S. M. Carroll
@smcarroll.bsky.social
Academic Blue Sky for Siobhan Maria Carroll. Victorian Studies, Romantism, 18C Studies, Science Fiction, Environmental Humanities. Short reviews of things I love and occasional gardening complaints.
Your yearly reminder: Oct 1st means Spooky Season has begun!
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Your yearly reminder: Oct 1st means Spooky Season has begun!
Oooh. New book in the mail today: Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies!
February 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Oooh. New book in the mail today: Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies!
The Federal grant and loan freeze has been rescinded.
January 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Federal grant and loan freeze has been rescinded.
How did I not know about anthropomorphic virus smut? KISSING THE CORONAVIRUS is about a scientist hired to “cure the Coronavirus… but instead she fell in love with it.” Called a “masterwork of bad erotica” on its publication in 2020.
2020 really was an insane year, folks.
2020 really was an insane year, folks.
January 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
How did I not know about anthropomorphic virus smut? KISSING THE CORONAVIRUS is about a scientist hired to “cure the Coronavirus… but instead she fell in love with it.” Called a “masterwork of bad erotica” on its publication in 2020.
2020 really was an insane year, folks.
2020 really was an insane year, folks.
Nosferatu gets a solid thumbs up from me both for its 19c vampire/ feminist content and for its determination to make vampires monstrous again.
December 31, 2024 at 3:23 AM
Nosferatu gets a solid thumbs up from me both for its 19c vampire/ feminist content and for its determination to make vampires monstrous again.
Today I’ve been reading some good recent publications on canals: first Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s article in Eighteenth Century Studies, and now this promising book by Jodie Matthews. Any history that proposes using a barge as an Orlando-style transhistorical protagonist has my attention!
December 4, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Today I’ve been reading some good recent publications on canals: first Fredrik Albritton Jonsson’s article in Eighteenth Century Studies, and now this promising book by Jodie Matthews. Any history that proposes using a barge as an Orlando-style transhistorical protagonist has my attention!
Head’s up MS word users!
Instructions on how to turn off AI bots in Word.
Instructions on how to turn off AI bots in Word.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Head’s up MS word users!
Instructions on how to turn off AI bots in Word.
Instructions on how to turn off AI bots in Word.
Doing the positive content thing. Here are some photos from my recent research trip to England. Thinking about responses to political and environmental crises across centuries.
November 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Doing the positive content thing. Here are some photos from my recent research trip to England. Thinking about responses to political and environmental crises across centuries.
Your annual reminder.
October 1, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Your annual reminder.
Today was mostly a service day (sigh). But I’m getting in some eco-reading at the end of it:
September 19, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Today was mostly a service day (sigh). But I’m getting in some eco-reading at the end of it:
In case you missed it one Twitter - this may become one of my favorite book blurbs ever
September 19, 2023 at 6:52 PM
In case you missed it one Twitter - this may become one of my favorite book blurbs ever