Sophie Franklin
@sophiefranklin.bsky.social
DOROTHY MSCA postdoc at UCD and University of Reading • Victorian literature, violence, health, contagion, afterlives • Associate Editor of Brontë Studies • 'Violence and the Brontës', out now with EUP • she/her
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Violence and the Brontës
Violence and the Brontës
edinburghuniversitypress.com
My book, 'Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives', is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It's the first major study of violence in the Brontës' fiction and afterlives, and I'd be thrilled if you ordered a copy for your library:
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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📅 Join us on Tuesday 4 November for a seminar on Violence, Trauma & Memory: The Causes and Impacts of Moral Injury. This hybrid event is free to attend either in person at the Institute for Medical Humanities, or online.
Find out more and book tickets:
Find out more and book tickets:
IMH Violence, Trauma & Memory: The Causes and Impacts of Moral Injury
A seminar on the impact and causes of moral injury (the enduring presence of negative emotions) and the possibilities for repair and change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
📅 Join us on Tuesday 4 November for a seminar on Violence, Trauma & Memory: The Causes and Impacts of Moral Injury. This hybrid event is free to attend either in person at the Institute for Medical Humanities, or online.
Find out more and book tickets:
Find out more and book tickets:
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The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
sshm.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
📣 Myself, Lara Ehrenfried, and Nikolina Hatton have established a new literary network, the Women Writing Violence Network, to foster a cross-historical approach.
We're having our launch event on 23 October at 14:00 (CET). All very welcome!
Zoom details here:
wwvnetwork.wordpress.com/meetings-eve...
We're having our launch event on 23 October at 14:00 (CET). All very welcome!
Zoom details here:
wwvnetwork.wordpress.com/meetings-eve...
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣 Myself, Lara Ehrenfried, and Nikolina Hatton have established a new literary network, the Women Writing Violence Network, to foster a cross-historical approach.
We're having our launch event on 23 October at 14:00 (CET). All very welcome!
Zoom details here:
wwvnetwork.wordpress.com/meetings-eve...
We're having our launch event on 23 October at 14:00 (CET). All very welcome!
Zoom details here:
wwvnetwork.wordpress.com/meetings-eve...
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🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
October 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
My book, 'Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives', is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It's the first major study of violence in the Brontës' fiction and afterlives, and I'd be thrilled if you ordered a copy for your library:
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
Violence and the Brontës
Violence and the Brontës
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My book, 'Violence and the Brontës: Language, Reception, Afterlives', is out now with @edinburghup.bsky.social! It's the first major study of violence in the Brontës' fiction and afterlives, and I'd be thrilled if you ordered a copy for your library:
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc...
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@sophiefranklin.bsky.social’s book on Violence and the Brontës is now available for purchase at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc... Learn more about the book in Sophie’s blog post below!
October 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@sophiefranklin.bsky.social’s book on Violence and the Brontës is now available for purchase at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-violenc... Learn more about the book in Sophie’s blog post below!
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Delighted to share our Call for Papers for the workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine 1700-1900*. Taking place online on 5 December. Pls share and consider submitting an object story! @rebeccawhiteley.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...
Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900 - University of Birmingham
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www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Inspired by Emerald Fennell's upcoming 'Wuthering Heights' adaptation, and in anticipation of my book coming out with @edinburghup.bsky.social this month, I've written a post for the EUP blog about the role of violence in some recent Brontë afterlives:
euppublishingblog.com/2025/09/22/v...
euppublishingblog.com/2025/09/22/v...
Violence in Brontë Afterlives - Edinburgh University Press Blog
Explore five adaptations of Brontë novels that amplify violence, from Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre, reshaping the Brontës’ enduring cultural impact.
euppublishingblog.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Inspired by Emerald Fennell's upcoming 'Wuthering Heights' adaptation, and in anticipation of my book coming out with @edinburghup.bsky.social this month, I've written a post for the EUP blog about the role of violence in some recent Brontë afterlives:
euppublishingblog.com/2025/09/22/v...
euppublishingblog.com/2025/09/22/v...
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✨Call for reviewers ✨
There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter.
It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review.
Full details here 👇
bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/
There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter.
It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review.
Full details here 👇
bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/
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bavs.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
✨Call for reviewers ✨
There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter.
It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review.
Full details here 👇
bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/
There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter.
It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review.
