Dr Evelyn Koch
@evelynkoch.bsky.social
Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
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Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄🟫🍄❤️
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏
msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
msmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄🟫🍄❤️
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
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Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
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CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
Fantasy’s Present Pasts – Call for Papers and Sessions – Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
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A reminder that we're hosting the first European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts, in Glasgow next summer (23rd-25th June 2026). The Call for Papers and Sessions can be found here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20.... Closes 12th December. Please do consider submitting!
Fantasy’s Present Pasts – Call for Papers and Sessions – Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
A reminder that we're hosting the first European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts, in Glasgow next summer (23rd-25th June 2026). The Call for Papers and Sessions can be found here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20.... Closes 12th December. Please do consider submitting!
There's a lot of 'mm-hmm' in the new #Frankenstein adaptation...
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There's a lot of 'mm-hmm' in the new #Frankenstein adaptation...
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Cædmon's Hymn, by me! This was my first time really using Garageband!
Cædmon's Hymn
YouTube video by Sarah M
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Cædmon's Hymn, by me! This was my first time really using Garageband!
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Here’s my paper and slides from the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Haunted Soundscapes symposium. It’s an excerpt from a larger work in progress. It joins the dots between #BoardsOfCanada, Freud, Otto Rank, Georg Simmel, Gaston Bachelard, Marx, Mark Fisher, Derrida, and Fredric Jameson and #SesameStreet!
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Here’s my paper and slides from the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Haunted Soundscapes symposium. It’s an excerpt from a larger work in progress. It joins the dots between #BoardsOfCanada, Freud, Otto Rank, Georg Simmel, Gaston Bachelard, Marx, Mark Fisher, Derrida, and Fredric Jameson and #SesameStreet!
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
!["[...] von den vnreinen Weibern hat/wie obt ist gemeldet worden. Dann der Basiliseus wächst vnd wurt geboren auß vnnd von der groſſen vnreinigkeit/ der Weiber/nemlich auf dem menstruo vnnd auf dem blut ſpermatis, so dasselbig inn ein glaß vnnd cucurbith gethon/vnd in ventre equino putreficiert, in solcher putrefaction der Bafilise geboren würt. Wer ist aber nun so keck vnnd freudig/denselbigen zumachen/oder auß zunemmen/oder widerumb zu tödten / der sich nit mit ſpiegeln bekleidet vnnd bewahret? ich rhats niemandts/sonder es foll hiemit meniglich gewarnet sein.“
Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4i47lsdoa7usytqshvbiyoc/bafkreiezbs77gkptgub2r5yovoiyjpblgkzbfbkkj6xg2e62ac6sdpwyvm@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
Last weekend, I only had little time to explore Mainz due to conference business, but you're never far away from a Roman site in former Mogontiacum. Here is the Dativius-Victor-Arch - it's a reconstruction and the original is in a museum now.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Last weekend, I only had little time to explore Mainz due to conference business, but you're never far away from a Roman site in former Mogontiacum. Here is the Dativius-Victor-Arch - it's a reconstruction and the original is in a museum now.
#RomanSiteSaturday
#RomanSiteSaturday
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Found an encyclopedia of prehistoric life in a little free library. Tag your Friday mood.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Found an encyclopedia of prehistoric life in a little free library. Tag your Friday mood.
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December 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
Reposted by Dr Evelyn Koch
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
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so that he is born in a glass and cucurbit/and putrefied in ventre equino, in such a putrefaction is the Basilisk born.” 2/x
(Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.)
(Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.)
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
so that he is born in a glass and cucurbit/and putrefied in ventre equino, in such a putrefaction is the Basilisk born.” 2/x
(Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.)
(Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.)
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And some more #earlymodern misogyny from Pseudo-Paraclesus. Apparently, women develop a poisonous stare and breath during menstruation (hence the link to the basilisk). I mean, sometimes this would be useful...
Of course, this misogynistic crap would've appealed to Frankenstein.
Of course, this misogynistic crap would've appealed to Frankenstein.
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And some more #earlymodern misogyny from Pseudo-Paraclesus. Apparently, women develop a poisonous stare and breath during menstruation (hence the link to the basilisk). I mean, sometimes this would be useful...
Of course, this misogynistic crap would've appealed to Frankenstein.
Of course, this misogynistic crap would've appealed to Frankenstein.
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I'll get you, my pretty! Andrea Fernández Pastor reviews a half-millennium of witchy women in art, film, and fashion in a new #openaccess essay. "The Representation of Women as the Source of Evil: The Evolution of the Witch Figure" in Arts. @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I'll get you, my pretty! Andrea Fernández Pastor reviews a half-millennium of witchy women in art, film, and fashion in a new #openaccess essay. "The Representation of Women as the Source of Evil: The Evolution of the Witch Figure" in Arts. @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
doi.org/10.3390/arts...
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Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
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The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
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HWÆT! My annual repost of the Lego Battle of Maldon with Old English subtitles ⚔️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuxv...
The Battle of Maldon (Subtitled Version)
YouTube video by DTGProductions
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November 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
HWÆT! My annual repost of the Lego Battle of Maldon with Old English subtitles ⚔️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuxv...
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THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
THE #VAMPIRE RABBIT OF NEWCASTLE is a mysterious grotesque which has perched above the door of the historic Cathedral Buildings for over a hundred years; no one is quite sure why the fanged blood-sucking rabbit was created back in 1901
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Deadline extended to 16 November!
@asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
@asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!
Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.
@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
OLHJ_CfP.pdf
shorturl.at
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Deadline extended to 16 November!
@asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
@asle-us.bsky.social @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @bacls.bsky.social
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Find yourself something that makes you as happy as Edward Barlow's 'dolphin' was to 'swim in the sea'. #skystorians #earlymodern
(National Maritime Museum, Journal of Edward Barlow, JOD/4/197-210, 213-294)
(National Maritime Museum, Journal of Edward Barlow, JOD/4/197-210, 213-294)
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Find yourself something that makes you as happy as Edward Barlow's 'dolphin' was to 'swim in the sea'. #skystorians #earlymodern
(National Maritime Museum, Journal of Edward Barlow, JOD/4/197-210, 213-294)
(National Maritime Museum, Journal of Edward Barlow, JOD/4/197-210, 213-294)
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Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now available in paperback, just in time for Christmas.