Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
@drlkz.bsky.social
academic | into adaptations, crime fiction, and neo-Victorianism | QAQV group coordinator [qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl] | Changing Narratives conferences organiser [changingnarratives.weebly.com] | bad at social media
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Dears, check out the CFP for ESSE conference 🥳 in Santiago de Compostella 🕍(31.08-04.09.2026). www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par... Session 29, organised by Sarah Beyvers and myself, is on non-literary and non-filmic engagements with the Victorian culture (e.g. games, comics). More info in the link.
ESSE 2026
www.esse2026.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Dears, check out the CFP for ESSE conference 🥳 in Santiago de Compostella 🕍(31.08-04.09.2026). www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par... Session 29, organised by Sarah Beyvers and myself, is on non-literary and non-filmic engagements with the Victorian culture (e.g. games, comics). More info in the link.
Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
Mud and Stars
FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
Welcome @dr-braid.bsky.social!
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Barbara Braid to the QAQV Research Group!
Barbara is based at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, where she explores Neo-Victorianism, biofiction, the Gothic, comics & graphic novels, and much more
See more lit.usz.edu.pl/instytut/pra...
Barbara is based at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, where she explores Neo-Victorianism, biofiction, the Gothic, comics & graphic novels, and much more
See more lit.usz.edu.pl/instytut/pra...
October 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Welcome @dr-braid.bsky.social!
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✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙
It's the final countdown🎶
🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich
🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria
🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry
#QAQV9
🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich
🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria
🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry
#QAQV9
September 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Another #QAQV programme is out there. Putting this together was a pleasure!
We’re excited to share the full schedule for #QAQV9 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” conference ⤵
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qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
September 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Another #QAQV programme is out there. Putting this together was a pleasure!
September 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The submission portal for our 2026 CfP is open! Join us for Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación 💥
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Español: in-csa.com/2026-convoca...
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@ncsascholars.bsky.social #INCS #19thC
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Español: in-csa.com/2026-convoca...
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@ncsascholars.bsky.social #INCS #19thC
August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The submission portal for our 2026 CfP is open! Join us for Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación 💥
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English: in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...
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Español: in-csa.com/2026-convoca...
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@ncsascholars.bsky.social #INCS #19thC
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@ncsascholars.bsky.social #INCS #19thC
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Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them" (MUSG)
Apparently, I share some habits with Watson's friend...
Apparently, I share some habits with Watson's friend...
August 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"But his papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them" (MUSG)
Apparently, I share some habits with Watson's friend...
Apparently, I share some habits with Watson's friend...
Still super annoyed with geoblocking #BBCSounds
It really worked for my Radio Gaga: Updating Literary Classics course. Some of my students have only just learnt to listen to & analyse audio adaptations and all of them enjoyed the access...
Not to mention my afternoons with McLevy, Poirot & Co. ...
It really worked for my Radio Gaga: Updating Literary Classics course. Some of my students have only just learnt to listen to & analyse audio adaptations and all of them enjoyed the access...
Not to mention my afternoons with McLevy, Poirot & Co. ...
a cartoon cat with smoke coming out of his mouth is sitting in front of a green wall .
ALT: a cartoon cat with smoke coming out of his mouth is sitting in front of a green wall .
media.tenor.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Still super annoyed with geoblocking #BBCSounds
It really worked for my Radio Gaga: Updating Literary Classics course. Some of my students have only just learnt to listen to & analyse audio adaptations and all of them enjoyed the access...
Not to mention my afternoons with McLevy, Poirot & Co. ...
It really worked for my Radio Gaga: Updating Literary Classics course. Some of my students have only just learnt to listen to & analyse audio adaptations and all of them enjoyed the access...
Not to mention my afternoons with McLevy, Poirot & Co. ...
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QAQV9 conference is coming!
📅 24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here's more of our panel highlights:
🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes
⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms
👀 The Victorians Look Back
📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back
Stay tuned for more!
#victorian #conference
📅 24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here's more of our panel highlights:
🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes
⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms
👀 The Victorians Look Back
📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back
Stay tuned for more!
#victorian #conference
July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
QAQV9 conference is coming!
📅 24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here's more of our panel highlights:
🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes
⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms
👀 The Victorians Look Back
📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back
Stay tuned for more!
#victorian #conference
📅 24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here's more of our panel highlights:
🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes
⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms
👀 The Victorians Look Back
📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back
Stay tuned for more!
#victorian #conference
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QAQV9 conference is coming!
24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here are some of our panels highlights:
✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK
🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS
🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME
🦇 GOTHICISING
Stay tuned for more!
24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here are some of our panels highlights:
✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK
🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS
🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME
🦇 GOTHICISING
Stay tuned for more!
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
QAQV9 conference is coming!
24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here are some of our panels highlights:
✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK
🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS
🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME
🦇 GOTHICISING
Stay tuned for more!
24–26 Sept 2025
📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw
Here are some of our panels highlights:
✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK
🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS
🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME
🦇 GOTHICISING
Stay tuned for more!
Reposted by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
To o mnie i o żonie, gdy wracamy z wakacji.
July 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
To o mnie i o żonie, gdy wracamy z wakacji.
One week to go!
Thanks to those who have already registered - if you haven't, here's the programme and link, again
Thanks to those who have already registered - if you haven't, here's the programme and link, again
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers!
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
One week to go!
Thanks to those who have already registered - if you haven't, here's the programme and link, again
Thanks to those who have already registered - if you haven't, here's the programme and link, again
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers!
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
June 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social, me, and our 8+1 speakers!
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
The conference is free and open but registration is required - see the programme and follow the link 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1tLdN...
Reposted by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
Remember to send us your historicising/contextualising/rewriting true crime abstracts!
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!
May 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Remember to send us your historicising/contextualising/rewriting true crime abstracts!
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⏰ Have we heard from you? 🔽
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March 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
⏰ Have we heard from you? 🔽
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📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.
March 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."
His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.
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And here we are;)
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
And here we are;)
Reposted by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!
February 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!