Fraser Riddell
@fraserriddell.bsky.social
Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
Pinned
Fraser Riddell
@fraserriddell.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Affective Experience
The Affective Experience Lab brings interdisciplinary insights into the link between feeling, emotion and affect.
medhumsplatform.org
See upcoming events at the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social, part of the Discovery Research Platform in Medical Humanities: medhumsplatform.org/labs/affecti...
Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
Volupté 8.1 - Lafcadio Hearn — Volupté
volupte.gold.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Materialising Methods
What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...
medhumsplatform.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums
ndhumanities.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Critical Neurodiversity Studies
Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book introduces a ne…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
I'm starting a newsletter! Neurodiversity and Capitalism will cover theory, history, politics culture and strategy. I mean to post weekly (with some flakiness) starting this week.
substack.com/@neurodivers...
substack.com/@neurodivers...
Neurodiversity and Capitalsim | Substack
I am a philosopher and social theorist. I wrote Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism.
substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm starting a newsletter! Neurodiversity and Capitalism will cover theory, history, politics culture and strategy. I mean to post weekly (with some flakiness) starting this week.
substack.com/@neurodivers...
substack.com/@neurodivers...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
📣MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apply by: 16/3/25. Preferred research topics: Gothic Aspects in Scottish Literature since James Hogg till Jenni Fagan | Satire in English/Scottish Literature since Chaucer to Banksy | Scottish Writers of Postcolonial Identity
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
www.euraxess.cz
January 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apply by: 16/3/25. Preferred research topics: Gothic Aspects in Scottish Literature since James Hogg till Jenni Fagan | Satire in English/Scottish Literature since Chaucer to Banksy | Scottish Writers of Postcolonial Identity
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
"Now, researchers from Oxford University are using the technique of “body mapping” to help patients better communicate the physical, cognitive and emotional dimensions of their illness to family, friends and health professionals." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid
People with post-infectious diseases sometimes struggle to communicate the debilitating impact of their conditions. But a new technique can help them explain visually
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Now, researchers from Oxford University are using the technique of “body mapping” to help patients better communicate the physical, cognitive and emotional dimensions of their illness to family, friends and health professionals." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Great to see the publication of 'Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context'. A super line-up of essays. Thanks to Martin Dubois for all his fine editorial work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context
www.cambridge.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great to see the publication of 'Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context'. A super line-up of essays. Thanks to Martin Dubois for all his fine editorial work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Donna Haraway AND the fabulous @mariettarosetta.bsky.social talking SF and dystopia? This is going to be fantastic! @britishacademy.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Donna Haraway AND the fabulous @mariettarosetta.bsky.social talking SF and dystopia? This is going to be fantastic! @britishacademy.bsky.social
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum #LGBTQ #gay #queer @natmemarb.bsky.social @fightingwithpride.bsky.social 🌈
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum
The memorial will take the form of a crumpled letter made of bronze, made up of words from evidence of personnel who were impacted by the ‘gay ban’.
www.independent.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum #LGBTQ #gay #queer @natmemarb.bsky.social @fightingwithpride.bsky.social 🌈
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today.
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
December 27, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today.
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
Spotted in the Vatican Museum: From 480BCE, an Attic vase in which same-sex desire is symbolised through the gift of a hare.
December 21, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Spotted in the Vatican Museum: From 480BCE, an Attic vase in which same-sex desire is symbolised through the gift of a hare.
Really powerful piece on Gisèle Pelicot, male sexual violence and rape culture in the LRB from Sophie Smith: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Really powerful piece on Gisèle Pelicot, male sexual violence and rape culture in the LRB from Sophie Smith: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
A book I edited is finally out! The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age. It has brilliant contributors and illustrations - and yes, I gave the Frenchman the last word on love
December 14, 2024 at 6:28 PM
A book I edited is finally out! The Bloomsbury Cultural History of Love in the Early Modern Age. It has brilliant contributors and illustrations - and yes, I gave the Frenchman the last word on love
Some publications from the 'Affective Experience Lab' @durhamimh.bsky.social
New Publication: Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies
New collection of essays on early twentieth-century writer Charlotte Mew co-edited by Affective Experience Lab Lead Fraser Riddell.
buff.ly
December 13, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Some publications from the 'Affective Experience Lab' @durhamimh.bsky.social
More recent news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social
ADAM (Addressing Difficult Aspects of the Medieval)
Affective Experience Lab lead Corinne Saunders delivers keynote address at inaugural ADAM workshop.
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 10:09 AM
More recent news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social
Some news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social:
European Society for the Study of English 2024 Conference
Members of the Affective Experience Lab share their work at the 2024 European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) Conference.
buff.ly
December 11, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Some news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social:
Some news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social
New Chaucer Society Congress 2024, Pasadena, California
Paper from Affective Experience Lab Lead Corinne Saunders featured at the New Chaucer Society's biennial congress.
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Some news from the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social
Some reflections on our PhD Summer School at @durhamimh.bsky.social, co-organised with colleagues from Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University:
Medical Humanities International Summer School 2024
Platform researchers come together with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University to deliver the first Medical Humanities International PhD School.
buff.ly
December 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Some reflections on our PhD Summer School at @durhamimh.bsky.social, co-organised with colleagues from Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University:
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
Reposted by Fraser Riddell
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.