Dr Jen Baker
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
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Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society
Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in Anglo...
thelasttuesdaysociety.org
Join me and the Viktor Wynd museum online 27th February as we'll still be in the thrall of Winter and I will be chatting about "minor" hauntings by child ghosts in literature & culture (access to recording for 2 weeks if you can't make it on the evening!) thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/manife...
Reposted by Dr Jen Baker
20 days to go to send us your abstracts on coal, community, health and welfare!
Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content.
#CfP
Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content.
#CfP
Call for papers #CFP
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health and Welfare in Britain and Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present
18 June 2026: 1 day conference + NUM archive exhibition
Submit abstracts / express interest at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
20 days to go to send us your abstracts on coal, community, health and welfare!
Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content.
#CfP
Join us in June for a one day event at the University of Warwick, including NUM archive content.
#CfP
Reposted by Dr Jen Baker
A reminder that @dianearodgers.bsky.social and I have a CFP out for an academic edited collection on Folk Horror on Television. Proposals of 500 words to derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk AND d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026.
Thread of prompts … #FolkHorror #academia
Thread of prompts … #FolkHorror #academia
January 5, 2026 at 9:52 AM
A reminder that @dianearodgers.bsky.social and I have a CFP out for an academic edited collection on Folk Horror on Television. Proposals of 500 words to derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk AND d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026.
Thread of prompts … #FolkHorror #academia
Thread of prompts … #FolkHorror #academia
Book #2 of 2026 A Case of the Claws: Classic Tales of Feline Crime.
Another Christmas gift - contains 4 short stories, 2 very similar (old lady with cat), the choice of perspective in the last one (1954 by Crispin) was a bit meh (though the concept was good) but, overall, fun little reads.
Another Christmas gift - contains 4 short stories, 2 very similar (old lady with cat), the choice of perspective in the last one (1954 by Crispin) was a bit meh (though the concept was good) but, overall, fun little reads.
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Book #2 of 2026 A Case of the Claws: Classic Tales of Feline Crime.
Another Christmas gift - contains 4 short stories, 2 very similar (old lady with cat), the choice of perspective in the last one (1954 by Crispin) was a bit meh (though the concept was good) but, overall, fun little reads.
Another Christmas gift - contains 4 short stories, 2 very similar (old lady with cat), the choice of perspective in the last one (1954 by Crispin) was a bit meh (though the concept was good) but, overall, fun little reads.
January 3, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Oh Stephen!! 😱😱
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
a man in a toga is standing in front of a building .
ALT: a man in a toga is standing in front of a building .
media.tenor.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Oh Stephen!! 😱😱
#TheTraitors
#TheTraitors
2026 Book Record
Book #1 Old Songs
A lovely meander through a selection of British ballads reimagined in prose plus some context and literary/cultural connections, an interesting sense of the author's visiting the places connected with the ballads, and some nice illustrations.
Book #1 Old Songs
A lovely meander through a selection of British ballads reimagined in prose plus some context and literary/cultural connections, an interesting sense of the author's visiting the places connected with the ballads, and some nice illustrations.
January 3, 2026 at 12:32 PM
2026 Book Record
Book #1 Old Songs
A lovely meander through a selection of British ballads reimagined in prose plus some context and literary/cultural connections, an interesting sense of the author's visiting the places connected with the ballads, and some nice illustrations.
Book #1 Old Songs
A lovely meander through a selection of British ballads reimagined in prose plus some context and literary/cultural connections, an interesting sense of the author's visiting the places connected with the ballads, and some nice illustrations.
Applicable to this episode as well 🤣 #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Applicable to this episode as well 🤣 #TheTraitorsUK #TheTraitors
Attenborough's Wild London on #BBC iplayer was unexpectedly wonderful. Bad ass coots, drunken bees, and fantastic foxes amongst some of the highlights.
January 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Attenborough's Wild London on #BBC iplayer was unexpectedly wonderful. Bad ass coots, drunken bees, and fantastic foxes amongst some of the highlights.
Great to hear a colleague from another department at Warwick on this, giving some good advice and perspectives.
In our latest podcast, a vice-chancellor-artist and a historian discuss the merits of the arts and humanities and what valuable life lessons and skills can be gained from the study of these disciplines: https://ow.ly/pzAO50XR8HU #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Campus talks: the value of arts and humanities in higher education
A vice-chancellor-artist and a historian discuss the merits of the arts and humanities and what valuable life lessons and skills can be gained from the study of these disciplines
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January 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Great to hear a colleague from another department at Warwick on this, giving some good advice and perspectives.
Fancy-pants curry, easy-watch film, back home by 10.30 to torment the cat and then watch fireworks from street door.
Happy NY all, hope 2026 doesn't suck... 🎇🎆💪🏻🙏😬❤️
Happy NY all, hope 2026 doesn't suck... 🎇🎆💪🏻🙏😬❤️
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Fancy-pants curry, easy-watch film, back home by 10.30 to torment the cat and then watch fireworks from street door.
Happy NY all, hope 2026 doesn't suck... 🎇🎆💪🏻🙏😬❤️
Happy NY all, hope 2026 doesn't suck... 🎇🎆💪🏻🙏😬❤️
Morning from the dunnock! ❤️🐦
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Morning from the dunnock! ❤️🐦
Reposted by Dr Jen Baker
Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601
#iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
#iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
www.cfplist.com
December 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601
#iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
#iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social
BetweEves visit to Cotswold Wildlife Park 😊
December 30, 2025 at 12:48 PM
BetweEves visit to Cotswold Wildlife Park 😊
*Teensy* bit obsessed with light shows... final one of 2025, Sudeley Castle's Spectacle of Light 😍
December 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
*Teensy* bit obsessed with light shows... final one of 2025, Sudeley Castle's Spectacle of Light 😍
Disco with the squirrels at Westonbirt Arboretum
#ChristmasatWestonbirt
#ChristmasatWestonbirt
December 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Disco with the squirrels at Westonbirt Arboretum
#ChristmasatWestonbirt
#ChristmasatWestonbirt
Throwback to snowier times 🤣🤣
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Throwback to snowier times 🤣🤣
Join me and the Viktor Wynd museum online 27th February as we'll still be in the thrall of Winter and I will be chatting about "minor" hauntings by child ghosts in literature & culture (access to recording for 2 weeks if you can't make it on the evening!) thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/manife...
Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child - Dr Jen Baker - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society
Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in Anglo...
thelasttuesdaysociety.org
December 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Join me and the Viktor Wynd museum online 27th February as we'll still be in the thrall of Winter and I will be chatting about "minor" hauntings by child ghosts in literature & culture (access to recording for 2 weeks if you can't make it on the evening!) thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/manife...
Other than the last line, which was unnecessary, by far the best of the recent BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas adaptations. Very effective.
E.F. Benson, "The Room in the Tower"
E.F. Benson, "The Room in the Tower"
December 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Other than the last line, which was unnecessary, by far the best of the recent BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas adaptations. Very effective.
E.F. Benson, "The Room in the Tower"
E.F. Benson, "The Room in the Tower"
Pensive Christmas Cat ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Pensive Christmas Cat ❤️