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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Enjoyed the #AScareADay offer for today from @romgothsam.bsky.social ‘The Island of Bornholm’ by Nikolai Karamzin. Predates Stoker by about a century but reminded me of Dracula. But then, everything does 🖤 #Gothtober #31daysofHalloween

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kicked off my #Gothtober in style by reading the Oct 1st poem from the @romgothsam.bsky.social #AScareADay to get me in the mood for the season 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I stg what part of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein did you people not understand

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My own creative writing practice is sacrosanct in my life and I am troubled by younger generations not having access to the safe space that is the blank page 🖤

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Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🏫 Introducing ‘I regret to inform you…’ An introduction to the politics of academic failure by Marina Cano & Rosa García-Periago E-Intro OA www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... From *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... #Failure #NeoliberalUniversity

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The Gothic Revival @thegothicrevival.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just to re-introduce ourselves. We’re a new Gothic & horror magazine and we have an introductory issue on our website now, which is free to download! If this sounds interesting, please give us a follow! thegothicrevival.com/shop

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Reviving the Past, Enchanting the Present

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Another example of inclusive practice for conferences: it’s on MWS, online and free so I am able to attend almost all of it as a disabled w/c independent scholar in another time zone. Thank you to the organisers, I am really looking forward to this 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Invigorated by the first morning of talks at #Moreterrors2026 and chuffed to have had the opportunity to speak on The Woman of Colour thanks to @madelinepotter.bsky.social & @romgothsam.bsky.social . Loved the questions and engagement too which has given me plenty to think about 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

interested in the Gothic? if so I highly recommend you to this excellent and inclusive conference Dare I say, I will be delivering a paper on The Woman of Colour and the ‘Radcliffean Gothic’ and my firm intent is mix some sh!t up so come along if you are game 🖤 #Gothic #18thC #19thC #literature

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“The only real witch…is a poet” #AnnRadcliffe 🖤

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Bloomsbury Academic Education @bloomsburyaced.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Why do we avoid talking about failure in academia? In this insightful interview with @ecrlife.bsky.social, the editors of Women, 'Failure' and Academia explore what can happen when we redefine and even embrace it: ecrlife.org/interview-book-women-failure-and-academia

Cover image of Women, 'Failure' and Academia edited by Marina Cano and Rosa Garcia-Periago

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Could just every academic that is so precious about university education not being about getting a job just take a beat and THINK about every single w/c person who wants an education and NEEDS a job to LIVE both during and AFTER their degree

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Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We’ve appeared in Norwegian! We’ve been interviewed about our collection *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* EN kifinfo.no/en/2026/06/a... NO kifinfo.no/nb/2026/05/f... OPEN ACCESS *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

What's this I see before me... a Romancing the Gothic online conference!!!! With discounted tickets for the next two weeks!!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-terro...

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'More Terrors Than Her Reason Could Justify': An Online Gothic Conference

This year we celebrate 200 years since Ann Radcliffe's posthumous publications with a conference on marginalised genders in the Gothic

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Can we just stop calling it a ‘heatwave’ and instead call it a ‘heatspike’ so that instead of all the associations with water and warmth and holidays we think of this weather as what it is - a danger and a climate crisis that is killing people #bbc #guardian #climate

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

every genre is gothic if you remember one day we will die

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

@romgothsam.bsky.social just seen a post by Christie’s showing off their first editions of Wuthering Heights. Your favourite bit would have been when they showed the “Ellis Bell” on the title page….because “ there was strong prejudice in the 19th century against women writers” 😆

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Also Elizabeth Wurtzel who is personally responsible for every piece of non fiction I’ve ever written on any topic god I miss her 💔

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Why am I like this? -Watership Down -King Lear -Point Horror -Jurassic Park -Brontë women But mostly Watership Down Cut me and I bleed rabbit

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If you’re an academic and u decide to sell a work of memoir/literary criticism to a trade press in a field I know you know extremely well, don’t lie about being the first to say a bunch of stuff I know you know other people have written about. And no I’m not going to say who I mean

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

“…the university is a site of Gothic epistemological uncertainty, containing unmarked zones of radical potential which are sometimes partially fulfilled, but typically suppressed…a rhizomatic bundle of conflicting ideologies which settle on no fixed position.” @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

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Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* is out today, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... Open Access With @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social @tarabrabazon.bsky.social #Academia #Failure

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Dr Marina Cano @drmarinacano.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

By this time next week, Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University will be out in the world! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Open Access, www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Lucy Westenra would be turning in her (headless) grave…🖤 #Dracula

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Happy to have one of my strange ‘wan little husks’ published today. Feels good to be back in the game 🖤 TW: death, bereavement thyestean.cargo.site/put-me-in-th...

