy Lamé for her series ‘Superfans’, tonight’s show being dedictaed to Charli xcx 💚 Not sure how much will actually be shown but we chatted about my article on Charli + Romanticism, Lord Byron as the first celebrity, and even Jane Austen

It's here! We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below. We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles! www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8

Job alert: 18th century historians! historyofparliament.com/2026/01/12/v... #skystorians #c18th 🗃️

Congratulations to Kate Halsey and @mjrsangster.bsky.social, winners of the BSECS Digital Prize, sponsored by Adam Matthew Digital. #bsecs2026 @bsecs.bsky.social

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Email signatures are really funny because I spent so much time creating mine and worrying about how long/short to make it rather than doing actual PhD work and I expect that no one has clicked on my 'recent publication', like I've never clicked on anyone else's!!!

My article “‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)” has been published in the Keats Shelley Review! 👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shakira from Love Island x Judith Butler, lmao I love it 🙌🏼

With almost a year left of my PhD I am thinking about ~life after~ which is scary! Pre-PhD, I didn't realise most academics move cities/even countries for their career. I don't want to move away from Scotland EVER!! I wish someone had told me this before 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

'Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876- 1930' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in the BAVS newsletter: 'The 1st significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries' available open access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Registration for @rrrjournal.bsky.social's annual conference is now open! Please join us for what will be an intellectually stimulating and rewarding day for PGRs, ECRs, and academics to connect and discuss 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century'! www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...

Tip of an iceberg?

When I’m not PhDing, I’m selling at record fairs, and then spending the money I make on finds like these 🪲 I have a 1962 record of OG monster Boris Karloff reading Hans Christian Andersen for children (v cute and heartwarming) but it didn’t occur to me they used to put spooky stories on vinyl too 🪲

omg love the results but conference organising is SO HARD 🥲

This is my Sophie's Choice

I don't know anything about fantasy and sci-fi as genres - is there crossover? I feel like they share a lot of similar traits and I'm wondering if time travel narratives can be classed as fantasy 🤔 (does it depend on if the method is magical or scientific?) Any recommended reading?

Short and sweet (and broadly applicable for premodern study of transformative work)

Piece about this Austen podcast I’m in theconversation.com/jane-austens...

An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning

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Today in this class where we pair canonical texts with contemporary engagements I am teaching “Tintern abbey” with Zadie Smith, “some notes on attunement,” where she goes to Tintern listening to Joni Mitchell; and we will hear “California”. And like Zadie says, it might all bring me to tears!

Excited to be speaking in Dunblane on 15 Nov for the Leighton Library. I'll be sharing findings from my PhD and the @books-borrowing.bsky.social project. Do come along to hear more about Enlightenment and conspiracy in the reading habits of Leighton members!

Thanks everyone who came to hear my paper on 'Jane Austen and Scotland' at Stirling's Eighteenth Century Studies Group! We had some interesting discussion about Austen, race, and English depcitions of the Scottish in 18th c. literature. Also reflecting on adaptations like this 2023 Mansfield Park

“For someone who’s never read Pride and Prejudice, I would desribe it like Love Island on a stately home.” - Harris Dickinson, Audible’s new Mr Darcy Just the most recent of 100s of instances of people comparing Austen and LI (including Helen Warner + Horrible Histories!)

We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm. Free! Online! All welcome! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Could Charli XCX be Gen Z's answer to Lord Byron? Read my first @theconversation.com article to find out!! theconversation.com/why-charli-x...

5 days left to submit your abstract!

David Bowie wanted to write a musical about criminals and satire in 18th century London! Apparently he especially loved Jack Shephard, who I wrote about in my book Dead Famous and who was the focus of one of our early episodes of BBC You’re Dead To Me www.bbc.com/news/article...

Charli XCX on Lord Byron - interesting! Excited to see this film (Erupcja)