This October, what better way to get into the spooky spirit than by learning about the genre that dominates the season? For the first time, I’m offering an intensive three-week course on Gothic Literature. For all the details, check out the Eventbrite page! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-gothic...

The Gothic Imagination: An Introduction to Gothic Literature

Learn about the Gothic as a literary genre and theoretical lens, tracing its history and influence from the 18th century to the present day

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This Saturday is the Goths for Breakfast charity day. Goths unite! We're raising money for Magic Breakfast to feed hungry kids with a teaching marathon of fascinating talks and writing workshops. Pop in and out as you like - the talks are recorded! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982926549...

Goths for Breakfast: Charity Teach-a-thon

A full day of back to back classes and workshops on Gothic themes to raise money for the charity Magic Breakfast

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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I've finally launched my Substack! I'm in the midst of deadline season, so it'll be a bit slow going this month, but I'm really looking forward to nourishing this space. If you want to follow my research and process, please consider subscribing. substack.com/@strangescho...

Kristy | The Strange Scholar | Substack

Musings on life, literature, environmentalism, and the processes of a non-traditional PhD researcher.

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A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Heading back North after a lovely couple of days spent at the Women in World-Literature conference (@womeninworld-lit.bsky.social) at the University of Warwick. Presented a fragment of a current thesis chapter and chaired a fantastic panel all about speculative fiction!

Very excited to say I’ve just signed the contract for a Polish translation of ‘The Roma’! So there will now be translations into German, French, Russian, and Polish. 👀

What are you doing this Sunday? What about catching up on some Romancing the Gothic talks? In April, we were exploring different manifestations of the European Gothic. Why not check out one of the talks below? #Gothic #Horror #Folklore

My recent scholarly publication is now live! This piece reviews The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic edited by Rebecca Duncan. It was a pleasure to read the book & share my thoughts on such an important piece of work. You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/

The 'Women in World Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion' schedule is finally ready for the world! You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture. Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule Registration coming soon!

My new YouTube video titled “How to Become an Independent Researcher” is now live! In this video I share what I learnt during the 3.5 years I spent as an independent researcher in-between completing my Masters degree and starting my PhD. youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...

How to Become an Independent Researcher

YouTube video by The Gothic Academic

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Our Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (2024, Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott) published by Routledge Environmental Humanities Series is open access. @ucl.ac.uk www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-...

Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdo

This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian

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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place? romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...

Goths for Breakfast 2025

Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. The event is a day of online classes and workshops w…

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What if worsening climate disruption doesn't act as a wake up call? An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action But we can break this loop 🧵

Absolute joy at finding my first ever ammonite fossil on the beach today! I’ve dreamt of finding one for years and this is such a perfect specimen. Then went on to spot my first ever yellow sea glass. Powerful moments of glimmer when things have felt bleak ✨

Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵

Working on an award application for my PhD and it requires two references. The way my heart sunk when I started to write down Justin Edward’s name for referee 2 and stopped 💔 I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.

💙📚🪐 Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day

If I were a company called “MasterClass,” I might consider taking down my Neil Gaiman course right now

MasterClass | Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling

Award-winning author Neil Gaiman teaches his approach to imaginative storytelling and creating vivid fictional worlds in his first-ever MasterClass.

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I’ve never recycled a book that wasn’t damaged before in my life (usually just give them away), but the four books that were on my shelf by this vile person are now, literally, in the (recycling) bin. This was so much worse than I expected.

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

Gothicist folk, does anyone have access to a pdf/ebook copy of "Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past" edited by Karen Grumberg?

CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025 5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025 www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...

Hi folks, so I set up a #Hauntology starter pack. Please share. If you want to be added/removed, please say. go.bsky.app/ES7F8rg

This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the over 350 trans people killed globally this year, and many more who have died by suicide. These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism. We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.

I've made a starter pack for folk horror and folklore. It's pretty bare bones right now--don't hesitate to let me know if you want to be added if you do art, music, fiction, or research. It's being a little glitchy about letting me add people right now, but I'll figure it out! go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA

Hi folks, it’s time for a wee introduction! My name is Kristy, and I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Here’s a pinned thread regarding my research on ecofeminism and the ecoGothic in contemporary speculative fiction that engages with the climate crisis!

Copied from Twitter: We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference! 19th and 20th June - hybrid form Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2! This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and @HRCWarwick

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

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Hi all, I created a Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Studies starter pack. This is for the academic study of SFFH :) The list is still tiny as I don't know who is here. Please let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/TDrfKpu