Reposted by Sophia JochemNAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026CFP: "Keywords in Religion and Victorian Studies," A Special Issue of Victorian Studies navsa.org/News/13642544 Image Source: The Lord Gave and the Lord Hath Taketh Away, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord by Frank Holl, 1868 034
Reposted by Sophia JochemProf Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026⏳ Still time to apply - the deadline for applications is this Friday, 24 July 01717
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026In the closing session of #Dickenssociety2026 Tabish Khair reads from his novel 'The Thing about Thugs'. 030
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Time's (almost!) up at #Dickenssociety2026 as we begin the final academic panel! 071
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Now at #Dickenssociety2026: Michael D. Lewis looks at Ali Smith's Winter and the 'alarming proximity to Dickens's world' that Smith's novel explores. 061
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Devastation over the football quickly subsides at #Dickenssociety2026 as @drchrislouttit.bsky.social introduces us to the intricacies of the Dickensian bibliomemoir. 051
Reposted by Sophia JochemKatie Bell 🇵🇸 @decadentdickens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026🎉 I am thrilled to work alongside such wonderful Dickensian scholars as @liliu430.bsky.social who won the Parlow Prize and @saramalton.bsky.social and Meg Cronin who won the Paroissien Prize! 🎉 071
Reposted by Sophia JochemChris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Have been too busy having a great time at #DickensSociety2026 in Aarhus and not posting much as a result, but looking forward to giving my paper on the Dickensian bibliomemoir in tomorrow's early morning slot. A quick preview of one of my slides 👇 071
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A night to remember: we had a very festive, super tasty #Dickenssociety2026 conference dinner this evening at the absolutely fantastic(al) ARoS museum in Aarhus. 071
Reposted by Sophia JochemEd Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026After which @sophiajochem.bsky.social offered a thoughtful, thorough, and enormously thought-provoking discussion of abortion narratives in Dickens’ ‘Dombey and Son’. #DickensSociety2026 093
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It's time for business at #Dickenssociety2026 051
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Because we just can't get enough of A Tale of Two Cities at #Dickenssociety2026: Yizhou Feng reads the novel alongside Wei Yi's 1913 A Tale, in which 'patriots' become a 'riotous mob'! 062
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Now Aleksandar Stevic looks into Dr. Manette as a personification of A Tale of Two Cities' neurotic response to the violence of revolution. Miss Pross emerges as one of the novel's unlikely psychiatrists in this reading at #Dickenssociety2026 063
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 15/07/2026On the second day of #Dickenssociety2026 Ahmed Diaa Dardir explores what he calls the 'orgiastic paradox' in A Tale of Two Cities. May the ecstatic, intoxicating frenzies begin! 151
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Li Liu explores the complex relationship between Dickens the author, the narrator, and Dickens the public reader in Hard Times at #Dickenssociety2026 061
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026'Priceless garbage' and the hoarding dragon topos with Galia Benziman at #Dickenssociety2026: hoarding here turns out to be a form of resistance to commodification. 060
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Heidi L. Pennington is tracing layers of secondariness in the life and work of Charles's granddaughter Ethel Dickens at #Dickenssociety2026 092
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A very special treat to finish off the first day of #Dickenssociety2026: a dramatic monologue performed by Annie Elliot -- as nineteenth-/twenty first-century Catherine Dickens. "Real women have bodies that age.... By this time, Charles himself wasn't an oil painting!" 082
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Now at #Dickenssociety2026: Caterina Colomba considers how the very many Dickenses of Neo-Victorian fiction can help reshape our understanding of imperial History. 081
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Jude Nixon talks about Dickens's unhumanitarian stance on slavery, the American civil war, and Morant Bay at #Dickenssociety2026. Keep an eye out for Jude's upcoming article in @vpreditors.bsky.social on this topic! 051
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Li Liu explores the complex relationship between Dickens the author, the narrator, and Dickens the public reader in Hard Times at #Dickenssociety2026 040
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026'Vive somebody or vive something!' Claire Woods considers Dickens's franglais and imperfect french at #Dickenssociety2026 061
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Robert Sirabian ist kicking off the #Dickenssociety2026 meeting with a fascinating paper on the different ways in which people meet in Dickens. 092
Reposted by Sophia JochemThe Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2026And we’re off! We had a wonderful pre-symposium reception with a beautiful spread of food, glorious food! #Dickenssociety2026 0133
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Making a (very shortlived) mark for #Dickenssociety2026 at Aarhus's amazing public library, @dokk1.bsky.social 082
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I made it!! Very excited about #Dickenssociety2026 starting tomorrow! The final stage came to 73k, which means that I travelled 606k overall. My favourite thing about this trip right now: the first time I came to a place I hadn't been before was on day 1, 7.6k from my home. You really don't HAVE 1/2 260
