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culturalcurrents.bsky.social
@culturalcurrents.bsky.social
Research group in English at Loughborough University fascinated by 19th-20th century literature and culture. Lovers of all things weird, gothic, decadent and modernist: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/research/groups/cultural-currents/
It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
2/2 Followed by
Dr Nick Freeman
"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum

In collaboration with @healthhumslboro.bsky.social
Wed 29 Oct, 16.15-17.30 - hybrid, DM for Teams link.
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:

1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
October 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of our brilliant Doctoral Researchers Jill Walters has just published a journal article “All Things to All Men”: Decadence as Represented in Lionel Johnson’s Early Literary Journalism in a special issue on Late-Victorian Decadence - well done Jill!: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Join us for our next event: @missybradshaw.bsky.social (Loyola, Chicago), “Think of me not as a hernia”: Tracing the Medicalized Subject in the Amy Lowell Letters Project, Tues 27 May, 16.00-17.30 (BST) hybrid @lboroenglish.bsky.social/online via Teams - give us a shout and we'll DM the Teams link
May 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Here's the programme for our free hybrid Symposium on
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May, 1-5pm - register here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
March 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM