Aíne Norris
@ainenorris.bsky.social
Researcher and newly awarded PhD using mixed methods to study culture, tech, and all things unusual 🎪🔮⛰️💀📚 https://linktr.ee/ainenorris
Our collection "Recasting the Bygone #Witch: Representations of Lesser-Known Witches in #PopularCulture" is now available in paperback! Vernon Press set up a limited-time 30% discount code for anyone who wants to grab a copy. Use OHBM30 at checkout. tinyurl.com/rbwitch #witchsky 🖤🖤
29 years ago Rupert Giles uttered one of my favorite lines in television history. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997) #buffy
“In her endurance through time, narrative, and interdisciplinary space, the bygone witch exudes remarkable strength. It is up to us to protect and share her legacy.” Our collection represents years of reflection on #witchcraft in #popularculture. tinyurl.com/bygonewitch (discount: CFC15303624F1)
✅ @pcaaca.bsky.social 2026. As always, an excellent conference with inspiring scholars. Thankful for this organization and the community it engages. ✌️See y’all next year! ✨
Beautiful little ode to #TwinPeaks from the late Julee Cruise on the celebrity wall at Mary Mac’s Tea Room in #Atlanta. 🖤🍒🥧☕️
Thank you, @pcaaca.bsky.social! I’m absolutely stunned and grateful. It’s an honor to do this work and tell these #circus stories. ♥️🎪 #pca2026
On Friday I successfully defended my #dissertation, “Back Yard Lingo: Language as Cultural Identity in American Circus.” Grateful for this journey and this work. May all our days be circus days. 🎪
Publication day for “Recasting the Bygone Witch.” So excited to see this one come to life and grateful for all the experts who shared their work with us. To the bygone #witches: this one's for you. 🖤 (Available here: vernonpress.com/book/2500 code CFC15303624F1 for discount!)
Out now! 'Urban Legends', edited by Irena Jurković, Marko Lukić, and Tijana Parezanović blends folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography to offer groundbreaking insight into how folklore operates in today’s culture. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/urban-l...
Working through dissertation edits and still can’t believe this project is out of my brain and onto paper. 💜🎪
Knowing my proclivities, a lot of folks have sent me messages this week excitedly relaying that Jessica Lange is back for the next season of American Horror Story. But how can she ever top this banger of a line? 🖤😂
Big thanks to the amazing folks at @c19podcast.bsky.social for letting me babble about Appalachian witchcraft and math. 🖤🖤🖤 It’s an honor to do this work.
C19 Podcast@c19podcast.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew episode out now! Join Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University) in searching the archives for records of “Sally Friddly” of Potts Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia, who was accused of enchanting a milk pail to steal cream from her neighbors.
Presented my Appalachian witchcraft / stylometry work at a history symposium early this month and just received an email from an attendee with the subject line “Witchcraft Math.” 🖤🖤🖤🖤
a black and white drawing of two witches and a devil on a broom
ALT: a black and white drawing of two witches and a devil on a broom
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Friends in academia: do you have a copyeditor you love? Looking to hire one for a manuscript, and would much rather go off recommendations. Thank you!
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
davidpham5@davidpham5.bsky.social · last yr.@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
Happy 28th anniversary to one of my favorite lines in television history. 😆 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "I Robot, You Jane" S.1.E.8, 1997)
Excellent incentives to empty my to do list this week. 🦉🥧☕️ #TwinPeaks cc: @scottryanfmp.bsky.social
Hey, y'all - there are going to be lots of ugly propaganda pieces circulating now that Trump is president again. KKK flyers, etc. Just a note to say that best practices are that you deface the image somehow before sharing it so that it cannot be distributed further as-is.
Thankful for water returning to our house in #Richmond. It’s been out completely since early Monday afternoon. Now conserving and being mindful of the boil notice. Hope the city will work diligently to improve the infrastructure after this event. #RVA #rvaWaterCrisis
Day three of no water in Richmond. Here’s an updated list of water distribution sites in the area. #RVA
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
