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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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...).

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Next week! Tues 19 May - and you can still sign up below.

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

There's still time to sign up to Prof Anne Stiles' talk on Tues 19 May, whether in person or online - see the link below.

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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

A book cover image for the Key Popular Women Writers volume on Marie Corelli written by Joanna Turner. It depicts a painting of a woman standing on a rock, the sea and vast sky behind her. She points into the distance, winking, with the wind blowing her dark hair. She is dressed in a long skirt, blouse, and scarf, and wears boots

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃 www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

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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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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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...

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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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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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).

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists! Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies. It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍

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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Coming very, very soon… Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

The cover image of Victoriographies journal volume 15, number 3, 2025, titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. The image of an ornate’V’ is paired with a collage picture that includes an image of Marie Corelli with representations of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, provincial newspaper mastheads, Japanese text, and subtle references to twins.

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This Wednesday! DM for Teams link if you'd like to join online.

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

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Health Humanities Research Group @healthhumslboro.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends: 1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/.... We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link

Amy Lowell clutching her head, next to a reading lamp

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!

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Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details. #lets #editing #textualscholarship

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell... Please share and promote to your modernist networks!

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@drsarahparker.bsky.social is giving a talk about designing the The World of Oscar Wilde 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Kibworth Books next week: Tuesday 25 March at 19.30. You can book a ticket here: kibworthbooks.com/collections/...

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Tuesday 25th March 2025 Sarah Parker on Oscar Wilde Kibworth Books, 7.30pm (doors 7:00pm) Kibworth Books is delighted to welcome Sarah Parker for a talk about Oscar Wilde & The Literary Jigsaw. ...

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Our Health Humanities colleagues shared some of their research with the VC today, including transcribing Victorian medical archives, cycles of care from the Victorian asylum to post-war care homes, 17C midwifery practices, and early modern plague treatments (a sponge with vinegar on the nose!)

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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Loughborough English professor Elaine Hobby has been with Her Majesty the Queen today at the unveiling of a statue of Aphra Behn - the first professional woman writer. The event took place in Behn's home city of Canterbury. Read more: 👇 bit.ly/4bdmmaD

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Her Majesty the Queen unveils Aphra Behn statue following campaign involving Loughborough English professor

Her Majesty the Queen has officially unveiled a historic statue of Aphra Behn in Canterbury today, marking a momentous occasion in the recognition of the first full-time professional woman writer in t...

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culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Our next event is a hybrid presentation from Alice Staveley (Stanford),'Taking Woolf’s Measure: Experiments in Data Visualizing Virginia Woolf’s Archives' on Wed 26 Feb, 16.00-17.15 GMT. Give @drsarahparker.bsky.social a shout if you'd like the Teams link!

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Event alert! Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between Symposium, 7 May 2025, 1-5pm BST, feat. @amigonidavid.bsky.social @helenkingstone.bsky.social Fatima Borrman and Helen Small, organised by me and @jadefrench.bsky.social hybrid and FREE, register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...

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Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between

Hybrid - International House & Zoom Webinar, 7 May 2025, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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