Prof. Patricia Pulham
@peptriss.bsky.social
Head of the School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries, University of Surrey. Current President of the British Association for Victorian Studies; member of the Academia Europaea. Interests: Decadence; 19th Lit & the Visual Arts; Neo-Victorianism.
The BAVS Newsletter team warmly welcomes submissions for the Summer Newsletter, including CFPs, notices of Victorianist interest, new publications, and more. Deadline: Friday 31 July More information:
BAVS Summer Newsletter: Notices for Inclusion (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming summer BAVS newsletter. These may include CFPs, not…
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Immensely proud of the co-edited collection celebrated in this blog @vpfa.bsky.social and thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social victorianpopularfiction.org/we-celebrate...
…We Celebrate the VPFA’s Intellectual Encounters Collected in ‘Re-examining Nineteenth-Century Easts: Gendered Narratives of Encounter’ (2026)
By Claudia Capancioni, with Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia KuehnThis June we celebrate how, four years ago, the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) hosted its first International Study…
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Saw Dangerous Liaisons at the NT this weekend - amazing staging and costumes. However, some uncomfortable tensions between the play’s ironic tone and seduction, given our post-#MeToo moment
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria@qaqv.bsky.social · 3mo ago7 May 2-6 pm CEST: WORKSHOP (preparation needed) 👉The Villain Within & #TaiChiZero 👉The Victimisation of Henry Jekyll & #Musical Productions LECTURE 👉 Playing #Steampunk London: Collective Memory and #Transmedia Game Spaces by @helenaesser.bsky.social 👇 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/bavsxqaqv/
Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...
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share.google/GOSvWZjUEtzs... After a bit of ‘tutting’ at the start of this, I confess to being utterly charmed by the end. Loved Ella Bruccoleri’s performance and, thanks to Ruth Jones, we see Mrs Bennet as more of a coercive, toxic mother than the usual frivolous, harmless caricature.
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Applications for the 206/27 round of the C19 Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social are now open! Details and benefits below and here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/n.... Deadline Monday 11 May 2026; please share widely! @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @drhorrocks.bsky.social
QAQV Chats #4 💬 Neo-historical Biofiction: Counterfictional Lives 19 March 2026 | 19:00–20:30 CET | Zoom Barbara Braid (Univ. of Szczecin) in conversation with Anna Gutowska (Jan Kochanowski Univ.), followed by Q&A moderated by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko. Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqvchats/
Would you like to come and study for a PhD at the University of Surrey? We invite PhD proposals in literature, music and media, and applied theatre. Interdisciplinary proposals welcome as are those from other fields, including film, digital media, cultural studies, and creative writing.
The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026. The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
Went to this event last night; beautiful and moving throughout. Thank you! #BeingHuman2025
Music and the Holocaust@holocaustmusic.bsky.social · 10mo agoBeyond Bars: Music by Holocaust Survivors. Manuel Cini will perform works written by survivors of the Nazi concentration camps – compositions lost for decades and recently recovered through his research. 13 Nov 7pm: The Menuhin Hall, Stoke D’Abernon. www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/beyon...
Very sad to hear about the death of Prof. Simon James - an excellent scholar and a kind human being. My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.
University English@univeng.bsky.social · last yr.We're really sorry to hear of the death of our dear colleague Professor Simon James. From 2016-19, Simon was PI on the Arts Council England and Durham University collaboration, the Durham Commission on Creativity which investigated the benefits of creativity for young people.
Interesting ideas here, and astute about current problems in UKHE.
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · last yr.The time has come to revitalise higher education funding in the UK by extending what Cornell legal scholars Robert Hockett and Saule Omarova call ‘the finance franchise’ to universities.
Important reflections for our times, please do read and share ⬇️⬇️
Jenny Richards@jennyrichards.bsky.social · last yr.Reflection on cuts and closures in the humanities from @britishacademy.bsky.social, including an essay on the work of @englishassociation.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social, thanks to my brilliant colleagues journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/thematic-col...
Vernon Lee: Text, Applications, and Practice - the first North American Vernon Lee conference is waiting for your abstracts! Jan 3 2025 is your deadline. Conference is at Colorado College, 29 June - 2 July 2025 💜
Great to see this from the @englishassociation.bsky.social.
The English Association@englishassociation.bsky.social · last yr.REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed! The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8... The deadline is 16 May!
CFP: British Association for Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference (Proposal Deadline: 3/17/25) bit.ly/3X9mG4r
CFP: British Association for Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference (Proposal Deadline: 3/17/25) | NAVSA
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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC
British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference
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Editorial: ‘The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed’. Good to see a measured, informed, and supportive media response to the crisis in HE.
The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...
We the undersigned … plse read and share ⬇️
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · 2y agoThe Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.
And a new open access book on Mudie's and the novel to go with it!
Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel
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So honoured to now be a Fellow of the @englishassociation.bsky.social!
Delighted to be presenting a research paper as part of Anglia Ruskin’s Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Print Culture series. Please do come along if you can and check out the schedule here: nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/s...
Seminar series: Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’
This semester, we are continuing with our series of talks on the theme of ‘Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’. These talks will take place on MS TEAMS and a calendar invite will be sen…
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Having now seen #Nosferatu, I’m sorry to say that I was disappointed. I’ve loved Eggers’ work to date, and the cinematography here was equally impressive, but it’s a one-note movie - everything is overwrought, including Orlok’s distracting accent!
