Kristy Strange
@gothicacademic.bsky.social
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📚 PhD Researcher at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies
🌿 Researching ecofem, hauntology, & the climate crisis in speculative fiction
🎓 First gen & non-trad student
🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia
📚 PhD Researcher at University of Westminster // MLitt in Gothic Studies
🌿 Researching ecofem, hauntology, & the climate crisis in speculative fiction
🎓 First gen & non-trad student
🎗️ Advocate for accessibility in academia
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Hi folks, it’s time for a wee introduction! My name is Kristy, and I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Here’s a pinned thread regarding my research on ecofeminism and the ecoGothic in contemporary speculative fiction that engages with the climate crisis!
I've finally launched my Substack! I'm in the midst of deadline season, so it'll be a bit slow going this month, but I'm really looking forward to nourishing this space. If you want to follow my research and process, please consider subscribing. substack.com/@strangescho...
Kristy | The Strange Scholar | Substack
Musings on life, literature, environmentalism, and the processes of a non-traditional PhD researcher.
substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I've finally launched my Substack! I'm in the midst of deadline season, so it'll be a bit slow going this month, but I'm really looking forward to nourishing this space. If you want to follow my research and process, please consider subscribing. substack.com/@strangescho...
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A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
June 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A reminder that there is one week to go to submit your abstract for the new edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacies edited by myself and Simon Bacon!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
Heading back North after a lovely couple of days spent at the Women in World-Literature conference (@womeninworld-lit.bsky.social) at the University of Warwick. Presented a fragment of a current thesis chapter and chaired a fantastic panel all about speculative fiction!
June 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Heading back North after a lovely couple of days spent at the Women in World-Literature conference (@womeninworld-lit.bsky.social) at the University of Warwick. Presented a fragment of a current thesis chapter and chaired a fantastic panel all about speculative fiction!
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Very excited to say I’ve just signed the contract for a Polish translation of ‘The Roma’! So there will now be translations into German, French, Russian, and Polish. 👀
May 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Very excited to say I’ve just signed the contract for a Polish translation of ‘The Roma’! So there will now be translations into German, French, Russian, and Polish. 👀
My recent scholarly publication is now live! This piece reviews The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic edited by Rebecca Duncan. It was a pleasure to read the book & share my thoughts on such an important piece of work.
You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
April 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My recent scholarly publication is now live! This piece reviews The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic edited by Rebecca Duncan. It was a pleasure to read the book & share my thoughts on such an important piece of work.
You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
You can read the issue in its entirety here gothicnaturejournal.com/issue-v/
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The 'Women in World Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion' schedule is finally ready for the world!
You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture.
Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule
Registration coming soon!
You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture.
Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule
Registration coming soon!
March 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The 'Women in World Literature: Climate, Crisis, and Contagion' schedule is finally ready for the world!
You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture.
Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule
Registration coming soon!
You can expect excellent panels, as well as a film screening and Q&A from Forensic Architecture.
Check out the whole programme here: tinyurl.com/WIWL2schedule
Registration coming soon!
My new YouTube video titled “How to Become an Independent Researcher” is now live! In this video I share what I learnt during the 3.5 years I spent as an independent researcher in-between completing my Masters degree and starting my PhD.
youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...
youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...
How to Become an Independent Researcher
YouTube video by The Gothic Academic
youtu.be
March 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My new YouTube video titled “How to Become an Independent Researcher” is now live! In this video I share what I learnt during the 3.5 years I spent as an independent researcher in-between completing my Masters degree and starting my PhD.
youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...
youtu.be/9Z49U_DlhmU?...
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Our Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (2024, Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott) published by Routledge Environmental Humanities Series is open access. @ucl.ac.uk www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-...
Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdo
This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian
www.taylorfrancis.com
March 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities (2024, Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, Conrad Scott) published by Routledge Environmental Humanities Series is open access. @ucl.ac.uk www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-...
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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
Goths for Breakfast 2025
Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. The event is a day of online classes and workshops w…
romancingthegothic.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
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What if worsening climate disruption doesn't act as a wake up call?
An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action
But we can break this loop 🧵
An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action
But we can break this loop 🧵
January 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What if worsening climate disruption doesn't act as a wake up call?
