Madeline Potter
@madelinepotter.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
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I beg, look me up before you state basic facts about my area of research to me like you are bestowing a revelation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I beg, look me up before you state basic facts about my area of research to me like you are bestowing a revelation.
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Not just my Romani friends, any Romani person speaking up. So, here is a load of information that can get you started, basically. Now, go do some research and listen to actual Romani people. A good history intro? Here you go. 102/
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Not just my Romani friends, any Romani person speaking up. So, here is a load of information that can get you started, basically. Now, go do some research and listen to actual Romani people. A good history intro? Here you go. 102/
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Not just my Romani friends, any Romani person speaking up. So, here is a load of information that can get you started, basically. Now, go do some research and listen to actual Romani people. A good history intro? Here you go. 102/
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For Madeline's excellent talk on this subject (which I draw on strongly in this thread), see this video! 13/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDW...
Son of the fortune-teller: Heathcliff's Racialisation in 'Wuthering Heights' with Dr Madeline Potter
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
For Madeline's excellent talk on this subject (which I draw on strongly in this thread), see this video! 13/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDW...
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As Potter explains here, the ambiguity of Heathcliff's identity feeds into contemporary constructions of the Roma as unknowable, mysterious or uncanny. 12/
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
As Potter explains here, the ambiguity of Heathcliff's identity feeds into contemporary constructions of the Roma as unknowable, mysterious or uncanny. 12/
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One would need to be of a particularly rash and unwise disposition to gainsay @madelinepotter.bsky.social on this.
Racists, she's thought harder on this than you, understands this better than you ever could, and is so much smarter than you it's unfair. Go home, you're embarrassing yourselves.
Racists, she's thought harder on this than you, understands this better than you ever could, and is so much smarter than you it's unfair. Go home, you're embarrassing yourselves.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
One would need to be of a particularly rash and unwise disposition to gainsay @madelinepotter.bsky.social on this.
Racists, she's thought harder on this than you, understands this better than you ever could, and is so much smarter than you it's unfair. Go home, you're embarrassing yourselves.
Racists, she's thought harder on this than you, understands this better than you ever could, and is so much smarter than you it's unfair. Go home, you're embarrassing yourselves.
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First up, Wuthering Heights and it's adaptations have nothing to do with race, right? That's what (certain people) like to tell us.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
First up, Wuthering Heights and it's adaptations have nothing to do with race, right? That's what (certain people) like to tell us.
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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Finally got my hands on a copy of @madelinepotter.bsky.social’s The Roma: A Travelling History. At last, our history by a scholar who is Romani.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Finally got my hands on a copy of @madelinepotter.bsky.social’s The Roma: A Travelling History. At last, our history by a scholar who is Romani.
‘The Roma’ in Cărtureşti Verona in Bucharest! Thank you @encyclopaediac.bsky.social
for sharing ☺️
for sharing ☺️
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
‘The Roma’ in Cărtureşti Verona in Bucharest! Thank you @encyclopaediac.bsky.social
for sharing ☺️
for sharing ☺️
My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!
My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My dark stars have somehow aligned: teaching Paradise Lost and MR James on Halloween day!
It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Pierce on the latest episode of ‘O Verda Darano’. We chatted about spooky Romani folklore, vampires, and sorts of revenants in Roma culture, as well as interacting with gothic media as a Roma person. Tune in here
www.deadscaredentertainment.com/overdadarano...
www.deadscaredentertainment.com/overdadarano...
O Verda Darano — Dead Scared Entertainment
www.deadscaredentertainment.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to talk to Pierce on the latest episode of ‘O Verda Darano’. We chatted about spooky Romani folklore, vampires, and sorts of revenants in Roma culture, as well as interacting with gothic media as a Roma person. Tune in here
www.deadscaredentertainment.com/overdadarano...
www.deadscaredentertainment.com/overdadarano...
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I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I was looking up the Cliff Richard Wuthering Heights and found some clips. I laughed so hard I cried and have not stopped laughing. A clip. I really tried not to laugh. The boat remains a mystery.
Delighted to have been interviewed by one of my outstanding students for The Tab about my book ‘The Roma’. To me, meaningful student engagement with this project has been one of the most rewarding parts of the book journey. 🙏 Read it here:
thetab.com/2025/10/20/i...
thetab.com/2025/10/20/i...
