Very excited to be co-organizing this event with Adam Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social & Sarah Griffin @uoylibrary.bsky.social

We're thrilled to announce the keynote speakers for our July symposium, 'Radical Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century'. Dr Esther Chadwick (@thecourtauld) & Dr Helen Williams (@helenwilliams18 @northumbriauni) will join us in York to share their expertise on the power & politics of print 1/5

#CFP: RADICAL PRINT CULTURE IN THE LONG 18TH-CENTURY

Join us for a day long discussion of the political power of print, featuring keynote lectures by Dr Helen Williams & Dr Esther Chadwick & a handling session inside the Borthwick Archives.

More Info:
www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

#18c #18thC

The poster is correct, the tweet is wrong. Apologies.

#CFP: SPECTRAL TOURISM
30-31 July 2026
York St John University

"This symposium seeks to explore the ghosts of tourism, or tourism itself as a spectral presence, through an interdisciplinary exploration of spectral tourism in York and elsewhere."

Abstract deadline: 22nd March

#hauntology

Also featuring my concerns about the harmful impact of Jacob Elordi on Literary Studies 🤪

#wutheringheights #frankenstein #saltburn

Huge thanks to everyone who came to see Jo & I talking about the history of the "Satirical Voyage" at the York Literature Festival, we couldn't have hoped for a more lively and engaged audience 💖

#18thC #19thC #Skystorians

Really pleased that my third-year course, Inventing Celebrity, has received a BSECS teaching prize. It's a joy to teach. Just marking the mid-semester assignments now, and dare I say it, even that's a pleasure!

Craziest thing about Katabasis is that Kuang did all this academic research but didn’t think to google when the first Wetherspoon opened in Oxford

CFP deadline imminent!
#18thC #Skystorians #18C #CFP

Haha, just to clarify, I was imagining a nightmare scenario

If you're in York on Sunday 21 March about would like to hear a talk about the trouble 18th-century writers had trying to describe York as they found it, rather than as a relic of what it once was, then I have the perfect talk for you...

#18C #YorkLitFest #18thC @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

I wouldn't be surprised if for her next trick Emerald Fennell adapts Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, but tweaks the story and characters to turn Lovelace into a bashful audience friendly loveable rogue who uses safe words and is alright really.

#18c #WutheringHeights

In which we talk about the one film that has completely captured the discourse, that literally everyone is talking about rn...

...28 Years Later The Bone Temple.

Need more #18thC in your life??
OF COURSE YOU DO!

Click below for an incredible programme of events from our friends @cecs-york.bsky.social
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

I am very interested to know, that's wonderful news - thank you for passing that on! 🤩

Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c

This Valentine's Day...

Who tells the story of radical print?

A public lecture on Winifred Gales and the hidden labour behind Sheffield’s late-eighteenth-century radical press.

Sat 14 Feb | York Medical Society | £5

www.georgianyork.org.uk/what-s-on
#PrintHistory #WomenWriters #18C #18thC

An Author's Performance The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. 784pp. Penguin. £10.99 / The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox. 464pp. Oxford University Press. £11.99

One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:

open.substack.com/pub/oliverle...

#18C #18thC #18thCentury

January #Newbooks: "Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century" by editors Emrys D. Jones, @elementaladam.bsky.social, and Katarina Stenke, and "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America" by Jerónimo Arellano.

To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨

Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?

Also featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence & Adam vs "cutlery" 🍞

Listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Rvo...

#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid

If be very interested to read these - both your review and your book on Chesterton, modernism & parody!

Satiric Modernism Published in Comedy Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructivediscourse, rather than a comic device

My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK...

#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire

Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.

Book your free place here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asle-uki-s...

#18thCentury #18C #18thC

This collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodical.

Available for pre-order here📚 buff.ly/pvnBBVb
@bucknellupress.bsky.social
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#BSECS2026
#18c

Gosh, that's beautiful, thank you for sharing, and my sincere condolences for your loss. He sounds like a remarkable individual.

🥺

Had a great time in Oxford for my first #BSECS2026. Thanks to @elementaladam.bsky.social for having me on and chairing the panel ‘Bodies Politic, Bodies Satiric: Satirical Embodiment in Georgian Britain and Ireland’ where I talked all things Fielding, drink, and Jacobite!

Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲

#podcast #satire #humourstudies