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kristinmahoney.bsky.social

@kristinmahoney.bsky.social
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Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.

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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So looking forward to JLF island of Ireland starting 22 May. Do join us - it’s free but booking is essential 📣 @tlrhub.bsky.social
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
If you will be in London in May, please consider attending the Ronald Firbank Centenary Symposium. Alan Hollinghurst will be delivering the keynote!
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Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium
Exactly a hundred years after the death of incomparable novelist Ronald Firbank this symposium celebrates his work, life, and legacy.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
On Monday 13 April we'll be joined by Dr Sinead Moynihan (Exeter), who will speak on 'Watching the mail for [...] the Amerikay letther: Benedict Kiely and the New Yorker'. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579
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janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Fascinating week at Miranda House & Delhi University discussing Ireland, India & Empire & especially the women often so lost from this history. @voicestcd.bsky.social
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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Look at all the new books in Victorian studies @navsa2025.bsky.social & this isn’t even all of them! Note @pfyfe.bsky.social pointing to @mmvty.bsky.social ’s clever book cover, and the “cut out a sticker of a book cover” craft activity 😄
Poster of books Book stickers
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Thanks so much to @marymullen.bsky.social for spearheading last night’s amazing celebration of all the books published this past year by NAVSA authors. This was so fun @navsa2025.bsky.social
Poster showing all the books published by NAVSA authors in 2024 2025
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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Huge congratulations to our NAVSA 24/25 authors! Thank you so much for your work! [QR code for a little discount aussi ☺️)
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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Don't miss Muhammad Farooq, Mehtap Ozdemir, Zarena Aslami, Niloofar Sarlati, & Fatima Burney in "Inter-Imperial Spaces: West and Central Asia in the Ongoing Aftermath of Postcolonial Theory" at #NAVSA2025
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you are at the MSA conference, stop by the JHUP table to take a look at the beautiful latest issue of Cusp.
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I loved collaborating with my academic sibling @nathankhensley.bsky.social (along with some of my very favorite Victorianists) to recognize the work of our fantastic advisor and mentor Kathy Psomiades. Read her book!
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
VISAWUS 2025 in St. Louis was so wonderful. Thanks to Anne Stiles and @profneilh.bsky.social for all of their organizing work and @badvictorianist.bsky.social for the amazing magic lantern show.
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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!
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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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Cusp @cusplate.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Cusp. 3.2 is now up on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/55539 with a fantastic cluster on cosmopolitanism edited by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social and articles by Bassam Sidiki (on racialized quarantine) and Caylee Weintraub (on deep-sea ecology) as well as an interview with Tom Crewe
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Project MUSE - CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures-Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
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Shinjini Chattopadhyay, PhD @shinjinichatto.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp" is now out! This is a special cluster I had the honor of editing for @cusplate.bsky.social. I would like to warmly thank Cusp editors @kristinmahoney.bsky.social, Kate Hext, and Alex Murray for their enthusiasm for the cluster.
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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
NVSA cfp is out--Silences. Mark your calendar for April 10-12 at Cornell, and submit an abstract: northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
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Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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Cusp @cusplate.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
So happy to see the Cusp article "Hauntings in the Nursery" by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social among the top 20 most-read articles in JHUP journals for February. This article will be free to read through March 15: muse.jhu.edu/article/920145
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Project MUSE - Hauntings in the Nursery: Reviving the Nursemaid Through Fin-de-Siècle Gothic
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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949
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Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field Book"
Houghton Library welcomes Ana Parejo Vadillo, who will give the Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025 tinyurl.com/mryj2ht2
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW 
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025
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Cusp @cusplate.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Issue 3.1 of Cusp, with articles on decadence in Korea, Sarah Grand, Arthur Symons, H. G. Wells, and The Story of an African Farm is now up on Project Muse. Please take a look and consider submitting to the nicest-looking of all journals: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54315
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Neil Hultgren @profneilh.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Please consider submitting an abstract for our upcoming conference, VISAWUS 2025: GATEWAYS (www.visawus.org/conferences/). October 3-5, 2025 in St. Louis, with the amazing @kristinmahoney.bsky.social as keynote speaker! Papers about Judy Garland are also welcome.
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Conferences – Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
CHAINS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY, now out in paper! @princetonupress.bsky.social
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
MLA goers! The Victorian and early 20thC Forum is taking advantage of drinks arranged by Priti Joshi (thank you, Priti!) and meeting tonight at 7pm at LONGITUDE 90, the bar at Le Meridien Hotel, on Poydras St., just up from the conference hotel. Please join us!
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.
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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social bit.ly/3Ppc0KB
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Julie Wise @juliemariewise.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
There's still time to submit a proposal for our upcoming conference, Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms: we've had several requests, so we've extended the deadline to January 12. Come join us in Columbia this spring!
A document describing an upcoming conference titled Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms, taking place Feb 28-March 1 at the University of South Carolina. The deadline for proposals is now January 12. More information can be found at https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/dllc/study/cplt/conferences/cplt_conf_27.php
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Zarena Aslami @zda.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
PLEASE APPLY to Midwest Victorian Studies conference seminars. Three options: Lit History/Genealogies; Plant Humanities; Work-in-Progress, led respectively by Alison Booth, Lindsay Wells, and me. Apps due Jan 5; conference April 3-6 @ Purdue U Ft Wayne. Full CFP & app details (easy process!) below.
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Conference Seminars 2025
MVSA Conference Seminars are small, with eight to ten participants each. Participants exchange work to read ahead of the 2025 conference and meet in a closed, collaborative session to discuss overl…
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Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Celebrating 5 years of #Visualities @MModernity: 30+ essays, 50+ authors, almost a 5th of whom are/were grad students! Here @pdabashi.bsky.social & I share our vision for modernist studies as visual studies, alongside reflections by Jess Masters & Stephen Ross: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Five Years of Visualities | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Five years ago, in August 2019, the Visualities forum was established as a site for thinking through the visual relations and ocular regimes of modernity. It posed three broad provocations: “In what new ways might we discuss the visual as a special category—aesthetic, epistemological, political—in modernism? How do different modes and practices of vision interact within the
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Cusp is a wonderful new journal that will definitely be of interest to modernists and others working in early 20th- century studies. Check out their special issue on disability, edited by Robert Volpicelli. It has a great collection of essays.
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Fantastic 19c studies conference. You don't have to live in the Midwest to join us! This year's theme is Genealogies. Plus thematic seminars led by Alison Booth and Lindsay Wells, and a works-in-progress one led by me. Please consider applying. (And pass it on!)
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Cusp @cusplate.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, a newer journal from Johns Hopkins UP, has migrated over to Bluesky. Please take a look at our submission guidelines. We welcome work across the turn of the century, across disciplines, and across national boundaries. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/cusp
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Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures
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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Call for conference contributions to ‘Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?’ taking place in Copenhagen in May 2025. CFP deadline is 10 January 25.
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Sally Blackburn Daniels @drsallybd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I made a starter pack for people interested in scholarship on Vernon Lee go.bsky.app/DJGbDZf I included lots of wonderful academics who have shaped my thoughts and directed my own work. Please let me know if I’ve missed anyone (and sorry if I have!).
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Member Publication: Zarena Aslami and Tim Watson, editors, Victorian Literature & Culture Special Issue bit.ly/3Ct3wyL
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Zarena Aslami and Tim Watson, editors, Victorian Literature & Culture Special Issue | NAVSA
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