An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action
But we can break this loop 🧵
An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action
But we can break this loop 🧵
Absolute joy at finding my first ever ammonite fossil on the beach today! I’ve dreamt of finding one for years and this is such a perfect specimen. Then went on to spot my first ever yellow sea glass. Powerful moments of glimmer when things have felt bleak ✨
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Absolute joy at finding my first ever ammonite fossil on the beach today! I’ve dreamt of finding one for years and this is such a perfect specimen. Then went on to spot my first ever yellow sea glass. Powerful moments of glimmer when things have felt bleak ✨
Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵
Working on an award application for my PhD and it requires two references. The way my heart sunk when I started to write down Justin Edward’s name for referee 2 and stopped 💔
I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.
I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.
January 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Working on an award application for my PhD and it requires two references. The way my heart sunk when I started to write down Justin Edward’s name for referee 2 and stopped 💔
I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.
I don’t really feel like I’d have a chance anyways with this application because it’s merit based and I feel merit less.
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Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day
Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day
January 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day
Audible is allowing returns of Neil Gaiman purchases. Up to 3 items/day
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If I were a company called “MasterClass,” I might consider taking down my Neil Gaiman course right now
MasterClass | Neil Gaiman Teaches the Art of Storytelling
Award-winning author Neil Gaiman teaches his approach to imaginative storytelling and creating vivid fictional worlds in his first-ever MasterClass.
www.masterclass.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were a company called “MasterClass,” I might consider taking down my Neil Gaiman course right now
I’ve never recycled a book that wasn’t damaged before in my life (usually just give them away), but the four books that were on my shelf by this vile person are now, literally, in the (recycling) bin. This was so much worse than I expected.
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’ve never recycled a book that wasn’t damaged before in my life (usually just give them away), but the four books that were on my shelf by this vile person are now, literally, in the (recycling) bin. This was so much worse than I expected.
Gothicist folk, does anyone have access to a pdf/ebook copy of "Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past" edited by Karen Grumberg?
December 2, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Gothicist folk, does anyone have access to a pdf/ebook copy of "Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past" edited by Karen Grumberg?
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CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
CFP OGOM Conference 2025: Sea changes - Open Graves, Open Minds
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025 Full fathom five thy fathe...
www.opengravesopenminds.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
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Hi folks, so I set up a #Hauntology starter pack. Please share. If you want to be added/removed, please say.
go.bsky.app/ES7F8rg
go.bsky.app/ES7F8rg
November 20, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Hi folks, so I set up a #Hauntology starter pack. Please share. If you want to be added/removed, please say.
go.bsky.app/ES7F8rg
go.bsky.app/ES7F8rg
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This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the over 350 trans people killed globally this year, and many more who have died by suicide.
These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism.
We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.
These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism.
We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 PM
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the over 350 trans people killed globally this year, and many more who have died by suicide.
These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism.
We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.
These are the violent consequences of anti-trans extremism.
We won’t rest until everyone in our society has dignity, freedom and safety.
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I've made a starter pack for folk horror and folklore. It's pretty bare bones right now--don't hesitate to let me know if you want to be added if you do art, music, fiction, or research. It's being a little glitchy about letting me add people right now, but I'll figure it out!
go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA
go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA
November 8, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I've made a starter pack for folk horror and folklore. It's pretty bare bones right now--don't hesitate to let me know if you want to be added if you do art, music, fiction, or research. It's being a little glitchy about letting me add people right now, but I'll figure it out!
go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA
go.bsky.app/Fo9dTVA
Hi folks, it’s time for a wee introduction! My name is Kristy, and I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Here’s a pinned thread regarding my research on ecofeminism and the ecoGothic in contemporary speculative fiction that engages with the climate crisis!
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Hi folks, it’s time for a wee introduction! My name is Kristy, and I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Westminster. Here’s a pinned thread regarding my research on ecofeminism and the ecoGothic in contemporary speculative fiction that engages with the climate crisis!
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Copied from Twitter:
We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference!
19th and 20th June - hybrid form
Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2!
This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and
@HRCWarwick
We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference!
19th and 20th June - hybrid form
Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2!
This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and
@HRCWarwick
November 15, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Copied from Twitter:
We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference!
19th and 20th June - hybrid form
Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2!
This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and
@HRCWarwick
We are so excited to officially launch the CfP for the 'Women in World-Literature: Climate Crisis and Contagion' conference!
19th and 20th June - hybrid form
Check out the website tinyurl.com/WIWL2!
This event is supported by the IAS Warwick and
@HRCWarwick
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Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2
November 14, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2