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S. M. Carroll
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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
Oooh. New book in the mail today: Allison Carruth’s Novel Ecologies!
February 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Federal grant and loan freeze has been rescinded.
January 29, 2025 at 7:03 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.
January 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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
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
Head’s up MS word users!
Instructions on how to turn off AI bots in Word.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 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.
November 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Your annual reminder.
October 1, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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
In case you missed it one Twitter - this may become one of my favorite book blurbs ever
September 19, 2023 at 6:52 PM