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Dr Sharon Choe

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellow @ KU, Denmark • Research Associate @ CECS, York • Body Politics, Death Studies, Norse Reception • 🇰🇷🇬🇧 • IG: @/sharonchoewrites • Rep: Laura Crockett, TriadaUS • Always writing something sharonchoebooks.com

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · Feb 20

So ya know how I was having a moment? Well, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship! 🇪🇺

I’ll be based at the University of Copenhagen! Can’t believe I get to research Viking/Norse death rituals in 18C British literature 🥹✨

Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · Jan 30

It’s easy for me (& for many) to fall down a wallowing hole of ECR despair, but this week I’m holding onto a fresh wave of gratitude that I’m able to nerd out about my favourite things in both an academic & creative setting

(Would be nice to be paid for both & be a Professional Nerd, but let’s see)

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to announce my YA debut THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS is coming out with Atheneum, Fall 2026!

The first in a duology inspired by Korean history, you can expect:
🍄 Palace political intrigue
🍄 A magic system grounded in Korean shamanism
🍄 Dae Jang Geum vibes (iykyk)

Sharon Choe’s THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS, pitched as inspired by Korean history, about a girl who, after faking her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid, is embroiled in dangerous palace intrigue and forbidden love when she stumbles into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becomes a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits, to Kristie Choi at Atheneum, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026, by Laura Crockett at TriadaUS Literary Agency (world).

Who will save the saviors when all is nought but stardust & ash? Who will help the cursed, the forgotten, the condemned—the betrayed?

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 20d

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more buff.ly/JBxonYK

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 21d

Announcing new deals for @caitlinr.bsky.social @medenkuyatt.bsky.social @ciccotello.bsky.social @sharonchoe.bsky.social + more

Rights Report: Week of September 15, 2025

New deals for Vanessa Montalban, Lila Riesen, Elle Gonzalez Rose, and others.

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Triada US Lit Agency @triadaus.bsky.social · 21d

Congratulations to @sharonchoe.bsky.social on the sale of THE QUEEN OF THE SPIRIT WOODS! #TeamTriada #BookSky

A Publisher's Weekly deal announcement which features a photo of author Sharon Choe and reads as follows: Kristie Choi at Atheneum has acquired The Queen of the Spirit Woods and a sequel, a YA debut by Sharon Choe, pitched as The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea meets The Cruel Prince. In this epic YA romantic fantasy inspired by Korean history, a girl who has faked her way into becoming a royal kitchen maid is embroiled in palace intrigue and forbidden love after stumbling into the mysterious Spirit Woods and unwittingly becoming a vessel for 10,000 nature spirits. Publication is set for fall 2026; Laura Crockett at Triada US handled the deal for world rights.

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · Sep 2

My first #OpenAccess article of the postdoc has come out, just in time to celebrate being 50% through the #MSCA Fellowship!

Have a read about Death Songs, gore, & necropolitics in 18th Century British translations of Ragnar Lodbrok 🥳
litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...

#EUFunded

2025 (35) 69 | LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA

litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 7

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'.

ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

University College Cork Vacancies

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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · Jun 17

CFP: Games and Learning Alliance Conference. Seeking original contributions in game-based learning. Includes: (1) Gamification, (2) Games for Learning (i.e., Serious / Applied Games), and (3) Playful Learning.
Deadline 2nd July!
#GBL

conf.seriousgamessociety.org/call-for-pap...

Call for papers

You are cordially invited to submit papers to the 14th Games and Learning Alliance Conference (GALA Conference 2025). GALA Conference 2025 is an international conference organized by the Serious Ga…

conf.seriousgamessociety.org

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MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Jun 13

Time for Norse at MAMO! 'Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain'.
Sharon Choe (@sharonchoe.bsky.social, Copenhagen), Maggie Pavleszek (@maggiepavleszek.bsky.social, York) and Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social‬, York). 👇 #MAMOmonth

Session 1C: Death, Burial, and Strange Survivals: The Norse-Gothic Response and Literary Receptions in Britain [Room K019]
Chair: Josephine Spelsberg
Sharon Choe (University of Copenhagen): Loðbrók, Lodbrach, Lodbrog: Revisiting Norse Death in Eighteenth-century Britain
Maggie Pavleszek (University of York): “Lost in the wind and the night”: Ship Funerals and Imperial Anxiety in H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes (1891)
Hannah Armstrong (University of York): Strange Survivals: Sabine Baring-Gould and the Norse-Gothic

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · May 19

An interesting article for anyone who teaches #archives #collections #subcultures & the problems of preserving historical ephemera.

He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/s...

He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go?

