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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Precise historical detail and brisk narration culminate in an assured supernatural adventure about identity and destiny." A great @publisherswkly.bsky.social review for THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS by @sharonchoe.bsky.social! #TeamTriada #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/979834710646...

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The Queen of the Spirit Woods by Sharon Choe

Choe blends fantasy, court intrigue, and Korean folklore and history into a propulsive debut set centuries ago in a fictional Ko...

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The kinda feedback you can expect from me, a serious academic 🫡😁 Go read Maria’s article!! It was a joy to read the early version of it ✨

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Filled with action and subterfuge, this is a recommended purchase for readers who enjoy Korean folklore or romantasy peppered with political intrigue and ghosts." A @slj.com review for THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS by @sharonchoe.bsky.social! #TeamTriada www.schoollibraryjournal.com/review/the-q...

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The Queen of the Spirit Woods

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Been sitting on this for a while, so delighted to be able to be publicly delighted about it!

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My adorable little snuggle monster Viktoria has just been recruited to promote my good friend @sharonchoe.bsky.social's forthcoming novel Queen of the Spirit Woods. I'm a proud cat daddy

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INCSA @incsa.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

CfP: Networks of Antiquity, University of Copenhagen, 7-8th May 2026. Abstracts due 31st January! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6237...

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Call for Papers: Networks of Antiquity – BARS Blog

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My awesome friend (and colleague) @sharonchoe.bsky.social is organising a cool conference @ucph.bsky.social. Check out the call 👇

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

📢📚🎉 We’re excited to share that recent English / CECS PhD @sharonchoe.bsky.social has placed her debut novel under contract with Atheneum. Many congratulations Sharon!! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

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Recent PhD student's debut novel acquired by Atheneum Publishers

Warm congratulations to recent English / CECS PhD, Sharon Choe, on the acquisition of her first novel!

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Delighted to announce my YA debut THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS is coming out with Atheneum, Fall 2026! The first in a duology inspired by Korean history, you can expect: 🍄 Palace political intrigue 🍄 A magic system grounded in Korean shamanism 🍄 Dae Jang Geum vibes (iykyk)

Sharon Choe’s THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS, pitched as inspired by Korean history, about a girl who, after faking her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid, is embroiled in dangerous palace intrigue and forbidden love when she stumbles into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becomes a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits, to Kristie Choi at Atheneum, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world).

Who will save the saviors when all is nought but stardust & ash? Who will help the cursed, the forgotten, the condemned—the betrayed?

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Congratulations to @sharonchoe.bsky.social on the sale of THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS! #TeamTriada #BookSky

A Publisher's Weekly deal announcement which features a photo of author Sharon Choe and reads as follows: Kristie Choi at Atheneum has acquired The Queen of the Spirit Woods and a sequel, a YA debut by Sharon Choe, pitched as The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea meets The Cruel Prince. In this epic YA romantic fantasy inspired by Korean history, a girl who has faked her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid is embroiled in palace intrigue and forbidden love after stumbling into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becoming a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits. Publication is set for fall 2026; Laura Crockett at Triada US handled the deal for world rights.

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

My first #OpenAccess article of the postdoc has come out, just in time to celebrate being 50% through the #MSCA Fellowship! Have a read about Death Songs, gore, & necropolitics in 18th Century British translations of Ragnar Lodbrok 🥳 litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025... #EUFunded

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

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University College Cork Vacancies

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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

CFP: Games and Learning Alliance Conference. Seeking original contributions in game-based learning. Includes: (1) Gamification, (2) Games for Learning (i.e., Serious / Applied Games), and (3) Playful Learning. Deadline 2nd July! #GBL conf.seriousgamessociety.org/call-for-pap...

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Call for papers

You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 14th Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA Conference 2025). GALA Conference 2025 is an international conference organized by the Serious Ga…

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Time for Norse at MAMO! 'Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain'. Sharon Choe (@sharonchoe.bsky.social, Copenhagen), Maggie Pavleszek (@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social, York) and Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social‬, York). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 1C: Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain [Room K019]
Chair: Josephine Spelsberg
Sharon Choe (University of Copenhagen): Loðbrók, Lodbrach, Lodbrog: Revisiting Norse Death in Eighteenth-century Britain
Maggie Pavleszek (University of York): “Lost in the wind and the night”: Ship Funerals and Imperial Anxiety in H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes (1891)
Hannah Armstrong (University of York): Strange Survivals: Sabine Baring-Gould and the Norse-Gothic

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

An interesting article for anyone who teaches #archives #collections #subcultures & the problems of preserving historical ephemera. He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

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He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go?

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Such a fulfilling couple of days in Paris at the London-Paris Romanticism Symposium. What a group of generous scholars. It was a pleasure to meet & laugh with everyone, & listen to incredible papers on Shock and Surprise. Thanks to David Duff & Laurent Folliot for organising a wonderful event!

