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OGOM Project @ogomproject.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Fab gift for Sam! So excited and to have received this special message of thanks via the Buffyverse, engineered by my PhD student Daisy who will graduate in February. A moving tribute but also something all vampire fans and students of the #gothic can enjoy! #Buffy www.cameo.com/recipient/69...

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James Marsters for Dr Sam George

From Daisy. Connect with your favorite stars.

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

At the beautiful University of Copenhagen this week for the Otherworldly Entertainments conference on Horror, Gothic & the Occult in video games! #videogames #gothic #horror @dreframss.bsky.social

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

TODAY is the abstract deadline for this year's AHSN Halloween Symposium on the apt theme of 'Apocalypse'! This free, online symposium welcomes interdisciplinary scholars from all over the world! Send in your abstracts! #horrorstudies #gothic 👻

A poster for the AHSN Halloween Symposium on the theme of Apocalypse. Free, online event - abstracts due 1 August.

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 19/06/2025

🧬 Out now — M/C Journal issue 28.2: 'mutation', edited by Ashleigh Prosser, @kirstinmills.bsky.social, and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Everything from Robbie Williams to mutant fungi, with a side order of cannibalism and bishōjo... #mcjournal journal.media-cultur...

M/C Journal 'mutation' issue cover image:

A 3D render of a DNA molecule featuring blue and pink particles, by Sangharsh Lohakare (Unsplash).

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Ever want to review something from/inspired by the 19th century that isn't a book - like a film, TV series, podcast, documentary, music recording, or other recorded media? That's handy - we have a recordings reviews editor (me!) Do get in touch with proposals and queries ⬇️

Name and role: Hannah Scott, Recordings Reviews Editor
Research interests: French performance history, popular music and dance; history of urban public health; costume history; practice-based research.
Who you'd like to hear from: anyone interested in reviewing recordings or recorded media - either from the 19th century or inspired by it, from any country or language.
Film, TV, documentaries, recorded music, streamed theatre or music performances, radio, podcast, Youtube clips and more!
Do get in touch with proposals and queries!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Is there a long 19th-century-ish book you'd like to review? Or have you written one? We've got an editor for that! Meet Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social - book reviews editor here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Got an opinion piece on the boil? Meet @dremilyvincent.bsky.social - our Forums Editor: she is commissioning bold, informed discussions of topical, controversial, or neglected research questions in long 19th century studies around the work.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Looking for a venue for that inspiring 19th-century-esque article you're writing? Look no further! Paul Watt is our General Editor with responsibility for articles - get in touch here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Always good to have an appreciative audience for newly published research! I’m delighted that my chapter “Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead” is now published in the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie edited by @baconetti.bsky.social Read it online: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Good morning all! We'd love you all to meet Karen Sayer, our Practica Editor here at Advances. What is a practicum? It's the how, what, why & where of teaching the nineteenth century - & Karen would love to see proposals for reflective pieces, provocations, best practice, resources, & more #INCSA

Name and role: Karen Sayer, Practica Editor
Research Interests: British landscape & environment in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Who you'd like to hear from: A Practicum is a constructive &, above all, a practical piece on how, what, why & where we teach the nineteenth century. It could cover ways of tackling precursors, nineteenth century representations, or legacies; it could share best practice, new approaches, & resources; it could consider teaching beyond the university classroom. Any place, and discipline/interdisciplinary approaches welcomed!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Call for recordings reviews! ⏰🚨

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨CFP REMINDER The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference in August 2025. The CFP is still open and we have some bursaries available. Deadline for proposals is 31 March 2025. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Have you heard or seen any recordings inspired by/from the 19th century recently? A period film or TV series? A music album? A documentary or biopic? A streamed 19th c. theatre piece? A podcast? We're looking to publish recordings reviews - email hannah.scott at ncl. ac. uk for more info! 📃

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

There is still time to submit a proposal to the CFP for Otherworldly Entertainment (details found via link below). The deadline is 31 March 2025. It is sure to be an incredible event with two amazing keynotes: @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social Best of all, you get to visit Copenhagen

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

There is already a lot of positive buzz about the new journal with several top-notch submissions coming in. Even so, I am very interested in receiving more special issue proposals for the journal. Do get in touch with your ideas, and please share with your networks!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our speaker can't make it this Saturday so I'm throwing myself into the breach this Saturday! Come here me talk about VICE! Virtue! and Gothic Sensibility in Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest 10am - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273198584... 7pm - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273199577...