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · May 18

& also thank you to my fellow panelists @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social & Pauline Hortolland for our fun panel on “Varieties of Gothic Shock”! 🫶🏼

Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · May 18

Such a fulfilling couple of days in Paris at the London-Paris Romanticism Symposium. What a group of generous scholars. It was a pleasure to meet & laugh with everyone, & listen to incredible papers on Shock and Surprise.

Thanks to David Duff & Laurent Folliot for organising a wonderful event!

The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris, near the Sorbonne. People are walking outside the building and a French flag flies over a door

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · May 16

The University of Glasgow & the British Library have announced a fully funded PhD Studentship on "Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection"

www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD StudentshipsearchSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2Menu icon bar 3

www.gla.ac.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · May 17

This week, the Society advertised two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26, to support PhD students in completing a doctorate in #history.

The Fellowships are held in association with @ihr.bsky.social
and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

Image of University of London with the text: RHS Centenary Fellowships, for PhD completion, 2025-26. Closing date for applications: 31 May 2025

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · Dec 1

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean.
After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 1

Literature serves as the basis of so much of our gaming, often sitting quietly in the background as the allegorical base of our play superstructures. Books never left us; we play in their conjured inspirations.

Younès ★ @pyrofoux.bsky.social · Apr 30

Did you know that Clair Obscur's story was hugely inspired by a French novel? I talked about it on @roguelike.club explaining how everything in that book, from the world building to the page layout, was reminiscent of a roguelike. I also mention how untranslatable it is.
youtu.be/6ik6jB2YhZg?...

Younès Rabii: "La Horde du Contrevent": A Novel That Didn't Know It Was A Roguelike

YouTube video by Roguelike Celebration

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DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social · Apr 11

What tiny grief poem will you write?

New piece published today.

Have you joined us in The Mortal Portal yet? Come on in and have a rummage around in our back catalogue.

We're not for everyone but we're just right for you.

open.substack.com/pub/deadgood...

>KV

Tiny grief poems

I don't consider myself a poet. And yet grief can be poetic. I found solace in writing a series of haikus about my dad's last days including his death. I invite you to write & share a tiny grief poem.

open.substack.com

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · Apr 11

A wonderful week at the Bodleian digging through Thomas Percy’s Notebooks to confirm a couple of research hunches!

But a favourite surprise for me was seeing 18yo Percy’s book catalogue where he had decorated and titled the cover with the 18C version of bubble letters.

10/10, no notes 👌🏼😌

A pile of 4 manuscripts in grey boxes on a desk at the Bodleian, Oxford UK.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · Mar 21

#YWES 👇 is still recruiting!
Want to stay up-to-date with relevant publications? write for THE oldest & most comprehensive review of scholarly work? & join a supportive @englishassociation.bsky.social & OUPAcademic community?
Come join the #c18th & #RomanticPeriod chapter teams! 1/4

Cover image of The Year's Work in English Studies, volume 103 (covering work published in 2022)

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MAMO Conference 2025 @themamoconf.bsky.social · Mar 11

The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned here and on our website for the upcoming 5th MAMO conference, at King's College London, 24-26 June 2025. See you at MAMO number 5!
themamo.org

The Middle Ages in the Modern World

A multidisciplinary conference on medievalism in the post-Middle Ages

themamo.org

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Feb 23

In college I had a history prof walk into class slam a potato down & say "this is the most important entity here. There is not one person on this campus or even in this city whose significance to human history will prove to be anywhere close to that of a potato" & ykw gotta admit he was 100% right

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 25

Alright, let's see how big this gets!

❤️ 1 Like = 1 Video Game Book 📚

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Dr Sharon Choe @sharonchoe.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thank you for listening!! 🥹

Had such a great time talking about all the fun things I’ve discovered about James Johnstone in Copenhagen!

Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social · Jan 29

Such a treat to hear about @sharonchoe.bsky.social’s current research with ‘The Smiles of Death: Legendary Norsemen and the British #Romantic Response’!

a man with dreadlocks and a beard is blowing a horn .

ALT: a man with dreadlocks and a beard is blowing a horn .

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Jan 27

"Academia is fit only for those who ‘fit’." Powerful and important piece on being disabled in academia, DEI, and "career blocking" (HT @Dr_Tre_Crew)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01417789241232664?s=09

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DEAD GOOD @deadgoodlegacies.bsky.social · Jan 27

What grief do you carry?

How do you tend to it?

What grief do the people around you carry?

How do they tend to it?

Creative DIY community approaches to grief & remembrance can sometimes help.

www.deadgood.org/blog/mortali...

#griefsky #deathsky #deathwork #griefwork #communitydeathwork

Creative community conversations — Dead Good

"Let's just say that gathering people together to prepare and share a meal, whilst also sharing cross-cultural stories of love, loss and food, was a wonderful way to connect with others. I wish you co...

www.deadgood.org

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