Dr Theadora Jean
@tsjharling.bsky.social
Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
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Dr Theadora Jean
@tsjharling.bsky.social
· Jan 17
If you are worried about conference fees... don't be
Anyone delivering a paper or session at a Romancing the Gothic conference pays nothing to attend and receives an honorarium.
Because why should we ask you to pay to work and kindly share your work with others?
Anyone delivering a paper or session at a Romancing the Gothic conference pays nothing to attend and receives an honorarium.
Because why should we ask you to pay to work and kindly share your work with others?
The Romancing the Gothic Conference 2025 is now open and waiting for your submissions!
A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/c...
A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/c...
Whatever your academic discipline, pls see below for an accessible, inclusive, and common sense approach to dissemination of scholarship. The best thing is that you already have the tools and abilities to implement this model.
‘More men under 50 die in the UK due to suicide than any other reason.
14 men every day die by suicide in the UK.’
Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, 2025.
Today on #InternationalMensDay I think of the 14 we lose today.
The work of dismantling patriarchy has to include all of us.
14 men every day die by suicide in the UK.’
Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, 2025.
Today on #InternationalMensDay I think of the 14 we lose today.
The work of dismantling patriarchy has to include all of us.
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
‘More men under 50 die in the UK due to suicide than any other reason.
14 men every day die by suicide in the UK.’
Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, 2025.
Today on #InternationalMensDay I think of the 14 we lose today.
The work of dismantling patriarchy has to include all of us.
14 men every day die by suicide in the UK.’
Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys, 2025.
Today on #InternationalMensDay I think of the 14 we lose today.
The work of dismantling patriarchy has to include all of us.
‘But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul’
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Gothic
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Gothic
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
‘But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul’
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Gothic
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #Gothic
Going through a deep George Gissing phase, pls share any opinions / criticism / thoughts my way. #victorianlit #19thc #GeorgeGissing #Dickens #victorian #findesiecle #amreading
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Going through a deep George Gissing phase, pls share any opinions / criticism / thoughts my way. #victorianlit #19thc #GeorgeGissing #Dickens #victorian #findesiecle #amreading
Favourite Guardian article of all time bar none 🖤 happy #Gothtober everyone 🖤
Faceless figures and mysterious music: ghost stories from English Heritage sites
Faceless figures and mysterious music: ghost stories from English Heritage sites
Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Favourite Guardian article of all time bar none 🖤 happy #Gothtober everyone 🖤
#Gothtober has commenced #31DaysofHalloween
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#Gothtober has commenced #31DaysofHalloween
This should be framed and placed in the hallways of every Creative Writing course or programme anywhere. 🖤
Dear writers:
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This should be framed and placed in the hallways of every Creative Writing course or programme anywhere. 🖤
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Our book is now open for pre-order! Comes out March 2026 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
With the very wonderful @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social & many more!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
With the very wonderful @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social & many more!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
Women, "Failure" and Academia
Women, “Failure” and Academia examines failures in modern academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academi…
www.bloomsbury.com
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Our book is now open for pre-order! Comes out March 2026 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure
With the very wonderful @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social & many more!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
With the very wonderful @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social & many more!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai...
See also; BAME. How about just asking people how they identify and respecting that?
In light of discourse today, just a little reminder that there is no such thing as the ‘GRT community’. It’s a label that erases and lumps together very distinct communities, with distinct histories and distinct challenges. (1/)
July 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
See also; BAME. How about just asking people how they identify and respecting that?
Looks more like a French remake of Coppola’s film rather than an adaptation of the novel but nevertheless Landry Jones is always wonderfully chilling
and I can’t wait 🖤 #Dracula
and I can’t wait 🖤 #Dracula
There's a new take on #Dracula heading our way this year, with Luc Besson directing. Here's the trailer for the latest iteration.
filmstories.co.uk/news/dracula...
filmstories.co.uk/news/dracula...
Dracula | Luc Besson has had a go, trailer here
There's a new take on Dracula heading our way this year, with Luc Besson directing. Here's the trailer for the latest iteration.
filmstories.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Looks more like a French remake of Coppola’s film rather than an adaptation of the novel but nevertheless Landry Jones is always wonderfully chilling
and I can’t wait 🖤 #Dracula
and I can’t wait 🖤 #Dracula
Yes please especially as it has characters who are people of colour
Banging the “we need a Belinda adaptation” drum.
June 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yes please especially as it has characters who are people of colour
If you like #JaneAusten read this thread.
Well, this has inspired me to do my recs for the week on 18th century women writers!
As Dr Theadora Jean says there's a whole ton of women writing in the 18th century and there are some FANTASTIC reads in there!
Here are 10 recommendations to get you started!
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As Dr Theadora Jean says there's a whole ton of women writing in the 18th century and there are some FANTASTIC reads in there!
Here are 10 recommendations to get you started!
🧵
Re: BBC Arts Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, I’d like to remind everyone that Austen did have predecessors, most notably Fanny Burney, from whom she took the phrase ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
June 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you like #JaneAusten read this thread.
Re: BBC Arts Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, I’d like to remind everyone that Austen did have predecessors, most notably Fanny Burney, from whom she took the phrase ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
June 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Re: BBC Arts Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius, I’d like to remind everyone that Austen did have predecessors, most notably Fanny Burney, from whom she took the phrase ‘Pride and Prejudice’ in
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
Burney’s novel Cecilia. Wonderful as Austen is she does have a female literary heritage to draw from
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Thrilled by this review for ‘The Roma’ in The Observer, calling it a ‘an exhilarating history of resistance’
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The heavy burden of the Roma | The Observer
Personal experience bolsters this history of hostility towards – and envy of – a people hounded in Britain and Europe for centuries
observer.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Thrilled by this review for ‘The Roma’ in The Observer, calling it a ‘an exhilarating history of resistance’
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Preach
One thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.
