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Dr Harriet Fletcher
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Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
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Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social · Jan 5
Hello friends! I'm a writer and academic interested horror, the Gothic, celebrity culture and feminism. I'll be sharing fun updates from my research on this account, watch this space! 💀⭐️
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Excited to finally be able to share my book with the world!

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga 💀⭐️

The book explores the relationship between celebrity culture and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture.

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November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Pleased to say that I am now a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy! Thank you to Anglia Learning and Teaching at @angliaruskin.bsky.social for all their support 🎓⭐️
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Some pictures from a fantastic evening at Elemental Cinema - an exhibition of experimental film featuring work by three talented @angliaruskin.bsky.social colleagues
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Some of my favourite shots from my visit to the #LeighBowery exhibition at #TateModern last week. An audacious and inspiring collection - Bowery really was one of a kind!
August 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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As a lifelong fan of #LindsayLohan, I had a great time watching this film! You can read my @uk.theconversation.com review of #FreakierFriday here theconversation.com/freakier-fri...
Freakier Friday: nostalgia-soaked sequel explores grief and blended families
The sequel successfully recaptures the unapologetic girlish silliness that made the first film so beloved.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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August 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Film and Media at ARU are hiring two new lecturers! Come and work with us! Job adverts can be found via this link

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July 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Watched #28YearsLater this weekend. Some great tense moments, good jokes, beautiful scenery, Ralph Feinnes being brilliant...but also felt kind of jumbled to me? I've not worked it out myself just yet, but I'm really enjoying reading people's thoughts on it (maybe more than actually watching it?!)
June 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Had a wonderful time attending the Doing Women's Film and Television History conference for the first time last week, and presenting my paper on #MeganFox. Such a welcoming space and many fascinating discussions were had! #filmstudies #starstudies #celebritystudies #academia
June 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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It's that time again, and we're calling for FRESH BLOOD!
#NightTideMag is looking for new contributors for our deep-diving horror mag. If this mission resonates with you, click that link to join our contributor pool! 👻📽️🩸✍️
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Black background with teal heart bleeding red blood, overlayed with white text that reads: NightTide is a woman of color-founded and led magazine dedicated to celebrating the full spectrum of horror. We amplify the voices of Creators of Color, the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent experiences, and those challenging ageism in the genre. Our mission is to transform horror by exploring its most diverse, daring, academic, and overlooked perspectives.
May 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The #Cambridge #Poetry Festival returns in 2026. This year it's the 50th anniversary of the original 1975 festival, so under the CPF branding, we're helping to promote a whole load of Cambridge-based poetry events over the summer.

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50th anniversary of Cambridge Poetry Festival. The Cambridge Poetry Festival was founded in 1975 by Richard Berengarten, originally running for ten years. It will return in 2026, headed by a new team. To mark its 50th anniversary, we wanted to highlight some of the poetry events and readings taking place in Cambridge this summer – including a special anniversary reading of work by poets who performed at the original run of festivals from 1975 to 1985.
June 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Symposium: Transmedia True Crime in the Algorithmic Era
11th June 5-7:30pm

@tanyah.bsky.social on Luigi Mangione @memorieschild.bsky.social on AI true crime
& Dr Michael Goddard on true crime on YouTube

READ MORE: www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
June 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Some pictures from the opening night of @angliaruskin.bsky.social annual Graduate Showcase. It's always a pleasure to see our students' incredible creative work!
June 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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PROJECTIONS: Lynchian Women. My online lecture hosted by Freud Museum London. 5 June, 6:00 pm. Laura Palmer, Renee Madison, Diane Selwyn, Dorothy Vallens, etc. Revisit these solid gold ladies and pay tribute to a Master of cinema. Open to international registrants 🌎➡️ www.freud.org.uk/event/projec...
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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✨COVER REVEAL✨ I'm thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema. This stunning artwork was created by the talented Suspirialand, who perfectly captured my vision with haunting beauty and intuitive brilliance.
May 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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SUBMISSIONS EXTENSION. Want to be part of the Ten Poets series? Fancy playing the part of Jacquotte Delahaye or Jonathan Harker? We've extended our latest call for submissions to 19 June. Share far and wide!

