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Tara MacDonald

@tara-macdonald.bsky.social
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Director of the Centre for Feminist Research; Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge, Canada.

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.
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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"A wonderfully innovative, ambitious, impressive collection...This book will absolutely change the conversation around #gaslighting." — Andrea Kaston Tange, author of Architectural Identities: Domesticity, Literature and the Victorian Middle Classes tinyurl.com/3e5yesv3 #NewBookTuesday
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're really looking forward to seeing your proposals for the VSAWC and VISAWUS joint May 7-8 2027 conference on VICTORIAN BORDERS in Vancouver, Canada — due November 1! Visit vsawc.org/events/ for details and send em in, folks!
Walter Crane, Imperial Federation — Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 (supplement to The Graphic, 24 July 1886)
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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Happy paperback book birthday (one day late) to us, @tara-macdonald.bsky.social and @noragilbert.bsky.social! If you're near New Haven on 9/25, come celebrate by the beach. I'll be in convo with Arielle Zibrak and Sarah Mesle, whose book TANGLED just hit shelves! @sunypress.bsky.social #booklaunch
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com
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Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Starstruck 🤩 Got to meet one of my academic heroes today and hear her amazing keynote on sex work and care work in Victorian Pop Fiction. How can we be more caring and sympathetic in our community social care systems? #VPFAPublics @tara-macdonald.bsky.social
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Gaslighting can be many diff things...But in any manifestation, it is a form & function of narrative. [It] depends on the power to propagate a false story that negates another person’s reality." Get a taste of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING on the @sunypress.bsky.social blog sunypress.edu/Blog/2026/Ga...
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Gaslighting Eras, Past and Present
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In fabulous news, the paperback of VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING: GENEALOGY OF AN INJUSTICE is now available for preorder: sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... DYK that SUNY P *always* comes out with a paperback a mere 6 months after the hardcover?? We do, we do!!
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Victorian Gaslighting
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Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685
Snippet of the introduction’s title line, “The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry,” with two versions of the phrase “Victorian Poetry” laid on top of one another. One version is not italicized and refers to the field of study. The other version is italicized and refers to the journal, which has undergone a series of seismic transitions as a direct result of the erosion of literary studies and higher ed.
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Well look at that, Victorian Gaslighting made the list! www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...
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Forthcoming Titles in Women's and Gender Studies, 2026 - Choice 360
A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released reference publications through April 2026.
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Member Publication Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice (Bellonby, Gilbert, MacDonald) navsa.org/Member-Publi...
Book cover for Victorian Gaslighting
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My Gaslighting book arrived! It was such a pleasure to work on this with my brilliant co-editors and such a wonderful group of feminist scholars. ❤️
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Nora Gilbert @noragilbert.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's alive! Editor copies of "Victorian Gaslighting" arrived yesterday, and the book is now available for order at sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vict.... Go get (or go ask your library to get) yours! #gaslighting #Gaslight @dbellonby.bsky.social @tara-macdonald.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My office view is really stunning. Pre and post snow!
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
hello Ottawa! I am giving this talk tomorrow please come! + thank you @kqandrews.bsky.social for inviting me!
a poster for a talk entitled “Apostrophe at Catastrophic Duration: Towards a Lyric Theory of Being the Last Person on Earth” being held at 4pm EST in room SMD 224 at UOttawa
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Nora Gilbert @noragilbert.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We launched the Centre for Feminist Research to a packed room of colleagues, students, and friends this morning. A good day! www.ulethbridge.ca/unews/articl...
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University launches Centre for Feminist Research | UNews
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Cover image for our new book! The essays are really phenomenal and the topic is, sadly, just as urgent today. Doesn’t that Bergman expression sum up a lot?! Available March 2026!
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I love this so much!
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The book prize is especially validating as my book came out when my son was 9 months old and I was returning as Dept Chair (a combo I do not recommend), and I did not have the energy or time to promote the book. So this feels great.
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Sobering and no doubt accurate. www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
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‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 28/06/2025
Bluesky peeps: please help! This is for the book I'm working on. Did you have family fire drills when you were growing up? (And what generation are you?) If you have kids, do you have family fire drills now? THANK YOU for your help and please REPOST this question! 😘 #AcademicSky #Writing #History
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
And in more book news, my book on affect theory and sensation fiction is now out in paperback: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-narrati...
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Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation
Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Eek! Our Gaslighting book has a date! (And an amazing editor!)
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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wanna know the history of #gaslighting? My co-edited book of essays, *Victorian Gaslighting*, will make you an expert! This juicy guide, co-created with @noragilbert.bsky.social and @tara-macdonald.bsky.social, is officially in pre-production at @sunypress.bsky.social and slated for pub in 2026!
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Watching Mary Poppins with a sick toddler and forgot that the first song is the brilliant Sister Suffragette: “Though we adore men individually / We agree that as a group they're rather stupid.”
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Friends, big news: starting this July, we are moving back to Canada! I’ll be Director of the Centre for Feminist Research and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge. Very excited!
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Come hear me talk about my new(ish) book!
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
CFP: The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Abstract Deadline: 5/15/25) bit.ly/42mhg7J
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CFP: The Routledge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Abstract Deadline: 5/15/25) | NAVSA
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is so terrifying and alarming and cruel: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Victorian Interdisciplinary Association of the Western US conference will be in St Louis in October. Abstracts are due March 1! Consider applying: this is a great group. Friendly, collaborative, and creative. www.visawus.org/visawus-conf...
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VISAWUS Conference — 2025 – Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#Valentines week mood. #Persuasion #JaneAusten (With everything going on around us, that agony:hope ratio is starting to look quite attractive...)
A pin badge on a lapel, with the words 'half agony / half hope'
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Not sure if this is accurate but…going to see if I can use all these words in my lecture on Oscar Wilde this morning and in my next article! No to this nonsense.
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
At least we finally have snow here.
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Grateful to these publishers! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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Publishers sue state of Idaho over library book bans
Lawsuit says its definition of ‘harmful materials’ forbidden to under 18s is ‘vague and overbroad’ and puts librarians at risk
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Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
My kid’s activity in daycare yesterday was “painting with hammers” and that actually sounds like a great way to end this intense week.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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