Sarah Parker
@profsarahparker.bsky.social
Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
proud of this latest article in MFS - sharing for my friday scrollers, petroculture & env hums scholars, and yanagihara stans
Heather Ray Milligan@hrmilligan.bsky.social · last mo.delighted to share my latest article is published (open access) in Modern Fiction Studies! @hopkinspress.bsky.social I give Hanya Yanagihara's first novel, The People in the Trees, the petroculture studies treatment and conclude that the times, they are exhausted doi.org/10.1353/mfs....
Writing a new lecture on 1890s women poets and it is WAY too long. How can I do justice to May Kendall, Dollie Radford (pictured), Amy Levy, Nora Hopper and E. Nesbit in 50 mins?? Send help!
What a wonderful feeling – it’s publication day for my book on Marie Corelli! Thanks to my amazing editors @helenaifill.bsky.social and Janine Hatter for all their support. I’m so proud to be a contributor to their series on Key Popular Women Writers. @vpfa.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social
I'm reading the new book on Marie Corelli by @coppertapestry.bsky.social and it's BRILLIANT! So readable, entertaining & field-transforming. Whether you are a Corelli nut or not, I urge you to treat yourself to a copy: www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie...
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Some of the team presented on the 'Weirding Lesbian Modernism' panel at Weird Modernisms @lborouniversity.bsky.social last week, with papers on Radclyffe Hall and reincarnation, queer femininities and the ever-glorious Tinkle the Cat! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
I would also like to add that, unlike Harry Kane, I was not even hoarse after four days of shouting at delegates and TWO back-to-back nights of karaoke!
Sarah Parker@profsarahparker.bsky.social · 4mo agoPicking up my life after four solid months of essentially living, sleeping and breathing this conference. I think I know how Harry Kane feels today (not something I ever thought I'd say...).
Picking up my life after four solid months of essentially living, sleeping and breathing this conference. I think I know how Harry Kane feels today (not something I ever thought I'd say...).
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnd that's a wrap on #WeirdModernisms! Thank you so much to everyone who took part and especially to all from @moderniststudies.bsky.social, @modernistudies.bsky.social, and the Loughborough local organising committee for their hard work to produce this wonderfully weird conference! 💐
The #WeirdModernisms conference kicked off this morning with its first keynote address by Dr Nisha Ramayya ((Queen Mary, University of London) with a full house! @moderniststudies.bsky.social
The 100 Years of The Well of Loneliness project team had a fabulous time in Rye!
Really excited for this tonight - and the Postwar Women's Writing Now symposium tomorrow. I can already FEEL how much I am going to learn!
naoise murphy@naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 6mo agoFriends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...
Bestselling novelist Marie Corelli was born today in 1854 as Caroline Cody. It’s a great day to perform a cover reveal for my volume of the @vpfa.bsky.social Key Popular Women Writers series on Corelli—out VERY soon. I am incredibly excited for it to be out in the world! @lboroenglish.bsky.social
Help us tell Mary's story: Call for short story proposals for Parthian Books.
Dr Elizabeth English@drelizabethenglish.bsky.social · 7mo ago📣 Open call for short story proposals!! This anthology will rewrite, or reimagine, the story of Stephen Gordon's lover, Mary Llewellyn, giving a voice to a character constructed from stereotypes of Welsh identity. For more, see www.parthianbooks.com/blogs/news/o.... @wellofloneliness.bsky.social
I'm on a Scottish mini-tour reunion this week: discussing Decadent Editions at University of Glasgow on Wed and giving my first paper from 100 Years of The Well of Loneliness at University of Stirling on Thurs. Excited to see faces old and new! www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
It was a pleasure and a privilege to be in conversation with my amazing colleague and dear friend Jade French about our books - and to share it with Feminist Modernist Studies. If you're interested in women's writing, periodisation, ageing and thinking across generations, check out our little chat.
Loughborough English@lboroenglish.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur own Jade French and Sarah Parker are in conversation about their recent monographs in the latest issue of Feminist Modernist Studies, exploring shared themes of modernism, ageing, and generational thinking in early 20th-century women writers.
Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium
Hybrid - International House & Teams Webinar, 19 May 2026, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
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Was very pleased to be invited by @poetrylondon.bsky.social to have this conversation over cocktails with Helen Bowell 🍸https://poetrylondon.co.uk/outside-the-box/
Outside The Box – Discover – Poetry London
A conversation between Clare Pollard and Helen Bowell. This conversation took place at a cocktail bar in Peckham. Clare Pollard had the Dirty Bellini and Helen Bowell had the Burnt Cherry Amaretto Sou...
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Meow! I'm sure you'll agree our next event is purrfect: www.outsavvy.com/event/33020/... @queerbritain.bsky.social
Heavy Petting: Literary Lesbians and their Cats Tickets - London - OutSavvy
To celebrate Lesbian Visibility Week, join Dr Hannah Roche from the University of York for an illustrated talk on queer women writers and their cats.Though they come and go as they please, cats have m...
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In Cambridge, about to look at the Amy Levy archives for the first time. To say I am excited is a severe understatement..!
We're getting ready for a new semester - our first event will be Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), ‘Imagining Alternative Arctics’: Literature and the Legacy of Polar Science from the 1890s to the Present - Wed 25 Feb, 16.00-17.00, in person and online via Teams (DM for link).
As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!
The CPF deadline for BAMS/MSA Weird Modernisms is tomorrow (Mon 29 Dec)! Get your abstracts in before that window closes...
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 11mo agoImportant news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The deadline to apply for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough, July 1-4, 2026, is now exactly 1 week away!
Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 11mo agoImportant news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Check out these amazing keynotes for Weird Modernisms - and there's still time to propose a paper or panel: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M... @moderniststudies.bsky.social
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA)@moderniststudies.bsky.social · 10mo agoWith @modernistudies.bsky.social we're pleased to announce our keynote speakers for BAMS/ MSA in Loughborough in July 2026. First up is Catriona McAra, art historian, curator and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at University of Aberdeen.
Deadline is just two weeks away! But DM them now if you're looking for a panel.
👽 🐖 Graham Borland 🐗 🗻@jocularfowl.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe conference is on in Loughborough, on the 1st to 4th of July 2026! Message us ASAP if you’re interested in joining our panel! @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social
No Microsoft Word dictation, his name is not 'Have a look Ellis'...🙃
Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
moderniststudies.org
'She [Meynell] deserves to be recognised as a pioneering female voice, rescued from dusty obscurity, and this volume may be the one to begin this process.' M. C. Caseley for Stride Magazine, on Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Read the review: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/anot...
Another Voice
Selected Poems and Essays , Alice Meynell, ed. Alex Wong (216pp, Carcanet, £16.99) Out of fashion and out of print, A...
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What a fabulous programme!
Romance, Revolution & Reform@rrrjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago📢 Happy to announce that registration is now OPEN for our conference, 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' (15 Jan. 2026) 📢 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the... Provisional Programme here: www.rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d... Please share widely!