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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 52m

You know, I have been enjoying and thinking a lot about witchy
music. #witchpop #witchcraft #Halloween #FlorenceandtheMachine #everybodyscreams #folkhorror

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The Witchcraft of Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Screams

Not going to lie, I have been enjoying and thinking a lot about the recent resurgence of witchy pop music...

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 4h

An appropriate time to re-share my blog post from 2023
theplathwitchcraft.wordpress.com/2023/09/30/w...

Witches and Ritual Magic in Taylor Swift’s Music

Since her sixth studio album reputation (2017), Taylor Swift referenced various times to witches and the witch-hunt(s) in her songs, music videos, and stage performances. More recently, t…

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 5h

This is brilliant news!

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 6h

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻

Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.

Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 4d

Happy 93rd birthday to Sylvia Plath! 🎂
I could not choose a favourite quote so I thought I would share some of my Plath books.

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 4d

The Arcadiana Editorial team is looking for volunteers: www.easlce.eu/join-the-arc...

Deadline for applications: Sunday, 16 November 2025

#academicjobs #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecr

Join The Arcadiana Editorial Team (5volunteer Roles) – EASLCE

Another way to get involved with Arcadiana, the blog of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE), is by

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 9d

We all know that academic books are insanely expensive. However, if you ever thought about ordering my book, TGJones has a discount on Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural if you pre-order it 👀
www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Dork...

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural brings a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective to the reading of Plath.Following recently published new material, this book offers a novel approach ...

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 10d

My first free #Substack post is available now 🌊
It is based on a conference presentation and it inspired me to write about #TheFateofOphelia and drowning next.
dorkatamas.substack.com/p/on-the-aqu...

On the Aquatic Gothic, Women, and Art in Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and The Band Perry’s “If I Die Young”

Before Taylor Swift's "Fate of Ophelia", there was "Lady of Shalott" and The Band Perry's "If I Die Young"

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 10d

My first free #Substack post is available now 🌊
It is based on a conference presentation and it inspired me to write about #TheFateofOphelia and drowning next.
dorkatamas.substack.com/p/on-the-aqu...

On the Aquatic Gothic, Women, and Art in Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and The Band Perry’s “If I Die Young”

Before Taylor Swift's "Fate of Ophelia", there was "Lady of Shalott" and The Band Perry's "If I Die Young"

dorkatamas.substack.com

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 13d

Hi Followers👋 I now have a Substack!
While I'm writing my first post, I shared my latest public talk. Please support an unemployed academic by subscribing (free or paid). I'll write about literature, witches, pop culture, music & more.
dorkatamas.substack.com
#substack #literarysubstack #academic

Dorka's Substack | Dorka Tamás | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read Dorka's Substack, by Dorka Tamás, a Substack publication. Launched 19 minutes ago.

dorkatamas.substack.com

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 13d

Hi Followers👋 I now have a Substack!
While I'm writing my first post, I shared my latest public talk. Please support an unemployed academic by subscribing (free or paid). I'll write about literature, witches, pop culture, music & more.
dorkatamas.substack.com
#substack #literarysubstack #academic

Dorka's Substack | Dorka Tamás | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read Dorka's Substack, by Dorka Tamás, a Substack publication. Launched 19 minutes ago.

dorkatamas.substack.com

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White Rose University Consortium @whiteroseuc.bsky.social · 14d

We're getting ready to launch a series of initiatives to strengthen researcher development and wellbeing across the White Rose Universities. We'll be looking for individuals and organisations to bring their expertise to these important areas of support. Find out more:
whiterose.ac.uk/news/help-sh...

Help shape regional researcher support: White Rose University Consortium invites input - White Rose University Consortium

The White Rose University Consortium is inviting contributions to shape new initiatives aimed at supporting researchers across its member institutions. Over the next three weeks, a series of  Invitati...

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 15d

thank you for sharing 💜

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 15d

I am able to move around in the UK, I learn fast and do 100%

#opentowork #job #academicjobs #ECR #unemployed

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 15d

I can offer skills in teaching, communication, writing for various platforms, podcasting, event management, admin tasks, and research in broad areas of American lit, env. hum., modern and contem. lit. I am getting desperate for work, so please if you know any job opportunities, share them with me.

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 15d

For all followers: I am an ECR in English and the broader Humanities, and I am out of work. I have applied for numerous teaching jobs both at unis and colleges, admin jobs, museum collection assistant jobs, research jobs, NGO communication jobs.
I have a forthcoming book and research chapters.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 17d

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

#Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 17d

Also I don’t know anyone whose class could actually finish the curriculum by the final exams, so sampling texts around themes sounds more efficient

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 17d

We did a “murder stories” theme for advanced level literature in 12th grade and read 19th c. Hungarian novel, Agatha Christie, a Poe short story

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 17d

In high school, literature should be taught around themes not in chronological order from classics to contemp.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 19d

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The First Wives Club - You Don't Own Me

YouTube video by WatchWithMati

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Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 19d

Diane Keaton, 1975. She left us yesterday at 79 years old.

Photograph by Norman Seeff.

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 19d

Something’s Gotta Give has always been my favourite film, my comfort laugh and cry. Diane Keaton has given us so many lovable characters. Rest is peace Queen.

a woman is sitting on a bed looking at a laptop computer .

ALT: a woman is sitting on a bed looking at a laptop computer .

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 22d

💙 So so excited for and proud of our contributors!

Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats to all his translators, including into English @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social

#booksky #xl8 #literarytranslation

Announcement of this year's Nobel Prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai. With a black and white drawing of the author.

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · Sep 30

❗COVER REVEAL❗
This photo symbolises so much to me, and I am grateful to the Lilly Library at Indiana University for granting me permission to use it.
Pre-Order it here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · Sep 30

It has a symbolic meaning for my research, expressing her intellectual engagement and deep understanding of the supernatural and the history and literature of witchcraft.

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