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I decided my knees needed an easy day today and researched some excellent shortcuts, only to add 24 k to my trip when I realised I'd left my bathing suit in the changing room at the beach where I camped last night. So I finished day 6 of my journey to #Dickenssociety2026 at exactly 90 k. 1/2 131
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This is what I cycle through almost all day, every day. 030
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026On day 5 of my trip to #Dickenssociety2026 I cycled just over 70k, with lots of ups and downs, both literally and figuratively. I also think I'm starting to get the whole adventure studies thing. I've learnt a lot these last few days, experiencing what goes on between places, which so far 1/ 131
Reposted by Sophia JochemDale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Heads up, Goths: Ruth Heholt and Mariaconcetta Costantini’s wonderful volume on ‘Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age’ has just been published in our Elements series. Available on OA for the next 2 weeks @angelawright1794.bsky.social @ruthheholt.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgGothic Masculinities in the Victorian AgeCambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Gothic Masculinities in the Victorian Age 02212
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Day 4 of cycling to #Dickenssociety2026 ended in this lovely tent spot near Kolding (which is actually there, hooray!), after 86.66k. Only 3 days to go, which is really a shame as I'm finally starting to get into this adventurous life! 031
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I slipped into Denmark unnoticed. Didn't even see a border sign. This is, of course, how it's supposed to be. Unfortunately, it's only the reality for melanin-deprived EU-citizens pushing their bikes up gravel roads through coastal forests. 090
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Missed a sign and ended up taking quite the shortcut. Still, day 3 of my little researchy trip to #Dickenssociety2026 came to 96.55k, mostly because the spot I had planned to sleep didn't exist. I might be new to adventure studies, but I definitely found adventure yesterday (and it sucked)! 131
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026It's a good thing the sun hast come out! My power bank would only have got me about half way to #Dickenssociety2026 141
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On day 2 of my journey to #Dickenssociety2026 I've cycled 78k. The weather finally turned in the afternoon, so I don't have to sleep in a dripping wet tent. Downside: this eliminates the only entertainment I've had on the bike--the unwinnable & occasionally disgusting game of swerving slugs. 141
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Burial mounds! I feel like I'm headed to Bree. 010
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just leaving Eckernförde. All the exercise and air is really boosting my creativity. "Conferencing, bicycally" doesn't sound particularly adventurous once you think of "conferencing, swimmingly," "conference by kayak," etc., does it now? 051
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026What I couldn't see yesterday behind all that rain: I rode my bike all the way to the Baltic! 010
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Learning no. 2: Kiel may not have any mountains, but they do have this insanely tall bridge! 030
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Day 1 came in at 112 km. This was by far the longest stage of my trip and I'm knackered! I can already say that my "conferencing, bycically" experiment is successful, though. In the past, I've not valued conferences that are "close by" enough, mainly because they're not much of a trip I'm afraid. 120
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 06/07/202663k closer to Aarhus, cycling to #Dickenssociety2026 seems increasingly insane. It's been raining a lot and all day, the crazy amount of stuff I've brought ist really slowing me down, and I'm quite certain all the cows between Hamburg and Neumünster are cutting one loose just when I pass by! 041
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Going UNDER the airport en route to #Dickenssociety2026 041
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Getting ready for #Dickenssociety2026 yay! Clearly, all the good conferences these days are byo solar panel. 041
Reposted by Sophia JochemUniversität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · 11/06/2026Wie wird über weiblich gelesene Körper gesprochen? Welche Geschichten werden erzählt und verschwiegen? Diesen Fragen gehen Studierende der Universität Hamburg in der Ausstellung „Untenrum verhandelt" nach. Sie ist vom 17. Juni bis 8. Juli im Medizinhistorischen Museum Hamburg zu sehen. Alle Infos:uni-hamburg.de„Untenrum verhandelt“ – Gynäkologisches Wissen zwischen Fürsorge und Kontrolle erlebbar 033
Sophia Jochem @sophiajochem.bsky.social · 31/05/2026www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC...arte.tvHappy Valley - Fernsehfilme und Serien | ARTEIn Halifax, West Yorkshire, kämpft Polizeisergeant Catherine Cawood täglich gegen Kriminalität und ihre eigenen Dämonen. Als der Vergewaltiger ihrer verstorbenen Tochter aus der Haft kommt, dreht er s... 100
Reposted by Sophia JochemRoger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This just out! Quite stoked to be included with an essay on EcoGothic as I’m alongside some seriously proper Victorianists in there 1325
Reposted by Sophia JochemChris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Any plans next weekend? On Saturday 6 June I'll be hosting the @dickenssociety.bsky.social 'Dickens on Screen' Online Event at 7pm CEST (adjust for your own time-zone). Register via the link 👇. 1/2dickenssociety.orgDickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens SocietyCall for Papers 146
