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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October 22nd, save the date, we’re back!! 👻 ⬇️

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Register below in time for #spookyseason to hear me talk about authors who took literary inspiration from the ghostly world of séances 👻 ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited for my ECR Fellowship to be announced in the @leverhulme.ac.uk September newsletter alongside so many fascinating projects! 🎉 www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘Dragon’s blood’ love potions 💕🧪and upside down witches 🧙 - an eclectic folkloric start to my archival endeavours @sheffielduni.bsky.social

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Recent Victorianist posts — a thread 🧵 🔔 Want to receive updates to your inbox when new posts go live? Subscribe via our homepage: buff.ly/brgMsbz

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The Victorianist: BAVS Pages

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As spooky season approaches, I’ll be giving a very fitting online talk on ‘Séances, Spectres & Ghost Stories’ for the equally fitting College of Psychic Studies on Tuesday 20th October 2026: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (UK) Tickets here: www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/talks/esoter... #occult #psychic #lit👻

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The College of Psychic Studies : Talks : Esoteric : Seances spectres ghost stories

Join Dr Emily Vincent for an online livestream talk exploring Victorian Spiritualism, séances and the ghost stories they inspired. Spaces limited – book now.

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First week @sheffielduni.bsky.social for my @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Research Fellowship featuring inductions, mentor meeting, a tour of the School of English, and a very jazzy office chair 🎉

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I have VERY exciting news! In September I will start as a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Research Fellow at @sheffielduni.bsky.social leading on a three-year interdisciplinary archival research project entitled 'Infodemics and Invisible Healing: Epidemics, Mesmerism, and Mediums, 1830–1920'🦠✨

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A fascinating day at the College of Psychic Studies (the London Spiritualist Alliance in 1884). I met the current College president who is said to have been seen with the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle (the College’s president in 1926) surrounding her. So many incredible spiritualism books too! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Looking forward to presenting on ‘Scriptotherapy and Spiritualism’ from my forthcoming CUP monograph at the ESHS/HSS History of Science conference in Edinburgh. We’re on at 9.15am tomorrow on a #ESHS spiritualism panel with @dreframss.bsky.social @emmamerkling.bsky.social @irmorus.bsky.social 👻 ✍️ 📚

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Here’s my review essay for the BMJ Medical Humanities on the @psioxford.bsky.social International Pandemic Science Conference. Focusing on the power of memory, #literature & storytelling, I ask how #medhums can learn from historic diseases to prepare for future #pandemics: mh.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A fun 2 months ahead as I’ll be teaching study skills lectures to the students on the LMH Oxford Summer Programme @ox.ac.uk 📚 ✍️ 👩🏻‍🏫

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Join us today at 6pm BST for Irish Gothic! ☘️ 🦇 ⬇️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎉I’ve submitted my monograph manuscript for the ‘Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture’ series! 🎉 Spiritualism and Maternal Grief in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature examines how maternal mourning was shaped by women’s literary responses to an era of séances & spirits #C19

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Join us for Irish Gothic on the 18th June with Lucy O’Hora! ⬇️☘️🦇

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join us online on Thursday - all are welcome and you can hear the fascinating work on Animal Gothic from the brilliant @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🦇🐺🐍

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last week I gave my first Seed Talk public lecture on ‘The History of Women in Spiritualism’ to a lovely audience in London & online. We explored female artists, authors & entrepreneurs who shaped séances, with a reading from my @blpublishing.bsky.social collection & Q&A. Thanks to all attendees! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What a lovely audience and so many thoughtful questions about women in spiritualism during tonight’s Seed Talk! 👻

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Join me this Thursday from 7pm for my Seed Talk at 21 Soho in London (& online)! Though we won’t be summoning spirits…we will be talking about vibrant female spiritualist authors like Florence Marryat and artists like Anna Mary Howitt! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Exciting news for @gothicauob.bsky.social and the Dark Arts Research Group at Copenhagen - what a brilliant collaboration opportunity! 🦇

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For all fans of #spiritualism and #occult history 👻 you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will focus on how powerful female mediums, authors & artists were foundational in forming the séance movement. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today was my first day teaching the ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed for the wonderful Astrophoria Foundation Year students at Oxford @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk 👻 We looked at Early Spectres and the ghosts in Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Castle of Otranto 📚 👩🏻‍🏫 👻

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GOTHICA 🦇 @gothicauob.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Don't miss our upcoming Gothica events🦇⬇️ This Thursday: 🎬Cinematic Indigenous Gothic 🗣 James Rose 📅30th April May: 🐺Animal Gothic 🗣️ Dr Lauren Cullen 📅28th May June: ✝️Irish Gothic 🗣️Lucy O'Hora 📅18th June DM to join, sessions are online & all welcome! Please share 🖤

A dark, cinematic poster for GOTHICA Presents: Cinematic Indigenous Gothic featuring James Rose. The design features a dripping red liquid at the top, a misty forest beneath a glowing full moon, and a cabin with light in its window. In the foreground, a person with long dark hair aims a bow and arrow, wearing textured earth-stone clothing. A black wolf with glowing eyes, a raven in flight, and shadowy human figures appear in the fog. Event details for a Zoom session on Thursday  30 April (6.00 pm – 7.30 pm BST) are displayed at the bottom with contact information for @GOTHICA_UOB and UOBGOTHICA@GMAIL.COM

A dark, gothic‑themed event poster featuring a full moon above a leafless forest. At the top, thick red liquid drips downward. In the foreground, several animals with glowing eyes appear: an owl with yellow eyes on a branch, a wolf with orange eyes and bared teeth, a raven with a red eye, and a black cat with green eyes sitting beside a skull. Faint glowing paw prints are on the ground. The text reads: “GOTHICA Presents Animal Gothic, Dr Lauren Cullen. Zoom, Thursday 28th May (6.00pm–7.30pm BST). Email or tweet for link: @GOTHICA_UOB, UOBGOTHICA@GMAIL.COM. For details.

