Join us next Thursday 30th April for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on Cinematic Indigenous Gothic with James Rose! DM Gothica to join 🎬

Exciting news! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

Take a look at our latest project output about influenza epidemics and alternative healing from @dremilyvincent.bsky.social

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You can also read the first spooky Forums section on ‘Playing the Victorians: Occult Re-imaginings’ from 6 fantastic contributors - Emma Mary Kirby, Lin Young & Elizabeth Grice, @dreframss.bsky.social, @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social & Robert Rix: www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

Advances in Nineteenth Century Research: Forums This brief editorial article introduces the aims, form, and anticipated content of the Forums section of Advances in Nineteenth Century Research. Guided by its section editor, the Forums section of...

The brand new journal ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ from @incsa.bsky.social is now LIVE! See here for my editorial which introduces the Forums section, for which I’m the section editor: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Spirited Challenge Accepted: William Marriott, the Crisis of Evidence, and the Sunday Express Photographic Test from 1921 During the opening decades of the twentieth century, William Hope was championed by British spiritualists as a leading psychic photographer within their community. He was said to be able to capture...

I'm delighted to share my latest article: 'A Spirited Challenge Accepted.' If you're interested in spirit photos and print media, this is the article for you!

Special thanks to @emmamerkling.bsky.social who digitized so much of the archival material for me.

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It is brilliant Kristof - thank you so much for being part of the issue! 👻

Ghost Tours and Occult Experience: A Historical Experiment What, if anything, can contemporary ghost tours tell historians about people’s experiences with the occult, the supernatural and the sacred in the nineteenth century? This forum contribution uses g...

Hi everyone, here's a little thing I wrote about ghost tours as a tool for historical research (?).

If you don't have access but would like to read, let me know!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was a pleasure to teach such keen students and we ended with a tutorial on #Gothic #Vampires, looking at Florence Marryat’s ‘The Blood of the Vampire’ (1897) and Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners (2025) 🦇 🧛‍♀️ 🧛

Monday was my last set of 1:1 tutorials teaching on the 8-week ‘Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program in association with @kebleoxford.bsky.social!

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Join me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social tomorrow at 5pm (GMT) tomorrow for our monthly ECR BAVS Tea Time! A chance for @bavs-uk.bsky.social Early Career Researchers to chat and connect over tea and Zoom - DM for the link ☕️

Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share!

Details 👇
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Join us this Thursday at 6pm GMT with @monicagermana.bsky.social for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on ‘The Other Winter Wonderland: The Gothic ‘Fairy-Tale’ of the Arctic and the Far North’ #Gothic #Gothicstudies - all are welcome, DM me or Gothica for the link!

If anyone has been trying to reach me on my Durham email account this week it’s currently temporarily out of access so drop me a message on here and I’ll send you my Oxford account, thanks! ☺️

We’re back @gothicauob.bsky.social next Thursday with the brilliant @monicagermana.bsky.social for Winter Gothic - all are welcome!

Select tickets – 2026 Spring Seminar Series: ‘The eyes of a sick man’: Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle – Microsoft Teams 2026 Spring Seminar Series: ‘The eyes of a sick man’: Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle – Microsoft Teams, Wed 25 Feb 2026 - Please note this is a hybrid event. You are also welcome to join us in p...

A Gothic week 🦇
🪾🌳Mon - teaching Gothic Nature on Robert Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ & Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’

🦠🌡️Weds - speaking @uniofleicester.bsky.social Centre for Victorian Studies, 5.15pm (in person/online) ‘Fevers & Flu at the Fin de Siècle’: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person or online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ on the theme of Victorian Bodies: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... 🦠 📕

We've looked at C19 and C20 British short stories, novels, and poems, beginning with Romantic poetic explorations of Gothic darkness, examinations of deadly flora, haunting coastlines, and ghostly visitations in the works of H. G. Wells, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Daphne Du Maurier & more to come! 🌺🌊👻

I'm halfway through teaching the 'Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program associated with @kebleoxford.bsky.social. Enjoying 1:1 tuition with enthusiastic study-abroad students on landscapes distorted by industry, resource extraction & colonial expansion🪾🍂

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳

It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like!

It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids.

Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Calling BAVS ECRs! Join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom today anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time! DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️

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If you’re a BAVS ECR, join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom tomorrow anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the first @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time of 2026! DM us for the link 🫖

Lucky to be part of the best English Team! 🎉

It feels extra special that I graduated from my MSt in English @engfac.bsky.social @somervillecollege.bsky.social 10 years ago (!) and now I’m returning as teaching staff @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social 📚🎉

Exciting news! I’m now a Teaching Associate in English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on the Astrophoria Foundation Year - a FANTASTIC access scheme for students. I’ll be teaching & assessing a ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed and supervising an extended project 👻 foundationyear.ox.ac.uk

Thanks Marianne! We’ll let you know if do 😊

By situating literary texts alongside periodical culture, medical journalism, and spiritualist media, we examine #epidemic media cultures, #influenza and 19C medicine, while highlighting contemporary debates in the #medicalhumanities #medhums #litsci #hstm #histmed #19C #pandemicpreparedness 🦠

Our book examines the cultural afterlives of the so-called “Russian Flu” of the 1890s across British and Anglo-Irish literature, popular media, and medical discourse 📚 📰 🩺 🤧

An exciting conclusion to my time as Research Fellow on the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project! Dr Melissa Dickson & I are co-writing a book ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the @manchesterup.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social series🦠