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Kristy Strange
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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
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
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/
April 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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
Nothing beats being able to do some thinking and writing by the seaside 💙🩵
January 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This year, I had a book chapter published titled ‘Death as the Eye of the Storm’ in the collection ‘Death in the 21st-Century: A Companion’ edited by Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon and Simon Bacon.
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 PM
2023 Reading Wrap Up!

Total books read: 80 // Fiction: 51 // Non-fiction: 13 // Short story collections: 10 // Poetry collections: 6 // Translated: 12 // Children’s: 21 // Classics: 4 // Plays: 1 // Graphic novels: 2 // BIPOC authors: 22 // E-books: 21 // Audiobooks: 4
January 12, 2024 at 9:38 PM
A fantastic, 5-star read! In the top 3 books I’ve read this year. Absolutely devoured The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke 🖤 A potential contender for my PhD thesis as well… I’ll certainly need to pick up a paperback edition eventually too 🤔
October 15, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Latest LEGO build - Bird of Paradise 🧡💜

Botanical collection complete!
October 7, 2023 at 12:05 PM
I’ve had this device for a decade and just discovered I can have a personalised screensaver, which actually works as a screensaver (unlike Kindle). I’ll definitely be doing this for my Elipsa 2E as well. Kobo for life! 📚
October 5, 2023 at 1:41 PM
I am beyond thrilled to announce that I have been offered a fully-funded PhD studentship to pursue my own research project at the University of Westminster beginning in January 2024! 🥂 🎉 #wearewestminster💛
October 5, 2023 at 9:40 AM