Season Five of the Irish horror anthology podcast Petrified launches on May 13, and we're excited to exclusively reveal three incredible new additions to the already-stacked cast. Providing their vocal talent for Petrified's fifth season are Ghostface himself, Roger L. Jackson (Scream series,…
The ebook of Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema is now available to buy! share.google/L2mi9YmQlsGA...
#horrorstudies #horrorsky #filmtudies #newpublication
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I’d love to see real political leadership in this country on climate (plus housing, childcare)- thinking about the social, economic, cultural, human impact of free second level education, or rural electrification. We should take courage from these big steps in the past when we had far less money
📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars!
We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history
❗Deadline: 31 July 2026
Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
An excellent review of 'Zombies in Contemporary Culture: Journeys, Bodies, Pandemics and Politics' from The British Society for Literature and Science!
Read more about the book that 'contributes to broader debates about the cultural imaginaries': www.bsls.ac.uk/2026/03/heff...
Come join us April 1st to discuss this landmark film!
#filmclub #horror #gothic #femalefilmmaker
SHE'S ALIVE!
1000 Women in Horror is playing now on @shudder.com
Cover of the new publication ‘Essays on Competing Churches and Chapels, 1828-1939’
First page and title of my essay on Competition and Cooperation - Catholic expansion and challenges to the established Church of Ireland in the aftermath of Emancipation
New publication post this morning! Delighted to have an essay in this volume - this essay begins w the town of Emly in Tipperary & the controversial request by the Catholics to buy Church of Ireland cathedral building there. Drop me a DM if you would like to read but can’t get hold of a hard copy.
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This is so pretty ❣️
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous donation from an anonymous benefactor, we are able to offer one MA Philosophy Studentship, worth €1000, in 2026-27.
Details can be found here: www.ucc.ie/en/scholarsh...
Poster with light yellow text reading INGHS FILM CLUB with a red and black poster of the film The Hitchhiker from the point of view of a back seat passenger pointing a gun at the driver and passenger in the front. There are two pentagrams and one large inverted pentagram.
Join @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club on April 1st for Ida Lupino's groundbreaking 1953 noir film The Hitch-Hiker!
📯 A spy who loved books - and a library that vanished.
On this International Women’s Day, read our latest blog post by Sara D'Amico (Alicante) about Theodora Minshall, whose fascinating story sits at the intersection of espionage and book history.
#REBPAF #MSCA #BookHistory #BookCollecting #Booksky
Out in August! 💚 cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho... #horror #bodyhorror
CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine
Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...
This Wednesday 👻
A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic
Poster for film Nocebo written in yellow text. Actor Eva Green's face with a forest in the background - text reading INGHS film club Wednesday March 4th 7pm Irish Time
Next week for March @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club will be discussing the Ireland and Philippines co-production Nocebo, directed by Lorcan Finnegan
This book looks fantastic. I shall be definitely getting a copy. Check it out #horror fans and scholars 👇 #Horrorsky
Happening tonight! There is still time to sign up 🦇
Join us on 25th February at 7 pm Irish Time for the first of our discussions with Irish podcasters! We'll be talking to folks from Petrified & Scream Queens about their work, the genre, and the practice of podcasting. This online event is free & open to all (registration necessary). bit.ly/4qufUTv
Thank you Xavier! Your actually first in the acknowledgements 🥳
Very excited about the latest addition to the Horror Studies series. Huge congrats to @maireadcasey.bsky.social! #horrorstudies #horror @uniwalespress.bsky.social
A screenshot of the blog entry for "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia, 2026 Edition" featuring a cartoon drawing of a werewolf professor writing a letter with a quill pen.
The 2026 edition of "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia" is up. Five free thesis ideas from PG-13 scares to fad diets to cringe horror, with hand-selected inspo pieces ready to read from @aaronrodriguezs.bsky.social @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social + more.
horrorlex.com/blog/what-we...
Guardian headline - Top lawyer at Goldman Sachs resigns after revelation of Epstein relationship
So far it’s been the complicit women who have paid the price of association / collaboration with Epstein. Complicit women who support & benefit from the patriarchy should realise they / it will always throw you to the wolves when & if it suits. The men will save themselves #killthepatriarchy
‘Casey’s rich study shrewdly correlates the renewal of the possession genre with the cacophonous gender discourse of the post-2008 period, finding it to be a productive site for engaging and working through debates over agency, intimacy and violence.’ Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin
Out now!
'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' by @maireadcasey.bsky.social examines how demon-possession horror films dramatise and negotiate sexual violence, exposing the cultural myths that shape who is believed, blamed and silenced.
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