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Lucy Arnold

@spectres-of.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester, researcher of haunting and spectrality in contemporary literature and culture. Currently thinking a lot about ghost children.

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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This article, and the special issue of which it will form a part, began in the 'Haunting Issues: Children, Spectrality and Culture' AHRC Research Network, in 2023. Huge thanks to all the members who contributed to its development. It's open access, so do enjoy over a coffee if you are so inclined!
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Delighted that 'Invested objects: found childhood, materiality and the migrant child in Valería Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Ali Smith’s Spring (2019)' has been published with Children's Geographies today! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Invested objects: found childhood, materiality and the migrant child in Valería Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Ali Smith’s Spring (2019)
In a laboratory in San Marcos, Texas, is a box containing a small stuffed lion and a luchadore’s mask. The laboratory is associated with Operation Identification, an initiative working to identify ...
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Delighted to be at the @liveveryplay.bsky.social today running a workshop on (re)writing history and contributing to a roundtable in association with the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' which is playing this month!
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Abstracts for the papers can be found here: 1drv.ms/b/c/8a5851ec... A full programme for the day can be found here: 1drv.ms/b/c/8a5851ec... All sessions can be accessed via this meeting link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3621066...
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The symposium seeks to reverse the telescope and looks instead to explore ideas of the local as they manifest in contemporary literary and cultural contexts, thinking the ‘local’ not only as a signifier of a type of geographical space but a methodological approach capable of providing new insights.
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The contemporary is a moment where globalisation, hyper-connectivity, and the planetary scale of phenomena such as the climate crisis and mass extinction events have encouraged the scope of cultural, social and political analysis and discourse to emphasise expansiveness.
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Contemporary Literary Cultures Research Group (CLiC) are delighted to invite you to their upcoming online symposium 'CLiC Into Place: Literatures of the Local' taking place on 5th May. No need to register, join us using this link: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3621066...
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If you are in the Worcestershire area and would like to join us you can book a place here: www.worcestershire.gov.uk/events/engin...
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The exhibition accompanies @drelvey.bsky.social 's contribution to the University of Worcester's Institute of Arts and Humanities 'Engine Room Lecture Series'. 'Stitching the World Within and Without Hilary Mantel's Cromwell Trilogy', which takes place 4th March 4:30-6pm at the Hive!
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Beyond delighted that @drelvey.bsky.social has bought her beautiful work to the Hive at the University of Worcester in this collaborative exhibition 'In the Weave: From Text to Textile - Stitching Hilary Mantel's Cromwell Trilogy'
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thank you!
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Happy publication day to 'Hilary Mantel', published by @livunipress.bsky.social Thrilled to have been able to undertake this project with the support of the excellent LUP team. It's currently 20% off on the LUP website too! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Lucy Arnold is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Contemporary) at the University of Worcester. She specialises in contemporary gothic, narratives of haunting, contemporary women’s writing and psychoanalytic criticism.
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
To find out more about the remit of the group check out the Terms of Reference below.
Image depicts the terms of reference for the BACLS 'Work in Progress Group'. A screen readable version of this document can be supplied by the chair of BACLS, Dr Lucy Arnold, who can be contacted at lucy.arnold@worc.ac.uk
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Lucy Arnold @spectres-of.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Attention @bacls.bsky.social members. We recently launched the BACLS 'Work in Progress' Group, where members can get collegiate and supportive feedback on academic work. If you have work to submit or want to act as a reader do get in touch! Not yet a member? Visit our website to register bacls.org
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British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies
The association’s mission statement is as follows:
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