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👻
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 👻
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 🍁
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...
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! 👻
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’ ⬇️
Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻
August 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻
Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
August 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
A summery day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social for yesterday’s group writing day in the Arts building ✍️ 💻
August 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A summery day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social for yesterday’s group writing day in the Arts building ✍️ 💻
A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025
July 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025
The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻
July 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻
On Thursday at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference I’ll be on the Wilde panel discussing ‘moral pestilence’, miasma, contagion, the 1890s influenza epidemic, and immorality as an ‘Aesthetic condition’ for Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Symons! Part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project 🦠😷📖📰
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
On Thursday at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference I’ll be on the Wilde panel discussing ‘moral pestilence’, miasma, contagion, the 1890s influenza epidemic, and immorality as an ‘Aesthetic condition’ for Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Arthur Symons! Part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project 🦠😷📖📰
1 week today the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR committee will be kicking off the BAVS Conference by hosting the ECR Professionalisation Day! We have talks from experts on #C19 pedagogy, careers, peer review workshops, immersive Victorian games & even a séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 🎉
July 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
1 week today the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR committee will be kicking off the BAVS Conference by hosting the ECR Professionalisation Day! We have talks from experts on #C19 pedagogy, careers, peer review workshops, immersive Victorian games & even a séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 🎉
🏛️Today - guided tour of @morethanadodo.bsky.social with John Holmes & Birmingham’s 19CC
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🏛️Today - guided tour of @morethanadodo.bsky.social with John Holmes & Birmingham’s 19CC
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social
🦠Weds - Disease and Narrative workshop I’m hosting @unibirmingham.bsky.social with @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & the 19CC
🎨Thurs - Occult Art @gothicauob.bsky.social with @emmamerkling.bsky.social
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
*Interdisciplinary Disease and Narrative Workshop!* Register below for this in-person event @unibirmingham.bsky.social in Arts 103 on Weds 18th June (5.00-7.15pm) hosted by @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social & 19CC Bham to explore sensational tales of disease:
Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century has started! From vampiric epidemics of influenza, to contaminated waterways, and nineteenth-century museum legacies we have an exciting #medhums day ahead! 🦠https://cn-csi.com/event/contagion-and-contamination-in-the-nineteenth-century/
May 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century has started! From vampiric epidemics of influenza, to contaminated waterways, and nineteenth-century museum legacies we have an exciting #medhums day ahead! 🦠https://cn-csi.com/event/contagion-and-contamination-in-the-nineteenth-century/
A great talk this morning from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Literary Festival on her new book ‘Controlling Contagion’ in which she examines economic and institutional responses to pandemics across the last 700 years 🦠 😷
April 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A great talk this morning from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Literary Festival on her new book ‘Controlling Contagion’ in which she examines economic and institutional responses to pandemics across the last 700 years 🦠 😷
Really enjoyed the latest @durhamimh.bsky.social event on Violence and Contagion, particularly @sophiefranklin.bsky.social and her excellent paper on the health-focused language of violence (to ‘treat’ and ‘cure’ it) and C19 ideas of disease as violence/ literal pathogens of crime 🦠
March 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Really enjoyed the latest @durhamimh.bsky.social event on Violence and Contagion, particularly @sophiefranklin.bsky.social and her excellent paper on the health-focused language of violence (to ‘treat’ and ‘cure’ it) and C19 ideas of disease as violence/ literal pathogens of crime 🦠
If you like all things tea, Victorian, and Early Career Researcher, then join our BAVS Zoom Tea Time this Wednesday 5th March 5.30-6.30pm ☕️ DM for link 🫖
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you like all things tea, Victorian, and Early Career Researcher, then join our BAVS Zoom Tea Time this Wednesday 5th March 5.30-6.30pm ☕️ DM for link 🫖
Spotted in @blackwells.bsky.social Oxford a vibrant #TalesOfTheWeird display and a lovely note about the series @britishlibrary.bsky.social plus 2 copies of ‘Summoned to the Séance’! 👻
February 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Spotted in @blackwells.bsky.social Oxford a vibrant #TalesOfTheWeird display and a lovely note about the series @britishlibrary.bsky.social plus 2 copies of ‘Summoned to the Séance’! 👻
Excited that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July at University of Oxford with a dedicated PGR/ECR afternoon on 22nd July!
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
February 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Excited that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July at University of Oxford with a dedicated PGR/ECR afternoon on 22nd July!
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
A joy today teaching Feminist Utopias on the MA ‘Empire and Imagination’ module @unibirmingham.bsky.social - we read ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (1905) by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘Herland’ (1915) to unpack ideas around exclusionary utopias in the context of empire 💭
February 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A joy today teaching Feminist Utopias on the MA ‘Empire and Imagination’ module @unibirmingham.bsky.social - we read ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (1905) by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘Herland’ (1915) to unpack ideas around exclusionary utopias in the context of empire 💭
*Thursday 1st May - Save the Date* Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...
February 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
*Thursday 1st May - Save the Date* Join @cncsi.bsky.social for our Spring Workshop Day on ‘Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century’! Watch this space for an impressive line up of speakers and the registration link to be announced shortly: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...