Chris Louttit
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
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Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor!
Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.
More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.
More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
January 27, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Join @gothicstudies.bsky.social as our new Assistant Editor!
Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.
More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
Deadline Monday 9th March.
Annual honorarium of £200.
More information in attached image, via the @igagoths.bsky.social newsletter or you can message me and I can send you the text if preferred.
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The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...
January 22, 2026 at 4:08 PM
The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...
Giggling here in the office as just received an email from a major academic publisher with the salutation Dear NULL. I'm so glad they value my thoughts! (That was the subject line.)
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Giggling here in the office as just received an email from a major academic publisher with the salutation Dear NULL. I'm so glad they value my thoughts! (That was the subject line.)
Achieved peak academic earlier - during an office move discovered I have 2 copies of the same, unread book.
January 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Achieved peak academic earlier - during an office move discovered I have 2 copies of the same, unread book.
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Looking for some unusual neo-Victorian reads? The @vpfa.bsky.social blog's got you: victorianpopularfiction.org/is-neo-victo...
Is neo-Victorian Fiction getting more unhinged?
Helena Esser ponders three new and three upcoming offerings from the popular fiction shelfIs it me, or is neo-Victorian fiction getting darker and more unhinged?I mean, not that I’m complaining. Ma…
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January 15, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Looking for some unusual neo-Victorian reads? The @vpfa.bsky.social blog's got you: victorianpopularfiction.org/is-neo-victo...
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Very excited that our Ann Radcliffe edition for CUP is about to make its first appearance in the form of Michael Gamer’s wonderful edition of The Italian! The first of eight volumes in the Radcliffe edition …
Cover reveal for Michael Gamer’s excellent edition of ‘The Italian’, the first volume in the Cambridge edition of Radcliffe’s full oeuvre. Publishing very soon! Look at those rich colours! @radcliffecup.bsky.social @angelawright1794.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Very excited that our Ann Radcliffe edition for CUP is about to make its first appearance in the form of Michael Gamer’s wonderful edition of The Italian! The first of eight volumes in the Radcliffe edition …
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OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
The Book Unbound
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - The Book Unbound
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January 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
OUT TODAY: My monograph, The Book Unbound, is printed in hardback today @universitypress.cambridge.org: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
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New Year, New-ish Call for Papers
Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤
Abstracts: 1 April
Manuscripts: 15 December
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Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤
Abstracts: 1 April
Manuscripts: 15 December
Please RT
To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
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January 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM
New Year, New-ish Call for Papers
Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤
Abstracts: 1 April
Manuscripts: 15 December
Please RT
Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤
Abstracts: 1 April
Manuscripts: 15 December
Please RT
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My article “‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)” has been published in the Keats Shelley Review! 👇🏼
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
This article examines the intersections of queerness, masculinity and heteronormativity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and its queer adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). While R...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:53 PM
My article “‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)” has been published in the Keats Shelley Review! 👇🏼
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The deadline for our upcoming symposium 'Thinking Dickens' (Aarhus University, Denmark - 13-16th July 2026) is approaching! Don't forget to send your proposals to dickens2026@cc.au.dk by 4th January 📝 & read the Call for Papers here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium
Symposium — The Dickens Society
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January 2, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The deadline for our upcoming symposium 'Thinking Dickens' (Aarhus University, Denmark - 13-16th July 2026) is approaching! Don't forget to send your proposals to dickens2026@cc.au.dk by 4th January 📝 & read the Call for Papers here: www.dickenssociety.org/symposium
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New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!
December 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!
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Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Out in February from @livunipress.bsky.social: The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. The book started as a lockdown tweet. Delighted that it’s finally done! With Bridget English and @drreznicek.bsky.social
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I have a new piece out in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Christmas Eve: Louisa May Alcott wrote to survive for much of her life. What became of her love affair with words later, when she was rich and adapted Dickens' A Christmas Carol for children?
tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books
tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books
A Forgotten Louisa May Alcott Story Showcases the Author's Twist on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Written in 1882, "A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True," covered many of the same themes as Dickens' classic, albeit with a different audience in mind
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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I have a new piece out in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social for Christmas Eve: Louisa May Alcott wrote to survive for much of her life. What became of her love affair with words later, when she was rich and adapted Dickens' A Christmas Carol for children?
tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books
tinyurl.com/4ypdyyah #christmas #writers #books
Off to spend my Christmas Eve with Muppet Christmas Carol & One Battle After Another, & then taking a bit of time away from this place. Have a great festive season all!
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Off to spend my Christmas Eve with Muppet Christmas Carol & One Battle After Another, & then taking a bit of time away from this place. Have a great festive season all!
Oh my, just seen there's a Muppet Christmas Carol Soft Toy Advent Calendar...
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Oh my, just seen there's a Muppet Christmas Carol Soft Toy Advent Calendar...
"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Christmas Morning". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 7 of 7).
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In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
December 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In London a time comes every day where the ghosts get their own back. It's often subtle but always undeniable, and it's strongest in autumn & winter.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
If you're ever at loose ends on Christmas Eve, pay respects at St Michael's Cornhill. Because here, down the alley, was Scrooge's counting house.
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As the year draws to an end, I've been reflecting on the loss of my friend and former supervisor, Simon James, a truly wonderful man. It feels like an especially appropriate time to share this public lecture from 2015, in which Simon discusses the importance of memorial rituals in A Christmas Carol.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
As the year draws to an end, I've been reflecting on the loss of my friend and former supervisor, Simon James, a truly wonderful man. It feels like an especially appropriate time to share this public lecture from 2015, in which Simon discusses the importance of memorial rituals in A Christmas Carol.
"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
December 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Scrooge and the Third Spirit". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 6 of 7).
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The Signalman.
My cheery Christmas gift to you. Have a jolly peaceful one.
Back after the festivities 🎅🏼👍🏻
My cheery Christmas gift to you. Have a jolly peaceful one.
Back after the festivities 🎅🏼👍🏻
December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Signalman.
My cheery Christmas gift to you. Have a jolly peaceful one.
Back after the festivities 🎅🏼👍🏻
My cheery Christmas gift to you. Have a jolly peaceful one.
Back after the festivities 🎅🏼👍🏻
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Buy my holly green and gay, to deck your walls on Christmas day
The Met
1874
The Met
1874
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Buy my holly green and gay, to deck your walls on Christmas day
The Met
1874
The Met
1874
"Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 5 of 7).
December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 5 of 7).
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The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026.
The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
December 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026.
The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...
"The Second of the Three Spirits". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 4 of 7).
December 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The Second of the Three Spirits". Charles Green illustration for Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Pears' Christmas Annual 1892 (Day 4 of 7).
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!
⏱️ COUNTDOWN to the AAS 2026 proposal deadline, 15 Dec! Adaptation & Aurality, echoing through the Canadian Rockies at Burman University...sounds amazing!👂
Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
AAS Conference 2026 - Call For Papers - The Association of Adaptation Studies
Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026 “Adaptation and Aurality” Call for Papers Dates: July 7-10, 2026 Location: Burman University - Lacombe, Alberta, Canada Hosted by: Burman Unive...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!