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Matthew Creasy

@matthewcreasy.bsky.social
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Academic at the University of Glasgow, working on / teaching James Joyce, Children’s Literature, Stevenson, Decadence. Parent. Cat Owner. Fool.

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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vivid red of a mountain ash / rowan tree in Argyle
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Day 4 and I finally beat my daughter at this boardgame (after 5 attempts). Definitely didn’t dance round the kitchen shouting ‘you lose!’
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Day 3 of playing my daughter at this bloody boardgame until I win and no end in sight
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Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just over 2 weeks to go for this fully-funded PhD on long 19th-century France - projects welcome on history, literature, culture, music, medical humanities, clothing and more.
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Mudie's Select Circulating Library lay at the heart of the Victorian publishing system. Karen Wade's site, now at a new URL, makes it possible to explore the library's catalogues as never before, with an index of 22,000 novels by 6000 authors. curatr.ucd.ie/mudies/ #victorian #bookhistory
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Mudie's Library Online
Mudie's Library Online Catalogue - UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics, University College Dublin
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Includes our course on Fantasy literature and culture: www.gla.ac.uk/study/visiti....
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University of Glasgow - Study - Visiting students - International Summer School - Our courses - Fantastic texts
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GIFCon @gifcon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Announcing our final keynote speaker for GIFCon 2026: Jeff VanderMeer! #FantasyConference #KeyNoteSpeaker #GIFCon #GIFCon2026 #JeffVanderMeer
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
For the new edition, edited by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social, see here: www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
Modern Humanities Research Association - George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
'The youthful confessions of an Irish Decadent' A nice piece in the TLS on George Moore's Confessions, inspired by the recent edition in our Jewelled Tortoise series 📗 www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...
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‘I am feminine, morbid, perverse’
Virginia Woolf judged that the Irish novelist George Moore (1852–1933) was a more engaging memoirist than a writer of fiction. But although he produced several volumes of autobiography over the course...
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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat.... More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin.... Do share widely!
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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social! Book your free ticket👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/cinemarc-t...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested). euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
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Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project
‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@drdouglassmall.bsky.social you may like this, then…
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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I've caved and created a substack where I'll post bloggish things in relation to my critical edition of George Moore's 'Confessions of a Young Man' every Monday for the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/matthewc...
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Judge a book by its cover?
Blanched Moore
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Went to get my photograph taken - my current profile picture dates from 18 years ago. Don't think I've changed much.
Left side of image shows writer's old profile picture; right side of image shows writer's current profile - an aging man, strangely reminiscent of a figure from the Lord of the Rings movies
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man is out with @themhra.bsky.social‬ and I've been posting links to some blogging I did back in 2021, as I drafted the introduction, including this long-ish ramble about the word 'perverse' mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/10/perv...
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Perverse
I've been putting off writing this post for a bit now. When I started this blog, I explained that I hoped to use the exercise of writing abo...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
During lockdown, I started assembling material for the introduction to my critical edition of George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man on a blog. I'll post a few links here, in case anyone is interested or wants a preview: mooreconfessions.blogspot.com/2021/06/what...
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What is 'Confessions of a Young Man'?
In this post, I'll provide some basic information about Confessions of a Young Man - what it contains and what it is about. In my next post,...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My edition of George Moore's "Confessions of a Young Man" is out! If you're interested in the findesiècle, Decadence, Symbolism, impressionism, artwriting, literary criticism, French culture, autobiography, auto fiction or smocks, you might like it ... or hate it... www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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George Moore, Confessions of a Young Man - Edited by Matthew Creasy
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Saturday afternoon game of #forbiddenpsalm and it is *not* going well for my warband (‘The Meaty Fights’). Emma the Demon and Red the Question have been downed. Daughter’s warband (‘The Guardians of Steve’) are doing better round the other side of the house, tho
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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
📣 The latest book in our Jewelled Tortoise series is out! 'George Moore, "Confessions of a Young Man"', edited by Matthew Creasy (@matthewcreasy.bsky.social). 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Venetian lions. A thread
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Venetian lions. A thread
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Back at my favourite depiction of department meetings…
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Programme:
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Glasgow for our 'Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers' symposium a month from today on 3.4.25. The programme is live (below) and you can sign up to join us for FREE here: www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing...
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Publishing Fantasy for Younger Readers: A Symposium
Join us and Frances Hardinge for a conversation on how fantasy has and continues to be written and published for younger readers.
