Christine Ferguson
@cferguson.bsky.social
Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Now THIS is how you write acknowledgments in a scholarly book (from Irmbtraub Huber's 2023 Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry). What a welcome note of urgency and conviction
August 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Now THIS is how you write acknowledgments in a scholarly book (from Irmbtraub Huber's 2023 Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry). What a welcome note of urgency and conviction
Want to sample some of my Open Secrets? A few chapter of my new book is available for download from the Oxford UP website until September 21; just follow the link below
August 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Want to sample some of my Open Secrets? A few chapter of my new book is available for download from the Oxford UP website until September 21; just follow the link below
Getting the vulva pillow ready for a loooong flight back to Vancouver for the first time in nearly 20 years! Can't wait to be back on the spooky coast
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Getting the vulva pillow ready for a loooong flight back to Vancouver for the first time in nearly 20 years! Can't wait to be back on the spooky coast
Today I am writing and thinking about this oddball, Charles Wentworth Littlefield (1859-1945), who in addition to claiming to be able to bring back the dead with a salt solution + winning the support of Arthur Conan Doyle also boasted a truly glorious, completely mouth-obliterating moustache.
July 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Today I am writing and thinking about this oddball, Charles Wentworth Littlefield (1859-1945), who in addition to claiming to be able to bring back the dead with a salt solution + winning the support of Arthur Conan Doyle also boasted a truly glorious, completely mouth-obliterating moustache.
The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The secrets are out! Great to see this years-long labour of love out in the world. The official publication date is June 28; available for pre-order on the OUP website now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Now THIS is how you run a book marketing campaign
May 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Now THIS is how you run a book marketing campaign
Well done @scotnational.bsky.social on today's cover. Labour better wake up soon and realise that fascist nostalgia is not going to solve any problems
May 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Well done @scotnational.bsky.social on today's cover. Labour better wake up soon and realise that fascist nostalgia is not going to solve any problems
Brilliant post today! If you don't already know @richardfallon.bsky.social 's work on the interface between literature, science, and alternative religiosity, then you should. The 19th c histories of hollow earth theory, deep clairvoyance, psychometry, Atlantis, young earth creationism are all here
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Brilliant post today! If you don't already know @richardfallon.bsky.social 's work on the interface between literature, science, and alternative religiosity, then you should. The 19th c histories of hollow earth theory, deep clairvoyance, psychometry, Atlantis, young earth creationism are all here
Excellent book post today! Congratulations to @madelinepotter.bsky.social on her fantastic new collection on Theology and Vampires, which I was privileged to read in advance! Get your copies ordered!
April 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Excellent book post today! Congratulations to @madelinepotter.bsky.social on her fantastic new collection on Theology and Vampires, which I was privileged to read in advance! Get your copies ordered!
So great to catch up with @emmamerkling.bsky.social in Rome last weekend, just before she flies out to start her new post at the University of Manchester.
December 21, 2024 at 10:28 AM
So great to catch up with @emmamerkling.bsky.social in Rome last weekend, just before she flies out to start her new post at the University of Manchester.
Incredibly powerful speech from Dr Ahmed Shaban of @AUGaza at today's Reconstructing HE in Gaza conference at @UofGlasgow. Education is a fundamental part of Palestinian identity and its survival is a vital form of resistance
December 11, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Incredibly powerful speech from Dr Ahmed Shaban of @AUGaza at today's Reconstructing HE in Gaza conference at @UofGlasgow. Education is a fundamental part of Palestinian identity and its survival is a vital form of resistance
Ooooft, overdid it on the Kylie last night
December 1, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Ooooft, overdid it on the Kylie last night