Christina Wilkins
@stinaface.bsky.social
Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
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Christina Wilkins
@stinaface.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Should probably note given all the new people - my research areas are adaptation studies, film, identity and mental health.
A good first evening of our two @queereast.bsky.social films at UoB tonight - tonight was Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (Vargas)
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A good first evening of our two @queereast.bsky.social films at UoB tonight - tonight was Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (Vargas)
A new episode of the Queer Film Pod is up where we discuss Challengers: open.spotify.com/episode/12cN...
Episode 8 Challengers
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November 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A new episode of the Queer Film Pod is up where we discuss Challengers: open.spotify.com/episode/12cN...
Watched the first episode of Pluribus and I’m very intrigued.
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Watched the first episode of Pluribus and I’m very intrigued.
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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
Just sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture
This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned
link.springer.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just sent round details of an online and in-person book launch for Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture. Online event: Tues 2nd December 5-6pm. In-person: Weds 3rd December 5-6.30pm, UoB campus in Muirhead Tower. DM for full details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Our next SIG event is Wednesday 26th November at 3-4pm on Adaptation and Industry with @faywinfield.bsky.social and Christopher Hogg. DM for the zoom link if you've not found it in your inbox.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Our next SIG event is Wednesday 26th November at 3-4pm on Adaptation and Industry with @faywinfield.bsky.social and Christopher Hogg. DM for the zoom link if you've not found it in your inbox.
A reminder that next week we'll be hosting the @queereast.bsky.social festival here at UoB! Click here for more details and to book your free ticket: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/queer...
Queer East cross-disciplinary festival of LGBTQ+ cinema - University of Birmingham
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
A reminder that next week we'll be hosting the @queereast.bsky.social festival here at UoB! Click here for more details and to book your free ticket: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/queer...
Things I didn’t expect to see at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival: a film with Rory Culkin in. I didn’t even know there was another Culkin.
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Things I didn’t expect to see at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival: a film with Rory Culkin in. I didn’t even know there was another Culkin.
Tonight I’m at the International Film Awards for the @mhfestival.bsky.social - looking forward to seeing some of the films that have been shortlisted.
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Tonight I’m at the International Film Awards for the @mhfestival.bsky.social - looking forward to seeing some of the films that have been shortlisted.
I’ve just been walking around Glasgow in November without a coat, which feels very wrong.
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’ve just been walking around Glasgow in November without a coat, which feels very wrong.
Physical copies of my book have arrived, yay!
I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.
I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Physical copies of my book have arrived, yay!
I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.
I’ll be having an in-person launch at UoB on the 3rd December, more details soon.
Here today for the AHTV event in London run by @thetvfoundation.bsky.social - looking forward to a day of interesting panels!
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Here today for the AHTV event in London run by @thetvfoundation.bsky.social - looking forward to a day of interesting panels!
Tonight is a Halloween party. I’m the ghost with the most.
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Tonight is a Halloween party. I’m the ghost with the most.
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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...
Queer Film for Halloween: Rocky Horror Picture Show screening starts now. 💃🏼
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Queer Film for Halloween: Rocky Horror Picture Show screening starts now. 💃🏼
Tomorrow!
The next event for the MHHRN is on the 30th Oct at 4pm -ONLINE - Television and Mental Health featuring @veronicaheney.bsky.social and @rob-lawson.bsky.social talking - DM us for the Zoom link! We're looking forward to it.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Tomorrow!
Some news! The @queereast.bsky.social festival is coming to UoB. To sign up (free), click here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/queer...
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Some news! The @queereast.bsky.social festival is coming to UoB. To sign up (free), click here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/queer...
This afternoon!
This Wednesday (22nd) there will be a webinar for the Unspool collection - all about time loops onscreen, online at 4pm (BST). I'll be taking part, talking about Russian Doll, as well as @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social and others! Registration link is here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This afternoon!
For Asexuality Awareness week, we recorded a special episode of the B Film Queer Podcast with one of our fantastic PhD students who is researching into asexual representations - see their short blog post and link to the podcast here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/co... #asexuality #aceawareness
Considering the impacts of media representations of asexuality - University of Birmingham
To mark Asexual Awareness Week (Ace Week), PhD researcher Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford explores the importance of asexual media representation.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
For Asexuality Awareness week, we recorded a special episode of the B Film Queer Podcast with one of our fantastic PhD students who is researching into asexual representations - see their short blog post and link to the podcast here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/co... #asexuality #aceawareness
This Wednesday (22nd) there will be a webinar for the Unspool collection - all about time loops onscreen, online at 4pm (BST). I'll be taking part, talking about Russian Doll, as well as @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social and others! Registration link is here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
a woman with red curly hair says yes in a netflix ad
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October 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This Wednesday (22nd) there will be a webinar for the Unspool collection - all about time loops onscreen, online at 4pm (BST). I'll be taking part, talking about Russian Doll, as well as @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social and others! Registration link is here: york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
An interesting evening at the Cheltenham Lit fest: particularly interested research wise in Suzanne O’Sullivan’s thoughts on diagnosis and then an event on conspiracy theories.
October 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
An interesting evening at the Cheltenham Lit fest: particularly interested research wise in Suzanne O’Sullivan’s thoughts on diagnosis and then an event on conspiracy theories.
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Tomorrow!
A reminder that our first event - Adaptation and AI - with @huntressleine.bsky.social and Reece Goodall - is next Weds 15th at 2pm (online) - DM us for the link!
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Tomorrow!
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Want to profile your own work on the 'Meet the Researcher' page? Open to all, but especially useful to those in between jobs, in precarity, and new researchers.
Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan.
#MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan.
#MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
October 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Want to profile your own work on the 'Meet the Researcher' page? Open to all, but especially useful to those in between jobs, in precarity, and new researchers.
Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan.
#MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
Get in touch with me, @stinaface.bsky.social or Cheryl McGeachan.
#MentalHealthHumanities #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
Reposted by Christina Wilkins
✨️New 'Meet the Researcher' on the #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network site✨️
✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️
Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social
#MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️
Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social
#MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
Meet the Researcher: Amy Wigelsworth – Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network
mhhrn.bham.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
✨️New 'Meet the Researcher' on the #MentalHealth Humanities Researcher Network site✨️
✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️
Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social
#MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
✨️Dr Amy Wigelsworth✨️
Catch up and meet Dr Grace Lucas (City St George's) @viva-victoria.bsky.social & @joannemccuaig.bsky.social
#MHHRN #MHHums #MedHums #Interdisciplinary
It’s Cheltenham Literary Festival time! This afternoon I’m off to an event on masculinity and the manosphere.
October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It’s Cheltenham Literary Festival time! This afternoon I’m off to an event on masculinity and the manosphere.