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I AM HORROR – INTAKE FORM I AM HORROR is an editorial archive documenting creators of color working within the horror genre across the global diaspora. Participation in the archive means your work, declaration, and material…

Today, we launch I AM HORROR.
A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre across disciplines and continents.
The work exists.
The archive should, too.
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Submissions are now open:
nighttidemag.com/iamhorrorjoin/

NEW on Wonkhe: UKRI’s funding changes explained buff.ly/1W7Cwjz

Thank you to the editors, @mikesamuel8.bsky.social and Theresa Trimmel, for giving me the time and space to write it. The chapter examines how TV can be comforting in times of grief and how WandaVision itself pays homage to TV as a medium. Something of a love letter to TV itself.

Television and Empathy This book offers a unique exploration of television’s power to foster empathy through diverse global perspectives and digital platforms

Second, a chapter on WandaVision in Television and Empathy. I'm so pleased and proud to share this with you, and to have contributed to such an important volume. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

First up, a review of The Richard Dyer Reader for the European Journal of Cultural Studies, which allowed me to return to and rediscover the work of a scholar whom I greatly admire. Something of a full circle moment: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In what's been a very busy January, I haven't had time to share some recent publications, so I'm going to do that now.

Thanks for the tag! I look forward to listening!

The logo for the Rambling Through Eternity Doctor Who podcast

Just what everyone was after... another Dr Who podcast! 😉

Join @sarahhamstera.bsky.social and me, a newbie and a fan, rambling through Dr Who. First episodes now live!
Links below:
shorturl.at/fiwfU

#drwho #doctorwho #podcast #ramblingthrougheternity

BAFTSS continues to run its Early Career Mentoring Scheme, which has been invaluable to helping ECRs in this increasingly precarious sector. This is a call for new mentors and mentees to take part in the scheme!

For more info: www.baftss.org/early-career...

#baftss #earlycareermentoringscheme

Hi folks! I’m currently co-editing a special issue for GAME about queer and trans games studies. Find the full cfp here www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey..., deadline for abstract submission is 12 January 2026!

There‘s a lot you can still pitch to me and I may share another list soon but right now I‘m particularly interested in the following shows. Please read the call carefully, these are:
- (short!) monographs only
- single authored (2 co-authorship possible)
- academic books on a fairly low royalty

Screen Two Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1980s and 1990s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.

I'm always bleating on about Play for Today & similar anthology formats & how important they are for television- so this is a public service announcement that there are 13 archive episodes of Screen Two currently on iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Re-releases heading back into cinemas in 2025 & 2026 Yearning for some classic films on the big screen? Here's a list of all the re-releases heading into UK cinemas in the near future.

In the mood for some classic films on the big screen? Here's a list of all the re-releases heading into UK cinemas in the near future.
filmstories.co.uk/news/2025-re...

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film

‘Stars and Screen’
#Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026

Proposals Due: February 1, 2026
starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call...

#CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

The BBC tells the story of Britain in a way Netflix simply cannot. In the year to come, please remember that | Tony Hall I love many shows on the streaming channels, but the BBC is our storyteller. It defines a nation and its culture – and we must defend it, says former BBC director general Tony Hall

Every word.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Elemental Pleasures of Johnny Guitar - Bright Wall/Dark Room 'Johnny Guitar' is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

The universality is one of the BBC’s most defining principles. Replace it with ads and it is lost forever.

ICA | Punishment Park The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

As part of our tribute to the late Peter Watkins, I've paired with ICA London to screen his dystopian anti-war film Punishment Park, a chilling vision of the American gov't interring domestic radicals. This Sunday at 2pm, w/ a recorded video intro from me:

www.ica.art/films/punish...

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library.

Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”

Research Seminar: ‘Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher’ This seminar unearths a history of women’s authorship in North American slasher film production, and examines the role women have played in the overarching politics and ideology of the slasher film

If you're in Leeds, consider joining us for our first research seminar of the term! Daniel Sheppard (Birmingham City University) will be speaking about the role women have played in the politics and ideology of slasher film.
🗓️ TODAY, 3.45pm, Clothworkers North G.12
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Celebrating the publication of our very own @sophiebishop.bsky.social's first book, 'Influencer Creep'!
🎉 We are hosting a book launch on the 19th November (followed by a drinks reception), and everyone is welcome: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events...
📚 Order the book: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

Our Fall 2025 issue "Notes on Historical Methods" is now live! In her introduction, Katherine Groo reflects on the voices of historical writing, the long history of feminist methods, and the guiding concept and structure of the "note" itself.

Open access for a limited time:
doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Neurologically speaking, there's no such thing as 'useless' subjects or 'rip-off' degrees

Insisting we should only teach useful subjects is like saying science should only do research that gives positive results

If you honestly believe that's how anything works, *your* education was the wasted one

Will AI be spending hours reassuring student anxieties, fostering their discussions, answering their panics, and helping them develop the independent learning and personal skills they need to thrive in the world? What students tell us they want most is learning community. And AI can’t provide that.

Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) - ARU Join us online on 5 December for a symposium investigating the recent phenomena of Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the so-called 'great Internet let down'.

Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) 5 December 2025, 10:30 - 16:15

www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain...

MTV to axe its music TV channels in the UK The broadcaster will stop showing music videos in December, but its main channel will remain on air.

“MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV and MTV Live will all stop broadcasting after 31 December, the BBC understands.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton For over five decades, cinema bent itself around the late actress Diane Keaton’s profoundly original image in movies like Annie Hall, Reds, Father of the Bride, and Something’s Gotta Give. And it will continue to do so long after her death.

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around the late actress Diane Keaton’s profoundly original image in movies like Annie Hall, Reds, Father of the Bride, and Something’s Gotta Give. And it will continue to do so long after her death.

330 days ago, I started what I thought to be an impossible task. 330 days and 98,000 words later, I now have my very first monograph that I submitted today. A massive thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey so far. On to the next stage … the horrors of reviewer two!