Excited to be quoted in today's Heat Magazine feature on spicy reads! Not a circle of shame in sight!
Joanne Ella Parsons
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
Check out the latest gorgeous monograph to grace my @edinburghup.bsky.social #Gender and the #Body book series! Its by @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and it's absolutely marvellous! #drinkingstudies @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Talking herbs and #13CornishGhostStories at our #CreativeWriting workshop for West Cornwall Women's Aid and National Literacy Trust
Thanks to @joparsons.bsky.social and the brilliant organisers of the love and loss workshop for inviting me last week and bringing together such interesting people. It's always a treat to go to the @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social but it was looking particularly lovely in the sunshine on Friday!
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Online Talk: #LastTuesdaySociety, '#Melodrama: Forerunner of the #Bonkbuster? by Rebecca Lloyd Tuesday 14th April 2026 - 8.00pm - 9:30 pm All welcome! thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/melodr...
Melodrama: Forerunner of the Bonkbuster? Rebecca Lloyd - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society
An exploration of the range of protective symbols carved into medieval buildings, their purpose and possible meaning.
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We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word
Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
womenswritingassociation.com
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
womenswritingassociation.com
CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
womenswritingassociation.com
CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
womenswritingassociation.com
Thanks so much to @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my research on spontaneous human combustion and alcohol medicine last night. It was so much fun and the cemetery was as beautiful as ever. Photo credit: @joparsons.bsky.social
Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/student/news...
Bristol academic to lead discussion on macabre Victorian phenomenon
The curious phenomenon gripped the 19th-century Britain
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Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...
Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: 27th March 2026
A VPFA Study DayHosted by Loughborough University Registration now open! Click here to register Scroll down for the Study Day Programme The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect…
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A version of this is now up — will post expanded versions in the future. sarahbull.me/mapping-nine...
Mapping Nineteenth-Century Obscenity - Sarah Bull
Last summer I discovered the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps and had a lot of fun plotting addresses I found in my research for Advertising Pornography and Obscenity Trials. I found ...
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Last summer, I got super into plotting addresses of nineteenth-century British pornographers that I'd collected as part of a project using the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps. Collecting the data was a painstaking process, as was plotting it as many of these addresses no longer +
OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me. THANK YOU READERS! Grab a copy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...
#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
Digital Events - The Last Tuesday Society
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#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
Digital Events - The Last Tuesday Society
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ICYMI: MeetCute Book Festival is set to host a Regency-themed event for debut authors, hosted by author and comedian Rachel Parris 👇 #BookSky
MeetCute Book Festival to host Regency-themed event for debut authors
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A new publication by Katie Deane, on dark romance, is the first work of romance scholarship of 2026. And it's open access!
Dark romance: an introduction
This article examines the rise of dark romance from the fringes of self-publishing to a bestselling genre. After surveying definitions of dark romance, the article provides a detailed chronology of...
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Our International women's writing online conference will be held on the 15th and 16th of January 2026. In a chance to explore the global role and impact of women's writing, we are so excited to welcome all discussions about any woman's writing from any time period, any place and any genre!
Sounds fabulous!
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 7mo agoI'm working with the University of Liverpool again to offer a ten-week course on popular romance! Online and only £155 (£80 concessions) with lovely library access! 'Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance' www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601 #iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
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Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd... #sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth
Glitching Gender
This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in which technology can be used as a mechanism to dismantle or reinforce existing gender ideologies.
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