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Kristy Strange

@strangescholar.bsky.social

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🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 PhD Researcher at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies 🌿 Researching ecoGothic and the climate crisis in women’s speculative fiction 🎓 First gen & non-trad student 🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Heading back North after a lovely couple of days spent at the Women in World-Literature conference (@womeninworld-lit.bsky.social) at the University of Warwick. Presented a fragment of a current thesis chapter and chaired a fantastic panel all about speculative fiction!

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My recent scholarly publication is now live! This piece reviews The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic edited by Rebecca Duncan. It was a pleasure to read the book & share my thoughts on such an important piece of work. You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/

Cover image provided by the journal for the critical review piece. Includes citation reference for the review written by Kristy Strange.

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Absolute joy at finding my first ever ammonite fossil on the beach today! I’ve dreamt of finding one for years and this is such a perfect specimen. Then went on to spot my first ever yellow sea glass. Powerful moments of glimmer when things have felt bleak ✨

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

This year, I had a book chapter published titled ‘Death as the Eye of the Storm’ in the collection ‘Death in the 21st-Century: A Companion’ edited by Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon and Simon Bacon.

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

2023 Reading Wrap Up! Total books read: 80 // Fiction: 51 // Non-fiction: 13 // Short story collections: 10 // Poetry collections: 6 // Translated: 12 // Children’s: 21 // Classics: 4 // Plays: 1 // Graphic novels: 2 // BIPOC authors: 22 // E-books: 21 // Audiobooks: 4

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

A fantastic, 5-star read! In the top 3 books I’ve read this year. Absolutely devoured The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke 🖤 A potential contender for my PhD thesis as well… I’ll certainly need to pick up a paperback edition eventually too 🤔

A Kobo Aura e-reader displaying a black and white cover of the book, The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke. The Kobo device is resting on a fabric sleeve case patterned with blue clouds and white mushrooms with metallic accents made by Paper&Word. There is a roaring fire in the background with dimmed, soft lighting, which creates a cosy ambience.

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Latest LEGO build - Bird of Paradise 🧡💜 Botanical collection complete!

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I’ve had this device for a decade and just discovered I can have a personalised screensaver, which actually works as a screensaver (unlike Kindle). I’ll definitely be doing this for my Elipsa 2E as well. Kobo for life! 📚

A Kobo Aura (2013) e-reader with a screensaver that has a white outlined doodle of a girl sitting on an open book with flowers coming from the centre; the girl is leaning her arms on an oversized coffee cup. Above and below this image are the words “Kristy’s Kobo”. The background of the screensaver is black.

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Kristy Strange @strangescholar.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have been offered a fully-funded PhD studentship to pursue my own research project at the University of Westminster beginning in January 2024! 🥂 🎉 #wearewestminster💛

Three books on PhD studies including “Planning Your PhD”, “Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD”, and “Authoring A PhD”. These are displayed next to a wild flower bouquet built from LEGO bricks.

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