My text 'Monsters and fixity: The invasion narratives inside us' has been published in the journal Science Fiction Film & Television Volume 19, Number 2 @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... This article introduces the “monster of fixity” to sf-horror discourse
Michael Eden
@michaeledenart.bsky.social
Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University. https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden
1/2 My text 'A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self' in the CineJ Cinema Journal, has another citation! I'm thrilled with this ☺️ cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/ar... ... I will have to wait to see exactly what Joseph and Sara say...
Titane (2021) is a great example of how art/film can confound theory, it’s an excellent film but progressive it ain’t! The idea that Alexia is a queer or feminist icon involves an incredible refusal of what it’s aesthetics actually do, just ask me (😂): ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...
My text on Titane is cited in ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... is cited in Panek, M. B. (2026). In flesh and metal: Automachinic femininity in Titane. French Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0957...
The MAMO conference is back! CFP below
❗It's here! The Call For Papers for MAMO 2027❗ - Seeking a broad range of proposals for papers and events, focusing on aspects of medievalism in the modern world. - Featuring some very special events and keynotes... - You can find a plaintext version of this CFP at shorturl.at/0FJjY.
My insanely talented daughter India had her final degree show (Fine Art) @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social (Chelsea). It’s gone so quickly and I’m so proud!
Tree attempts to Raise the Rocks (2026) observational drawing.
‘We live under the dead’ (a view of the Bridgewater Monument) (2026) and Pawn ♟ Promotion (view from the Bridgewater Monument) (2026): Diptych, oil on canvas.
My text on the neo-liberal problematics of M3GAN has another citation😉 in ‘The Smart Home's Dark Secret: Unpacking Gendered Algorithmic Bias and Control Through M3GAN and Afraid’ by AL Krishnan, Literariness Journal, 2026. My text Is here ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...
a woman with long blonde hair and a bow tie is sitting on a couch
ALT: a woman with long blonde hair and a bow tie is sitting on a couch
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Thanks to @thesowhat.bsky.social and @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social teams, wonderful to be in this great publication ☺️
3/ Next we have “Perception is a Spike Turned Inward: Reflecting on Contemporary Events through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” by @michaeledenart.bsky.social & featuring Dr. Eden’s own #SGGK -informed artwork! #artist
My text on Titane is cited in ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... is cited in Panek, M. B. (2026). In flesh and metal: Automachinic femininity in Titane. French Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0957...
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I'm cited in the text below, regarding the Green Knight and female agency, still exciting to me to know people read the texts! nbpublish.com/library_read...
Пожаров А.И. Феминистская гегемония в медиакультуре как форма гностической эпистемы
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Thrilled to be under contract with @bloomsburyspectres.bsky.social to write my book ‘The Disruption of Landscape through the Weird and Eerie: Pareidolia, Perception and Creative Practice’ the developing project can be viewed here www.instagram.com/eerie__weird...
Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...
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My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!
I'm cited here in a PhD thesis 'Feminist Horror After #MeToo: A24’s Monstrous White Women' www.proquest.com/openview/7e3... by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson
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For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...
Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art - UAL Research Online
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Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.
Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊
1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...
The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘
My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...
My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.
I'm really looking forward to delivering a plenary at MAMO conference at Kings College London themamo.org titled 'Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art'
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The conference encompasses literature, politics, history, gaming, the visual arts, heritage and architecture, and more. It's a fantastically interdisciplinary conference and we're tremendously grateful to everyone who submitted their abstracts. See you there, we hope! themamo.org
Applications open until 25th April for our call out ‘Bodies in Process’
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS: Bodies in Process ⏳ Deadline 25 April 2025 (31 March for abstracts for academic submissions) 🔗 Full details here: www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal...
1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.
We are in for a treat at our next seminar when Dr Michael Eden (University of the Arts) will speak on 'Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain'. Wed 12/2/25 17.30 at @ihr.bsky.social or online. Info, abstract and registration at: www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
The pre-print for my paper 'Time, Horror, and Iconoclasm: Creative Responses to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is available here. amaes.fr/agregation-a...
Agrégation (articles des colloques) | Association des Anglicistes Médiévistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur
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Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.
Looking forward to this talk (12th Feb, booking in the link). I will discuss my art practice, and in thinking about the contemporary relevance of the poem, I take an issue with X, Richard Dawkins, Justin Welby, and the perpetrators of war crimes, www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...
Failed Seriousness and a Subject Worth Fighting For: Representing Sir Gawain
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