Full details here 👇
bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
September 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5
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Opening tomorrow: our latest display and exhibit, connecting the life and work of beloved author Jane Austen to rural England!
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Opening tomorrow: our latest display and exhibit, connecting the life and work of beloved author Jane Austen to rural England!
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
We'll be opening the exhibit with a gallery tour, led by MERL's Isabel Hughes and @uniofreading.bsky.social's Professor Paddy Bullard:
merl.reading.ac.uk/event/monthl...
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Notice; An upcoming talk as part of my Schools 10th anniversary seminar series - ‘The Coloniality of Sexual Violence’ by Prof Alison Phipps, Sept, 10, 4pm, UCD - venue details & booking below (through QR code) all welcome #speirgorm
September 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Notice; An upcoming talk as part of my Schools 10th anniversary seminar series - ‘The Coloniality of Sexual Violence’ by Prof Alison Phipps, Sept, 10, 4pm, UCD - venue details & booking below (through QR code) all welcome #speirgorm
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The 2025 prize is now open! (deadline: 30th September 2025). The prize offers the winning scholar two nights' accommodation (with breakfast and dinner) for up to three days' research at Gladstone's Library. To find out more about eligibility and process: victorianpopularfiction.org/mary-eliza-r...
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The 2025 prize is now open! (deadline: 30th September 2025). The prize offers the winning scholar two nights' accommodation (with breakfast and dinner) for up to three days' research at Gladstone's Library. To find out more about eligibility and process: victorianpopularfiction.org/mary-eliza-r...
I wrote a blogpost with an update on my DOROTHY MSCA COFUND fellowship, specifically my time @uor-research.bsky.social and @chhuor.bsky.social – it's been a jam-packed 18 months! 💥
dorothy.ie/2025/08/21/d...
dorothy.ie/2025/08/21/d...
Dr Sophie Franklin: Tracing Stories of Violence and Health, from the Past to the Present | DOROTHY
My research explores how violence has often been treated as a public health crisis from the nineteenth century to the present day. I look at
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August 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote a blogpost with an update on my DOROTHY MSCA COFUND fellowship, specifically my time @uor-research.bsky.social and @chhuor.bsky.social – it's been a jam-packed 18 months! 💥
dorothy.ie/2025/08/21/d...
dorothy.ie/2025/08/21/d...
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Fab day at the ‘Violence, Health and Health Humanities’ event at the University of Reading today. Congrats to #sophiefranklin.bsky.social, who organised the event as part of her work supported by the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Fellowship programme.
June 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Fab day at the ‘Violence, Health and Health Humanities’ event at the University of Reading today. Congrats to #sophiefranklin.bsky.social, who organised the event as part of her work supported by the DOROTHY MSCA COFUND Fellowship programme.
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good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom
against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
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Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project.
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Premodern Transgressive Literatures | Medieval Institute Publications | Western Michigan University
wmich.edu
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project.
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
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Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Now on the BARS Blog: CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies
See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098
Please share far and wide!
See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098
Please share far and wide!
CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Now on the BARS Blog: CFP for Transromanticism Volume: Romantic Trans Phenomenologies
See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098
Please share far and wide!
See all info/how to submit here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6098
Please share far and wide!
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🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here:
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson (9781739207762) - Taproot Press UK
Marking two hundred and fifty years since the death of Robert Fergusson, this collection of poems in Scottish, English and Gaelic from Scotland's most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke...
taprootpressuk.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social and I are excited to announce the publication on 1 September of a new collection of poems in response to Robert Fergusson's life, works, and legacies, published with the brilliant Taproot Press! You can pre-order the book here:
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
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📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Mediating Medicine CfP_final.pdf
cloud.uni-konstanz - creative.together
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July 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
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Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026.
www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026.
www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work CSECS | Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
We are seeking contributions for an upcoming volume on Mary Wollstonecraft.
Dealine for submissions: January 15, 2026.
www.csecs.ca
June 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Call for papers | Routledge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft: Wollstonecraft at Work
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026.
www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026.
www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
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🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
June 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨Historians of drink, drugs, sex, crime, law, #police🚨
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed
CfP 'Policing and #PublicHealth, c.1800-2000' workshop www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
[typo in description: we *may* be able to make a small travel contribution]
#HistSTM #LegalHist #HistSex #HistGender #HistMed