Katie Garner
@kgarner.bsky.social
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5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️
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"Why had the character of the professional Victorian female detective suddenly materialised, then vanished?"
Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️
bit.ly/4oJC6rr
Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️
bit.ly/4oJC6rr
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"Why had the character of the professional Victorian female detective suddenly materialised, then vanished?"
Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️
bit.ly/4oJC6rr
Read an extract from Sara Lodge's (@victoriandetective.bsky.social) #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted book 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective'.⬇️
bit.ly/4oJC6rr
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"History has never been more important than it is in the current moment."
'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social
'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"History has never been more important than it is in the current moment."
'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social
'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' by @victoriandetective.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @yalebooks.bsky.social
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Publication day today 11 September 2025 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ros-...
September 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Publication day today 11 September 2025 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ros-...
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Great to see 'When Summer Meant Sea Serpents' published in September's issue of @historytoday.com - www.historytoday.com/archive/hist... For more on the history of sea serpents see my new book, The Perilous Deep reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-per... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
When Summer Meant Sea Serpents
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August 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Great to see 'When Summer Meant Sea Serpents' published in September's issue of @historytoday.com - www.historytoday.com/archive/hist... For more on the history of sea serpents see my new book, The Perilous Deep reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-per... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
As usual forgot to take photos, but here's a couple from @catherinespooner.bsky.social's and @coffinboffin.bsky.social's wonderful keynotes 🩵
September 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
As usual forgot to take photos, but here's a couple from @catherinespooner.bsky.social's and @coffinboffin.bsky.social's wonderful keynotes 🩵
So grateful to @ogomproject.bsky.social for bringing us together for the dream mermaid conference. A brilliant three days thinking about submarine fantasies 💦🧜♀️🩵
September 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
So grateful to @ogomproject.bsky.social for bringing us together for the dream mermaid conference. A brilliant three days thinking about submarine fantasies 💦🧜♀️🩵
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Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō
September 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō
Great day 2 at the Sea Changes conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #seachanges
September 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Great day 2 at the Sea Changes conference @britishlibrary.bsky.social! #seachanges
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A is for AMBOINA MERMAID
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges
August 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A is for AMBOINA MERMAID
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges
Writers recorded the capture of a mermaid on the island of Amboina 1712. Said to be 5 feet long, it screeched like a mouse & would not eat fish. The mermaid appears in 'Fishes, Crayfish & Crabs', a collection of the region's sea-life (1712) #SeaChanges
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KEYNOTE 'The luck of the Ningyō: Hybridity and the rise of the fake museum mermaid'. Looking forward to sharing my research with all the wonderful attendees at #SeaChanges
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
KEYNOTE 'The luck of the Ningyō: Hybridity and the rise of the fake museum mermaid'. Looking forward to sharing my research with all the wonderful attendees at #SeaChanges
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids
@britishlibrary.bsky.social #GothicMermaids
Still some online tickets available for Saturday if you fancy a mermaid-y weekend (in-person tickets are sold out) www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-... 🧜♀️💧🦭
Sea Changes Mermaid Conference 2025
Sea Changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and on line) Date: 6–8 September 2025 (6th on line…
www.opengravesopenminds.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Still some online tickets available for Saturday if you fancy a mermaid-y weekend (in-person tickets are sold out) www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-... 🧜♀️💧🦭
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Congratulations to Dr Kiron Ward on the publication of Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)
The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...
The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...
January 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Congratulations to Dr Kiron Ward on the publication of Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction (published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social)
The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...
The ebook is out today & it's available in hardback from 6th February:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/encyclopa...
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Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Susan Sellers appeared on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books talking to Australian novelist Michelle de Ketser about Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith.
Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Michelle de Kretser
Take Four Books speaks to Michelle de Kretser about her new novel and its three influences
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Yesterday, Emeritus Professor Susan Sellers appeared on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books talking to Australian novelist Michelle de Ketser about Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith.
Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Catch up on BBC Sounds -
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Congratulations to Dr Asha Hornsby on the publication of her new book titled 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture' It's available from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Congratulations to Dr Asha Hornsby on the publication of her new book titled 'Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture' It's available from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
More info: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/news...
Order here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
🖤🦋 Angela Carter's Pasts🦋🖤is here! thrilled to be included in this stellar line up - and I really enjoyed my time in Bristol Uni archives with Basil Cottle's lecture notes (he taught Carter as an undergrad).
February 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🖤🦋 Angela Carter's Pasts🦋🖤is here! thrilled to be included in this stellar line up - and I really enjoyed my time in Bristol Uni archives with Basil Cottle's lecture notes (he taught Carter as an undergrad).
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Just published online: Emma McEvoy’s important new book on the Music of the Gothic in our ‘Elements in the Gothic’ series. Contains great musical recordings. Free to download for the next month www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...
The Music of the Gothic:1789–1820 | English literature 1700-1830
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Just published online: Emma McEvoy’s important new book on the Music of the Gothic in our ‘Elements in the Gothic’ series. Contains great musical recordings. Free to download for the next month www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...
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Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Job Opportunity: Want to run a famous Tennyson Archive (includes proofs of images below by Hunt, Rossetti and Millais), please repost... jobs.lincolnshire.gov.uk/vacancy/seni... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @lincolnshirecc.bsky.social @medievalfemina.bsky.social
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Some people may be interested in this new article on the representation of partition in SFF television - principally "Doctor Who" and "Ms Marvel". With thanks to Avishek Parui for editing the issue it will be part of.
Available open access here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Available open access here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“It’s sort of everything”: The thingness of diasporic memory in “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) and Ms Marvel (2022)
This article focuses on two representations of the 1947 India–Pakistan partition in contemporary, 21st-century science fiction and fantasy – the Doctor Who episode “Demons of the Punjab” (2018) pro...
www.tandfonline.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Some people may be interested in this new article on the representation of partition in SFF television - principally "Doctor Who" and "Ms Marvel". With thanks to Avishek Parui for editing the issue it will be part of.
Available open access here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Available open access here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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PHD FUNDING: a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews (incl. fees, either home or international rate). Milinda Bannerjee and I are seeking a student to study intellectual/scholarly connections between St Andrews and India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
February 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
PHD FUNDING: a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of St Andrews (incl. fees, either home or international rate). Milinda Bannerjee and I are seeking a student to study intellectual/scholarly connections between St Andrews and India, c1780-1900. See www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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Lovely discussion today over Zoom of this Open Access special issue, "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms," ronjournal.org Anna Pilz' formulation that we could take a closer look at “the prepositional ways of being on, of, by and with the coast” is so handy, wish I'd thought to express it that way. 🗃️📚
Romanticism on the Net | An open access journal devoted to British Romanticism since 1996
An open access journal devoted to British Romanticism since 1996
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February 19, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Lovely discussion today over Zoom of this Open Access special issue, "Scotland's Coastal Romanticisms," ronjournal.org Anna Pilz' formulation that we could take a closer look at “the prepositional ways of being on, of, by and with the coast” is so handy, wish I'd thought to express it that way. 🗃️📚
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"Those calm bank-shaded eyes
[watched] her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed."
- Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy"
#BookWormSat
[watched] her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed."
- Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy"
#BookWormSat
November 11, 2023 at 7:09 PM
"Those calm bank-shaded eyes
[watched] her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed."
- Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy"
#BookWormSat
[watched] her lessening westward quietly.
Then, as she neared the bend, her funnel screamed.
And that long lamentation made him wise
How unto Avalon, in agony,
Kings passed in the dark barge, which Merlin dreamed."
- Wilfred Owen, "Hospital Barge at Cerisy"
#BookWormSat
Ah, this is the nicest welcome! 🧜♀️ Thank you so much @drbeard79.bsky.social! Great to be here 😊
Welcoming @kgarner.bsky.social to Bluesky by posting the Wordsworth mermaids I possibly promised to physically post her that one time (picture credit in alt text)
October 18, 2023 at 8:37 AM
Ah, this is the nicest welcome! 🧜♀️ Thank you so much @drbeard79.bsky.social! Great to be here 😊