Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For someone who has studied the 1880s a lot in the context of the RSPB and feather fashion, I am so out of touch with fin-de-siècle and Decadence 😭 000
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Thanks for the tip! I was about to dive back into my research today on the BNA, so I appreciate the heads up! 010
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026That’s my #BAVS presentation done and dusted! 070
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Loved this roundtable with Claudia, Mariaconcetta, Helena, and Julia! “‘Gendered Narratives of The Easts’: Research Methods and Pedagogical Applications” left me with a lot to think about. Thank you so much! #BAVS2026 031
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I completely forgot that we met at the BL for Pictorial Punch! 🤦🏻♀️ 110
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I don’t blame you after looking up some of the stuff he’s said. I only recognised him because I live in Lancaster. 110
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromMarie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Most Victorians read poetry in periodicals instead of in book form. Alison Chapman is leading the following database 👇 3 projects over 29 periodicals: - index - encoded editions - personography #BAVS2026dvpp.uvic.caDigital Victorian Periodical Poetry 1133
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026How do we think about measuring impact? Social media can actually be a really useful tool (she says, writing on BlueSky 🤣)! Really enjoying hearing from Mary Shannon and Bob Nicholson about public engagement! #BAVS2026 071
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Listening to Clare, Claudia, and Sarah talk about pathways to readership and professorship, and I feel like there’s so much good info here for PGRs and ECRs as well. Already thinking of new VPFA professional development panels! #BAVS2026 071
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation! 120
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I’m sorry I couldn’t attend your paper, but it was so lovely to meet you! 110
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromResearch Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦 0147
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Fingers crossed! It will be quite a distance but I’m hoping to have steady employment by then to be able to afford it! RSVP is always such a lovely time. It was great to see you again this year 💖 010
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026So long, Dublin! What a fantastic time - and got to meet Tyson Fury at the airport 🥰 #RSVP26 120
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Did you know that the smallest cemetery in Dublin is located inside the walls of Trinity College? #RSVP26 1135
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Fascinating workshop on the Curran Index led by @vicmanch.bsky.social. This is a fab list of resources. I think it opens up conversations about accessibility and how we can make resources more affordable/accessible to larger audiences as well! 093
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026There’s something so satisfying about seeing a pretty presentation slide 🤣 If you’re undecided on which panel to attend this morning, might I suggest Panel 3E? 🥰 #RSVP26 #PrintInMotion 082
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Ummm we get to have our welcome drinks in HERE?! I feel like I’m walking into the halls at Oxford again! #RSVP26 #PrintInMotion 073
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromAndrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Anelise: famine reporting was 'out of time' in that a story is not published immediately, rather it is withheld until it is politically useful, according to the agenda of a particular newspaper. #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion 021
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I would love to attend lectures from all of the three panellists I’ve just listened to at #RSVP26: Laurel Brake, Anelise Hanson Shrout, and Anne-Marie Millim. I took a ridiculous amount of notes and can’t wait to mull over these ideas tonight. #PrintInMotion 020
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The seagulls here are menaces - I saw one hiding behind a sculpture trying to stalk someone’s sandwich yesterday 🤣 030
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Is this the shop by the Front Gate or the Book of Kells shop? Or neither 😅 100
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Pre #RSVP tomorrow, I took a Book of Kells tour (and saw Gaia!) and did a sunset bus tour of Dublin. So ready for the conference to start! #PrintInMotion 041
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026If you’re attending #BAVS or #RSVP this year, I’d love to connect! 022
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I’m happy to do this, as I was planning to anyway 😅 120
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I’ll be coming straight from Dublin to Liverpool, can’t wait! 🤩 020
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Getting ready to travel to Dublin for the annual #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion conference! Paper is finalised (two days before, oops) and my slides are done, so I’m ready to go! 🇮🇪 050
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Welcome to our new VPFA co-President, Claudia Capancioni! #VPFAPublics 283
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026“Murder by beast rampage” just makes me think of “30-50 wild hogs” 🤣🤣 #VPFAPublics 041
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Lovely to meet you as well - truly a highlight of the conference for me! 💖 000
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Can you imagine trying to de-anonymise 22 Victorian sensation novels? Because Janine Hatter can! What an amazing project 😱 #VPFAPublics 172
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026@andrewkingc19.bsky.social talking about how Victorians marketed Pop Fiction - and I’m very excited to learn more about Victorian marketing, particularly design and product placement! Makes me think of my trawling through Punch for crumbs of context! #VPFAPublics 062
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Starstruck 🤩 Got to meet one of my academic heroes today and hear her amazing keynote on sex work and care work in Victorian Pop Fiction. How can we be more caring and sympathetic in our community social care systems? #VPFAPublics @tara-macdonald.bsky.social 142
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026On days like today (hot! 🥵), I want to be out on the lake again x 000
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromPaula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A thing I remember every time I interact with them is that librarians and archivists should be making one million dollars per year. 271607196
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromSteve Sanderson @steve-sando1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meadow Pipit on Bodmin moor. #birds #birding 110811
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Learning about William Holman Hunt’s orientalist religious works set in front of this beautiful backdrop. Absolute perfection. #VPFAPublics 053
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026A great reminder from Dr Jennifer Jones in her session on creating good writing habits this morning. I spend far too much time trying to have the ‘perfect’ first draft, which often results in unfinished projects. Reflecting on how I can ‘un-perfect’ my process at #VPFAPublics ✍🏻 281
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Thank you for an amazing workshop!! What a blast! 120
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I’m sure the @vpfa.bsky.social acct can put out a call asking people to share! 110
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026WE HAVE AVOCET NEWS!!! An Avocet spotted at RSPB Middleton Lakes has been confirmed as the oldest ever recorded in the UK. At 36 years old, it's lived more than five times longer than the species' average lifespan. First ringed in 1990, it's still out there doing Avocet things. Go on Avocet. 😍 321430273
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromRebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026"If you think students are using AI, what are you doing to make them NOT use AI?" - Lucie #VPFAPublics 043
Reposted by Bethany DahlstromEmma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Delightful that as we gear up for #VPFAPublics, the new issue of VPFJ is out, featuring yours truly in some great company! Have I been wanting to write this since my MA? Quite possibly. Alcott, sensation, Genette, Goethe ... What more could you want? doi.org/10.46911/YER... @vpfa.bsky.socialdoi.orgVictorian Popular Fictions 8.1 3 Butler-Way“The omen never fails”: Appropriating Intertexts in Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love ChaseEmma Butler-WayDownload PDF hereAbstractNot seeing publication until 130 years after it was written, L… 1137
Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I’m sorry, I get to present in THIS GORGEOUS ROOM?! #VPFAPublics 081