Dr Silvia E Storti
@silviaelisa22.bsky.social
Early career researcher specialised in fairy tales and villainy | adaptations, reworkings, and retellings
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24 hours of free online talks and Q&As
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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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September 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
24 hours of free online talks and Q&As
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Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō
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‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4
August 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4
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‘English is by far the largest Humanities subject at A Level. Overall, more students took one of the three English A Level than any other humanities A Level ; around 30% more than took the next most popular subject (History)’ 3/4
August 14, 2025 at 6:12 PM
‘English is by far the largest Humanities subject at A Level. Overall, more students took one of the three English A Level than any other humanities A Level ; around 30% more than took the next most popular subject (History)’ 3/4
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The takeup of gen AI in academia symptomises an obsession with speed and productivity over research and critical thinking. We're continually given crazy and arbitrary deadlines to mark work/return proofs/review articles/submit publications/respond to grant reviews. It's corrosive and unnecessary.
August 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The takeup of gen AI in academia symptomises an obsession with speed and productivity over research and critical thinking. We're continually given crazy and arbitrary deadlines to mark work/return proofs/review articles/submit publications/respond to grant reviews. It's corrosive and unnecessary.
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Call for chapters for an edited collection published by Routledge: "Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative."
Abstracts are due by 1 October.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/...
Abstracts are due by 1 October.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
July 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Call for chapters for an edited collection published by Routledge: "Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative."
Abstracts are due by 1 October.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/...
Abstracts are due by 1 October.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/...
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We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!
We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.
Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.
Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
July 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!
We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.
Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.
Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
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CFP: Are you working on any aspect of folklore and want to publish your research as a short book of 20-30k words?
@cambridgeup.bsky.social's new series Elements in Folklore is now seeking proposals - please email me drfrancisyoung@outlook.com if you'd like a proposal form #cfp #folklore
@cambridgeup.bsky.social's new series Elements in Folklore is now seeking proposals - please email me drfrancisyoung@outlook.com if you'd like a proposal form #cfp #folklore
May 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
CFP: Are you working on any aspect of folklore and want to publish your research as a short book of 20-30k words?
@cambridgeup.bsky.social's new series Elements in Folklore is now seeking proposals - please email me drfrancisyoung@outlook.com if you'd like a proposal form #cfp #folklore
@cambridgeup.bsky.social's new series Elements in Folklore is now seeking proposals - please email me drfrancisyoung@outlook.com if you'd like a proposal form #cfp #folklore
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Architect Alfred Waterhouse born #OTD 1830 to a Liverpool Quaker family. Buildings include Manchester Town Hall, London’s Natural History Museum, Liverpool University's Victoria building. His love of red brick and terracotta led to him being nicknamed 'Slaughterhouse Waterhouse'.
July 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Architect Alfred Waterhouse born #OTD 1830 to a Liverpool Quaker family. Buildings include Manchester Town Hall, London’s Natural History Museum, Liverpool University's Victoria building. His love of red brick and terracotta led to him being nicknamed 'Slaughterhouse Waterhouse'.
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It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research
Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall – but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet
It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research
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July 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research
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Schrödinger's academic humanities: Both so irrelevant in the modern world that no one wants to take our classes, and so powerful that we can singlehandedly convert our students to cultural Marxism.
July 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Schrödinger's academic humanities: Both so irrelevant in the modern world that no one wants to take our classes, and so powerful that we can singlehandedly convert our students to cultural Marxism.
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There’s a lot to be said for saying nothing. Never happened to me but still.
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There’s a lot to be said for saying nothing. Never happened to me but still.
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📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15th September 2025.
More info 👇
www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15th September 2025.
More info 👇
www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship
Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.
www.london.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15th September 2025.
More info 👇
www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.
Deadline: 15th September 2025.
More info 👇
www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
First time attending a @vpfa.bsky.social event and #VPFAExtremes made it so easy, I almost forgot this was my first full on multi-day conference in two years! Had a lovely time, and I gave my paper today, and it went fine, and people seemed to enjoy it, which is the important stuff. I’ll be back!
July 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
First time attending a @vpfa.bsky.social event and #VPFAExtremes made it so easy, I almost forgot this was my first full on multi-day conference in two years! Had a lovely time, and I gave my paper today, and it went fine, and people seemed to enjoy it, which is the important stuff. I’ll be back!
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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)'
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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'
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Fowler says she finds walking a useful methodology because it allows her to situate herself in the landscape and understand why certain places were valued above others #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Fowler says she finds walking a useful methodology because it allows her to situate herself in the landscape and understand why certain places were valued above others #VPFAExtremes
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in a fascinating intersection of labour and colonial history, Ghandi visited Lancashire in 1931 to discuss the impact of the Indian boycott of British goods (particularly cotton) on the textile industry #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
in a fascinating intersection of labour and colonial history, Ghandi visited Lancashire in 1931 to discuss the impact of the Indian boycott of British goods (particularly cotton) on the textile industry #VPFAExtremes
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Take a look at Fowler’s book ‘Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire’. She has an opium walk through the Lake District and more. It is a useful way of understanding what our colonial histories in this country are #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Take a look at Fowler’s book ‘Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire’. She has an opium walk through the Lake District and more. It is a useful way of understanding what our colonial histories in this country are #VPFAExtremes
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Now for our final keynote of the conference, Corinne Fowler with her talk 'The Impact of Empire on the Countryside, 1837-1901' #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Now for our final keynote of the conference, Corinne Fowler with her talk 'The Impact of Empire on the Countryside, 1837-1901' #VPFAExtremes
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Edwardian spy fiction activated the idea of the chivalrous gentleman hero who is loyal to country, class, and kingdom. Ouida sets her spy fiction in the glamorous courtly world of high society and manipulates ideas of powerful men #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Edwardian spy fiction activated the idea of the chivalrous gentleman hero who is loyal to country, class, and kingdom. Ouida sets her spy fiction in the glamorous courtly world of high society and manipulates ideas of powerful men #VPFAExtremes
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Adventure fiction often features a hero ‘whose connection to his world is eccentric, who cannot or does not accept the strictures of that world [...] undergoes many improbable adventures, and finally abandons the exotic and reintegrates into the adult world’ #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Adventure fiction often features a hero ‘whose connection to his world is eccentric, who cannot or does not accept the strictures of that world [...] undergoes many improbable adventures, and finally abandons the exotic and reintegrates into the adult world’ #VPFAExtremes
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finally we have Helena Esser discussing Ouida's spy fiction! Ouida is often discussed as a sensation writer, but Esser says that discussions are lacking with regards to her as a writer of adventure fiction #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
finally we have Helena Esser discussing Ouida's spy fiction! Ouida is often discussed as a sensation writer, but Esser says that discussions are lacking with regards to her as a writer of adventure fiction #VPFAExtremes
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her writing asserts the permeability of geographical borders and finds new ways of asserting multilingual and multicultural identities. The mountains, particularly, represent a place where the world convenes and how she understood her own multicultural identity #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
her writing asserts the permeability of geographical borders and finds new ways of asserting multilingual and multicultural identities. The mountains, particularly, represent a place where the world convenes and how she understood her own multicultural identity #VPFAExtremes
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Collier writes ‘that “other side of Italy” where we had made up our mind to settle [...] I should see Italian ways in all their unsullied primitiveness’. Collier's use of 'primitiveness' reflects not an opinion on class, but an interest in their connection to nature #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Collier writes ‘that “other side of Italy” where we had made up our mind to settle [...] I should see Italian ways in all their unsullied primitiveness’. Collier's use of 'primitiveness' reflects not an opinion on class, but an interest in their connection to nature #VPFAExtremes