Renee Fox
@cookiegoth.bsky.social
Vampires, mummies, things that come back to life; anything with chocolate chips. Associate professor of literature, co-director of the Dickens Project, co-director of the Center for Monster Studies at UCSC
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Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time
Only 2 weeks before the Festival of Monsters! Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of events including a panel with @almakatsu.bsky.social Nat Cassidy, and @gretchenmcneil.bsky.social at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on 10/18. Details monsterstudies.ucsc.edu
October 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time
I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring
In our latest #blog post, Dr Renée A. Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social explores the media response to the genre-defying work of Irish novelist & poet Emily Lawless (1845-1913) and finds herself mesmerized by the author's final poem marshlibrary.ie/emily-lawles...
Emily Lawless' Story of Ireland - Marsh's Library
Dr Renée Fox explores the work of genre defying Irish poet and author, Emily Lawless.
marshlibrary.ie
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring
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Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book
I was on a bike ride this morning and the words "I'm not a necrophile, I'm a nec-romancer" popped into my head and now I can't stop thinking about them
May 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book
Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.
hey @mcuban.bsky.social want to do something really cool? How about cover all these now terminated NEH grants.
impact.ach.org
impact.ach.org
NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
impact.ach.org
April 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.
Ah, mud and history… 😂
One of my students just cited @cookiegoth.bsky.social's brilliant work on Dickens and mud to make a fascinating argument about historical accumulation
April 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Ah, mud and history… 😂
This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us
Please join @costelkh.bsky.social, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, Paige Reynolds, and me for an online conversation about Irish Women Writers hosted by Celtic Junction in St. Paul MN on 16 April at 18:30 CST celticjunction.org/event/her-ow...
Her Own Future: A Roundtable Discussion of Women Writers
Her Own Future, a compelling online roundtable discussion exploring the voices, narratives, and evolving roles of Irish women writers.
celticjunction.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us
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Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...
March 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...
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We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻♀️♥️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻♀️♥️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
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My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
Writing on Fire - Broadview Press
Writing on Fire -
broadviewpress.com
October 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
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Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.
Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them.
Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...
Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them
Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.
I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau!
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
December 9, 2024 at 9:32 PM
I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau!
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
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The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
December 9, 2024 at 1:17 AM
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!
December 3, 2024 at 10:41 PM
We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!
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November 28, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
MAs in English w Funding
docs.google.com
October 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM
years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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"A Modern Irish Canon - We asked critics for the best Irish novels published in the past 15 years."
www.vulture.com/article/best...
www.vulture.com/article/best...
The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 Years
Which works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
www.vulture.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:03 PM
"A Modern Irish Canon - We asked critics for the best Irish novels published in the past 15 years."
www.vulture.com/article/best...
www.vulture.com/article/best...
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CFP:
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
November 14, 2024 at 11:27 AM
CFP:
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature
University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025
Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield
Organised by me and Adam Kelly
Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
Please consider submitting, and share widely!
Come talk about A Christmas Carol with us on Thursday at the Santa Cruz Public Library downtown!
November 18, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Come talk about A Christmas Carol with us on Thursday at the Santa Cruz Public Library downtown!
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Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.
Warm welcome to all new followers! To my fellow Victorianists: the VICTORIA discussion group remains a generous, welcoming space, supportive without at all overwhelming your inbox. And the archives are a great resource. If you’re not already a member, check it out: list.iu.edu/sympa/info/v...
November 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.
This might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen 🐓🫏🍂
Horace Walpole's 1746 scheme for taxing ladies' calling cards (a satiric essay the Gothic novelist published in the periodical The Museum) led me down a research 🐇hole last night & led me to #19thc printed "escort cards" aka "flirtation cards." Do you all know about these little paper bits? I WANT!
November 18, 2024 at 5:52 AM
This might be the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen 🐓🫏🍂
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you could ask your library to order if you want
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2024 at 1:24 AM
you could ask your library to order if you want
Join the Dickens Project in making literature come alive—support Dickens Day of Writing on November 20!
Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
November 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Join the Dickens Project in making literature come alive—support Dickens Day of Writing on November 20!
Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024
Click here: give.ucsc.edu/giving-day-2024