Interview: Edinburgh academic Madeline Potter tells the Roma's untold stories in new book
The Tab sat down with Edinburgh University's very own Madeline Potter, to discuss her new book, 'The Roma: A Travelling History'
thetab.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Delighted to have been interviewed by one of my outstanding students for The Tab about my book ‘The Roma’. To me, meaningful student engagement with this project has been one of the most rewarding parts of the book journey. 🙏 Read it here:
thetab.com/2025/10/20/i...
thetab.com/2025/10/20/i...
Oh my goodness the example for the @merriam-webster.com word of the day (‘veritable’) in context is taken from my book, ‘The Roma’ 😳and yes, the Roma are a veritable mosaic 😅
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
Word of the Day: Veritable
Veritable, like its close relative verity ('truth'), came to English through Anglo-French from Latin, ultimately the adjective vērus, meaning 'true,' which also gave English verify, aver, and verdict.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Oh my goodness the example for the @merriam-webster.com word of the day (‘veritable’) in context is taken from my book, ‘The Roma’ 😳and yes, the Roma are a veritable mosaic 😅
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-...
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The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/
What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The conference takes accessibility seriously. This means all our conferences are online and they are free to speakers. We offer accessibility training. We provide slides ahead of time with alt-text, encourage written copies of papers, provide a code of conduct and clear guidelines on the day 1/
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What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
romancingthegothic.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...
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Story time with Tom Waits.
Stop motion animation of Frank’s Wild Years.
#art #artsky #tomwaits #animation #illustration
Stop motion animation of Frank’s Wild Years.
#art #artsky #tomwaits #animation #illustration
October 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Story time with Tom Waits.
Stop motion animation of Frank’s Wild Years.
#art #artsky #tomwaits #animation #illustration
Stop motion animation of Frank’s Wild Years.
#art #artsky #tomwaits #animation #illustration
Tune in to listen to a podcast made live at the Bradford Lit Festival, with me discussing my book, ‘The Roma’, with the brilliant Damian Le Bas:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...
S4: E7 - The Roma: A Travelling History
YouTube video by Bradford Literature Festival
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October 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Tune in to listen to a podcast made live at the Bradford Lit Festival, with me discussing my book, ‘The Roma’, with the brilliant Damian Le Bas:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...
In 1893, Bram Stoker hiked up to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire - it became a partial inspiration for Castle Dracula. Today I was thrilled to be able to see hike up there too and see the ruined castle in all its Gothic glory. Thanks @romgothsam.bsky.social for such a fun day!!
October 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
In 1893, Bram Stoker hiked up to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire - it became a partial inspiration for Castle Dracula. Today I was thrilled to be able to see hike up there too and see the ruined castle in all its Gothic glory. Thanks @romgothsam.bsky.social for such a fun day!!
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What are you doing this October? Reading a spooky short story or poem a day with us? I should hope so!
Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...
Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...
The ‘Scare a Day’ Challenge – October 2025
It’s almost October, which means it’s almost time for the #AScareADay challenge! One poem or scary short-story a day for a whole month. You can read along with us using the links below.…
romancingthegothic.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What are you doing this October? Reading a spooky short story or poem a day with us? I should hope so!
Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...
Join the #AScareADay challenge (or just pick a few stories to read and get some new authors to be a fan of!)
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/21/t...
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If you can only imagine Heathcliff as sexy if he's white, if you don't question move to a white actor in your creation of your fantasy version of Wuthering Heights, if you think 'he's sexy' is an excuse for whitewashing and not a red flag... you're ignoring some pretty obvious problems. 4/
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If you can only imagine Heathcliff as sexy if he's white, if you don't question move to a white actor in your creation of your fantasy version of Wuthering Heights, if you think 'he's sexy' is an excuse for whitewashing and not a red flag... you're ignoring some pretty obvious problems. 4/
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Reading an article this morning on the Elordi casting where Fennell defends the Elordi casting on questions of age and race as 'he looked like the Heathcliff ilustration'in her teenage copy. Her response to the book, she says, was 'primal, sexual' 1/
I'll be here! Talking about adapting Wuthering Heights and the ongoing issues of anti-Romani racism in Gothic studies.
Come join us! (Online)
Come join us! (Online)
October is the best month for some monstrously fun entertainment. On Halloween @cncsi.bsky.social will be hosting a chillingly-good online workshop: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives. I hope you can join us. It will be a real screamer! 👻
Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
Details👇
cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
October 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Reading an article this morning on the Elordi casting where Fennell defends the Elordi casting on questions of age and race as 'he looked like the Heathcliff ilustration'in her teenage copy. Her response to the book, she says, was 'primal, sexual' 1/