@culturalcurrents.bsky.social
Research group in English at Loughborough University fascinated by 19th-20th century literature and culture. Lovers of all things weird, gothic, decadent and modernist: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/research/groups/cultural-currents/
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It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
Another fantastic achievement from one of our doctoral researchers: @millykateh.bsky.social has an article on "The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910)" out in latest edition of @gothicstudies.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3366/goth...
The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910) | Gothic Studies
Algernon Blackwood's fascination with the concept of the personal ‘cage’ and the potential for liberation is central to both his worldview and literary legacy. This article explores these themes in hi...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Another fantastic achievement from one of our doctoral researchers: @millykateh.bsky.social has an article on "The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910)" out in latest edition of @gothicstudies.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3366/goth...
It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
This week!
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This week!
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
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Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
This Wednesday! DM for Teams link if you'd like to join online.
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
October 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This Wednesday! DM for Teams link if you'd like to join online.
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We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!
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Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
October 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...
September 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We've got some exciting talks and events lined up for the Autumn/Winter 2025 semester 🍂🎃🧣 - which is scarily close now! Stay tuned/give us a follow for updates...
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If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche
We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche
September 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you're on LinkedIn, please follow our page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/....
We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche
We've posted an update on @profsarahparker.bsky.social's 5-year project '100 Years of the Well of Loneliness', funded by the AHRC. PI is Prof Jana Funke and the other CIs are Dr Elizabeth English and Dr Hannah Roche
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Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Today!
Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link
May 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Today!
Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link
May 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link
Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!
We held our ‘Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between’ symposium this afternoon. Organised by @jadefrench.bsky.social and @drsarahparker.bsky.social, other speakers were @amigonidavid.bsky.social, Fatima Borrmann, @helenkingstone.bsky.social, & Helen Small. A wonderful event! 👏👏👏
May 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Thanks to all who attended our Symposium on Periodisation, Generations and the Gaps Between yesterday - especially our fantastic speakers!
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The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details.
#lets #editing #textualscholarship
#lets #editing #textualscholarship
#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.
May 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group is hosting a seminar with the brilliant Bryony Randall from the University of Glasgow's Textual Editing Lab on 14 May at 4pm. If you like to join us in person or online, please DM me for details.
#lets #editing #textualscholarship
#lets #editing #textualscholarship
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#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.
April 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.
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So exciting to finally officially launch our AHRC-funded project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. This is what I'll be doing until 2029 😮 @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social
www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...
www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...
International project launched to recover the hidden history of once-banned LGBTQ+ novel 'The Well of Loneliness'
The ‘most famous banned novel in LGBTQ+ history’ is the focus of a new international project that will bring together generations of readers to uncover how it reached and touched so many people around...
www.lboro.ac.uk
April 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
So exciting to finally officially launch our AHRC-funded project tracing the reception of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. This is what I'll be doing until 2029 😮 @lboroenglish.bsky.social @lborouniversity.bsky.social
www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...
www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/soci...
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You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
March 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell...
Please share and promote to your modernist networks!
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@drsarahparker.bsky.social is giving a talk about designing the The World of Oscar Wilde 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Kibworth Books next week: Tuesday 25 March at 19.30. You can book a ticket here:
kibworthbooks.com/collections/...
kibworthbooks.com/collections/...
Sarah Parker
Tuesday 25th March 2025 Sarah Parker on Oscar Wilde Kibworth Books, 7.30pm (doors 7:00pm) Kibworth Books is delighted to welcome Sarah Parker for a talk about Oscar Wilde & The Literary Jigsaw. ...
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March 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
@drsarahparker.bsky.social is giving a talk about designing the The World of Oscar Wilde 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle at Kibworth Books next week: Tuesday 25 March at 19.30. You can book a ticket here:
kibworthbooks.com/collections/...
kibworthbooks.com/collections/...
Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
March 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...