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Joanne Ella Parsons

@joparsons.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University

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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Listen to @deathstudiespod.bsky.social to hear discussions on #love, #romance, #death, culture, prison writing, creative writing, obituaries, epitaphs and more, which emerged out of event on Love and Loss at Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery, Bristol. thedeathstudiespodcast.com/2026/07/27/l...
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Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery - The Death Studies Podcast
Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery What’s the episode about?...
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Love and Loss: A Day At #ArnosVale Historic Garden Cemetery, Bristol discussing #love, #romance, #death, culture, prison writing, creative writing, obituaries, epitaphs and more. Listen now: @deathstudiespod.bsky.social podcast thedeathstudiespodcast.com/2026/07/27/l...
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Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery - The Death Studies Podcast
Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery What’s the episode about?...
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Paul Craddock @pwcraddock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
As soon as the fairy explodes at the start, you know you're in for a good ride!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Almost two weeks in and I'm still loving my fancy new title - Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Love and Loss: A Day At #ArnosVale Historic Garden Cemetery, Bristol discussing #love, #romance, #death, culture, prison writing, creative writing, obituaries, epitaphs and more. Listen now: @deathstudiespod.bsky.social podcast thedeathstudiespodcast.com/2026/07/27/l...
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Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery - The Death Studies Podcast
Love and Loss: A Day At Arnos Vale Historic Garden Cemetery What’s the episode about?...
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fancy joining me for one of my writers' retreats but live outside Bristol? I'm doing an online retreat for a small fee on 27 August. Finish your summer of writing with a bang or get the autumn started. More information and sign-up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-re... Please share or recommend
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Writers' Retreat with Pam
Shut out all the noise & get some writing done in a healthy & productive online format. Write with others in your favourite writing spot
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Excited to be quoted in today's Heat Magazine feature on spicy reads! Not a circle of shame in sight!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Check out the latest gorgeous monograph to grace my @edinburghup.bsky.social #Gender and the #Body book series! Its by @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and it's absolutely marvellous! #drinkingstudies @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Talking herbs and #13CornishGhostStories at our #CreativeWriting workshop for West Cornwall Women's Aid and National Literacy Trust
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Thanks to @joparsons.bsky.social and the brilliant organisers of the love and loss workshop for inviting me last week and bringing together such interesting people. It's always a treat to go to the @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social but it was looking particularly lovely in the sunshine on Friday!
A selection of pictures of Arnos vale Cemetery in the sunshine. Lots of green trees, interesting buildings and a variety of tombstones with different speakers
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
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International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Online Talk: #LastTuesdaySociety, '#Melodrama: Forerunner of the #Bonkbuster? by Rebecca Lloyd Tuesday 14th April 2026 - 8.00pm - 9:30 pm All welcome! thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/melodr...
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Melodrama: Forerunner of the Bonkbuster? Rebecca Lloyd - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society
An exploration of the range of protective symbols carved into medieval buildings, their purpose and possible meaning.
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
womenswritingassociation.com
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#CFP: The Inaugural International #WomensWriting Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
womenswritingassociation.com
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
womenswritingassociation.com
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
womenswritingassociation.com
International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Thanks so much to @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about my research on spontaneous human combustion and alcohol medicine last night. It was so much fun and the cemetery was as beautiful as ever. Photo credit: @joparsons.bsky.social
View over cemetery from lecture space with two columns framing
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social www.bristol247.com/student/news...
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Bristol academic to lead discussion on macabre Victorian phenomenon
The curious phenomenon gripped the 19th-century Britain
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The long 2010s are finally over
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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...
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Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: 27th March 2026
A VPFA Study DayHosted by Loughborough University Registration now open! Click here to register Scroll down for the Study Day Programme The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect…
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A version of this is now up — will post expanded versions in the future. sarahbull.me/mapping-nine...
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Mapping Nineteenth-Century Obscenity - Sarah Bull
Last summer I discovered the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps and had a lot of fun plotting addresses I found in my research for Advertising Pornography and Obscenity Trials. I found ...
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Last summer, I got super into plotting addresses of nineteenth-century British pornographers that I'd collected as part of a project using the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps. Collecting the data was a painstaking process, as was plotting it as many of these addresses no longer +
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Glitz & Glam Fiction @glitzfiction.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Love.