A dark, gothic‑themed event poster showing a cracked stone statue of a hooded, veiled figure in the foreground. Behind it are two Celtic crosses in a misty graveyard, with the ruins of a castle fading into fog under a cloudy green‑grey sky. Thick red liquid drips from the top edge of the poster. The text reads: “GOTHICA Presents Irish Gothic, Lucy O’Hora. Purity. Shame. Memory. Zoom, Thursday 18th June (6.00pm–7.30pm BST). Email or tweet for link: @GOTHICA_UOB, UOBGOTHICA@GMAIL.COM. For details.”

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Spiritualism talk! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Join us next Thursday 30th April for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on Cinematic Indigenous Gothic with James Rose! DM Gothica to join 🎬

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Exciting news! If you like all things #spiritualism and #occult you can join my public Seed Talk at 21 Soho, London (& online) on Thursday 21st May 7pm. We will uncover the powerful women whose contact with the dead stirred a new way of living. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Take a look at our latest project output about influenza epidemics and alternative healing from @dremilyvincent.bsky.social

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm delighted to share my latest article: 'A Spirited Challenge Accepted.' If you're interested in spirit photos and print media, this is the article for you! Special thanks to @emmamerkling.bsky.social who digitized so much of the archival material for me. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A Spirited Challenge Accepted: William Marriott, the Crisis of Evidence, and the Sunday Express Photographic Test from 1921

During the opening decades of the twentieth century, William Hope was championed by British spiritualists as a leading psychic photographer within their community. He was said to be able to capture...

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hi everyone, here's a little thing I wrote about ghost tours as a tool for historical research (?). If you don't have access but would like to read, let me know! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ghost Tours and Occult Experience: A Historical Experiment

What, if anything, can contemporary ghost tours tell historians about people’s experiences with the occult, the supernatural and the sacred in the nineteenth century? This forum contribution uses g...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Monday was my last set of 1:1 tutorials teaching on the 8-week ‘Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program in association with @kebleoxford.bsky.social!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Join me and @laurenicullen.bsky.social tomorrow at 5pm (GMT) tomorrow for our monthly ECR BAVS Tea Time! A chance for @bavs-uk.bsky.social Early Career Researchers to chat and connect over tea and Zoom - DM for the link ☕️

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A semi-regular reminder that @incsa.bsky.social's journal is open to receiving proposals for special issues. If you have an idea for a topic connected to 19thC studies in the broadest sense, do get in touch. Please share! Details 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...

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Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Join us this Thursday at 6pm GMT with @monicagermana.bsky.social for a @gothicauob.bsky.social session on ‘The Other Winter Wonderland: The Gothic ‘Fairy-Tale’ of the Arctic and the Far North’ #Gothic #Gothicstudies - all are welcome, DM me or Gothica for the link!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If anyone has been trying to reach me on my Durham email account this week it’s currently temporarily out of access so drop me a message on here and I’ll send you my Oxford account, thanks! ☺️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We’re back @gothicauob.bsky.social next Thursday with the brilliant @monicagermana.bsky.social for Winter Gothic - all are welcome!

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A Gothic week 🦇 🪾🌳Mon - teaching Gothic Nature on Robert Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ & Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’ 🦠🌡️Weds - speaking @uniofleicester.bsky.social Centre for Victorian Studies, 5.15pm (in person/online) ‘Fevers & Flu at the Fin de Siècle’: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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Select tickets – 2026 Spring Seminar Series: ‘The eyes of a sick man’: Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle – Microsoft Teams

2026 Spring Seminar Series: ‘The eyes of a sick man’: Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle – Microsoft Teams, Wed 25 Feb 2026 - Please note this is a hybrid event. You are also welcome to join us in p...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Series! Join next Weds 25th Feb 5.15pm GMT (in person or online) for a free talk on ‘Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle’ on the theme of Victorian Bodies: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... 🦠 📕

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Select tickets – 2026 Spring Seminar Series: ‘The eyes of a sick man’: Fevers and Flu at the Fin de Siècle – Microsoft Teams

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I'm halfway through teaching the 'Gothic Nature' course I designed for the Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program associated with @kebleoxford.bsky.social. Enjoying 1:1 tuition with enthusiastic study-abroad students on landscapes distorted by industry, resource extraction & colonial expansion🪾🍂

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It's that time of year again!!! 🥳 It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like! It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids. Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Buy tickets – Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom

Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom, Sat 28 Feb 2026 - Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children ...

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Exciting news! I’m now a Teaching Associate in English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on the Astrophoria Foundation Year - a FANTASTIC access scheme for students. I’ll be teaching & assessing a ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed and supervising an extended project 👻 foundationyear.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

An exciting conclusion to my time as Research Fellow on the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project! Dr Melissa Dickson & I are co-writing a book ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the @manchesterup.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social series🦠

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Join the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR team today (anytime between 5pm - 6pm GMT on Zoom) for our festive final BAVS Tea Time of 2025 to chat about all things ECR and nineteenth century. DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for link or to be added to the BAVS ECR mailing list for future events! 🫖 ☕️ 📚

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

These metaphorical conceptions of #influenza #flu #superflu have been shaping our understanding of epidemic diseases from the late nineteenth century 1890s influenza pandemic to now

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