Absolutely brutal. I’m so sorry for you and your colleagues.

Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society Call for Papers

Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for @dickenssociety.bsky.social! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).

Lecturer in English Literature The Department of English provides education at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels, and is part of the Faculty of Humanities. The Department has a staff of about 35 people. There are ap

Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature:
@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture (Distance Learning) Explore the strange and spooky history, literature and culture of the Victorian Gothic period. Study online via distance learning.

We are open for applications to the MA Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture for Sept 2026. Tutors include @c19thceleb.bsky.social @christopherpittard.bsky.social @bradbeaven.bsky.social @karlbell.bsky.social

For info on our distance learning course see 👇 www.port.ac.uk/study/course...

This one is next on my ‘to read’ pile - I loved Briefly, A Delicious Life so have high hopes for this!

Just a quick reminder that proposals for VPR's upcoming special issue on "Keywords" are due TODAY!

I want it 😍

A classic of the genre! 10/10, no notes!

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is here and it is ✨stunning ✨

This refresh has been a long time in the making, with lots of work behind the scenes from me and @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social - we hope you love it as much as we do!

Read the spring issue here: bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship: Uncharted Voices Learn more about and apply for this fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship starting in October 2026

If interested in applying for our collaborative PhD, 'Uncharted Voices: Subaltern Cultures and Identities in Global Seafaring, 1880–1950', we will be holding a live webinar on Tuesday 24th March (1-2 pm). For further details about the project and webinar, see www.rmg.co.uk/ahrc-collabo...

Is this … genuine?!?!?

I love handwritten C19th recipe books - absolute treasure troves of information! 🥰 #19thcentury

And there Wales go again, giving me a tiny spark of hope before inevitably throwing it away in the second half. Thanks, Rhys Carré!

#IREvWAL

The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/

Just like the goal for the elite is to accumulate wealth without labor (various forms of extraction and exploitation), the goal here is to accumulate “knowledge” without thinking (also various forms of extraction and exploitation)

Yeah, it’s the hope that kills you 😩

I keep telling myself this but the little glimmer of hope refuses to die!

Let’s just stop the match at half time - end on a high 😂

Congratulations Hannah! 🥳

100% this 👇

This makes for incredibly - if predictably - depressing reading.

UK Govt, if you want to upskill everyone, why not invest in your tertiary education sector rather than pushing this slop?!?

I mean, given your research interests it was a plausible guess! 😂

This sounds amazing! 🤩 What kinds of objects do you cover?

We're now accepting applications for our 2026 Patrick Leary Resource Development Grants and Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Both awards offer 💵 for tools and research relating to the #19thC periodical press. More information about each award can be found in the thread below.

Is neo-Victorian Fiction getting more unhinged? Helena Esser ponders three new and three upcoming offerings from the popular fiction shelfIs it me, or is neo-Victorian fiction getting darker and more unhinged?I mean, not that I’m complaining. Ma…

Looking for some unusual neo-Victorian reads? The @vpfa.bsky.social blog's got you: victorianpopularfiction.org/is-neo-victo...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.

What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Students overwhelmingly want more choice and optionality, even as managers impose compulsory programmes and limit choice due to cost.

And in 3 to 5 years when those students go elsewhere, managers will ask us wh our numbers have declined, shortly before they shitcan us.

I once had tulip bulb soup at a conference on hunger in Amsterdam - they didn’t charge us €10.50 for the privilege though!

A Victorian-style collage including a sitting woman in 19th century dress with her hand on her hip, some flowers, and words ‘Re-articulating the third sex: Victorian and Neo Victorian engagements with LGBTQIA+, edited by Helena Esser and Claire O’Callaghan’. The artwork is by Helena Esser.

A Victorian-style collage with a picture of George Sand, and the words ‘The Search for a Liveable Life: George Sand, Scandal and Queer Possibility in Briefly, A Delicious Life’ by Charlotte Boyce. The artwork is by Helens Esser.

In the pre-Christmas excitement, I forgot to mention that I have a new article out in a special issue of VPFJ. If you’re interested in neo-Victorian representations of George Sand and queer possibility check it out! victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...