Jamie Gorrod
@jamiegorrod.bsky.social
he/him • MA English Literature student
My summer holiday except I apparently exclusively take photos of Things That Are Blue
September 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My summer holiday except I apparently exclusively take photos of Things That Are Blue
Our final paper of the Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures panel at #VPFAExtremes is Cecelia Rose, presenting 'A Fishy Tail: Edward Burne-Jones’s The Depths of the Sea (1886)'
July 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our final paper of the Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures panel at #VPFAExtremes is Cecelia Rose, presenting 'A Fishy Tail: Edward Burne-Jones’s The Depths of the Sea (1886)'
On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'
July 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'
And our final paper of the Science and Imagination 2 panel at #VPFAExtremes today is Eva Chen, with 'The Lady Doctor and the Witch: Women Medical Missionaries in Peace with Honour and The Naulahka'
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
And our final paper of the Science and Imagination 2 panel at #VPFAExtremes today is Eva Chen, with 'The Lady Doctor and the Witch: Women Medical Missionaries in Peace with Honour and The Naulahka'
Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'
On one of the first panels (Science and the Imagination 2) of the final day here at #VPFAExtremes, Alphia Karaseva is talking about ‘Machines Ascendant, Humanity Submerged: Victorian Dystopian Visions of Artificial Intelligence’
July 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
On one of the first panels (Science and the Imagination 2) of the final day here at #VPFAExtremes, Alphia Karaseva is talking about ‘Machines Ascendant, Humanity Submerged: Victorian Dystopian Visions of Artificial Intelligence’
Creatures of the deep also exceed pre-existing taxonomies as strange, hybrid forms - eerie counterparts of terrestrial creatures (some delightfully weird-looking illustrations here)
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Creatures of the deep also exceed pre-existing taxonomies as strange, hybrid forms - eerie counterparts of terrestrial creatures (some delightfully weird-looking illustrations here)
These encounters ‘do strange things to us’ across a vast historical sweep – with Victorian science writings working alongside a Gothic imaginary to influence the later nature writings of figures such as Rachel Carson
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
These encounters ‘do strange things to us’ across a vast historical sweep – with Victorian science writings working alongside a Gothic imaginary to influence the later nature writings of figures such as Rachel Carson
Our first keynote here at #VPFAExtremes is Jimmy Packham with ‘Swimming with Snarks: Submarine Gothic and the Monstrous Deep’, examining the emergence and development of what might be termed a ‘submarine gothic’
July 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Our first keynote here at #VPFAExtremes is Jimmy Packham with ‘Swimming with Snarks: Submarine Gothic and the Monstrous Deep’, examining the emergence and development of what might be termed a ‘submarine gothic’
Whilst men in the novel attempt to rationalise the haunting, the women of the story attempt to understand and to listen – formulating a gendered economy of control vs care
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Whilst men in the novel attempt to rationalise the haunting, the women of the story attempt to understand and to listen – formulating a gendered economy of control vs care
The city is not haunted by individuals, but by a collective – shifting from personal haunting to mass haunting. The mass haunting suggests a political horror, staging the resurfacing of repressed or erased voices in spectral form
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The city is not haunted by individuals, but by a collective – shifting from personal haunting to mass haunting. The mass haunting suggests a political horror, staging the resurfacing of repressed or erased voices in spectral form
Oppressive silence and darkness haunts the city in this novel – characters move through fog, stifled and submerged as if drowning
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Oppressive silence and darkness haunts the city in this novel – characters move through fog, stifled and submerged as if drowning
Informed by theories of the uncanny, ecoGothic, and feminist Gothic, she discusses the slow submersion into psychological uncertainty traced throughout the novel
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Informed by theories of the uncanny, ecoGothic, and feminist Gothic, she discusses the slow submersion into psychological uncertainty traced throughout the novel
‘Busy’ is, notably, used a lot in guidebook discourse – and positively coded! But there’s a distinct tense contrast of this busyness of people with the idea of the way that the seaside used to be, busy with animals and nature
July 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
‘Busy’ is, notably, used a lot in guidebook discourse – and positively coded! But there’s a distinct tense contrast of this busyness of people with the idea of the way that the seaside used to be, busy with animals and nature
She argues that we can trace a compromised view of nature emerging in some of the writing of tourist resorts and brochures, talking about the temperate and tamed holiday-making landscape of the seaside vs its coastal extremes
July 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
She argues that we can trace a compromised view of nature emerging in some of the writing of tourist resorts and brochures, talking about the temperate and tamed holiday-making landscape of the seaside vs its coastal extremes
Finally in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes, Francesca Crisante with her paper ‘In the Whirlpool of an Archaic Curse: The Doom of the Griffiths, by Elizabeth Gaskell’
July 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Finally in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes, Francesca Crisante with her paper ‘In the Whirlpool of an Archaic Curse: The Doom of the Griffiths, by Elizabeth Gaskell’
Second in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes is Eptisum Laskar with ‘Drowning in the Uncanny: Submersion, Psychological Horror and the Abyssal Gothic in Margaret Oliphant’s A Beleaguered City’
July 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Second in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes is Eptisum Laskar with ‘Drowning in the Uncanny: Submersion, Psychological Horror and the Abyssal Gothic in Margaret Oliphant’s A Beleaguered City’
Starting the day at #VPFAExtremes with the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel, and Joanne Knowles’ paper on ‘Improvers, Destroyers and Extremes at the Victorian Seaside’
July 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Starting the day at #VPFAExtremes with the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel, and Joanne Knowles’ paper on ‘Improvers, Destroyers and Extremes at the Victorian Seaside’
I graduated this week with a first class BA in English!! Immeasurably grateful for a wonderful three years at Birmingham, and everyone who made this possible
July 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I graduated this week with a first class BA in English!! Immeasurably grateful for a wonderful three years at Birmingham, and everyone who made this possible
I may not want to think about vampires again for at least a month, but IT’S IN!!!
May 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I may not want to think about vampires again for at least a month, but IT’S IN!!!