Picking up my life after four solid months of essentially living, sleeping and breathing this conference. I think I know how Harry Kane feels today (not something I ever thought I'd say...).

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐

Next week! Tues 19 May - and you can still sign up below.

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

There's still time to sign up to Prof Anne Stiles' talk on Tues 19 May, whether in person or online - see the link below.

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Bestselling novelist Marie Corelli was born today in 1854 as Caroline Cody. It’s a great day to perform a cover reveal for my volume of the @vpfa.bsky.social Key Popular Women Writers series on Corelli—out VERY soon. I am incredibly excited for it to be out in the world! @lboroenglish.bsky.social

We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃 www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Registration for the Weird Modernisms conference opens in ONE week. In the meantime, if you're looking for info about conference registration, hotel costs, and travel to Loughborough you can find it here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... Check back in one week to register/ book your hotel!

Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium

Hybrid - International House & Teams Webinar, 19 May 2026, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm

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We're getting ready for a new semester - our first event will be Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), ‘Imagining Alternative Arctics’: Literature and the Legacy of Polar Science from the 1890s to the Present - Wed 25 Feb, 16.00-17.00, in person and online via Teams (DM for link).

‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists! Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies. It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home

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Another fantastic achievement from one of our doctoral researchers: @millykateh.bsky.social has an article on "The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910)" out in latest edition of @gothicstudies.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3366/goth...

The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910) | Gothic Studies

Algernon Blackwood's fascination with the concept of the personal ‘cage’ and the potential for liberation is central to both his worldview and literary legacy. This article explores these themes in hi...

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It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'

This week!

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link

Coming very, very soon… Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

This Wednesday! DM for Teams link if you'd like to join online.

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 11mo ago

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!

Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

Victorian Popular Fiction Association@vpfa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...

If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/.... We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Today!

@culturalcurrents.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link

Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link

Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!

Loughborough English@lboroenglish.bsky.social · last yr.

We held our ‘Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between’ symposium this afternoon. Organised by @jadefrench.bsky.social and @drsarahparker.bsky.social, other speakers were @amigonidavid.bsky.social, Fatima Borrmann, @helenkingstone.bsky.social, & Helen Small. A wonderful event! 👏👏👏

The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details. #lets #editing #textualscholarship

Loughborough English@lboroenglish.bsky.social · last yr.

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

So exciting to finally officially launch our AHRC-funded project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. This is what I'll be doing until 2029 😮 @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...

International project launched to recover the hidden history of once-banned LGBTQ+ novel 'The Well of Loneliness'

The ‘most famous banned novel in LGBTQ+ history’ is the focus of a new international project that will bring together generations of readers to uncover how it reached and touched so many people around...

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