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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me. THANK YOU READERS! Grab a copy www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
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Digital Events - The Last Tuesday Society
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...
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Digital Events - The Last Tuesday Society
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 06/01/2026
ICYMI: MeetCute Book Festival is set to host a Regency-themed event for debut authors, hosted by author and comedian Rachel Parris 👇 #BookSky
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MeetCute Book Festival to host Regency-themed event for debut authors
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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A new publication by Katie Deane, on dark romance, is the first work of romance scholarship of 2026. And it's open access!
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Dark romance: an introduction
This article examines the rise of dark romance from the fringes of self-publishing to a bestselling genre. After surveying definitions of dark romance, the article provides a detailed chronology of...
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Women's Writing Association @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Our International women's writing online conference will be held on the 15th and 16th of January 2026. In a chance to explore the global role and impact of women's writing, we are so excited to welcome all discussions about any woman's writing from any time period, any place and any genre!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Sounds fabulous!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601 #iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
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The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd... #sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth
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Glitching Gender
This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in which technology can be used as a mechanism to dismantle or reinforce existing gender ideologies.
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This call may be of interest to our readers!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Hello @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social, I hear our 'lovely' friend @pwcraddock.bsky.social has been grassing me up!
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
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Romance and/or Erotica
This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#13CornishGhostStories at #Truro @waterstones.bsky.social last #Halloween - such good fun! Loved hearing about the audience's spooky encounters! @emmacowellauthor.bsky.social @lizfenwick.bsky.social
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd... #sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth
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Glitching Gender
This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in which technology can be used as a mechanism to dismantle or reinforce existing gender ideologies.
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Glitz & Glam Fiction @glitzfiction.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Book of the day: SENSATION by Robin St. Thomas; Published in November, 1990 by Zebra; Robin St. Thomas is a pen name for Robin Stevenson and Tom Blade (1946-2005).
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Listen to me paying tribute to the great goddess of sauce, #JillyCooper, on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #Bonkbuster www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 2 - Jeremy Vine, Stolen phones and Jilly Cooper
Jeremy discusses stolen phones, Jilly Cooper, crashing into deer, and love locks.
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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Ghosts and the Gothic (MUP) is out now - manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181916/ Very pleased to have my chapter on nautical hauntings included as part of this exciting edited collection. Many thanks to @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press - Ghosts and the Gothic
Ghosts and the Gothic - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Ghosts and the Gothic by Ruth Heholt
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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Yes,it’s a lusty book but at its heart it’s about perseverance in the face of colonial oppression AND the lingering mindset.This is no slave and master romance. It’s I won’t be a slave or mastered by anything or anyone. We determine our worth even in the midst of erasure. Malinalli deserved to live
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Haunted Words Press @hauntedwordspress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Kicking off our YA Contributor Spotlights is the wonderful Andrew Searle, back with moon drunk, a stunning new poem! Read it in full in Issue Eleven: Forbidden Folktales now! 💙
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just paid tribute to goddess of sauce #JillyCooper with new generation #QueenoftheBonkbusters #MelanieBlake on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social #bonkbuster
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
So sorry to hear of #JillyCooper's passing #Bonkbuster
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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Strange and exciting spot by my lovely @jendeavour.bsky.social - @britishlibrary.bsky.social have made a t-shirt of the front cover of my Tales of the Weird collection, Dead Drunk. And they've done the same for @joparsons.bsky.social and @joanpassey.bsky.social! shop.bl.uk/products/dea...
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Dead Drunk T-shirt
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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Peek under the sheet of "Ghosts & the Gothic" (Eds. @ruthheholt.bsky.social @joparsons.bsky.social) w/chapters by Katarzyna Ancuta on Asian spirits + Ardel Haefele-Thomas on specters of Black oppression in MASTER & DESCENDENT. @manchesterup.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/
The cover of the book "Ghosts and the Gothic" in a muted aqua color, showing three ghostly figures draped in white sheets, hovering about in an empty room.
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Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Come to this! @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social is a fabulous speaker and who doesn't want a bit of spontaneous combustion on a gloomy Thursday night?!!!
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