May 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Preach
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If you’re in London on 28 May, why not come along to Foyles for a panel on New Romani writing, with Damian Le Bas, Karen Downs-Barton, and myself? Register 👇
www.foyles.co.uk/events/new-r...
www.foyles.co.uk/events/new-r...
www.foyles.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you’re in London on 28 May, why not come along to Foyles for a panel on New Romani writing, with Damian Le Bas, Karen Downs-Barton, and myself? Register 👇
www.foyles.co.uk/events/new-r...
www.foyles.co.uk/events/new-r...
She truly did 🖤
I think about this all the time when people slag off teenage girls
I think about this all the time when people slag off teenage girls
Mary Shelley at eighteen made up some wild shit and changed the world forever.
March 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
She truly did 🖤
I think about this all the time when people slag off teenage girls
I think about this all the time when people slag off teenage girls
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Today marks the anniversary of the abolition of Roma slavery on territories of present-day Romania. It’s an overlooked aspect of history.
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
The Roma
The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widel...
www.penguin.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today marks the anniversary of the abolition of Roma slavery on territories of present-day Romania. It’s an overlooked aspect of history.
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
I consider this in my book, The Roma: A Travelling History, which I’m very glad to say will be out in May.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/456889...
‘But it comforts me to think he is in Heaven, for no one could have been better than he was. He lived only for us, and his life was a most troubled one…’
I need there to be a proper biography on Le Fanu, he is one of our best writers and yet so overlooked….🖤
I need there to be a proper biography on Le Fanu, he is one of our best writers and yet so overlooked….🖤
THE PASSING OF LE FANU
"My darling father died on Friday morning [7 February]. He had almost got over a bad attack of Bronchitis but his strength gave way & he sank very quickly & died in his sleep. His face looks so happy with a beautiful smile on it."
swanriverpress.ie/2016/02/the-...
"My darling father died on Friday morning [7 February]. He had almost got over a bad attack of Bronchitis but his strength gave way & he sank very quickly & died in his sleep. His face looks so happy with a beautiful smile on it."
swanriverpress.ie/2016/02/the-...
February 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
‘But it comforts me to think he is in Heaven, for no one could have been better than he was. He lived only for us, and his life was a most troubled one…’
I need there to be a proper biography on Le Fanu, he is one of our best writers and yet so overlooked….🖤
I need there to be a proper biography on Le Fanu, he is one of our best writers and yet so overlooked….🖤
@gutenberg.org pls create an app with your content. I would happily pay a monthly subscription to you or a make one-off payment. You are a trustworthy source of our literary heritage & I’d rather give you money than other providers.
February 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@gutenberg.org pls create an app with your content. I would happily pay a monthly subscription to you or a make one-off payment. You are a trustworthy source of our literary heritage & I’d rather give you money than other providers.
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
February 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
We do live in Gothic times, now and always 🖤
The day has arrived!
‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’ is now available to pre-order.
We live in Gothic times.
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
‘Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction’ is now available to pre-order.
We live in Gothic times.
www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...
Gothic Precarity | UWP
www.uwp.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We do live in Gothic times, now and always 🖤
Whatever your academic discipline, pls see below for an accessible, inclusive, and common sense approach to dissemination of scholarship. The best thing is that you already have the tools and abilities to implement this model.
If you are worried about conference fees... don't be
Anyone delivering a paper or session at a Romancing the Gothic conference pays nothing to attend and receives an honorarium.
Because why should we ask you to pay to work and kindly share your work with others?
Anyone delivering a paper or session at a Romancing the Gothic conference pays nothing to attend and receives an honorarium.
Because why should we ask you to pay to work and kindly share your work with others?
The Romancing the Gothic Conference 2025 is now open and waiting for your submissions!
A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/c...
A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales
Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/c...
January 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Whatever your academic discipline, pls see below for an accessible, inclusive, and common sense approach to dissemination of scholarship. The best thing is that you already have the tools and abilities to implement this model.
There is a category on Netflix titled ‘What Are We Doing To Our Children And Our Planet’
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January 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There is a category on Netflix titled ‘What Are We Doing To Our Children And Our Planet’
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This is a perfect read for Gothmas, of my favourite Christmas film 🖤 & although this was far from the point of the blog, I now find myself amusingly disgusted by the abject ‘goo’ of the butterfly cocoon….
👻New Christmas blog post alert!👻 As per your vote, this one is about Gremlins and the Abject. Nothing says Christmas like the ability to cause societal chaos 🎁
lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...
lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/t...
The ‘I’ in Mogwai: Gremlins and the Abject.
“I warned you. With mogwai comes much responsibility. But you didn’t listen.” Gremlins is a horror film, but not for the reasons you think. The 1984 horror-comedy film Gremlins directed…
lincolngothicgroup.wordpress.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:26 PM
This is a perfect read for Gothmas, of my favourite Christmas film 🖤 & although this was far from the point of the blog, I now find myself amusingly disgusted by the abject ‘goo’ of the butterfly cocoon….
I need a #ShirleyJackson scholar to remind me of the quotation from Jackson, something about each generation facing their own evil and needing to defeat it.
If anyone can advise it would really me get through this current political moment / American nightmare
If anyone can advise it would really me get through this current political moment / American nightmare
November 18, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I need a #ShirleyJackson scholar to remind me of the quotation from Jackson, something about each generation facing their own evil and needing to defeat it.
If anyone can advise it would really me get through this current political moment / American nightmare
If anyone can advise it would really me get through this current political moment / American nightmare