Inspired by Emerald Fennell's upcoming 'Wuthering Heights' adaptation, and in anticipation of my book coming out with @edinburghup.bsky.social this month, I've written a post for the EUP blog about the role of violence in some recent Brontë afterlives: euppublishingblog.com/2025/09/22/v...

✨Call for reviewers ✨ There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter. It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review. Full details here 👇 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Opening tomorrow: our latest display and exhibit, connecting the life and work of beloved author Jane Austen to rural England! We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...

Notice; An upcoming talk as part of my Schools 10th anniversary seminar series - ‘The Coloniality of Sexual Violence’ by Prof Alison Phipps, Sept, 10, 4pm, UCD - venue details & booking below (through QR code) all welcome #speirgorm

The 2025 prize is now open! (deadline: 30th September 2025). The prize offers the winning scholar two nights' accommodation (with breakfast and dinner) for up to three days' research at Gladstone's Library. To find out more about eligibility and process: victorianpopularfiction.org/mary-eliza-r...

I wrote a blogpost with an update on my DOROTHY MSCA COFUND fellowship, specifically my time @uor-research.bsky.social and @chhuor.bsky.social – it's been a jam-packed 18 months! 💥 dorothy.ie/2025/08/21/d...

Fab day at the ‘Violence, Health and Health Humanities’ event at the University of Reading today. Congrats to #sophiefranklin.bsky.social, who organised the event as part of her work supported by the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Fellowship programme.

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project. wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her". www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Now on the BARS Blog: CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098 Please share far and wide!

🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

📢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

Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026. www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...

🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨 CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... [typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution] #HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed

Really looking forward to this tomorrow! Email me for the Teams link if you'd like to join: [email protected]

@drclaireocall.bsky.social is the keynote speaker at this ‘Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities’ workshop @uniofreading.bsky.social’s Centre for Health Humanities. It’s tomorrow 1-5pm @sophiefranklin.bsky.social

Don't let all the news distract you from the ongoing starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Israeli govt is deliberately trying to prevent news getting out . It dismisses what news there is as Hamas propaganda while refusing to let international journalists in. An information war too.

Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.” MPs are watching. We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights. Join me and sign the petition now!

💥 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities' workshop, hosted by @uniofreading.bsky.social Centre for Health Humanities! Join us for this event, feat. an in-person & online keynote by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, on health, ageing, and violence.  📣 All welcome! See poster for details.

Certain Blue Labour backbenchers seem happy to publicly attack higher education, saying Britain needs vocational roles instead. But what did they choose for themselves? Elite higher education, of course. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-i...

💥 'Violence, Health, and the Health Humanities' workshop, hosted by @uniofreading.bsky.social Centre for Health Humanities! Join us for this event, feat. an in-person & online keynote by @drclaireocall.bsky.social, on health, ageing, and violence.  📣 All welcome! See poster for details.

The UN warns that in the next 48 hours, 14,000 babies in Gaza could die due to Israel’s blockade. After 11 weeks of blockading aid, Israel cleared nine trucks to enter Gaza yesterday. It takes 500 aid trucks per day to meet people's basic needs.

It looks like my book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is available for preorder, and will be out next month! Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Submitting this for publication shortly, and we're now at 2920 signatures. It would be amazing to get it over three thousand before I turn it in...

📣 Upcoming online talk: tune in to hear @drhick.bsky.social give a paper on 'Sensing the Multispecies Hospital: Exploring More than Human Encounters in and around the Early Twentieth-Century TB Sanatorium' 📆 13:00 BST Wednesday 14th May ✉️ Email [email protected] for Teams link or see details below

Tonight is the #MetGala, celebrating the upcoming opening of the new exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," which was inspired by Monica L. Miller's 2009 book "Slaves to Fashion." buff.ly/BTlV1TY

MVSA Summer Seminars are back! Set writing goals now, submit something (up to 30 pages) for collaborative feedback in August, meet with your workshop group in early September for discussion. Application deadline: May 25. Seminar logistics & (easy!) application process at link below. Pass it on!

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

Which effectively means he is not at all concerned about tens of thousands of people losing their jobs, from cleaners to administrators, students and local businesses! And that he doesn’t care about the cities where universities are major employers and contribute so much to civic life.

Call for chapters: Health, Wellbeing and the Arts in the Nineteenth Century. Particularly chapters on music, dance and visual/ material arts, as well as topics from beyond Europe. Please send abstracts, expressions of interest, or queries to [email protected] by Friday 2 May.

📣 Online talk: @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social and Giulia Scapin (UCD), ‘Investigating fictional representations of child sexual abuse and using the Shared Reading method to work with people with difficult lived experience’ 📆 13:00 BST Wednesday 23rd April ✉️ Email [email protected] for Teams link.

Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.

(And, of course, trans people are far more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators of sexual assault and rape. This is, *overwhelmingly*, a crime committed by cis men — against cis women, cis men, trans women and trans men.)

94% of the people raped in the UK are women, and 98% of the people arrested for rape or sexual assault are men. And — to repeat — around 3% of *reported* rapes result in a conviction. If you are looking for a feminist campaign, put down the LARGE GAMETES placard and start screaming at the CPS.

Our PI Ailise Bulfin and postdoc Giulia Scapin from CSAReps Project Team are presenting at the below event on Wednesday 23rd April at 13.00 GMT, Please see joining details on the poster below @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social

📣 Online talk: @ailise-bulfin.bsky.social and Giulia Scapin (UCD), ‘Investigating fictional representations of child sexual abuse and using the Shared Reading method to work with people with difficult lived experience’ 📆 13:00 BST Wednesday 23rd April ✉️ Email [email protected] for Teams link.

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508

Transatlantic Threads is now available for preorder! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transat... Use code NEW30 for 30% discount. @edinburghup.bsky.social Image: David Allan (1744-1796) thought to be one of earliest known portraits of a black woman by a Scottish artist. Nationalgalleries.org

Love Charlotte Brontë? Come and celebrate her birthday online with us. Links via the Brontë Parsonage Museum #brontë #charlottebronte #victorianliterature #brontës

💥 Quick reminder – the final online workshops, *Women Writing Violence*, take place this week, Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April. We've had some wonderful, enriching discussions so far! You can sign up for the free events here: womenwritingviolence.eventbrite.co.uk

📣 Online talk – ⚖️ Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM), ‘Immoral, unjust, and simply ruining the nation: Public Health Law and Public Fury in Post-war Britain’ 📆 13:00 GMT Wednesday 9 April ✉️ Email [email protected] for Teams link (see poster below for Teams meeting ID and password)

🎥 Missed out on any of our events? Many are now available to view as recordings! Check out past talks on AI and gossiping, physical activity, the affective dynamics of violence, interdisciplinary conversations and many more 👇 medhumsplatform.org/archive/ #medicalhumanities #medhums

The third roundtable in the online Minerals series is just a week away! "Extraction and Forms of Representation" features a stellar line-up: Adelene Buckland, @juliaditter.bsky.social, Charlotte Rogers, @nathankhensley.bsky.social There's still time to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/minerals-r...

Come and work with us! We're seeking 2 x Postdoctoral Research Associates in Visual and Material Medical Humanities. Applications close: 28 April 2025. The 36 month full-time posts will be based in The Visual & Material Lab led by @drfijohnstone.bsky.social Find out more about & apply!

My book, "Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives", has a webpage! And a bright magenta cover! The cover image is an etching by Rosalind Whitman, "Lockwood Attacked by Dogs". edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc... Forthcoming with @edinburghup.bsky.social in October 2025 💥