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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 7d

Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time

Center for Monster Studies @ UC Santa Cruz @ucscmonsters.bsky.social · 7d

Only 2 weeks before the Festival of Monsters! Keynote 10/15 by David Livingstone Smith, conference 10/16-17, and a day of events including a panel with @almakatsu.bsky.social Nat Cassidy, and @gretchenmcneil.bsky.social at @bookshopsantacruz.bsky.social on 10/18. Details monsterstudies.ucsc.edu

A skeletal monster with a skeleton bird on its tongue is the poster image for the 2025 Festival of Monsters, Oct. 15-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Aug 11

I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring

Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · Aug 11

In our latest #blog post, Dr Renée A. Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social explores the media response to the genre-defying work of Irish novelist & poet Emily Lawless (1845-1913) and finds herself mesmerized by the author's final poem marshlibrary.ie/emily-lawles...

Emily Lawless' Story of Ireland - Marsh's Library

Dr Renée Fox explores the work of genre defying Irish poet and author, Emily Lawless.

marshlibrary.ie

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · May 25

Is THAT what that was?? I was so confused

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · May 1

Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book

Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com · May 1

I was on a bike ride this morning and the words "I'm not a necrophile, I'm a nec-romancer" popped into my head and now I can't stop thinking about them

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Apr 23

Huge congratulations!!

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Apr 8

Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.

Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · Apr 8

hey @mcuban.bsky.social want to do something really cool? How about cover all these now terminated NEH grants.
impact.ach.org

NEH Grants 2025

impact.ach.org

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Apr 7

Ah, mud and history… 😂

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Apr 7

One of my students just cited @cookiegoth.bsky.social's brilliant work on Dickens and mud to make a fascinating argument about historical accumulation

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Mar 30

I love this so much!

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Mar 27

This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · Mar 26

Please join @costelkh.bsky.social, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, Paige Reynolds, and me for an online conversation about Irish Women Writers hosted by Celtic Junction in St. Paul MN on 16 April at 18:30 CST celticjunction.org/event/her-ow...

Her Own Future: A Roundtable Discussion of Women Writers

Her Own Future, a compelling online roundtable discussion exploring the voices, narratives, and evolving roles of Irish women writers.

celticjunction.org

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Daniel Mulhall @danmulhall.bsky.social · Mar 11

Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · Mar 12

We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!

At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17

At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland

Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Mar 3

Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻‍♀️♥️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Feb 22

Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???

Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy

Byron: I don’t get it

Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)

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Rachel Teukolsky @rachelteukolsky.bsky.social · Oct 26

My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

Writing on Fire - Broadview Press

Writing on Fire -

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Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social · Jan 3

Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Jan 3

Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them.

Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-border Irish terroir that inspired them

Five-year project will show acclaimed dramatist’s plays in location, season or even month in which they were set, to mark centenary of his birth in 1929

www.theguardian.com

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Dec 9

I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau!

wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Dec 9

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Dec 6

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · Dec 3

We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!

Image of a draft title page reading NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PORNOGRAPHY: SOURCES AND MATERIALS, Volume II: Pornography and Science, edited by Sarah Bull

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Nov 28

This such an excellent CFP. @navsa2025.bsky.social

navsa.georgetown.edu

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Oct 24

years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

MAs in English w Funding

docs.google.com

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Nov 29

Congratulations!!

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Renee Fox @cookiegoth.bsky.social · Nov 26

Yay, congrats on both!!

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · Nov 21

"A Modern Irish Canon - We asked critics for the best Irish novels published in the past 15 years."

www.vulture.com/article/best...

The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 Years

Which works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?

www.vulture.com

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Nov 14

CFP:

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025

Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield

Organised by me and Adam Kelly

Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

Please consider submitting, and share widely!

Images of the two-page call for papers as outlined in the post. Too lengthy to add in full here, but one key sentence is: "Abstracts of 200-300 words for 20-minute papers and an author bio of max 100 words should be submitted by e-mail attachment to trust.ucd@gmail.com by 3rd February 2025.". Please write to us at this email address with any questions.

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