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Virtue, Vice and Gothic Sensibility in The Romance of the Forest

Negative Virtue, Natural Vice and Gothic Sensibility in Ann Radcliffe's 'The Romance of the Forest' with Dr Sam Hirst

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Another reminder that we are hosting an amazing conference at Copenhagen this summer in August 2025, and our CFP is still open for submissions. I hope to see some of you there. Please share widely!

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What a pure joy today to give a public lecture to a room full of such engaged and intelligent people at Ashfield Library! Thank you to all who attended and spoke to me afterwards. I had such a blast talking about the weird & wonderful History of Gothic and Fantastic Literature!

A photo of Kirstin Mills smiling. Behind her is a screen displaying the title of her talk. It reads “Gothic and Fantastic Literature: a Weird and Wonderful History.”

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚 #INCSA

Name and role: Kirstin Mills, General Editor

Research Interests: the Gothic, long-nineteenth-century literature, adaptation studies, literature and science, folklore and the supernatural

Who you'd like to hear from: If you work on anything to do with the nineteenth century, whatever that means to you, I want to hear from you! This journal takes a fresh approach - international, interdisciplinary and intertemporal - to broaden nineteenth-century studies and bring traditionally siloed fields together through articles, forums, practica, and reviews of books, exhibitions, recordings and more. Get in touch!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Welcome, new followers, it's a pleasure to see you. Over the next few months, we're going to introduce the team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research. First, our General Editor, Prof Bennett Zon 👋

Name and role: Bennett Zon, General Editor (general oversight)

Research interests: the triangulation of music, religion & science; music theology; music & science; disciplinary culture &the organisation of knowledge; intertemporality

Who you'd like to hear from:
Anyone trying to advance our understanding of INCSA’s three keywords (international, interdisciplinary & intertemporal), including work beyond the Anglosphere; anyone from practice-based areas of work, including museums, libraries, education, media & the arts; anyone expanding the critical, conceptual & methodological horizons of 19th c. studies.

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

New soon-to-be-launched journal, Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, is on Bluesky! Give them a follow & do send in your research articles or get in touch about the other exciting ways to contribute! Some really exciting things in the works for the first issues already…

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New CFP: Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2025 Conference, ‘Victorian Modernities’, with keynote speaker Professor Sally Shuttleworth. Paper and panel proposals due by 31 March 2025. #victorianstudies #nineteenthcentury

24-25 July 2025, University of Queensland, Australia
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
"We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time" wrote Thomas Carlyle in 1829, as he urged his contemporaries to discern the "distinctive characters and deeper tendencies" of their age. For many Victorians, the present was an age of profound transformation and self-questioning, marked by rapid industrialisation, urbanisation, and technological innovation. It was an age when global communications and travel became faster and more accessible, thanks to the railways, steamships, and the electric telegraph. Advances in science and technology, from Darwin's theories to electricity's integration into daily life, sparked excitement and anxiety. Victorians began to grapple with the complexities of being 'modern,' a term increasingly invoked in debates about progress, tradition, and history. Sociologists, philosophers, and cultural theorists reflected on how these shifts redefined society, while Victorian fictions probed the social and psychological consequences of such changes.
We invite papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including Literature, History, Music, Art History, and the History of Science, which explore how the Victorians experienced, understood, and represented their modernities. Topics might include but are not limited to:
• Victorian print and media culture, avant-garde movements and new genres
• Modern transport and networks of communication
• Victorians abroad, tourism, and travel writing
• Victorian advances in science, technology, and medicine
• Commodity culture and consumerism
• Imperialism, nationalism, and colonialism
• Modern spaces and temporalities, including the Victorian city
• Counter-movements, challenges or resistance to modernity
• New social types, such as the New Woman, the Dandy, and the Aesthete
• Neo-Victorian re-visions of modernity
Please send proposals of no more than 300 words, a…

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Fresh from the spirit world! It’s publication day for the latest @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird collection ‘Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil’! Peek at its spooky contents: 14 stories of spectres, spiritualism & occult detectives ft. Dickens, Marryat & more!👻

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Edith Nesbit is one of my favourite ghost story writers so I am VERY EXCITED that this week's free online talk from Romancing the Gothic is all about Edith Nesbit's Ghostly Fictions! With popular return speaker Han O'Flanagan! Come join us www.eventbrite.com/cc/december-...

