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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met
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Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 12d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 1d
The BARS President’s Fellowship is open to scholars from Black, Indigenous and other minority ethnic backgrounds working on any aspect of Romantic Studies to support research, teaching and/or public outreach expenses of up to £1500. Deadline 7th Nov 2025.
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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 1d
Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...
cfp | call for papers
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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 1d
Are you the only human being who remains uncorrupted when given power? Consider moderating a panel!
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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · 1d
CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net
TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 3d
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 3d
The Manchester Centre for Public Histories + Heritage and the Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Identity) research group is hosting this exciting screening this Thursday - do come along! mcphh.wordpress.com/film-screeni...
Film Screening: City of Ali
MCPHH and RGSI Film Screening: City of Ali  Thursday October 9th 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm, Manchester Metropolitan University Muhammad Ali inspired many people with his athletic achievements, but h…
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 3d
How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social:
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 3d
Delighted with the turnout for our fresher’s week trip to the ‘Turner
In Light and Shade’ exhibition at Whitworth Gallery. We‘ve clearly some budding Romanticists among our new first-year cohort!
4 students examining landscape painting 3 students looking at a variety of engravings Two students raise arms measuring perspectives of paintings on wall Two students examine an engraving.
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 6d
The official program for the 2025 MSA Conference in Boston is now live! (And it looks beautiful.) You can access it at the link below or on the homepage of the MSA website.
www.moderniststudies.org
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 6d
Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

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Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 7d
Paris Review Visiting Professor of Literature at BPI

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Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · 9d
🚨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 [email protected] for more information
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
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Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social · 22d
The Histories and Cultures of Conflict (HaCC) research group invites proposals from Early Career Researchers (including PGRs) for a workshop on ‘Histories and Cultures of Conflict’. 

The seminar is on March, 4th 2026.
Send your proposals!
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Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social · Jun 4
Irish Studies 6-week fellowship at the University of Melbourne isaanz.org/odonnell-fel...
O’Donnell Fellowship 2026
Applications are open for the 2026 O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at St Mary’s Newman Academic Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia. The application deadline is Friday 11 July 20…
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Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social · 18d
I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...
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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 16d
We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16d
Students want to create! With their own brains!

UIC English is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in prose fiction.

As we are one of the very few PhD programs in Creative Writing, PhD is strongly preferred.

Happy to answer questions; please share around.

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Assistant Professor - English (Creative Writing)
Position Summary The Department of English/Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creat...
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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · Sep 10
Reminder to register for the social and intellectual highlight of the year!
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 16d
Assistant Prof of Modern Ireland post at Notre Dame
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Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social · 18d
See the K-SAA blog for the #CFP for The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association's 2026 conference: "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación."

The proposal deadline is October 31, 2025. More info linked below:
www.k-saa.org/blog/incsa-2...
Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation: INCSA's 2026 Biennial Conference — K-SAA
Join INCSA's 2026 biennial conference "Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation" in Washington, DC (July 21-24). Submit proposals by Oct 31, 2025 for this bilingual, hybrid event exploring nineteenth-ce...
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Aug 26
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21d
More talks going up for the Romancing the Gothic programme next year. Get your free talks here!

Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive with Ishan Tripathi

January 17th 10am and 4pm GMT

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Select tickets – Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom
Monstrous Feminine to Trans Vampires: Horror as Counter-Archive with Ishan Tripathi – Zoom, Sat 17 Jan 2026 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but i...
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 22d
THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026!

The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions!

Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year!
#skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 22d
Join us on Monday evening!
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 23d
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'The Evidence of Things Not Seen': Ethics and the True Crime Industry
As part of the Trinity Arts & Humanities Research Festival 2025.
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