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Martin Potter @pottervillamil.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I'm very happy to say that I've just signed a contract with Routledge for my latest monograph, David Jones' Philosophy of Art in the Context of Catholic Thought, exploring David Jones' contribution to Catholic aesthetic thought and practice.

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Miles (they/them)🇪🇺☮️💚📚 @milesr.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My favourite books I got through in March were: The Postal Paths: @postalpathsguy.bsky.social A Treachery of Swans by A. B. Poranek @abporanek.bsky.social The Roma: A Traveling History by Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social 1/2 #booksky

The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails and the People Who Walked Them by Alan Cleaver

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

So thrilled to be launching the German translation of ‘The Roma’ (Ullstein) in Berlin today

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Not to be missed if you're in Berlin and work on anti-racism!

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Boom 17 of 2026: “Roma: A Travelling History” by Madeline Potter. An interesting dip into the history of the Romani people across Europe and the U.S., presented in conjunction with Potter’s own experiences in her travels. Made me wish my family hadn’t assimilated so well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

The cover of “Roma: A Travelling History” by Madeline Potter. A black-and-white photo of several people dancing in front of a crowd. The top and bottom are a spangled garment and skirt pattern common among the Romani.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Look, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, your beautiful book is gaining more traction - as it should! 🤗

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Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Victorian energy vampires ahoy! The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat and some fellow travellers youtu.be/4FgXteJx6nA?... cc @madelinepotter.bsky.social

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Psychic Vampires of Victorian Times | SPOILERS for Blood of the Vampire

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The RUTA Association @associationruta.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us Feb 27 at 18:00 (Kyiv time) for a webinar on Romani histories and racial justice. With Madeline Potter (The Roma: A Traveling History) and Margareta Matache (The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism), exploring new ways of understanding and challenging anti-Roma racism.

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Geoff King @geoffo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My review of 'The Roma - A Travelling History' by @madelinepotter.bsky.social has just been published here: bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/03/t... Read the review, read the book. #Roma #writing #bookreview #nonfiction

The cover of the book, The Roma - A Travelling History, by Madeline Potter, showing three women and two men dancing in front of a crowd.

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thank you @geoffo.bsky.social for this lovely, thoughtful review of ‘The Roma’ in Bella Caledonia 🙏 bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/03/t...

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Núria Molines-Galarza @nuriamolines.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The fantastic @madelinepotter.bsky.social, Julia Larsen, and Lucy McMillan have put together this amazing conference in Edinburgh (18-19 June 2026): Media Monster Conference 2026. Check it out here: monstermediaconference.wordpress.com Call for submissions open until 15 March!

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Monster Media Conference 2026

An interdisciplinary exploration of the intersection between monster theory and media studies

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

And it’s here! My author’s copy has arrived 🖤

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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Congratulations to the brilliant @madelinepotter.bsky.social on the publication of ‘Theological Monsters’… this erudite text promises all manner of Gothic delights! 😈🖤👇

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

So happy to see my monograph out! I’m so thankful to everyone at UWP for their amazing work and support through this process 🖤

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Eeeek so excited! My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ is out with University of Wales Press! www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

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Theological Monsters | UWP

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

'Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic' by @madelinepotter.bsky.social is out now! This book places monstrosity at the centre of the process of gathering knowledge of the divine and reassess the relationship between Gothic literature and Catholicism. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. The relationship between religion and Gothic literature has traditionally been approached through denominational readings, but this study proposes how Irish Gothic texts from Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer to Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and Bram Stoker’s Dracula resist being inscribed into particular doctrinal frameworks. Abandoning allegorical interpretations, Theological Monsters proposes that real-life theologies do not translate into the fictional ones articulated across these texts. The focus is on revealing how the bodies of monsters make real and tangible otherwise abstract concepts associated with God and the afterlife, and on identifying monstrosity as a valuable way to uncover knowledge of the divine in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. What follows is an original reassessment of three canonical writers – Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker – highlighting their fictional theological exercises.

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Do sign up for this course!! Such an exciting opportunity!!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

How did Wuthering Heights go from a 'tale of hate' (1920 adaptation) to the 'Greatest Love Story' (2026)? Come find out with me Drawing on the hundreds of hours of research I've done on Wuthering Heights adaptations! #WutheringHeights February 13th at 7pm or February 12th at 2pm GMT (see below)

A montage of images from different versions of Wuthering Heights

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

'Theology & Vampires,' edited by @madelinepotter.bsky.social What can vampires teach us about God?Through an analysis of the relationship between theology & vampires,this book provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry www.bloomsbury.com/us/theology-...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So, true story, when I did my Masters, I had this impression that I should be reading the entire backlog of as many writers on the course as possible. So for a single 3000 word essay I read every single one of Mrs Radcliffe's works. I was very cool and normal. And continue to be.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Boosting this today led to a load of people signing up so... boosting again! Come join us! We'll be reading a book a month and I'll be providing contextualising and critical material, questions AND creative prompts.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

First up, I have a whole year course! 1 book a month. We're reading our way through the long-eighteenth century, concentrating entirely on women's writing. The course is through the Regency academe and costs only $55 for non-members! For a whole year! regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...

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12 Books Your Regency Heroine Should Read – Regency Fiction Writers

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Annual report 2025 BOOKS Holbein: Renaissance Master Elizabeth Goldring Humans: A Monstrous History @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social The Roma: A Travelling History @madelinepotter.bsky.social Renaissance Automata of the Villa Pratolino Lily V. Filson

"Holbein: Renaissance Master". The most well trodden of subject matter, but transformed and seen anew. Goldring can't put pen to paper without being brilliant - I'd pay to read her shopping lists.

