Dr Theadora Jean
@tsjharling.bsky.social
Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Just to re-introduce ourselves. We’re a new Gothic & horror magazine and we have an introductory issue on our website now, which is free to download! If this sounds interesting, please give us a follow! thegothicrevival.com/shop
Shop - The Gothic Revival
Reviving the Past, Enchanting the Present
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Another example of inclusive practice for conferences: it’s on MWS, online and free so I am able to attend almost all of it as a disabled w/c independent scholar in another time zone. Thank you to the organisers, I am really looking forward to this 🖤
Keats-Shelley Assoc.@ksaacomm.bsky.social · last mo.The 2026 Curran Symposium is coming soon! This year's theme explores Mary Shelley’s genre-defining post-apocalyptic pandemic novel & its legacies. Register 2 weeks in advance in order to attend events. 📆 September 24th and 25th 📍University of Notre Dame #Curran2026 www.k-saa.org/blog/curran2...
Invigorated by the first morning of talks at #Moreterrors2026 and chuffed to have had the opportunity to speak on The Woman of Colour thanks to @madelinepotter.bsky.social & @romgothsam.bsky.social . Loved the questions and engagement too which has given me plenty to think about 🖤
Not too late to join us 🖤
Dr Theadora Jean@tsjharling.bsky.social · 4w agointerested in the Gothic? if so I highly recommend you to this excellent and inclusive conference Dare I say, I will be delivering a paper on The Woman of Colour and the ‘Radcliffean Gothic’ and my firm intent is mix some sh!t up so come along if you are game 🖤 #Gothic #18thC #19thC #literature
interested in the Gothic? if so I highly recommend you to this excellent and inclusive conference Dare I say, I will be delivering a paper on The Woman of Colour and the ‘Radcliffean Gothic’ and my firm intent is mix some sh!t up so come along if you are game 🖤 #Gothic #18thC #19thC #literature
Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social · 2mo agoAre you interested in Ann Radcliffe? Women in Gothic and Horror? Trans horror? Writing workshops with amazing people? You can get it all for one online event. Come to as much or as little as you like! 22nd and 23rd August www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1993974113...
Why do we avoid talking about failure in academia? In this insightful interview with @ecrlife.bsky.social, the editors of Women, 'Failure' and Academia explore what can happen when we redefine and even embrace it: ecrlife.org/interview-book-women-failure-and-academia
Could just every academic that is so precious about university education not being about getting a job just take a beat and THINK about every single w/c person who wants an education and NEEDS a job to LIVE both during and AFTER their degree
We’ve appeared in Norwegian! We’ve been interviewed about our collection *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* EN kifinfo.no/en/2026/06/a... NO kifinfo.no/nb/2026/05/f... OPEN ACCESS *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
What's this I see before me... a Romancing the Gothic online conference!!!! With discounted tickets for the next two weeks!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-terro...
'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference
This year we celebrate 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications with a conference on marginalised genders in the Gothic
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every genre is gothic if you remember one day we will die
Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill Mitchell@clairq.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery genre is science fiction if you analyse its underlying epistemology closely enough
@romgothsam.bsky.social just seen a post by Christie’s showing off their first editions of Wuthering Heights. Your favourite bit would have been when they showed the “Ellis Bell” on the title page….because “ there was strong prejudice in the 19th century against women writers” 😆
Also Elizabeth Wurtzel who is personally responsible for every piece of non fiction I’ve ever written on any topic god I miss her 💔
Dr Theadora Jean@tsjharling.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy am I like this? -Watership Down -King Lear -Point Horror -Jurassic Park -Brontë women But mostly Watership Down Cut me and I bleed rabbit
Why am I like this? -Watership Down -King Lear -Point Horror -Jurassic Park -Brontë women But mostly Watership Down Cut me and I bleed rabbit
Dr ShinyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 4mo ago-Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Dracula -Jane Eyre -Shirley Jackson -Terry Pratchett
If you’re an academic and u decide to sell a work of memoir/literary criticism to a trade press in a field I know you know extremely well, don’t lie about being the first to say a bunch of stuff I know you know other people have written about. And no I’m not going to say who I mean
“…the university is a site of Gothic epistemological uncertainty, containing unmarked zones of radical potential which are sometimes partially fulfilled, but typically suppressed…a rhizomatic bundle of conflicting ideologies which settle on no fixed position.” @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* is out today, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... Open Access With @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social @tarabrabazon.bsky.social #Academia #Failure
By this time next week, Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University will be out in the world! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Open Access, www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
Lucy Westenra would be turning in her (headless) grave…🖤 #Dracula
King's Arts & Humanities@kingsartshums.bsky.social · 5mo ago🐦⬛ 'What does it say about people that they revere pelicans (viewing them as a Christian symbol of selflessness) but despise cormorants?' Professor Gordon McMullan's research on why the cormorant is so hated is reviewed in @economist.com ⤵️ buff.ly/JXmh5KO @kingsenglish.bsky.social
Happy to have one of my strange ‘wan little husks’ published today. Feels good to be back in the game 🖤 TW: death, bereavement thyestean.cargo.site/put-me-in-th...
Put Me in the Ground — Thyestean Banquet | Issue 0
A feast of stories that devour their tellers. Issue 0 of Thyestean Banquet.
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Today is #InternationalRomaDay ! If you are unclear on Roma history and their lived experience I *highly* recommend The Roma: A Travelling History by @madelinepotter.bsky.social . This book is joyous and personal and political. #InternationalRomaniDay 💛
Reflecting right now on what sadist set Dombey & Son AND Wives & Daughters on a Y2 undergraduate module on my BA? Alongside others on a week by week basis. I mean I read them, but what on earth, no one would try that these days All to say, I’m thinking now of rereading Dombey.
You can read more about academic precarity in Chapters 1 and 5 of *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Bloomsbury May 2026). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai.... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
Women, 'Failure' and Academia
This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic…
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“Joy is as restless as anxiety or sorrow.” A Sicilian Romance, Ann Radcliffe. Enjoying reading her second work (for the first time) as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social ‘s amazing course on Radcliffe. 🖤
“Frankenstein outsold all Percy’s work in his lifetime”
Patrick@ninjapleasedj.bsky.social · 7mo ago1st edition of Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus by by the goth queen Mary Shelley
To all agents, presses, prizes and any other gatekeepers of creativity; if you are as inclusive as your EDI statement suggests, you need to make submissions anonymous. You don’t need a bio to tell you if you believe in the work. Lack of anonymity risks unconscious bias. See below for best practice
Papatango Theatre Company@papatangotc.bsky.social · 7mo agoImportant: The Prize is assessed completely anonymously. Please make sure your script — including the file name — does not include your name or email address. Full guidelines + FAQs: https://prize.papatango.co.uk/ #PapatangoPrize
