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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Making a SPLAS! Celebrating the past, present & future of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies @ucl.ac.uk. Part of UCL’s 200th anniversary celebrations. @uclselcs.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social #UCL200

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Blown away that my book, Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film, has been longlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize by the International Gothic Association (@igagoths.bsky.social). Honoured to be amongst such brilliant colleagues. A big thank you to my wonderful gothic peers! @uclselcs.bsky.social

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

December 2025 marked Battleship Potemkin's 100th anniversary. Read my new article on eyes, surveillance, and political control in Eisenstein's Strike, Potemkin & Ivan the Terrible. Inspired by @uclssees.bsky.social Julian Graffy's 2009 lectures @uclselcs.bsky.social #OpenAccess www.mdpi.com/3721912

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

From morose misery to moderate merriment: sniffles, suicide & sadistic, self-immolating trees offered an alternative take on Christmas @oldwoollen.bsky.social. With masterful emceeing by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social, the night moved swiftly from virology to musicology to ecology @uclselcs.bsky.social

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Quantum Quartet was wonderful and truly made the whole evening come together! I still can't get over the 'Have Yourself a M-i-s-e-r-a-b-l-e Christmas' — that verse will be playing in my head for the next month or so. Dark Qristmassy earworms!

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Quantum Sauce @quantum-sauce.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

😢Embrace the #Christmas blues! From Blue Christmas to Wonderful Life,we’re spreading Christmas #catharsis & some festive feel-good!Join @jori-saudade.bsky.social for a Quantum Qristmas speak at #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social. Dec 2nd,tix at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5.Bring your brain & pull up a pint!

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Interested in laughter, 19th century clowns, and 1920s cinema? Check out my paper 'The Politics of Laughter: The Afterlives of Clowns Joseph Grimaldi and Jean-Gaspard Deburau in 1920s Cinema'. @uclselcs.bsky.social #Grimaldi #Deburau #clowns #laughter www.mdpi.com/3594520

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

“Things I once thought were funny are scary now. I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava” (2013). Academic and musical satirist Tom Lehrer exposed hypocrisy, vices, and prejudices through song like no other.

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A brilliant end to the term! UCL's Celebration of Humanities Education was expertly organised & brought together a range of exciting, inspiring & innovative approaches to education. Proud to have contributed as a member of the Centre's Languages Stream! @ucl-che.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Professor Alexander Samson delivering his fascinating inaugural lecture on 28 May: 'Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern'. @samsonaws.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social #MarianEngland #UniversalClockTime #EarlyModern

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My article, ‘A Wounded Cinema: Failed Utopias, Décor Leitmotifs, and the Homo Minnellianus’, is published in MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism. Among other misfits in Vincente Minnelli's films, I write about one of my favourites: Ginny from Some Came Running (1958). warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...

Shirley MacLaine as Ginny in Some Came Running (V. Minnelli, 1958).

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Joana Jacob Ramalho @jori-saudade.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

📚 My book, "Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film", explores the #Gothic (1920s-1950s) as an aesthetic of memory and exile. Includes chapters on memory-objects, hands, pianos, and amnesia. Download it for free from #PalgraveMacmillan #OA @uclselcs.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

This open access book traces the origins & development of the Gothic cinematic aesthetic, focusing especially on 3 key concepts: migration, memory, objects

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