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Katie MacLean
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PhD student at Stirling Uni researching stage adaptations of Jane Austen's work / Fundraising Intern at Glasgow Zine Library / RRR Journal's Deputy Editor 📚✨🎭
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November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thanks everyone who came to hear my paper on 'Jane Austen and Scotland' at Stirling's Eighteenth Century Studies Group!

We had some interesting discussion about Austen, race, and English depcitions of the Scottish in 18th c. literature. Also reflecting on adaptations like this 2023 Mansfield Park
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“For someone who’s never read Pride and Prejudice, I would desribe it like Love Island on a stately home.”

- Harris Dickinson, Audible’s new Mr Darcy

Just the most recent of 100s of instances of people comparing Austen and LI (including Helen Warner + Horrible Histories!)
October 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Charli XCX on Lord Byron - interesting! Excited to see this film (Erupcja)
September 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My time as Glasgow Zine Library's funding intern has come to an end! I am so grateful to @sgsah.bsky.social for offering paid internships for PGRs. The team at GZL were so welcoming and attentive to my development needs (I leave the role with a PVG, 420+ hours of experience, and SO MANY ZINES)
September 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
RRR Journal is now accepting abstracts for our 2026 Conference! I’m thrilled to be hosting at my home institution as the journal's incoming Editor in Chief.

With generous BAVS funding, we’re also offering travel bursaries up to £100 for eligible PGR & ECR delegates.

📅 Abstract Deadline: 22 Sept
July 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A mad dash to Chawton House to see the new Sisters of the Pen exhibition before my flight! Beautiful! Grandison is on display! First editions everywhere!
July 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Goodbye to #GlobalAusten250 from myself and 3D printed Jane, who will now watch over my desk side eyeing my writing 👀
July 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
joking (not really) but here is a funny excerpt from Austen's juvenile work Lesley Castle c.1792 to help us reflect during this hopeful time......
May 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I was honoured last week to be a highly commended runner-up for the 2024 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize! The prize giving was held in the historic John Murray Publishing Rooms (a joy for any Austen scholar), and presented by this year's chair of judges, Tom Holland.
May 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I am delighted to be shortlisted for the 2024 Keats-Shelley Essay Prize! I wrote about The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a queer adaptation of Frankenstein. You can read all of the shortlisted essays here:

keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I am very lucky to be doing some digitising training today at the Glasgow Zine Library with their amazing archivist, Nic 👩🏻‍💻

All as part of my @sgsah.bsky.social internship! 🙏🏼
March 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
And something interesting for the book historians!
January 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I have a research interest in the intersection between amateur theatricals, gender, and costume/crossdressing, so it was really interesting to read about Irish soldiers crossdressing in their DIY performances abroad.
January 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We followed Tom’s recommendation to go see the Republican proclamation at the National Museum for free, rather than pay to see it at Trinity College. The museum had a brilliant exhibition about Irish soldiers
January 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
absolutely adored my wee weekend away in Dublin, where there was a literary figure waiting for me at every corner/bridge/cathedral/bar!! 🇮🇪
January 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Amazing
December 25, 2024 at 10:58 PM
No christmas tree is complete without an overpriced JA bauble. Can someone tell me why ‘Mr Knightley’ cost 50p more than her?
November 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM