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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Aug 13

At the beautiful University of Copenhagen this week for the Otherworldly Entertainments conference on Horror, Gothic & the Occult in video games! #videogames #gothic #horror @dreframss.bsky.social

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Aug 1

TODAY is the abstract deadline for this year's AHSN Halloween Symposium on the apt theme of 'Apocalypse'! This free, online symposium welcomes interdisciplinary scholars from all over the world! Send in your abstracts! #horrorstudies #gothic 👻

A poster for the AHSN Halloween Symposium on the theme of Apocalypse. Free, online event - abstracts due 1 August.

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thanks for the opportunity to put this together, Axel! The articles make for a pretty great menu of mutation!

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · Jun 19

🧬 Out now — M/C Journal issue 28.2: 'mutation', edited by Ashleigh Prosser, @kirstinmills.bsky.social, and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Everything from Robbie Williams to mutant fungi, with a side order of cannibalism and bishōjo... #mcjournal

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M/C Journal 'mutation' issue cover image:

A 3D render of a DNA molecule featuring blue and pink particles, by Sangharsh Lohakare (Unsplash).

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · May 12

Ever want to review something from/inspired by the 19th century that isn't a book - like a film, TV series, podcast, documentary, music recording, or other recorded media?

That's handy - we have a recordings reviews editor (me!) Do get in touch with proposals and queries ⬇️

Name and role: Hannah Scott, Recordings Reviews Editor
Research interests: French performance history, popular music and dance; history of urban public health; costume history; practice-based research.
Who you'd like to hear from: anyone interested in reviewing recordings or recorded media - either from the 19th century or inspired by it, from any country or language.
Film, TV, documentaries, recorded music, streamed theatre or music performances, radio, podcast, Youtube clips and more!
Do get in touch with proposals and queries!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · May 6

Is there a long 19th-century-ish book you'd like to review? Or have you written one? We've got an editor for that!

Meet Nathan Bossoh @nathanbossoh.bsky.social - book reviews editor here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Apr 25

Got an opinion piece on the boil?

Meet @dremilyvincent.bsky.social - our Forums Editor: she is commissioning bold, informed discussions of topical, controversial, or neglected research questions in long 19th century studies around the work.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Apr 16

Looking for a venue for that inspiring 19th-century-esque article you're writing? Look no further!

Paul Watt is our General Editor with responsibility for articles - get in touch here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Jun 11

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International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social · Jun 2

The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic.

www.globalgoth.org

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Shana Carter 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️☕️🥄 @laughingacademy.bsky.social · May 18

The Morgan Library digitized Mary Shelley's personally annotated copy of #Frankenstein and made it available online!
#TwoForOne #TCMParty
www.themorgan.org/collection/f...

Mary Shelley’s Annotated Frankenstein

This copy of Frankenstein (PML 16799) contains extensive additions and emendations by Mary Shelley.

www.themorgan.org

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Apr 28

Always good to have an appreciative audience for newly published research! I’m delighted that my chapter “Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead” is now published in the Palgrave Handbook of the Zombie edited by @baconetti.bsky.social

Read it online: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

A photo of Kirstin’s cat sitting in her basket and looking at a laptop placed on the table next to her. The laptop screen displays Kirstin’s newly published chapter about Frankenstein and the Sciences of the Undead.

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Good morning all!
We'd love you all to meet Karen Sayer, our Practica Editor here at Advances.

What is a practicum? It's the how, what, why & where of teaching the nineteenth century - & Karen would love to see proposals for reflective pieces, provocations, best practice, resources, & more
#INCSA

Name and role: Karen Sayer, Practica Editor
Research Interests: British landscape & environment in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Who you'd like to hear from: A Practicum is a constructive &, above all, a practical piece on how, what, why & where we teach the nineteenth century. It could cover ways of tackling precursors, nineteenth century representations, or legacies; it could share best practice, new approaches, & resources; it could consider teaching beyond the university classroom. Any place, and discipline/interdisciplinary approaches welcomed!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Mar 26

Call for recordings reviews! ⏰🚨

Hannah Scott @drhannahlscott.bsky.social · Mar 26

Fancy writing a review for Advances in 19th-Century Research journal - complete with a friendly and constructive editing process?

