Paperback copies of my and @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Ridiculous book! Available here: www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...

New on the BARS Blog - “Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime by @rjdashwood.bsky.social and @drstephr.bsky.social While the idea of the Austen crime novel might seem odd, crime and romance share some decided similarities... Read more at www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606

The article Stephanie Russo and I wrote during my stay at Macquarie University in Sydney this year is now out on the @bars.bsky.social Blog! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606

@bars.bsky.social 2026 Conference was a blast. I’m so incredibly grateful for the encouraging feedback and excellent questions I got for my paper on Elyza Fraser as part of the “Crossing Borders” panel, which were nothing short of inspiring! Grateful for this community always

Birmingham for the @bars.bsky.social conference has been lovely so far - nice hotel, nice food, and nice people (including a return to the Birmingham and Midland Institute, with whom I worked as part of a previous project at the University of Liverpool!)

Routledge has a promotion going on at the moment, which means that you can get the duograph I had so much fun writing with @drbeard79.bsky.social, Reading the Romantic Ridiculous, for a bargainous €37! www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

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I thought of her too but I like @rjdashwood.bsky.social ‘s argument that Aunt Norris demonstrates moral growth by choosing to leave Mansfield Park with the disgraced Maria.

OMG semi-affordable paperback edition of my and @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s ridiculous book is available to pre-order from today! Coleridge falling down a mountain! Austen feeling silly! The Woman of Colour as more comedy than tragedy! Somehow, BBC’s Ghosts! How to work with Lake District museums!

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

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It’s almost affordable for normal people in paperback form and is, I think, a good book on Romanticism, humour, selfhood, community, and Romantic legacies today - Rita and I had fun writing it and we hope some of that comes across reading it! It would look great on your university library’s shelf!

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Academic friends! I have received the most humbling royalty statement ever from Routledge in which I could count the sales of @rjdashwood.bsky.social and my book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous on one hand 🥺 Please help by pre-ordering the paperback version I discovered is out at the end of May!

Pre-order @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Reading the Romantic Ridiculous in paperback to make next year’s royalty statement less, well, ridiculous!

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It’s almost affordable for normal people in paperback form and is, I think, a good book on Romanticism, humour, selfhood, community, and Romantic legacies today - Rita and I had fun writing it and we hope some of that comes across reading it! It would look great on your university library’s shelf!

So happy to see my article, ‘A Much Maligned but Clever Lady: Mary Verney, Who Saved Claydon House,’ published in the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine. Read to find out why the first thing that Mary Verney did when she inherited Claydon House was to tear down two thirds of it 😉

So happy to see my monograph out! I’m so thankful to everyone at UWP for their amazing work and support through this process 🖤

University of Wales Press@uniwalespress.bsky.social · 8mo ago

'Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic' by @madelinepotter.bsky.social is out now! This book places monstrosity at the centre of the process of gathering knowledge of the divine and reassess the relationship between Gothic literature and Catholicism. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

Happy 250th anniversary to the greatest author who has ever lived. It’s only two days before my viva anniversary and I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have spent four years with - and many others before and since. Here’s to many more years of having fun with Austen 🥳

I had so much fun teaching a seminar on Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations for an MA Book History class at Ghent University this afternoon, concluding with an analysis of my favourite modern reimagining, @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social's Fire Island 😊 #janeausten #prideandprejudice #fireislandmovie

Two new invitations to submit to this journal just this week. All because of the article I wrote with @drbeard79.bsky.social, ‘Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA.' I'll be sure to mention this the next time I'm asked about my research impact at future interviews 😜

So grateful to the wonderful people at Shibden Hall for showing me around and sharing their knowledge of Anne and the house during my visit 😊 (I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 ) #shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax

Loved visiting Halifax during my research trip to see Shibden Hall and Anne Lister’s letters at West Yorkshire Archive Services as part of my project, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900, at Ghent University 😊 (And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁) #annelister #shibdenhall #halifax

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work

a man is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .

Alt: Tom Hollander’s Mr Collins is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .

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Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!

A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!

Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians

In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!

So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · last yr.

Heading to the #GlobalAusten250 Conference at Southampton bright and early to meet these brilliant people and many more! (If you are too and want to be added to the starter pack let me know!)

Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous? Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)? You can buy / request it for your library here:

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...

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You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂

2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900 (Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)

Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️‍🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)

a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear

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