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Put Me in the Ground — Thyestean Banquet | Issue 0

A feast of stories that devour their tellers. Issue 0 of Thyestean Banquet.

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Today is #InternationalRomaDay ! If you are unclear on Roma history and their lived experience I *highly* recommend The Roma: A Travelling History by @madelinepotter.bsky.social . This book is joyous and personal and political. #InternationalRomaniDay 💛

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Reflecting right now on what sadist set Dombey & Son AND Wives & Daughters on a Y2 undergraduate module on my BA? Alongside others on a week by week basis. I mean I read them, but what on earth, no one would try that these days All to say, I’m thinking now of rereading Dombey.

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am writing again and it feels good 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Joy is as restless as anxiety or sorrow.” A Sicilian Romance, Ann Radcliffe. Enjoying reading her second work (for the first time) as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social ‘s amazing course on Radcliffe. 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“Frankenstein outsold all Percy’s work in his lifetime”

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

To all agents, presses, prizes and any other gatekeepers of creativity; if you are as inclusive as your EDI statement suggests, you need to make submissions anonymous. You don’t need a bio to tell you if you believe in the work. Lack of anonymity risks unconscious bias. See below for best practice

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If you are looking for gothic romance this Valentine’s Day, this is a great place to start 🖤

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A lot of you are using "performative" to mean "as lip service" and the phrase lip service exists for that purpose.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I feel like something that rarely gets brought up in Wuthering Heights discourse is that it’s the most beautifully written novel of the century. More like a prose poem with characters than any other novel of the period.

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Treated myself to this on Jan payday, very excited 🖤

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

'Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic' by @madelinepotter.bsky.social is out now! This book places monstrosity at the centre of the process of gathering knowledge of the divine and reassess the relationship between Gothic literature and Catholicism. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. The relationship between religion and Gothic literature has traditionally been approached through denominational readings, but this study proposes how Irish Gothic texts from Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer to Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and Bram Stoker’s Dracula resist being inscribed into particular doctrinal frameworks. Abandoning allegorical interpretations, Theological Monsters proposes that real-life theologies do not translate into the fictional ones articulated across these texts. The focus is on revealing how the bodies of monsters make real and tangible otherwise abstract concepts associated with God and the afterlife, and on identifying monstrosity as a valuable way to uncover knowledge of the divine in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature. What follows is an original reassessment of three canonical writers – Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker – highlighting their fictional theological exercises.

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

'Theology & Vampires,' edited by @madelinepotter.bsky.social What can vampires teach us about God?Through an analysis of the relationship between theology & vampires,this book provides a glimpse into the versatility of the vampire as a tool for theological enquiry www.bloomsbury.com/us/theology-...

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

'We live in Gothic times' - Angela Carter

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Well said.... more deep thinking needs to happen on what alternative structures we can create that allows more people to "follow their muse"... there is an intrinsic value to pusuing the "life of the mind" and there are advantages to detaching it from the creeping instrumentality of university life.

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

It’s Lucy’s phonograph….🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Why is it everything I want to read is either out of print or only published in America #amreading If I ever by happenstance make some real money I’m going to indulge in creating a Gothic publisher of all our heritage with some great commercial covers #Gothic 🖤

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

On Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, would like to encourage fans to check out Fanny Burney’s work which highly influenced Austen, who even borrowed the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’ from Burney. Recommend starting with Evelina. Also, Burney’s life was WILD. 🖤 #JaneAusten #Austen250 #FannyBurney

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Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

‘More men under 50 die in the UK due to suicide than any other reason. 14 men every day die by suicide in the UK.’ Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, 2025. Today on #InternationalMensDay I think of the 14 we lose today. The work of dismantling patriarchy has to include all of us.

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