Emilie Laurent
@emilieslaurent.bsky.social
PhD Student at Université Clermont Auvergne (France). 19th century literature, Gothic, ghost stories, Victorian Gothic, Vernon Lee. Dissertation topic: "Vernon Lee's rewriting of Gothic literature." She/her.
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October 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Merci à toi, Stefanie, for your fantastic paper! I was delighted to meet you
Merci beaucoup for hosting this fantastic event, Emilie!
What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Merci à toi, Stefanie, for your fantastic paper! I was delighted to meet you
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Merci beaucoup for hosting this fantastic event, Emilie!
What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.
September 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Merci beaucoup for hosting this fantastic event, Emilie!
What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.
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What's this!?
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom
Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...
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July 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
What's this!?
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
An online conference!?
Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'?
With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers!
Check it out!!
buytickets.at/romancingthe...
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Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes
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First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes
July 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes
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Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).
July 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).
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read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
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Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - Nightmare Magazine
“There are few tales as tragic as that of the denizens of Ratnabar Island. When a British expedition made landfall on its shores in 1891, they did so armed to the teeth, braced for the same hostile re...
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July 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-...
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Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes
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#VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.
Thank you 💜
#VPFAExtremes Fascinating observations on the impact of the scientific discovery of sound waves on artistic responses to music from Emilie Laurent
July 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Thank you 💜
It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜
#VPFAExtremes Final speaker in our panel is Emilie Laurent speaking on gender, desire and monstrous nonconformity in Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'. Love me a bit of monster theory!
July 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜
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Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction.
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July 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction.
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And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes
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Ifill very interestingly compares office Gothic to traditional Gothic novels: where the heroine in a traditional Gothic novel can grow through conquering various trials, the office worker does the same through his daily trudge and problem solving. #vpfaextremes
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ifill very interestingly compares office Gothic to traditional Gothic novels: where the heroine in a traditional Gothic novel can grow through conquering various trials, the office worker does the same through his daily trudge and problem solving. #vpfaextremes
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Hypnotism was predominantly undertaken by masculine men upon female subjects. Much fin de siecle fiction explores the dangers of hypnotism and its potential for sexual exploitation #VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Hypnotism was predominantly undertaken by masculine men upon female subjects. Much fin de siecle fiction explores the dangers of hypnotism and its potential for sexual exploitation #VPFAExtremes
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Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!
July 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!
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'This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herseledf into my body and take command of it [...] She is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell' -The parasite #VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
'This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herseledf into my body and take command of it [...] She is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell' -The parasite #VPFAExtremes
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We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes
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"What kind of writer you are depends a lot on who's holding the pen, who 'places you where'" in the catalogue - Carolyn Oulton on how for example Dickens is grouped with different authors/in different genres depending on when and where his works were read.
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"What kind of writer you are depends a lot on who's holding the pen, who 'places you where'" in the catalogue - Carolyn Oulton on how for example Dickens is grouped with different authors/in different genres depending on when and where his works were read.
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
I had the immense honour of carrying out a week-long research stay at the British Institute of Florence last week and to consult the Vernon Lee Archive, which contains 400 volumes from Vernon Lee’s personal library, annotated in her own hand. What a treasure trove of discoveries!
July 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I had the immense honour of carrying out a week-long research stay at the British Institute of Florence last week and to consult the Vernon Lee Archive, which contains 400 volumes from Vernon Lee’s personal library, annotated in her own hand. What a treasure trove of discoveries!
Congratulations! Immediately adding it to my TBR pile--it sounds like a compelling read!
I came home last night to find this waiting for me: my first academic monograph. The Gothic at War is developed from my PhD research, with new work on Clara Reeve & Charlotte Smith, exploring the Gothic as a literature of conflict. Thank you to @uniwalespress.bsky.social for being great publishers!
July 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Congratulations! Immediately adding it to my TBR pile--it sounds like a compelling read!
Such an exciting programme!
June 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Such an exciting programme!
Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! You can register here: dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/...
#vernonlee #victorian #conference
#vernonlee #victorian #conference
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! You can register here: dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/...
#vernonlee #victorian #conference
#vernonlee #victorian #conference