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Chris Louttit

@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
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Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social‬. He/him

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Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎁 NOW FREE: Chapter 5 “The Brontës on the Irish Stage,” 1-31 October only, academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... ✨Heathcliff before Jacob Elordi ☘️ Irish Heathcliffs 1934-2019 From *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 2026) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hungry, hungry hippophagists!? My grim little article about the time the Victorians tried to make horse-eating fashionable is in this month’s issue of History Today and is free online for seven days. #c19th #foodhistory
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enjoyable piece on the 'bromantasy boom' & the reading culture that sustains men who read romance - the article itself is more nuanced and intriguing than the phrase itself. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’
It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think the tendency to take older intellectual property and making it dark and gritty has run its course. Time to start adapting older texts to be maximally horny.
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're having an online launch event for Beyond Modernism: noncanonicity in early-twentieth-century British literature, at 6pm UK on Monday 12 October. Speakers will include the editors, @nicholasbirns.bsky.social, @rsazzad.bsky.social, Chris Hopkins, +... Sign up: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Mjsn26ZMek
The cover of Beyond Modernism: Noncanonicity and early-twentieth-century British literature.  At the top, the title is in white on dark blue, with the subtitle below in dark yellow.  The image is a hand taking a blank-spined book from a shelf; the other spines have the names of classic novels crossed out.
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spoke to a student this afternoon who hadn't even heard of Bluesky. And here I was thinking I was hanging out on the 'sky with all the cool young people!
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How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? - Old Man Music Band
ALT: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids? - Old Man Music Band
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The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Join us in July 2027 for the 32 Annual Dickens Society Symposium: "Dickens Rocks"! This symposium will be held online and you can find the CFP here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium
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Symposium — The Dickens Society
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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A new special issue of Persuasions On-Line on 'Jane Austen's Global Fan Cultures' has just gone live! The issue boasts articles on Chinese translation and reception, literary tourism, fanfiction, and digital humanities projects.
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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️ AAS 2027 in Venice, 30 June - 3 July. Full call & other details coming soon ✍️
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Mariadele Boccardi @mariadele.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Professional news! My book Environmental Neo-Victorianism is coming out in early 2027.
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An enjoyable bit of weekend reading on Dutch Dickens Festivals for those of you interested in Dickens/literary tourism 👇
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Had one of those great teaching experiences this afternoon with my MA group when it felt like we made a difficult text make sense together & the students helped me see things I hadn't noticed before. Maybe I should pay them for teaching me?
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Make pedagogy weird
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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
coming in March 2027 ... COVENT GARDEN: A People's History Yale UK are taking pre-orders ... yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ is published today! Seven years in the writing, many more in the planning, and - here it is!
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
VPFA are now accepting abstracts for our 19th Annual Conference "Beaches and Borders in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture". To read the full CfP and submission guidelines, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...
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Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The article Stephanie Russo and I wrote during my stay at Macquarie University in Sydney this year is now out on the @bars.bsky.social Blog! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6606
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“Elementary, My Dear Austen”: Why Jane Austen Has Turned to Crime – BARS Blog
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English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
💬 📖 In “Rethinking Disability Studies and Its Global Directions: An Interview with Lennard J. Davis,” Xinran Wang enters into dialogue with @lendavis.bsky.social to discuss the tension between literary representation and lived experience in light of the future of disability studies. Read the piece:👇
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Rethinking Disability Studies and Its Global Directions: An Interview with Lennard J. Davis
This interview with Lennard J. Davis, a leading figure in disability studies, explores the conceptual foundations and critical developments that have shaped the field over the past three decades. T...
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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, this year's Dickens Day Conference will focus on how the concept of family informed Dickens’s life and works. ⏰ Saturday, 10 October 2026, 10am-5pm 📍 Senate House, London BOOK NOW 👇
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Dickens Day 2026 - ‘Dickens and Family’
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Chris Forster @cforster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What works does the r/classicliterature subreddit consider "classic"? This post gives you an answer (and some media ecological theorizing for good measure): cforster.com/2026/09/redd... With thanks to @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & @mariaa.bsky.social, whose work on Goodreads I borrow from.
