I've finally launched my Substack! I'm in the midst of deadline season, so it'll be a bit slow going this month, but I'm really looking forward to nourishing this space. If you want to follow my research and process, please consider subscribing. substack.com/@strangescho...

A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Heading back North after a lovely couple of days spent at the Women in World-Literature conference (@womeninworld-lit.bsky.social) at the University of Warwick. Presented a fragment of a current thesis chapter and chaired a fantastic panel all about speculative fiction!

Very excited to say I’ve just signed the contract for a Polish translation of ‘The Roma’! So there will now be translations into German, French, Russian, and Polish. 👀

What are you doing this Sunday? What about catching up on some Romancing the Gothic talks? In April, we were exploring different manifestations of the European Gothic. Why not check out one of the talks below? #Gothic #Horror #Folklore

My recent scholarly publication is now live! This piece reviews The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic edited by Rebecca Duncan. It was a pleasure to read the book & share my thoughts on such an important piece of work. You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/

The 'Women in World Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion' schedule is finally ready for the world! You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture. Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule Registration coming soon!

My new YouTube video titled “How to Become an Independent Researcher” is now live! In this video I share what I learnt during the 3.5 years I spent as an independent researcher in-between completing my Masters degree and starting my PhD. youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...

Our Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (2024, Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott) published by Routledge Environmental Humanities Series is open access. @ucl.ac.uk www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-...

Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place? romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...

What if worsening climate disruption doesn't act as a wake up call? An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action But we can break this loop 🧵

Absolute joy at finding my first ever ammonite fossil on the beach today! I’ve dreamt of finding one for years and this is such a perfect specimen. Then went on to spot my first ever yellow sea glass. Powerful moments of glimmer when things have felt bleak ✨

Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵

Working on an award application for my PhD and it requires two references. The way my heart sunk when I started to write down Justin Edward’s name for referee 2 and stopped 💔 I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.

💙📚🪐 Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day

If I were a company called “MasterClass,” I might consider taking down my Neil Gaiman course right now

I’ve never recycled a book that wasn’t damaged before in my life (usually just give them away), but the four books that were on my shelf by this vile person are now, literally, in the (recycling) bin. This was so much worse than I expected.

Gothicist folk, does anyone have access to a pdf/ebook copy of "Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past" edited by Karen Grumberg?

CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025 5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025 www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...

This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the over 350 trans people killed globally this year, and many more who have died by suicide. These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism. We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.

I've made a starter pack for folk horror and folklore. It's pretty bare bones right now--don't hesitate to let me know if you want to be added if you do art, music, fiction, or research. It's being a little glitchy about letting me add people right now, but I'll figure it out! go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA

Hi folks, it’s time for a wee introduction! My name is Kristy, and I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Here’s a pinned thread regarding my research on ecofeminism and the ecoGothic in contemporary speculative fiction that engages with the climate crisis!

Copied from Twitter: We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference! 19th and 20th June - hybrid form Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2! This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and @HRCWarwick

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

The Guardian will not longer be sharing its articles on X: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu

Had a handful of homophobic/transphobic messages here today because I’ve created a Starter Pack supporting LGBTQIA+ writers. Please follow and share this pack to help keep Bluesky the positive place it promises to be. go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7W

Huge congratulations to York Philosophy with English graduate Samantha Harvey on winning the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital. #booker www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

I'm giving a free public talk on Rachel Carson, British nature writing, loss, and wonder. 8 October at the University of Cumbria, Ambleside. It will be engaging and not dryly academic, honest! #envhum www.ticketsource.co.uk/cultural-lan...

2023 Reading Wrap Up! Total books read: 80 // Fiction: 51 // Non-fiction: 13 // Short story collections: 10 // Poetry collections: 6 // Translated: 12 // Children’s: 21 // Classics: 4 // Plays: 1 // Graphic novels: 2 // BIPOC authors: 22 // E-books: 21 // Audiobooks: 4

An incredible individual and mentor who absolutely changed my life and helped me to find my passion. I wouldn’t be where I am today without his guidance and unwavering kindness 🖤 Fundraiser for the Justin Edwards Memorial Prize in Gothic Studies www.gofundme.com/f/justin-edw...

A fantastic, 5-star read! In the top 3 books I’ve read this year. Absolutely devoured The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke 🖤 A potential contender for my PhD thesis as well… I’ll certainly need to pick up a paperback edition eventually too 🤔

Latest LEGO build - Bird of Paradise 🧡💜 Botanical collection complete!

god the ableism of academia. Please, please don't send emails that say it's 'sad' or 'unfortunate' that a meeting is on Teams and not in person; you just make your disabled colleagues feel like crap and like we can't ask for reasonable accommodations.

I’ve had this device for a decade and just discovered I can have a personalised screensaver, which actually works as a screensaver (unlike Kindle). I’ll definitely be doing this for my Elipsa 2E as well. Kobo for life! 📚

There are many fascinating things about the Pope's latest pronouncement on climate change. One is that it calls for 'situated anthropocentrism': humans are special, it claims, but 'human life is incomprehensible and unsustainable without other creatures'. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have been offered a fully-funded PhD studentship to pursue my own research project at the University of Westminster beginning in January 2024! 🥂 🎉 #wearewestminster💛

My talk for Romancing the Gothic series given on Saturday, 6 May 2023, discussing Climate Fiction and the Gothic in literature and film.

50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture Conference Series panel on Children and YA Gothic, presenting my paper on the monstrosity of a neoliberal society in V.E. Schwab's 'Monsters of Verity' duology.

My first peer-reviewed journal article is now out in the world for everyone to read - and hopefully enjoy! 🌊 The Horrors of Ecofeminism: Exploring the Hidden Depths of Ecophobia in Evie Wyld’s The Bass Rock, Kristy Strange

Hiya! I'm an independent scholar researching various areas in Gothic & horror, but my main interest is ecofeminism & the Anthropocene. I have a free online lecture all about that, if you want to know more!