Here is the 2025 winner of the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies @katherineprentice.bsky.social, plus our honorable mention recipients @ami-n.bsky.social and David Martinez. Congratulations all (& to runner up Sophie Dungan!). Thanks @fantastic-journal.bsky.social!

Last week, Northumbria University's Horror Studies Research Group held our annual international conference, Horror Studies Now. For anyone who missed it, here is our annual highlight reel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxm5...

Horror Studies Now 2026

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I’ll be presenting at the PARC Critical Autism Studies Online Conference tomorrow with @draimeegrant.bsky.social! Our paper is titled: “Authentic inclusion. Actual reasonable adjustments. A culture of acceptance”: Creating accessibility for community involvement in Autism research

for those committed theory heads, spend yr Saturday reading my first ever journal article. Its open access over at Progress in Human Geography: The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... And tell yer friends

The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026

This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

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In doing so, I argue, we can being to re-center the possibility of radical, oppositional, and transformative politics as a central stake of posthuman theory and knowledge production. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Taking work from my thesis, which I completed at @ncl-geography.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social, I put forward Rancière’s political theory and his critical reading practice, a ‘poetics of knowledge’ as a way of critiquing these debates. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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In it, I try to articulate a response to debates over the politics of posthuman theory, which centre on affirmations and negative approaches. I found these alternatives politically unsatisfying in relation to the scale of the ecological crises we face. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I recently published my first article: The Poetics of Knowledge in the Anthropocene: The Politics of Posthuman Knowledge. If you are interested in posthumanism, environmental crisis, radical politics or post-foundational theory, this might be of interest! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Does your favorite filmmaker know about the 2026 Access:Horror film festival yet? Submissions are open for this year’s event, and we want to bring the best of the best to our audience later this year. Send this to someone who needs to apply!

Check out this article by @ami-n.bsky.social - based on a paper presented at Horror Studies Now 2024, for which Dr Nisa received an Honorable Mention for the Peter Hutchings Award for Outstanding Contribution to Horror Studies #horrorNU utampapress.org/rivers-of-bl...

Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire - University of Tampa Press

Studies in the Fantastic, in partnership with the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University, is proud to present the second in a series of blog posts highlighting new and exciting resear...

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Publication day! Looking forward to the new I Know What You Did Last Summer or Scream VII? Then check out my new book The Postmodern Slasher Film (or order it for your library) 30% off with the code NEW30 at @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pos... #horrorNU

CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture Special Issue of American Gothic Studies Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

Our own @drstevejones.bsky.social was interviewed for this article about zombies by @tomjbeasley.bsky.social uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/28-da... #horrorNU

28 Days Later started a zombie debate that's still raging today

28 Years Later will bring fast zombies back to cinemas, but some horror fans still think the undead should move at a snail's pace. What do the experts think?

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@jplaczkiewicz.bsky.social was lovely meeting you at the conference! Hope your journey back home wasn’t too nightmarish!

The line-up for Horror Studies Now @horrorstudies.bsky.social is looking really great! research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie... I’ll be presenting a paper on the Thursday ~ “Rivers of Blood: Racial Capitalism and the Emergence of the British Asian Vampire” 🧛🏾‍♀️

🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP

Registration is now open for Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne) For information on how to register and to see the line-up, visit: research.northumbria.ac.uk/horrorstudie... #horrorNU

A new award graduate students who are working with video essays organised by the SCMS Digital Humanities and Videographic Criticism special interest group (SIG). Please share this info with students you know and submit if you qualify (deadline this year will be June 1st).

2 - 12th June - online @autismtheology.bsky.social - forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #AutRes #ReligiousStudies #DisabilityStudies #Inclusion /next/

I have 2 webinars coming up where I'll be sharing my doctoral research and autoethnographic work I carried out alongside! #AutRes #ReligiousStudies #DisabilityStudies #Inclusion 1 - 8th May - online @craeioe.bsky.social - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-imposs... /next/

Boosting this as I am employable again as a graphic designer/illustrator over the next few months. Got a project of some kind that I can make look sharp? Message me here or email benpbowsher@gmail.com

Ben Bowsher@benbowsher.bsky.social · 2y ago

if anyone has any design or illustration work they need doing I am available and willing to negotiate a good rate. I had 7 years of experience in the industry before I left for my thesis. Here’s a small sample of work I did whilst doing the thesis:

My MSc student Jess is looking for autistic and non-autistic people to take part in her study. If you have 20 mins spare and fancy taking part it would be hugely appreciated!

@jesslou.bsky.social · last yr.

I am running a study to see how neurotypes influence understanding of body language. You may partake if you are 18+. This study is estimated to take 20 minutes to complete, you will asked to watch videos and answer questions Ethics code PSYCH-2025-4260-5011 durhambs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Still time to book! Please share widely, and any issues please direct to SocrelResponseDay2025@gmail.com #ReligiousStudies #DisabilityStudies #AcademicSharing #Events @bsasocrel.bsky.social

Dr Krysia Waldock@krysiawally.bsky.social · last yr.

There is still time to book for our one day conference on #Religion, #Disability and #Neurodivergence! The day is for anyone interested in the intersection of disability, neurodivergence and religion and is for academics, practitioners and people wanting to hear some really fab work! /1/

I have a book review published in the latest Open Screens Journal www.openscreensjournal.com/article/id/1...

Book Review: Cecilia Sayad, The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)

Cecilia Sayad The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the HorrorGenre (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). pp. 168, ISBN: 9780190065775(pb), £20.99; ISBN: 9780190065768 (hb), £81;...

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Published today! Read the new issue of Open Screens, the #diamondopenaccess journal of BAFTSS / British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. Volume 7, issue 1: www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/1296/i...

Maybe someone should study these films in the context of the current climate, but I for one cannot stand Nazi zombies

carolyn@papersquared.bsky.social · last yr.

HORROR FRIENDS: What type of horror will you just not consume, for any reason? For me, it's home invasion horror. Too close to reality.

🌟Autistic people wanted!🌟 I would love to hear from autistic people who would like to contribute to a new book on growing up autistic. Please email h.axbey@outlook.com for more information. #Autistic #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

I’ll soon be commissioning for the June issue of Mslexia and am open to pitches on any element of creative writing/publishing. Features are ~1,800 words and fall into one of the following broad headings: CRAFT, CREATIVITY & WELLBEING, CAREER, OFF THE PAGE #writingopportunities

CFP: Horror Studies Now 2025 (May 29th-30th) at Northumbria University Call and submissions info here: shorturl.at/XmTjU #horrorNU

Reading student participation assignments in my "Contemporary Women Filmmakers" class. Reminded why John Alberti's "Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation & the Gender Politics of the Set" remains one of my all-time favorite essays to teach! [Shelton 💔] www.academia.edu/84424536/The...