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December 2024

A series of talks on various topics

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It's important to remember that the "crisis in the humanities" is deliberate and not because of a lack of funds or lack of student interest, but because of how those with power choose to wield their power.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I was told recently that a major reason humanists aren’t in as many upper admin positions is that we’re viewed as annoying progress blockers because we ask inconvenient questions and also because we’re comfortable sitting w ambiguity & discomfort and also don’t rush to the nearest solution as an end

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A highlight for 2024: spending Halloween night at the gorgeous State Library of New South Wales speaking to a sold-out crowd of 350 spook-loving people for ‘Haunted Sydney’! We explored the grim ghost stories & curious histories of Sydney & enjoyed a stunning display of related archival objects 👻🖤

A photo of the Haunted Sydney event at the State Library of NSW. The audience is looks down towards the front of the auditorium where four speakers sit under spotlights beneath a projected image of grim moments in Sydney’s history.

A huge thank you to the library and the brilliant organisers, particularly Callum McLean, who kept this marvellous event running so smoothly.

Photo credit: Joy Lai, courtesy SLNSW

A photo of Kirstin Mills speaking at the Haunted Sydney event at the State Library of NSW. She holds a microphone and smiles as she tells a ghost story.

A huge thank you to the library and the brilliant organisers, particularly Callum McLean, who kept this marvellous event running so smoothly.

Photo credit: Joy Lai, courtesy SLNSW

A photo of the audience at the Haunted Sydney event at the State Library of NSW.

A huge thank you to the library and the brilliant organisers, particularly Callum McLean, who kept this marvellous event running so smoothly.

Photo credit: Joy Lai, courtesy SLNSW

A photo of the audience examining the archival display at the Haunted Sydney event at the State Library of NSW.

A huge thank you to the library and the brilliant organisers, particularly Callum McLean, who kept this marvellous event running so smoothly.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Here's a list of journals, scholarly societies, and book series devoted to 19th-c. Britain. If you're aware of others that should be added, please let me know. www.victorianresearch.org/journals.htm...

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VRW: Journal Guide

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m excited to be giving a talk this weekend for The Friends of Coleridge Seminar Series! I’ll be exploring some of my research on Coleridge & the Gothic, focusing on his extensive Notebook writings about the nightmares that haunted him & how we can best understand them via the lens of the #Gothic!

A poster depicting Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a Gothic castle in the background. The text reads: “Haunted by Nightmares: Coleridge and the Gothic in the Notebooks” by Kirstin A. Mills for The Friends of Coleridge Seminar Series. Online (via Teams), 23 November 2024.

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Calling all Gothic Studies scholars! This is a tiny start on a list of folks working in the #Gothic to help us find each other. Halfway through compiling I thought it might be better to opt-in to make sure you all want to be here, so please comment below if you want to join! go.bsky.app/Si2MduA

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

JOIN US go.bsky.app/UMEXvim

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I cannot wait for this conference, & I’m STOKED to be a Keynote speaker! “Otherworldly Entertainment” - see the CFP linked below! 🖤👻🎮

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Tag in, gothic/horror scholars!

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

And that's all, folks! Parts 1 and 2 of the 19th Century starter pack (300 entries in total!) are now FULL. I have a bananas week ahead of me, so I'm going to bow out now, but I hope these packs are useful to the community and that, if there's appetite for a Part 3, one of you will start it. ❤️

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Sneaking in a new publication before the end of the year! ‘Vampires in Digital Mobile Media’ is now out as part of the extensive Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire! 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🩸📲 Read it here 👉 link.springer.com/referencewor...

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Vampires and Digital Mobile Media

The vampire looms large in a vast transmedia landscape. With each new iteration comes the potential to both reinforce and alter what have come to be our twenty-first-century understandings of the vamp...

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

I’m delighted to be one of the series editors for this exciting new book series in nineteenth-century studies with Clemson University Press! Do take a look and send in your proposals! libraries.clemson.edu/press/series...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Our new @incsa.bsky.social book series with Clemson University Press is open for submissions. We are interested in any topic connected to nineteenth-century studies. Please share widely! Details 👇 libraries.clemson.edu/press/series...

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