$Cover of 'Humans: a monstrous history'. A riot of a book in all senses. Both a blast to read and an unruly carnival / fracas of wild history which constantly threatens to spiral into an insurrection.$ Cover: The Roma a travelling history.

The most chastening and soul-changing book I read this year. I was just appalled and embarrassed to discover how ignorant and indifferent I had been both to an enraging - and ongoing - history of discrimination and to a culture of profound beauty.

The book I most want you to read, especially if you don't know why.

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The most chastening and soul-changing book I read this year. I was just appalled and embarrassed to discover how ignorant and indifferent I had been both to an enraging - and ongoing - history of discrimination and to a culture of profound beauty.

The book I most want you to read, especially if you don't know why.

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The best academic title of the year for me. An absolutely solid gold trove of source material brilliantly excavated. The book I most wish I'd written.

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Thanks also to the (now expansive!) @hauntedshores.bsky.social network for the kind, lively environment where so many of the ideas in here were first tested out. Huge thanks in particular to @emilyalder.bsky.social, @giuliachampion.bsky.social, @joanpassey.bsky.social, @madelinepotter.bsky.social!

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'm extremely grateful for a heap of support in getting this project together, especially from series editors @angelawright1794.bsky.social and @dalegothic96.bsky.social, who have been brilliant to work with.

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Authors I discuss include: Daniel Defoe (whose Robinson Crusoe is, I suggest, foundational to this mode of writing/thinking), Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, Susan Hill, Hugh Walpole, Gaskell, Riddell, Stoker, Aickman, MR James, Adrian Ross, Frances Burney, Conrad, Oyeyemi, Alice Thompson – & others!

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The main sections of the Element look at: the seaside, tourism, and intra-archipelagic travel; war and conflict on the coast; and migration and coastal landfall. A final section looks at the significance of lighthouses in the coastal gothic tradition.

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Focusing on gothic writers from the British and Irish archipelago, the Element seeks to define a 'coastal gothic' tradition, w/ a particular focus on the politics and nationalisms forged in coastal regions.

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Jimmy Packham @jfpackham.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

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Amy Beddows @amybeddows.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Last chance for tickets! I'm very excited for this show and hope to drum up an enthusiastic crowd. Edinburgh folks: 'Horror Films as Therapy' workshop, Saturday 8:15pm at Banshee Labyrinth. See you there! @madelinepotter.bsky.social @gnofhorror.com www.noisyghost.co.uk/event-detail...

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Horror films as therapy: Why scary can be healthy | Noisyghost

Do you like scary movies? Do certain films or scenes resonate with you long after the screen is back to black, and have you ever considered why?

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I am incredibly grateful and honoured to have received an honorary recognition for civic courage today at the ‘Civic Courage Gala’ for education hosted by the Romanian Royal House in Bucharest. It was an honour to meet so many wonderful people with amazing achievements.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I beg, look me up before you state basic facts about my area of research to me like you are bestowing a revelation.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Not just my Romani friends, any Romani person speaking up. So, here is a load of information that can get you started, basically. Now, go do some research and listen to actual Romani people. A good history intro? Here you go. 102/

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

For Madeline's excellent talk on this subject (which I draw on strongly in this thread), see this video! 13/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDW...

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Son of the fortune-teller: Heathcliff's Racialisation in 'Wuthering Heights' with Dr Madeline Potter

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

As Potter explains here, the ambiguity of Heathcliff's identity feeds into contemporary constructions of the Roma as unknowable, mysterious or uncanny. 12/

‘Ambiguity is part of the racialisation of Heathcliff as a Romani man’ (Madeline Potter, ‘Son of the Fortune-Teller: Heathcliff’s Racialisation in Wuthering Heights’, Romancing the Gothic)
‘It speaks to a fictional insistence on uncanniness which also unfortunately translates into public perception even today’ (Ibid.,)

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g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

One would need to be of a particularly rash and unwise disposition to gainsay @madelinepotter.bsky.social on this. Racists, she's thought harder on this than you, understands this better than you ever could, and is so much smarter than you it's unfair. Go home, you're embarrassing yourselves.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

First up, Wuthering Heights and it's adaptations have nothing to do with race, right? That's what (certain people) like to tell us. 2/

A slide showing an image of Heathcliff digging Cathy's grave with exaggerated features produced by Fritz Eichenberg.

There is a quotation: ‘No, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights was not a ‘person of colour’
‘If Heathcliff is dark-haired and gipsy-like, could that not be achieved by hair dye and – uh, hem – make-up?’
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph, Friday 7th September 2024

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

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Horrora C @theaurorac.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Finally got my hands on a copy of @madelinepotter.bsky.social’s The Roma: A Travelling History. At last, our history by a scholar who is Romani.

A hardcover copy of Madeline Potter’s book The Roma: A Travelling History, set on a paisley scarf

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

‘The Roma’ in Cărtureşti Verona in Bucharest! Thank you @encyclopaediac.bsky.social for sharing ☺️

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!

Dore engraving showing the fall of Satan

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My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!

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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Pierce on the latest episode of ‘O Verda Darano’. We chatted about spooky Romani folklore, vampires, and sorts of revenants in Roma culture, as well as interacting with gothic media as a Roma person. Tune in here www.deadscaredentertainment.com/overdadarano...

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O Verda Darano — Dead Scared Entertainment

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.

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