Submissions open! Come talk about Gothic monsters and creepy creatures at our two day event this October! Also accepting creative writing submissions! 🧛🦇🧙‍♀️👻

Ellesse Patterson 🐝@elpatterson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In October 2026, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻

My first post for the V&A blog has gone live. Check it out to see and hear more about the Curators' Lives Archive that I've been researching and cataloguing 😊 www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-...

Voices of the V&A: The Curators' Lives Oral Histories Archive • V&A Blog

What is the Curators’ Lives Archive? Within the institutional archives of the V&A sits a little-known collection of oral histories. Aptly named ‘The Curators’ Lives’, this project was devised by Resea...

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The online literary magazine I co-edit has just released its second ever issue on 'Land and Landscapes'. You can also check out a film review and a short poetic sequence by moi, featured within. Check out the amazing work published in this issue here: twistedinks.wordpress.com/issue-2/

Last week I went to London for an interview at the V&A for a doctoral placement (and of course I explored the museum itself). Today I have been offered the placement where I'll be researching and cataloguing the Curators' Lives oral histories archive. Thrilled would be an understatement ☺️🤭🎉

First post 🥳 A little intro to my PhD project. I'm currently researching surrealist aesthetics and tendencies in contemporary world cinema. My current focus is on the Surrealist documentary of Jean Painlevé and the docufiction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 🎬