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The Reddit Classics
Reflections on the most frequently mentioned works in the /r/classicliterature subreddit.
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
First, enthusiastic sessions of my adaptations course done - couldn't resist mentioning both the 'Odyssey wars' & Scrooge's 'gray areas' to emphasise the cultural presence & importance of adaptation. Many had seen the Nolan, but news of Ti West's Carol doesn't seem to have broken through...
Head and shoulders of a character wearing armour and a helmet viewed from behind Top hat and eyes of older male character looking towards viewer
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I share everyone's mistrust of a new Christmas Carol movie that aims to make Scrooge relatable, but rethinking Scrooge is actually the most interesting area of ACC scholarship these days, like the brilliant reading of Scrooge as neurodiverse by @essaka.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/09/2026
The applications portal for #RSVP2027 is now officially open! We invite all of your latest ideas on the intersections of 'Structure' and #19thC periodicals/print culture. Final proposals due 1 November. Get inspired and more information on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW BLOG POST 🧟‍♀️👻 Shannon looks at newly trending Neo-Victorian horror fiction and reflects on both its global interest and its appeal to readers living in unhinged times. Read the full post here: victorianpopularfiction.org/exacting-rev...
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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What a wonderful feeling – it’s publication day for my book on Marie Corelli! Thanks to my amazing editors @helenaifill.bsky.social and Janine Hatter for all their support. I’m so proud to be a contributor to their series on Key Popular Women Writers. @vpfa.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social
The cover for Marie Corelli by Joanna Turner. It depicts an image of a woman in Victorian dress, standing on a rock and pointing out to sea. Her hair is blowing in the breeze.
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Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Special Issue: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI | Adaptation | Oxford Academic
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do not dreame it Be it
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Loved the iconic performances, of course, but was fun to see Tim Curry again as a flamboyant Signor Brunoni in a recent rewatch of the noughties Cranford adaptations - also a great illustration of his maxim 'You have to keep showing up'.
Flamboyantly dressed man with goatee looks towards bonneted woman
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just arrived in the post and full of good reading: the Summer issue of The Dickensian!
Contents page of The Dickensian
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24/08/2026
Last call for Microgrant funding! Applications for Round 3 close on 1 September. Whether you need support for archival or digital access, digital tools, or other research needs, these grants are designed to lower the financial barriers of your latest project! Apply here: buff.ly/7r9cM50
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RSVP Microgrants – RSVP
Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of nineteenth-century British/empire periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established…
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Interesting CFP 👇 for NeMLA 2027 session chaired by Diana Archibald: 'Why Dickens? Reading, Writing, and Teaching During/Despite America’s Decline'.
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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are pleased to share our CfP: Framing the Human in the 19th Century. We meet in #Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. 🎃 Proposals due October 31, 2026. For more details, visit: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... 💰We have four Conference Travel Grants, due January 15, 2027: ncsaweb.net/grants-fundi...
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
There's still time to submit to our upcoming hybrid symposium with @punchspocketbook.bsky.social "Global Circulations - Annuals and Pocket Books on the Move" 26-27 November 2026, U of Caen, Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026!