The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, near the Sorbonne. People are walking outside the building and a French flag flies over a door

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection" www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 17/05/2025

This week, the Society advertised two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Literature serves as the basis of so much of our gaming, often sitting quietly in the background as the allegorical base of our play superstructures. Books never left us; we play in their conjured inspirations.

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DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What tiny grief poem will you write? New piece published today. Have you joined us in The Mortal Portal yet? Come on in and have a rummage around in our back catalogue. We're not for everyone but we're just right for you. open.substack.com/pub/deadgood... >KV

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Tiny grief poems

I don't consider myself a poet. And yet grief can be poetic. I found solace in writing a series of haikus about my dad's last days including his death. I invite you to write & share a tiny grief poem.

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A wonderful week at the Bodleian digging through Thomas Percy’s Notebooks to confirm a couple of research hunches! But a favourite surprise for me was seeing 18yo Percy’s book catalogue where he had decorated and titled the cover with the 18C version of bubble letters. 10/10, no notes 👌🏼😌

A pile of 4 manuscripts in grey boxes on a desk at the Bodleian, Oxford UK.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#YWES 👇 is still recruiting! Want to stay up-to-date with relevant publications? write for THE oldest & most comprehensive review of scholarly work? & join a supportive @englishassociation.bsky.social & OUPAcademic community? Come join the #c18th & #RomanticPeriod chapter teams! 1/4

Cover image of The Year's Work in English Studies, volume 103 (covering work published in 2022)

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MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5! themamo.org

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The Middle Ages in the Modern World

A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 25/10/2024

Alright, let's see how big this gets! ❤️ 1 Like = 1 Video Game Book 📚

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Thank you for listening!! 🥹 Had such a great time talking about all the fun things I’ve discovered about James Johnstone in Copenhagen!

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

"Academia is fit only for those who ‘fit’." Powerful and important piece on being disabled in academia, DEI, and "career blocking" (HT @Dr_Tre_Crew) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

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DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What grief do you carry? How do you tend to it? What grief do the people around you carry? How do they tend to it? Creative DIY community approaches to grief & remembrance can sometimes help. www.deadgood.org/blog/mortali... #griefsky #deathsky #deathwork #griefwork #communitydeathwork

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Creative community conversations — Dead Good

"Let's just say that gathering people together to prepare and share a meal, whilst also sharing cross-cultural stories of love, loss and food, was a wonderful way to connect with others. I wish you co...

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Fjóla @fjolagud.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A long overdue release… My research website is now live! Subscribe, follow, lurk… My Instagram followers got first pick on the kinda content they want to see, but I’ll be releasing updates on my Marie Curie project, DEATHRIT + some fun things discovered in the archives! deathrit.wordpress.com

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DEATHRIT

Death, Ritual, & Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Lev Grossman's Arthuriana fantasy 'The Bright Sword' makes the Saxons climate refugees crossing the channel in small boats (topical), fleeing floods. Can any Early-Englishers give me sources for the climate history this is based on?

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DEATHRIT

Death, Ritual, & Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

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Nigel J.Hetherington @pastpreservers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

UK bound end of Jan! My comfy Giza apartment will be up for grabs. Prime location facing the Giza Plateau & a stone's throw from the Grand Egyptian Museum. 2 double bdrms, study, spacious living area & all mod cons. Perfect for exploring ancient wonders! DM for details! #Egypt

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Lovely to receive print copies of my latest essay, “How Disability (re) Invents Poetry” (in SEL @sel1500to1900.bsky.social 64.2).

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 30/12/2024

I keep thinking about how curiosity is such a powerful part of a critic’s toolkit, but it is paradoxically under more and more threat the more experience & knowledge the critic (and/or academic) has.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames? We've got the event for you! The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share! Details 👇 engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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ALT: a cartoon monster is standing in front of a monster arcade

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Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com · 18/12/2024

US pre-orders are ready so here I go again Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, September 2025 A North Korean spy, a Korean CIA Agent, and a South Korean restauranteur get entangled in a spy game. A metaphor for the lives of the diaspora Canada pre-orders: a.co/d/10a8EcM US pre-orders: amzn.to/3DlvSvr

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow

We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 13/12/2024

More to say on burnout and I'm probably going to boost it a few times because folks need to hear it: Burnout is a form of brain damage. It happens when stress conditions persist until they damage our brains. It's an injury that needs to heal, not a weakness that needs to be pushed through.

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Exciting news to end the semester—I’m delighted to announce I’ll be joining the London-Paris Romanticism symposium on “Romantic Shock & Surprise” in May! I’ll be presenting some work on gore & the Norse-Gothic spectacle to think about resistance & necropower in 18th-century poetry✨🪦✨ #EUFunded

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Aike Rots @aikerots.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My department has just advertised 5 salaried PhD positions. Projects within the fields of religion, culture studies, environmental humanities, and/or Asian/Middle Eastern studies are welcome. 3-4 years, full-time, fully funded. Candidates must have finished their MA. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145) | University of Oslo

Job title: Five Doctoral Research Fellowships (271145), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

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