Middle-Aged Witch
@middleagewitch.bsky.social
Lecturer in English @UCC // Horror scholar // Autor of Haunted States: An American Gothic Guide Book and Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture
Happy Halloween 🎃 Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts 👻, witches 🧙♀️, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out.
@devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
@devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy Halloween 🎃 Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts 👻, witches 🧙♀️, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out.
@devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
@devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!
Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...
John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel
Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!
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40 years ago today
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.
Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.
Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory
October 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
40 years ago today
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.
Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory
Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable.
Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory
Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...
Trump on why he’s trying to bring peace to Ukraine: “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible. I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
‘I Want to Try and Get to Heaven’: Trump Gets Reflective on ‘Fox & Friends’
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...
PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following:
A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation
A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
OpenAI releases GPT-5, calling it a ‘team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket’
OpenAI says its latest version of the popular AI model is better at coding, more accurate and less deceptive than previous versions.
nbcnews.to
August 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following:
A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation
A) A spoiler-free IMDb review
B) Advertising copy
C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation
You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you.
Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?
Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?
August 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you.
Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?
Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?
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*Academics in early August
August 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
*Academics in early August
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Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig
July 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚
April 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚
UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405
@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
The CFP List
An academic call for papers database.
cfplist.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405
@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
@intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.
Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.
@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it
ALT: a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it
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April 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
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Our call for papers is out! @middleagewitch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
April 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our call for papers is out! @middleagewitch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
@intellectbooks.bsky.social
Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
Hail, Satan!
Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture
Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital additio...
www.aup.nl
March 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Hail, Satan!
Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It's hard enough to see a beloved pet fall ill without having to worry about incurring debt to save them.
Hi all, hate to do a GoFundMe so close to taxes, but while Marya and I were out of town our cat Miss Fanny was rushed to the emergency room.
She was saved but we had to take on a lot of debt to do it, and we’d appreciate whatever help you can provide.
She was saved but we had to take on a lot of debt to do it, and we’d appreciate whatever help you can provide.
Donate to Aid for Miss Fanny's Vet & Heart Expenses, organized by ms. marya e. gates
Hello! We are Marya E. Gates and Robert Daniels, freelance film critics l… ms. marya e. gates needs your support for Aid for Miss Fanny's Vet & Heart Expenses
www.gofundme.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's hard enough to see a beloved pet fall ill without having to worry about incurring debt to save them.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
If you want to hang with some fantastic American Studies scholars (and generally awesome people), we will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
March 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you want to hang with some fantastic American Studies scholars (and generally awesome people), we will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...
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Men, everywhere, on #iwd
a young boy is holding a knob and asking what 's that got to do with my knob ..
ALT: a young boy is holding a knob and asking what 's that got to do with my knob ..
media.tenor.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Men, everywhere, on #iwd
Very excited to be heading up to Dublin to witness the resurrection of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies (and give a keynote).
@irishgothichorror.bsky.social
@irishgothichorror.bsky.social
February 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Very excited to be heading up to Dublin to witness the resurrection of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies (and give a keynote).
@irishgothichorror.bsky.social
@irishgothichorror.bsky.social