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Helena Goodwyn @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Americanisation of W. T. Stead is out now! So delighted to get my author copies, huge thanks to @edinburghup.bsky.social. We’ve a 30% launch discount, if you’re a librarian/ in collection development, pls consider recommending for your library. #VictorianStudies #PeriodicalStudies #BookHistory
Helena Goodwyn holding a copy of her monograph The Americanisation of W. T. Stead.Flyer with QR code link to 30% discount for The Americanisation of W. T. Stead by Helena Goodwyn
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That's right — our four-volume series on nineteenth-century iterations of one of the most lucrative and polarizing sectors of the media industry is out at last! If you're curious about what could be included in a volume called PORNOGRAPHY AND SCIENCE, or about the project more broadly, 🧵:
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are you teaching Dickens this semester? Check out our new teaching resources at Dickens Notes, and consider incorporating the working notes and serial publication into your course!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dickens: the first young lady knows nothing of the world, an angel Publisher: go on Dickens: but, there's another woman Publisher: classic Dickens: she belongs to the streets Publisher: *gasp* Dickens: yes. perhaps one good deed can save her from that life. Publisher: DOES IT?? Dickens: no.
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Sometimes people with shared interests speak different languages. Last week I read the new Theory & Methodologies section on Victorian studies in PMLA with huge interest, especially @emilysteinlight.bsky.social and Josephine McDonagh's pieces on on US and UK scholars' ambitions for the field at +
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW BLOG POST 🤩Our James Malcolm Rymer expert, Rebecca Nesvet, reviews Birmingham Rep's production of Sweeney Todd and how it reveals 'the timeliness of penny dreadfuls': victorianpopularfiction.org/the-failure-...
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The Failure of Institutions: Sweeney Todd Restages the Timeliness of Penny Dreadfuls
Birmingham Rep’s production reviewed by Rebecca Nesvet Victorian melodrama was not a purely escapist genre, nor was it necessarily conservative. With its mix of epic action and often plebeian chara…
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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
On a train outside of Nijmegen and just saw a really wholesome bit of graffiti beside the line: Cats Rule Everything Around Me.
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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book" Episode 5: Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. “Get in, loser. We’re going rowing on the Thames in a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance. Also on Wednesdays we wear arsenic green.” #c19th
Cover of Our Mutual Friend featuring two young women, at school judging by their backpack and casual dress, and wearing jewellery and low rise jeans of c. 2002
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/08/2026
Applications are now open for Round 3 of our Microgrants! We’re funding innovative research in #19thC periodicals by providing seed grants for archival travel, digital access to subscriptions or repositories, or digital tools to support your research. Apply by 1 September here: buff.ly/7r9cM50
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The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New on our blog, The Cricket 📣 Trailing Round with Dickens: An Enthusiast's Guide to Broadstairs by Carolyn Oulton ✍️🏻 www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/...
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Trailing Round With Dickens: An Enthusiast’s Guide To Broadstairs — The Dickens Society
This post is contributed by Carolyn Oulton, Professor of Victorian Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University. Carolyn's recent publications include Down from London: Seaside Reading in the Rai...
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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Before you head out for August holidays, make sure to grab your virtual spot for TBC6, coming 17-18 September. 🗓️
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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Thrilled at the invite to give a talk at London Month of the Dead 🖤 "The Cradle & the Grave" will take place on 17th October, at the atmospheric Brompton Cemetery in London. There is an absolute wealth of other activities happening up until 1st Nov too! londonmonthofthedead.com/cradlegrave....
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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How about Emily Wilson talking about Nolan's film with an adaptation scholar? Can we make this happen?? 👀 👀 👀
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The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Post-Symposium traces of Dickens still abound: “When he had read Oliver Twist Hartmann marvelled that Dickens had had such an acute understanding of the misery of boys.” — Anita Brookner, Latecomers #Dickenssociety2026 #Dickens #summerreads
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Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📣CfP Alert📣 We are delighted to announce that our CfP for the 2027 RRR conference is now open! The deadline for abstracts is the 25th of October. The focus will be on ecosystems of the long nineteenth century 🌱 We can’t wait to read your submissions!
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ebenezer is part of the DCU: the Dickens, Charles Universe
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Emma Davenport @emmadavenport.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Victorian poetry stans! Excited to say that my article on Toru Dutt and Paradise Lost is now out in Victorian Poetry, and available open access for your reading pleasure and/or heckling. 🌳🐍🌱 @victorianpoetry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1353/vp.2...
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