Chris Louttit
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
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@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Another regionalised Christmas Carol, this time focusing on Victorian Leeds & the textile industry & starring Reece Dinsdale as Scrooge. Deborah McAndrew's adaptation has been staged a few times before, so not sure how radical take this Leeds Playhouse one is.
A Christmas Carol - Leeds Playhouse
Join Scrooge on a magical festive journey in A Christmas Carol at Leeds Playhouse packed with music, joy, and redemption for all.
www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Another regionalised Christmas Carol, this time focusing on Victorian Leeds & the textile industry & starring Reece Dinsdale as Scrooge. Deborah McAndrew's adaptation has been staged a few times before, so not sure how radical take this Leeds Playhouse one is.
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It's that time of year again for #Dickens #AChristmasCarol & the #Victorians Join me for a virtual lecture on Dec 3 for #SmithsonianAssociates & learn about plum puddings, workhouses, the Queen, and if Dickens really "invented" #Christmas Details at smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
Dickens, Christmas, and Victorian Society
Apart from celebrating the holiday, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol highlights the stark contrast between London’s wealthy and impoverished. Taking a cue from the Ghost of Christmas Pas...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's that time of year again for #Dickens #AChristmasCarol & the #Victorians Join me for a virtual lecture on Dec 3 for #SmithsonianAssociates & learn about plum puddings, workhouses, the Queen, and if Dickens really "invented" #Christmas Details at smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
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James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born #OTD, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best-known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot & is seen as a progenitor of #Modernism
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The City of Dreadful Night
James Thomson was a Scottish-born poet, atheist and anarchist. He struggled with depression, insomnia and alcohol-abuse throughout his short life and his work frequently reflected the bleakness and…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born #OTD, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best-known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot & is seen as a progenitor of #Modernism
#poetry
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#poetry
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psychogeographicreview.com/the-city-of-...
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I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026:
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
Gulliver’s Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London)
Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee) Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler) Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.) Dates: 23–25 September...
www.fabula.org
November 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I’m looking forward to delivering the plenary lecture at this multidisciplinary conference, which marks the tercentenary of the first publication of the world’s greatest prose satire, in 2026:
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
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Now that's a dustjacket. As other illustrators of Arthur Conan Doyle stories have recognised, you don't miss the chance to depict a seance unicorn.
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Now that's a dustjacket. As other illustrators of Arthur Conan Doyle stories have recognised, you don't miss the chance to depict a seance unicorn.
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Dears, check out the CFP for ESSE conference 🥳 in Santiago de Compostella 🕍(31.08-04.09.2026). www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par... Session 29, organised by Sarah Beyvers and myself, is on non-literary and non-filmic engagements with the Victorian culture (e.g. games, comics). More info in the link.
ESSE 2026
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November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Dears, check out the CFP for ESSE conference 🥳 in Santiago de Compostella 🕍(31.08-04.09.2026). www.esse2026.com/en/calls_par... Session 29, organised by Sarah Beyvers and myself, is on non-literary and non-filmic engagements with the Victorian culture (e.g. games, comics). More info in the link.
Intrigued by the mini-wave of tweaked, relocated Christmas Carols - both this (comedy musical) one at the Liverpool Royal Court & at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. Reinventing 'Charlie Dicko' as panto?
The Scouse Christmas Carol review – knockabout comedy with a potty mouth
Paul Duckworth’s sweary Scrooge has romantic history with Marley’s widow in a pun-heavy festive show
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Intrigued by the mini-wave of tweaked, relocated Christmas Carols - both this (comedy musical) one at the Liverpool Royal Court & at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. Reinventing 'Charlie Dicko' as panto?
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CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026
From Haworth to Eternity: Adapting the Brontës on Stage, Screen, and Beyond
Explore the Brontës and adaptation across film, screen, and the visual and performing arts—including digital, transmedia, and other emerging media forms.
think.taylorandfrancis.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
CFP: Special issue on Brontë adaptations—film, stage, screen, visual arts, digital media, transmedia, ALL the creative ways the Brontës keep being reimagined. The issue will be published in 2027, and the deadline for submissions is October 5, 2026
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Coming soon; The Lumber Room and Other Tales: The Ghost Stories of Mary Ann Bird. I spent five years rediscovering this forgotten author. What I found was fascinating; emotional turmoil, destitution, ostracism, marital failure. And some great ghost stories. #ghosts #gothic #victorian #literature
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Coming soon; The Lumber Room and Other Tales: The Ghost Stories of Mary Ann Bird. I spent five years rediscovering this forgotten author. What I found was fascinating; emotional turmoil, destitution, ostracism, marital failure. And some great ghost stories. #ghosts #gothic #victorian #literature
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Snazzy poster for our Brontë Studies CFP on Poetry (more details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...)
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Snazzy poster for our Brontë Studies CFP on Poetry (more details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...)
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
Submit! Share! Please and thank you!
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The deadline to apply for the SHARP News Editor-in-Chief position has been extended through November 28th. This is such a great opportunity for any one interested in public-facing book history work!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The deadline to apply for the SHARP News Editor-in-Chief position has been extended through November 28th. This is such a great opportunity for any one interested in public-facing book history work!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3
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November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
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New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference
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Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”
Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.
Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/
#QAQV #Dickens
Mud and Stars
FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dickensians, what are your academic plans for next Thursday?
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Mary Shelley's time living near Dundee on the "blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay" fired her imagination 💭
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Mary Shelley's time living near Dundee on the "blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay" fired her imagination 💭
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
It was here her "true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born." Discover how Scotland shaped her novel, Frankenstein, in our article by Professor Daniel Cook.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
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Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Very happy @matthewchambers.bsky.social has proposed this @englishstudies.bsky.social special issue! One for SHARPists & scholars of bookselling across periods & Anglophone cultural contexts:
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Are you looking for spooky Gothic things to watch for Halloween? Here's a bunch of spoktacular Victorian films, TV series, and RPG campaigns for you! 🎃🎃🎃
New Blog post alert- 'Neo-Victorian Gothtober 2025' by Helena Esser. Some spooky neo-Vic gothic films and tv series recommendations for your Halloween watching pleasure! Read here: victorianpopularfiction.org/neo-victoria...
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Are you looking for spooky Gothic things to watch for Halloween? Here's a bunch of spoktacular Victorian films, TV series, and RPG campaigns for you! 🎃🎃🎃
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
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If you were teaching a module on NeoVictorian fiction what is the one Victorian novel you would want students to have read (if it had to be just one) as a useful/informing baseline of knowledge?
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you were teaching a module on NeoVictorian fiction what is the one Victorian novel you would want students to have read (if it had to be just one) as a useful/informing baseline of knowledge?