Looking for reviews of 19th-century recorded media
& recordings inspired by the 19th century.

Get in touch with your proposals and for more details! ✍️
#INCSA

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨CFP REMINDER

The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference in August 2025. The CFP is still open and we have some bursaries available. Deadline for proposals is 31 March 2025. Please share!

Details 👇
engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Mar 25

Have you heard or seen any recordings inspired by/from the 19th century recently?

A period film or TV series?
A music album?
A documentary or biopic?
A streamed 19th c. theatre piece?
A podcast?

We're looking to publish recordings reviews - email hannah.scott at ncl. ac. uk for more info! 📃

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Mar 17

There is still time to submit a proposal to the CFP for Otherworldly Entertainment (details found via link below). The deadline is 31 March 2025. It is sure to be an incredible event with two amazing keynotes: @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social Best of all, you get to visit Copenhagen

Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨CFP REMINDER: Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames?

The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share!

Details 👇
engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Mar 11

There is already a lot of positive buzz about the new journal with several top-notch submissions coming in. Even so, I am very interested in receiving more special issue proposals for the journal. Do get in touch with your ideas, and please share with your networks!

Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Mar 3

Got an idea for a special issue inspired by the long 19th century around the world and its legacies?

Allow us to introduce our fantastic General Editor Effram Sera-Shriar, also in charge of our Special Issues.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our speaker can't make it this Saturday so I'm throwing myself into the breach this Saturday!

Come here me talk about

VICE! Virtue! and Gothic Sensibility in Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest

10am - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273198584...

7pm - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1273199577...

Virtue, Vice and Gothic Sensibility in The Romance of the Forest

Negative Virtue, Natural Vice and Gothic Sensibility in Ann Radcliffe's 'The Romance of the Forest' with Dr Sam Hirst

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Feb 24

Another reminder that we are hosting an amazing conference at Copenhagen this summer in August 2025, and our CFP is still open for submissions. I hope to see some of you there. Please share widely!

Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨CFP REMINDER: Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames?

The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share!

Details 👇
engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Feb 19

What a pure joy today to give a public lecture to a room full of such engaged and intelligent people at Ashfield Library! Thank you to all who attended and spoke to me afterwards. I had such a blast talking about the weird & wonderful History of Gothic and Fantastic Literature!

A photo of Kirstin Mills smiling. Behind her is a screen displaying the title of her talk. It reads “Gothic and Fantastic Literature: a Weird and Wonderful History.”

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Feb 18

Really excited about what we’ve got coming up for this journal! Would love to hear from you if your work involves the nineteenth century!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Feb 17

Today, we're delighted to introduce the next member of our Editorial team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research:

General Editor, Kirstin Mills, from Macquarie University Australia 📚

#INCSA

Name and role: Kirstin Mills, General Editor

Research Interests: the Gothic, long-nineteenth-century literature, adaptation studies, literature and science, folklore and the supernatural

Who you'd like to hear from: If you work on anything to do with the nineteenth century, whatever that means to you, I want to hear from you! This journal takes a fresh approach - international, interdisciplinary and intertemporal - to broaden nineteenth-century studies and bring traditionally siloed fields together through articles, forums, practica, and reviews of books, exhibitions, recordings and more. Get in touch!

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social · Feb 4

Welcome, new followers, it's a pleasure to see you.

Over the next few months, we're going to introduce the team here at Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

First, our General Editor, Prof Bennett Zon 👋

Name and role: Bennett Zon, General Editor (general oversight)

Research interests: the triangulation of music, religion & science; music theology; music & science; disciplinary culture &the organisation of knowledge; intertemporality

Who you'd like to hear from:
Anyone trying to advance our understanding of INCSA’s three keywords (international, interdisciplinary & intertemporal), including work beyond the Anglosphere; anyone from practice-based areas of work, including museums, libraries, education, media & the arts; anyone expanding the critical, conceptual & methodological horizons of 19th c. studies.

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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social · Jan 16

Oh how wonderful, Ruth! Congratulations!

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