Natalie Hopwood
@nrhopwood.bsky.social
Medievalist and Comics Historian
PhD Candidate working on Monstrous Encounters, Fictionality, and Medieval Popular Culture in Old Norse sagas at the University of Leeds
PhD Candidate working on Monstrous Encounters, Fictionality, and Medieval Popular Culture in Old Norse sagas at the University of Leeds
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Yesterday marked the inaugural School of English PGR Symposium. This event was the result of months of hard work from myself and the other organisers including @nrhopwood.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yesterday marked the inaugural School of English PGR Symposium. This event was the result of months of hard work from myself and the other organisers including @nrhopwood.bsky.social
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Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙
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November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Save Modern Languages and Music @ Uni of Nottingham! 💛💚💙
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Join us on 27th November at 5.30pm to hear @nrhopwood.bsky.social talk about a late medieval Icelandic saga on dragons 🐉 we can't wait for this one!
Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Join us on 27th November at 5.30pm to hear @nrhopwood.bsky.social talk about a late medieval Icelandic saga on dragons 🐉 we can't wait for this one!
Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Scan the QR code or click the link below to sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I’m very excited to talk about one of my favourite sagas with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social on 27th November! It’s online, so please sign up and come along, it’ll be a great, dragon-y time 🐉
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I’m very excited to talk about one of my favourite sagas with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social on 27th November! It’s online, so please sign up and come along, it’ll be a great, dragon-y time 🐉
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"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."
Having both presented and been on the committee for this conference, I cannot recommend it enough!
Exciting announcement! 2026 theme and call for papers is out!
#medievalsky #cfp @downham.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @medievalists.bsky.social
#medievalsky #cfp @downham.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @medievalists.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Having both presented and been on the committee for this conference, I cannot recommend it enough!
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It's Halloween! 🎃
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's Halloween! 🎃
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
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The School of English PGR Symposium is taking place on 11th November, featuring over 10 papers from SoE PGRs! Sign up here to come along forms.office.com/e/75eFxbbbiY
October 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The School of English PGR Symposium is taking place on 11th November, featuring over 10 papers from SoE PGRs! Sign up here to come along forms.office.com/e/75eFxbbbiY
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spread the word! A new postgraduate and early career researcher seminar series at @universityofleeds.bsky.social! For those studying the Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern periods. We look forward to reading your proposals! #medievalsky #earlymodern #lateantique
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“Monsters always speak of power — sometimes they speak for it, other times they speak against it.”
A postcard from @dinostalgia.bsky.social
A postcard from @dinostalgia.bsky.social
A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
At UC Santa Cruz, we take monsters seriously.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Monsters always speak of power — sometimes they speak for it, other times they speak against it.”
A postcard from @dinostalgia.bsky.social
A postcard from @dinostalgia.bsky.social
I’ve had to read Watkins’s ‘How to Kill a Dragon’ so many times, and it’s always interesting to see how much we inherently desire to know about where our stories come from and the very first story (though, really, we will never truly know)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story
From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find?
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October 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I’ve had to read Watkins’s ‘How to Kill a Dragon’ so many times, and it’s always interesting to see how much we inherently desire to know about where our stories come from and the very first story (though, really, we will never truly know)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.
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shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
September 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
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A really great and clear-eyed editorial by @danielpgrote.bsky.social for @comicsxf.com about the cancellation of Red Hood over at DC and the world of hypocrisy we live in. #comicsky
You can't buy Red Hood, but you can buy plenty of other DC comics by others accused of worse - COMICSXF
The problem with writing about the cancellation of DC’s Red Hood is it’s impossible to write about in a vacuum.
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September 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A really great and clear-eyed editorial by @danielpgrote.bsky.social for @comicsxf.com about the cancellation of Red Hood over at DC and the world of hypocrisy we live in. #comicsky
Just under one week left to submit!
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
@imc-leeds.bsky.social 6th-9th July 2026
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)
@imc-leeds.bsky.social 6th-9th July 2026
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College (The Medieval Comics Project)
September 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Just under one week left to submit!
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👩🏫 Seeking medieval teaching support this academic year? 🧑🏫Consider joining our friends at TEAMS, the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages! Membership is free, and the support is priceless 🤝 teams-medieval.org/membership/ #medievalsky
TEAMS Membership Sign-Up
Welcome to TEAMS Membership Sign-UpTEAMS’ mission is to support teaching in medieval studies at the undergraduate, secondary, and elementary school levels through the provision of resources and the sh...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
👩🏫 Seeking medieval teaching support this academic year? 🧑🏫Consider joining our friends at TEAMS, the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages! Membership is free, and the support is priceless 🤝 teams-medieval.org/membership/ #medievalsky
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SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
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Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize
Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.
www.newberry.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
One week left to submit!
@necron-network.bsky.social is coming to @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026!
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
September 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One week left to submit!
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I've put up the new call for papers for the 2026 Romancing the Gothic programme!
Come join us!
(I welcome feedback)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
Come join us!
(I welcome feedback)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers
In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…
romancingthegothic.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I've put up the new call for papers for the 2026 Romancing the Gothic programme!
Come join us!
(I welcome feedback)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
Come join us!
(I welcome feedback)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
@necron-network.bsky.social is coming to @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026!
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
August 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
@necron-network.bsky.social is coming to @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026!
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood (ennrho@leeds.ac.uk) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.
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Call for Papers - Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026
Hybrid Session
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026
Hybrid Session
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...
August 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Call for Papers - Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026
Hybrid Session
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...
Medieval Temporalities and Comics
Leeds International Medieval Congress, 6th-9th July 2026
Hybrid Session
Co-organized by Natalie Hopwood, University of Leeds and Michael A.
www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-pap...