Poulomi Choudhury's "Abatthorror: Tracking the Animal-Industrial Complex in Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh" assesses how its focal novel reckons with the horrors of industrial animal agriculture under carnist capitalism.
@choudhup.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
It's alive!
I served as guest editor for this special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, MONSTRUM: Vegan and Animal Liberation Horror.
- 6 feature essays
- 2 original fiction pieces (by @kkoja.bsky.social & me)
- 3 retrospective reviews
And more! Read now!
tinyurl.com/2hp6967b
One of the most important works I've had the pleasure of reading. So well deserved!
Myself and my colleague John Miller are collaborating on a book project Crude Tunes: Histories and Cultures of Petroleum in Popular Music. Check out our cfps and consider sending us an abstract: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
Published this week: ANIMALITY AND HORROR CINEMA: CREATURELY FEAR ON FILM.
Another fantastic title from Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature.
Brilliantly edited from Peter Sands, Mo O'Neill and
@samjhind.bsky.social
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Out Now: Humanimalia 15.2!
Featuring timely essays on human–animal entanglements, including 🐴 a taxidermied horse in London, 🐗 a feral pig in Australia, 🐐 “happy” goats in Italy, 🐾 robot dogs in Gaza, 🐦 pheasants in NL, and 🐑 sheepdogs in the UK.
🔓 OA here: humanimalia.org/issue/view/1...
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
✨facts. relateable vibes ✨
You have captured the language of all the Bookstagram posts these days. sublime 👏🏾
Thanks, Sam. Would love to chat more. Please feel free to message me! ☺️
Congratulations! Tender is one of texts I'm looking at in my doctoral project as well and would love to have a read of this! 😍
Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Application deadline is August 7.
Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇
Greatly enjoyed the chance to discuss 'World-Literature as Research and Form' with the excellent Michael Boog as part of the Rethinking the Global podcast series at UniBe
open.spotify.com/episode/6ZPF...
If you're working in the field of animal studies, I would highly recommend applying for this course run by @davidredmalm.bsky.social!
If you're interested in Cellular Agriculture and Protein Transition, this PhD on Imagining the Future of Food at TU Delft is for you! One of those projects that I wish I could apply for.
www.tudelft.nl/2025/den-haa...
🎨🖼 The next seminar organised by the Animal Studies Research network explores insects and arachnids in art! We hope you can join us to talk about these tiny but mighty beings!🕷🦗🐝
⏰ Wed, 19 Feb | 3PM GMT
🔗 Register: bit.ly/artanimals
More info: animalstudiesucd.com
That would be class!
I would love something like this, but most sessions take place in the morning, and I've accepted that I live life at night 🦇
Wow! This was a fantastic read (horrifying at how well it captures the current "vibe")
"There’s so much of this evil inanity in real events.. part of what makes them viscerally upsetting is the spectacle of entertainment appearing where it should not. Which somehow makes the horror more horrible."
This looks like yet another timely and incredibly important work from @reproutopia.bsky.social. Can't wait to read it. Thank you for sharing this.
Great looking series of talks! First talk by Irus Braverman on March 7th
This was so cathartic to research and write as an academic from a marginalized background. Microaggressions in higher education are brutal, biased and at times, deadly. Many thanks to @horrorpress.com for giving me the space to exorcise that.
Poster for event: Virtual Seminar Series on Nonhuman Animals in SF: Dr. Liza Bauer and Dr. Iuliia Ibragimova
THIS WEEK!
🐓 Dr Liza Bauer investigates postanimal figures that disrupt the category of the "livestock"
🌌Dr Iuliia Ibragimova examines humans travelling inside spacefaring animals, challenging existing patterns of relations
Wed, 19 Feb | 3PM GMT | Register: bit.ly/SFAnimals | animalstudiesucd.com
Barely a week to-go before the annual Romancing the Gothic charity teachathon!
15th February - it runs all day so people can join from any timezone for at least some of it
Sessions recorded so you don't miss out
THIRTEEN (13) amazing talks and workshops
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1141089402...
🚀🐾 Calling all sci-fi/ SF & animal studies enthusiasts! 🐾🚀
Join us for an exciting seminar with Dr Liza Bauer & Dr Iuliia Ibragimova as we talk about spacefaring animals, food animals and more!
📅 Wed, 19 Feb | ⏰ 3PM GMT
🔗 Register: bit.ly/SFAnimals
More info: animalstudiesucd.com
Farmers are feeding candy to cows. Corporations argue that it’s a sustainable way to curb food waste, but is it really about profits?
@jesslsr.bsky.social uncovers the truth behind the practice.
youtu.be/1ZycsuHG0Jg
Congratulations, all! All the best - hope you can make the most of this fantastic opportunity!
The inaugural Crude Representations seminar takes place this coming Wednesday 4pm GMT.
The topic is audio-visual culture and BP (movies, soundtracks, records etc) and our speakers are Nariman Massoumi, Andrea Zarza Canova & Annette Davison.
Register here: tinyurl.com/oily25
A screenshot from the Horror Lex website, blog post "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia, 2025 Edition," featuring werewolf Professor Lex in his tweed suit, writing on paper with an old-fashioned feather pen.
Our annual What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia post is here! Need a thesis? Want to write something but your mind is a blank? Peruse 6 topics and grab #openaccess inspiration pieces from @mangiotto.bsky.social @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social & others. #horror
horrorlex.com/blog/what-we...
