Been reading these back to back: One is 1890s decadent gothic, one is 2020s fantasy horror. Both are grotesque and beautiful and raw and weird. Basically, -- *gestures wildly* -- what I want to say is: !!!!!!!!!!!

It's finally here! What an incredibly rich contribution to #TerryPratchett studies. Thank you so much @bretonjustine.bsky.social for your hard work on this project (and in getting my author copy to me!). I am so proud to have a chapter in here. #GNUTerryPratchett

#BAVS2026 Day2: Exploring Oscar, travel, transcultural encounters, modes of gazing & enmeshing, and multiple stages & versions of female embodiment.

Excited to see our collection on Tauchnitz & publishing here at #BAVS2025! There is a little #Ouida chapter in it, too 😉

More #BAVS2025: Exploring travel & Orientalism, the colonial imagery of tea & labour, transatlantic tea rooms, & the domestic masculinity of Japonisme.

Starting #bavs2025 with a really fun séance & a panel in which I fall in love with illustration:

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨

One week to go! Very excited for #VPFA 2025. I'll be hosting a killer reading group about queer cannibals and colonialism AND conclusively proving that #Ouida invented James Bond in my paper. 😎

Seems a good time to say: Hello! I look at #steampunk from a #neoVictorian cultural studies POV, & I wrote a PhD-now-book on what steampunk London tells us about the evolution of genre, media, and city-ness, and how steampunk reflects ideology and popular memory: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/steampunk...

Hello BlueSky! This Wednesday, I am talking about #NeoVictorian TV and #steampunk (using some pretty stylish slides, if I say so myself) for Barbara Braid's amazing online lecture series. You can registere here if you'd like to come along: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Study Day may be over, but you can visit our virtual #Ouida exhibition, curated by Jesse Erickson, for another few weeks! Find out more here:https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/12236246/engaging-with-ouida

It's here! ✨ For all who want to get to know #Ouida through our fabulous collection of experts, here's our Eventbrite. Sign up for free and we'll keep you updated on all things @VPFA1 Study Day! ✨

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Hello BlueSky! You probably know this, but there's a fantastic VPFA Study Day on #Ouida coming up. Proposals due this friday (Oct 6th)- for classic paper or 10 min flash presentations. Full info here: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...