Essaka Joshua
@essaka.bsky.social
Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.
So excited to see this chapter out in the world. Huge thanks to @essaka.bsky.social for letting me write it. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
Disability, Deformity, and Dependency in 19th-Century Scottish Fiction
Abstract. This chapter explores the representation of disability through a discourse of dependency in 19th-century Scottish fiction. This mode of reading w
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A big thank you to Terry F Robinson and her wonderful colleagues for hosting me at the U of Toronto this week for the Vincent De Luca lecture. I had a blast! www.english.utoronto.ca/people/infor...
Vincent A. De Luca Lecture Series | Department of English
Vincent A. De Luca received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught for six years at Cornell University before joining the faculty at the University of To...
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Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
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1 more day to get your free download of Disability and the Gothic. The freebie ends 3 March.
Essaka Joshua@essaka.bsky.social · 6mo agoDisability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Happy St. David’s Day. 2 days left to download your free copy of Disability and the Gothic.
Essaka Joshua@essaka.bsky.social · 6mo agoDisability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Disability and the Gothic
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Tomorrow in Intro to Medical Humanities we’re reading parts of @essaka.bsky.social’s Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, including the chapter on Frankenstein. Can’t wait to hear what my students think about monstrosity and shifting boundaries of selfhood
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage
News from the Victorian Society | How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
News about How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station from the The Victorian Society - news.
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John Clare Society Journal 44 (2025) has gone to print - landing on doormats before JC's birthday on 13 July. Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
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ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...
Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh
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Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.
The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...
Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …
Rebecca Scales@rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 2y agoJonathyne Briggs & I are editing a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society focused on #disability in French society. Proposals for articles in English or French due on Jan 15. See the original call on H-France or here (in tiny print). Merci à partager l'appel dans vos réseaux.
Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
Bangor University Archives awarded Welsh Government grant for Digitisation of Penrhyn Jamaica Papers | Bangor University
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