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St Andrews School of English @standrewsenglish.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Upcoming event: 5pm Thurs 27 Feb in the Garden Room, Kennedy Hall Dr Corey Gibson (University of Glasgow) will be giving a seminar titled 'The Worm Queen Turns: Helen Adam from Dundee Manse to California Coven' More information: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/engli...
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UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It's here! Registration is now open for our Publishing Fantasy for Young Readers Symposium this April! Book your tickets to our FREE in-person event on Eventbrite: shorturl.at/5Awu8 Visit our website for the full schedule: shorturl.at/yjghx Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #ChildrensLit #Publishing
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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here it is, Ulysses Forty Years: A Critical Retrospective of Hans Walter Gabler's Critical & Synoptic Edition of Ulysses, with brilliant chapters by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social, Paola Pugliatti, @wvmierlo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Bonapfel, & more. Available from Liverpool UP & Clemson UP 🌊
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Back in October 2022, I travelled to Pescara for a conference on Neo-Victorian decadence, organised by @janedesmarais.bsky.social & others. I got to hang out with my colleague Elisa Segnini properly, discussing ideas and swapping stories about being academics with children.
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Volupté 7.1 - Neo-Victorian Decadence — Volupté
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Rob Maslen @profrmaslen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
There's a new blog post over at The City of Lost Books: childishness and fascism in Ruthven Todd's Surrealist fantasy Over the Mountain (1939). thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/fantasy-1939...
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Fantasy 1939: Ruthven Todd, Over the Mountain
[Content warning: Over the Mountain is a novel of its time, and includes elements that modern readers will find offensive. It contains graphic descriptions of physical injury, some of which I quote…
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? A wicker man is an inefficient way to burn someone to death. The structural integrity is very low, the wicker will spring apart when heated, the larger the wicker man the more unstable the structure. That cop could have just jumped out.
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
As part of the International Symposium on James Joyce at the university of Glasgow, we’re organising a concert on 17 June to celebrate the time Joyce appeared on the same stage as John McCormack in 1904. Tickets available now: ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/twotenors/
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Two Tenors at Twilight
As part of 19th International James Joyce Symposium, the University of Glasgow, Chamber Music Scotland, Culture Unit in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate General of Ireland …
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Also coming as part of the James Joyce Symposium here at the University of Glasgow in June. More details soon
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Very good pleased to be involved in organising this event on Joyce and Cinema at the Glasgow Film Theatre with help from the BFI as part of big James Joyce conference at the university of Glasgow www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/at-the...
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At the Volta with James Joyce
As part of 19th International James Joyce Symposium, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Film Theatre and the Irish Consulate are organising At the Volta with James Joyce: a showing of early films with...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
UPDATE - the deadline of the Call for Papers for the International Joyce Symposium here at the University of Glasgow has been extended to 16 February. (Please share widely!) More details here: ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers
XXIX INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE SYMPOSIUM: ACROSS THE WATERS 14–19 June 2024 University of Glasgow For James Joyce, as for many Irishmen and women, Glasgow was the first city he saw beyond his nativ�...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Boasting time. I’m very pleased to have worked with Koenraad Claes and L. Janzen Kooistra on this short bio of Mallarmé in relation to late Victorian periodicals: 1890s.ca/mallarme_bio
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
The Call for Papers for the 2024 James Joyce Symposium has been updated with details of scholarship opportunities from the International James Joyce Foundation. Apply now (or before the deadline on 2 Feb)! ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
(Have been slow to switch from the other place.) In case you've missed it: The International James Joyce Symposium is coming to the University of Glasgow in June 2024. There's a call for papers (deadline 2 Feb 2024) on our site (please share) ijjf2024.glasgow.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
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Matthew Creasy @matthewcreasy.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
On Sat 4 Nov for the ESRC Social Sciences Festival at the University of Glasgow, Megan Coyer and I will be running a playtest of our adaptation of the 'Pandemic' boardgame, based on the 1832 cholera outbreak in Glasgow. Sign up here to come along and join in: tiny.cc/6ewcvz
An image of board game components for the game, featuring locations from Glasgow and historical characters and events.
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Hey BlueSky did you know if you work on 19thC materials & have a dataset we would be happy to review & maybe publish it so other scholars can see your data & maybe work with it, too? c19datacollective.com please share!
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