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Renee Fox

@cookiegoth.bsky.social
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Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
'While we can’t address all of the volume’s essays in this post, together they reframe nineteenth-century Ireland by offering new theories of racialization, new approaches to colonial violence, and new understandings of Irish literary forms.' Mary Mullen and Renée Fox discuss their new book here:
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Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland
In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” Punch, 1881. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:
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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The 2026 Festival of Monsters CFP is now available! Come talk monsters in Santa Cruz with us this October 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2026cfp
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We’re so excited that this will be out in March!
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When the federal government is blockading schools at every level, shooting citizens, and kidnapping people and disappearing them, there is no other choice. Another shooting just now in Minneapolis, in case you hadn't heard.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I’m excited that The Necromantics is now out in paperback! Link in the comments if you have a loved one that would treasure a holiday gift full of reanimated corpses 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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Alma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Ah, mud and history… 😂
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us
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Daniel Mulhall @danmulhall.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...
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Trinity marks renaming of library after Eavan Boland
Events have been held to mark the first time a building at Trinity College Dublin has been named after a woman in the university's 433-year history.
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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style! At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17 At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept??? Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy Byron: I don’t get it Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
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Writing on Fire - Broadview Press
Writing on Fire -
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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau! wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/12/2024
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!
Image of a draft title page reading NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PORNOGRAPHY: SOURCES AND MATERIALS, Volume II: Pornography and Science, edited by Sarah Bull
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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This such an excellent CFP. @navsa2025.bsky.social navsa.georgetown.edu
NAVSA 2025 CFP
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MAs in English w Funding
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"A Modern Irish Canon - We asked critics for the best Irish novels published in the past 15 years." www.vulture.com/article/best...
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The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 Years
Which works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
CFP: Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature University College Dublin, Ireland 17-20 June 2025 Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield Organised by me and Adam Kelly Full CFP here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/... Please consider submitting, and share widely!
Images of the two-page call for papers as outlined in the post. Too lengthy to add in full here, but one key sentence is: "Abstracts of 200-300 words for 20-minute papers and an author bio of max 100 words should be submitted by e-mail attachment to trust.ucd@gmail.com by 3rd February 2025.". Please write to us at this email address with any questions.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Come talk about A Christmas Carol with us on Thursday at the Santa Cruz Public Library downtown!
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen 🐓🫏🍂
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
you could ask your library to order if you want
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The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Join the Dickens Project in making literature come alive—support Dickens Day of Writing on November 20! Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I’m having so much fun as dramaturg for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s A Christmas Carol. Santa Cruz people, get tickets! santacruzshakespeare.org/book/?event=...
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Warm welcome to all new followers! To my fellow Victorianists: the VICTORIA discussion group remains a generous, welcoming space, supportive without at all overwhelming your inbox. And the archives are a great resource. If you’re not already a member, check it out: list.iu.edu/sympa/info/v...
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I’m so looking forward to reading this!
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
PSA Naomi Levine’s The Burden of Rhyme is (finally!!!) out and I cannot wait to read it. ✨ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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The Burden of Rhyme
A major new account of Victorian poetry and its place in the field of literary studies. The Burden of Rhyme shows how the nineteenth-century search for the origin of rhyme shaped the theory and practi...
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
A great article about the new Curse of the Mummy class Elaine Sullivan and I are co-teaching. Happy almost Halloween! www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/popular...
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A popular Humanities course is unwrapping the strange and fraught history and cultural afterlife of Egyptian mummies.
This spooky, one-of-a-kind class grew out of a years-long friendship between two professors fascinated by the connections between each other’s work.
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
So thrilled that The Necromantics received Honorable Mention for the NAVSA First Book Prize!
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Just in time for Halloween, a fun article about the UCSC Center for Monster Studies and our recent Festival of Monsters 🧛🏻‍♀️💜 voicesofmontereybay.org/2024/10/24/m...
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Monsters under the microscope
Story and photos by Charlotte West At the University of California Santa Cruz, a group of scholars is focusing on the creatures that lurk in our nightmares, captivate our imaginations, and reveal our ...
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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Elsa Lanchester born Oct 28, in 1902 - Over 95 roles including Witness for the Prosecution, Bell Book & Candle, The Glass Slipper, Mary Poppins, The Bishop's Wife, Lassie Come Home, That Darn Cat - & of course The Bride of Frankenstein! #botd www.classicmoviehub.com/bio/elsa-la…
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Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Registration for the 2024 Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (Oct. 16-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.) is coming very very soon. Meanwhile, you can check out www.youtube.com/@ucscmonster... to see videos from last year's talks.
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Center for Monster Studies (UC Santa Cruz)
This is the official channel for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monsters Studies (monsterstudies.ucsc.edu). Videos from our 2023 Festival of Monsters will be posted in the week or two after the conferen...
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻‍♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...
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620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees
What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats,…
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
I *loved* Isabelle Greenberg’s Glass Town, a graphic novel take on the Brontë juvenilia, so I bought Young Hag as soon as I recognised the illustration style - it’s a fun feminist retelling of Arthurian legend with some Christina Rossetti thrown in - go buy!
Cover of Young Hag by Isabel Greenberg with title in orange matching the titular witch’s trousers - she also sports a purple cake and red-ish blouse plus the broken Excalibur. She stands against a pink ground with blue puddles leading to a yellow hill and folly that look like Glastonbury Tor - along the margin are sigils of eyes and flames and trees
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
My continuing obsession with open access to sources for exploring the 19th century has resulted in a new edition of this guide to free, searchable full texts of magazines www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...
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VRW: Open Access Periodicals
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 18/05/2024
finally located a copy of the greatest nineteenth century novel of them all: Middlemarch: or, The Whale
Screenshot of a web page from Amazon purporting to sell a copy of Middlemarch: or, The Whale by George Eliot
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Romanticists! Coleridgeans! Who will join me in the Albatross Death Cult?
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“It’s a weird space, but I think weird is a superpower right now”: Alex Claridge is opening a restaurant called Albatross Death Cult
Birmingham-based chef Alex Claridge is opening an omakase style restaurant in the city’s Jewellery Quarter this summer.
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New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Talking about dead bodies, reanimation and monsters with @cookiegoth.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-necroman...
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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · 14/04/2024
t’s not too late to send in a proposal for our 2024 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline is Monday 🧛🏻‍♀️🧟‍♀️❤️ www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp?...
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2024 Call for Papers — The Center For Monster Studies
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