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Submissions Call: Pirates and Vampires - Sidekick Books
Submissions Call: Ten Poets Prowl the Seas in Search of Plunder and Ten Poets Spend the Night in a Vampire’s Castle DEADLINE: 18 MAY 19 JUNE 2025 The next two books in our hit 10 Poets series, set for...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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I recently finished Netflix's #CobraKai and... I am so goddamn impressed. I can't even express all the positive things I have to say about this. A great example of 'kind TV', with some incredibly thoughtful explorations of masculinity, male friendships and male role models. Would HIGHLY recommend!
May 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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THE BIG REVEAL!

You can now buy tickets for our 2025 online conference

'A Warning to the Curious: Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'

Talks! Workshops! Events! Author roundtable with NGHI VO, SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA and SUZAN PALUMBO!

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Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom
Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...
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May 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Had the pleasure of listening to this excellent talk today by guest speaker Dr Jessica Ford! Kevin Can F**k Himself is such an important and innovative TV show in its depiction of domestic abuse - would highly recommend.
May 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Interesting! Versace gets a few mentions in my book #GothicCelebrity (via Lady Gaga and Ryan Murphy), so I'm looking forward to hearing more about this exhibition.

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Gianni Versace: Exhibition of fashion designer's work to open in London
The Italian designer was hugely influential in the fashion world until his murder in 1997.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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for folks interested in the SINNERS edited volume, the CFP has been edited with an earlier deadline now for the abstract submissions — due now in June instead of July

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May 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This is a fantastic course. I've done it before and loved it so much I have signed up again this year! More info here for anyone who might be interested 👇
adamzed.bsky.social Adam Z. Robinson @adamzed.bsky.social · Apr 29
Hiya everyone... If you can share, I'd be so grateful! A brand new online creative writing course, starting next week. Runs Tuesdays OR Wednesdays (you choose).

#writing #writers #amwriting #writingcommunity
TEXT: It's one week til my new online creative writing course kicks off. I need a few more folks to sign up for it to run (another 10 in total). Writers of all experience (including those with no experience at all) will hone their writing voices, experiment with fun and productive exercises, develop new skills and crucially carve out time to write without pressure, deadlines or expectations. It's going to be so fun! If you know anyone who might like to join or try a new hobby in the most supportive, low-pressure and welcoming environment imaginable, I would appreciate it enormously if you'd share this with them. I'll put the booking links in the comments below. You can choose Tuesdays or Wednesdays (two identical courses running concurrently), starting 6/7 May. Thank you! Adam IMAGE: a box of matches with red heads
April 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A good #GothicCelebrity find 🩸😱

Very excited for Charli XCX's scream queen era!

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Charli XCX Producing and Starring in New Movie from ‘Audition’ Director Takashi Miike
While we continue waiting to see Charli XCX in her feature debut Faces of Death, a fresh new take on the cult movie from Cam filmmakers Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, Variety reports that the singer...
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April 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This is SUCH a brilliant idea. Registered my attendance!
midlandsmovies.bsky.social Midlands Movies @midlandsmovies.bsky.social · Apr 13
The first Terrifier Conference will be run by Uni of Warwick online & in-person 2 & 3 May

Looking at practical F/X, kill scenes & comedy violence, the event will engage with the horror franchise as an object of scholarly importance!

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April 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Ali Din, one of our fantastic PhD students at ARU, is featured on @bloomsburylit.bsky.social's blog! You can read about their research here:

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From silence to struggle: British Asians fighting racism 1960–2001 - Bloomsbury Literary Studies Blog
How did Asian communities unite and organise to challenge institutional and street-level racism? And were the government’s Race Relations Acts genuine progress or reluctant concessions forced by activ...
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April 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM