Dr Emily Vincent
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
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Hi BlueSky! I’m a Research Fellow (Uni of Birmingham) for the international interdisciplinary Media & Epidemics project. I’m researching representations of influenza in C19/20th fiction (detective & Gothic) & periodicals! I have lots of spooky research interests in spiritualism & ghost stories🦠✍️👻
Our Media and Epidemics team is clearly on the same (archival) page with an unplanned encounter in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives! ⬇️
When the @euchanse.bsky.social UK and Polish team bumped into each other in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives! @dremilyvincent.bsky.social was reviewing the Medical Officers of Health records & adverts about the 1890s flu #epidemic and Zuza was researching deaf studies & zine culture 🦠 📖
November 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our Media and Epidemics team is clearly on the same (archival) page with an unplanned encounter in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives! ⬇️
Had an exciting invitation on Sunday for a book reading, Q&A, and book signing for my @blpublishing.bsky.social ‘Summoned to the Séance’ #TalesOfTheWeird collection at Hestia Books in Wirksworth! Thanks to everyone who attended and hope you enjoy your spooky tales 👻
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Had an exciting invitation on Sunday for a book reading, Q&A, and book signing for my @blpublishing.bsky.social ‘Summoned to the Séance’ #TalesOfTheWeird collection at Hestia Books in Wirksworth! Thanks to everyone who attended and hope you enjoy your spooky tales 👻
Reposted by Dr Emily Vincent
Fantastic Sunday afternoon spent listening to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social talk about her new book at Hestia Books
November 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fantastic Sunday afternoon spent listening to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social talk about her new book at Hestia Books
🎃2 days until @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween ‘Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives’ with Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social - join us (for all or part of the day) here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎃2 days until @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween ‘Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives’ with Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social - join us (for all or part of the day) here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Honoured to be on this spooky starter pack 👻
I’ve recently manifested on this platform, and I am in a search for more community. Please let me know who I should summon to my starter pack….
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October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Honoured to be on this spooky starter pack 👻
Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃
Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃
Delighted with my copy of Peter Lang ‘Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth-Century. My chapter is on #love, loss, and #spiritualism in texts by Florence Marryat, Oliver Lodge & the Brownings. Thanks to Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen & Victoria de Rijke!
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Delighted with my copy of Peter Lang ‘Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth-Century. My chapter is on #love, loss, and #spiritualism in texts by Florence Marryat, Oliver Lodge & the Brownings. Thanks to Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen & Victoria de Rijke!
Lovely autumnal views from my office on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🍁
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Lovely autumnal views from my office on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🍁
Calling @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECRs! Our next BAVS Tea Time will take place tomorrow (Weds 22nd) at 5pm-6pm (UK) on Zoom - join for all or part of an informal catch up about all things Victorian and ECR. DM me for link! We will also welcome our new BAVS ECR Rep @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🎉🫖☕️
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October 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Calling @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECRs! Our next BAVS Tea Time will take place tomorrow (Weds 22nd) at 5pm-6pm (UK) on Zoom - join for all or part of an informal catch up about all things Victorian and ECR. DM me for link! We will also welcome our new BAVS ECR Rep @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🎉🫖☕️
Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️
Reposted by Dr Emily Vincent
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️
Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme!
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America
📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff
📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves
🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming
📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV
Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃
Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻
October 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻
Just in time for #Halloween, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird books have merch! Here’s the t-shirt for my Summoned to the Séance collection: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
Summoned to the Séance T-shirt
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October 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Just in time for #Halloween, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird books have merch! Here’s the t-shirt for my Summoned to the Séance collection: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link.
🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️
Join @cncsi.bsky.social on Halloween 🎃 for 1 day of talks on ‘Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives’. Our 5 expert speakers (announced very soon!) will focus on multimedia (video game, radio, film, TV, art) adaptations, receptions, revivals, and reimaginings. Register here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives - CNCSI
Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives Free and Online One-Day Halloween Workshop Friday 31st October, 10.45 am ̶ 5.00 pm (Central European Time) Registration is required. Sign up here. The Centre ...
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September 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Join @cncsi.bsky.social on Halloween 🎃 for 1 day of talks on ‘Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives’. Our 5 expert speakers (announced very soon!) will focus on multimedia (video game, radio, film, TV, art) adaptations, receptions, revivals, and reimaginings. Register here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️
You can read our Media and Epidemics @euchanse.bsky.social @ukri.org ‘Story of Change’ which reflects our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during #Covid19 as a result of a collaboration with non-profit organisation Fragile Society. See this and more here: chanse.org/medep/ #hstm #medhums
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️
Reposted by Dr Emily Vincent
We have an insightful new blog post from Dmytro Yesypenko about the role of folklore and epidemics in nineteenth-century #Ukranian literature #hstm #histmed #litsci #medhums: mediaepidemics.com/2025/08/29/e...
Epidemics in Word and Imagination: Ukrainian Literature Between Folklore, the Press, and Science
“…epidemics are never only about pathogens. They are also filtered through the words of newspapers, proclamations, and popular accounts — words that, like folk tales, provided framework…
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September 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Fascinating hearing about the highly gendered visual and textual marketing and media representations of the Polidin vaccine in Romania (first marketed as an influenza cure, then a panacea) where female scientists were depicted as industrious yet unnamed #hstm #histsci #histmed #medhums
Gendered media representations depicted women scientists in photographs as industrious innovators yet their names remained invisible in texts, whereas male scientists were named and celebrated in texts marketing the vaccine. We look forward to reading the published research soon!
September 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Dr Emily Vincent
The Media and Epidemics team and @dremilyvincent.bsky.social really enjoyed presenting at the @euchanse.bsky.social #WeAreCHANSE conference, meeting humanities & social sciences researchers from across Europe to see how digital culture has (& continues to) transform over time @horizoneu.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Media and Epidemics team and @dremilyvincent.bsky.social really enjoyed presenting at the @euchanse.bsky.social #WeAreCHANSE conference, meeting humanities & social sciences researchers from across Europe to see how digital culture has (& continues to) transform over time @horizoneu.bsky.social
Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉
Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉
A free online conference (Oct 2-3rd) organised by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai on #C19 royal asiatic societies and nineteenth-century science. See on @cncsi.bsky.social here: cn-csi.com/conferences/... #hstm
The Royal Asiatic Societies and Nineteenth Century Science - CNCSI
Online Conference Thursday October 2nd to Friday October 3rd, 2025 How did Imperialism shape science, and how did science, in turn, shape Empire(s)? This conference invites scholars of Asian Studies, ...
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September 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A free online conference (Oct 2-3rd) organised by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai on #C19 royal asiatic societies and nineteenth-century science. See on @cncsi.bsky.social here: cn-csi.com/conferences/... #hstm