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Dr Evelyn Koch
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Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
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Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too!

Abstracts due April 26
Articles due December 26

#Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic

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To Be Forever Known: The Brontës and Poetry
Seeking original, high-quality analysis of Brontë poems, especially those with little to no critical attention
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November 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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niht-ēage, adj: able to see at night (lit. ‘night-eye’). (NI’HT-AY-ah-yuh / ˈnɪxt-ˌeːa-jə)
Image: Aberdeen Bestiary; England, c. 1200; @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social MS 24, f. 50r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Medieval manuscript illustration of a golden horned owl.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
Ic ēow þancung, everyone who shared their favourite Old English word(s) for Old English Wordhord’s 12th birthday. May your hoards of words grow ever more wondrous. For my personal favourites, see the "hord highlights" category on oldenglishwordhord.com or on the Old English Wordhord App.
A word cloud of Old English words; the largest word is neorxnawang, and the other words are ān-genga, hrīmig, giccig, eorþ-nafela, wīd-gangol, mixen-duncge, eorcnan-stān, steor-wigle, mere-swīn, lār-þegn, gnorn-scyndende, ears-endu, lācniendlic, lǣce-getawu, clypnys, glædnes, twelf, milte-wærc, friþu, lufu, bēag-gyfa, ge-cūþlǣcan, heofon-hwealf, wæl-cēasiga, sund-hwæt, bed, hlīsa, fēðe-mund, collen-ferhþ, tungol, and hran-rād.
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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#CFP: "Poetry's Environments" June 9-11, 2026 (University of Leeds, UK)
Keynote speaker: Simon Armitage

Deadline for proposal: December 5th 2025

Info: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #environment #poetry #ecocriticism
Picture of Leeds' skyline at dusk.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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theplantinitiative.bsky.social
Proposals are invited to present at the Poetry’s Environments conference to be held Jun 9-11, 2026 in Leeds, UK. For international poets, critics, translators, activists, and anyone who is involved in poetry and its environments. Dec 5, 2025 deadline. conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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henrybartholomew.bsky.social
Publication day! My special issue on Algernon Blackwood and the Gothic is officially out: www.euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/c...
My heartfelt thanks to all the contributors. So much in here - will cover in future posts. The issue positions B as a major force in C20th British Gothic.
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - gothic: Vol 27, No 3
www.euppublishing.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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meganeve.bsky.social
Interested in Hauntology? Take a look at these papers and presentations from a recent PGR led conference 😁 (organised by my legendary friend and colleague)

(Some presentations require downloading due to formats)

doi.org/10.25421/yor...
Haunted Soundscapes Symposium October 2025
The creak on the stair. The whisper on the wind. The melody in the dark. Ghostly sounds have been an integral part of horror and gothic fiction since its inception. In recent years ideas of Hauntology...
doi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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thiliel.bsky.social
Fancy some gilded genitalia? www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/in...
Hypersexualized Monsters in ›Beowulf‹ Director’s Cut (USA 2007) and the Sharp Objects Constantly Threatening to Castrate Him | Mittelalter Digital
www.uni-muenster.de
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Die finden mich nie, summte die frohlockende #Großkatze nahe Kalenborn.
Detail eines Druckes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert: ein lachender Tiger ist zu sehen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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dianearodgers.bsky.social
Update on my WYRD TV: Folklore, Folk Horror and British Television book PLUS exciting news about a CFP for a new edited collection on Folk Horror on Television from me and @drdjohnston.bsky.social !
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
Last night, I watched Nosferatu on the big screen for the first time. The screening is part of the accompanying programme for the special exhibition "Echoes of the Night. Dark Romantic Resonances in Art, Music and Film" in Marburg, which runs until next February. If you're in Marburg, have a look!
a black and white photo of a man wearing a hat with the number 18 on it
Alt: a black and white gif of Count Orlok wearing a hat and looking at a miniature portrait.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
The image of 1612 shows an academic scene of early modern Europe: a lecture hall with a professor on a professorial chair at the upper centre, a large groups of students present. This is one from a series of eighteen plates by the workshop of Crispijn van de Passe, depicting scenes of academic life, more here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1972-0722-6-3
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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jenniferschell16.bsky.social
Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄‍🟫🍄❤️

#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
uncpress.bsky.social UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 18d
"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."

FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏

msmagazine.com/2025/10/07/b...
October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
msmagazine.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
A detail from a broadside ballad of 1675 showing two men singing to each other, and holding each a stick that forms a text bubble out of a flag at the end of the stick. The detail is taken from this print: Lawrence White, All things be dear but poor Mens Labour; Or, the sad Complaint of Poor People (1675). Bodleian Ballads Online, Wood E 25(119). Roud no.V8906
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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asls.org.uk
CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts
The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic
23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December
#litcrit #fantasy
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...
Fantasy’s Present Pasts – Call for Papers and Sessions – Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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mjrsangster.bsky.social
A reminder that we're hosting the first European Conference on the Fantastic, Fantasy's Present Pasts, in Glasgow next summer (23rd-25th June 2026). The Call for Papers and Sessions can be found here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20.... Closes 12th December. Please do consider submitting!
Fantasy’s Present Pasts – Call for Papers and Sessions – Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic
fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
There's a lot of 'mm-hmm' in the new #Frankenstein adaptation...
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Cædmon's Hymn, by me! This was my first time really using Garageband!
Cædmon's Hymn
YouTube video by Sarah M
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November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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audioontology.bsky.social
Here’s my paper and slides from the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Haunted Soundscapes symposium. It’s an excerpt from a larger work in progress. It joins the dots between #BoardsOfCanada, Freud, Otto Rank, Georg Simmel, Gaston Bachelard, Marx, Mark Fisher, Derrida, and Fredric Jameson and #SesameStreet!
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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The latest Hither Shore is out now! Not only does it contain articles on the volume's topic #Tolkien and his editors, but various Tolkien editors reflect on their own experiences of editing Tolkien's works.
💙📚 #fantasy #lit #littwiss
Photo of the cover of Hither Shore Vol. 21 on the topic Tolkien and his Editors (Tolkien und seine Herausgeber:innen). The cover is orange and white and features an illustration of a shore by Anke Eißmann. The book stands upright on a board featuring the ring design, and a mini Bilbo sits in front of the book.
October 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
evelynkoch.bsky.social Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social · Aug 26
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"[...] von den vnreinen Weibern hat/wie obt ist gemeldet worden. Dann der Basiliseus wächst vnd wurt geboren auß vnnd von der groſſen vnreinigkeit/ der Weiber/nemlich auf dem menstruo vnnd auf dem blut ſpermatis, so dasselbig inn ein glaß vnnd cucurbith gethon/vnd in ventre equino putreficiert, in solcher putrefaction der Bafilise geboren würt. Wer ist aber nun so keck vnnd freudig/denselbigen zumachen/oder auß zunemmen/oder widerumb zu tödten / der sich nit mit ſpiegeln bekleidet vnnd bewahret? ich rhats niemandts/sonder es foll hiemit meniglich gewarnet sein.“ Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
evelynkoch.bsky.social
Last weekend, I only had little time to explore Mainz due to conference business, but you're never far away from a Roman site in former Mogontiacum. Here is the Dativius-Victor-Arch - it's a reconstruction and the original is in a museum now.
#RomanSiteSaturday
A photo of the reconstructed Dativius-Victor-Arch in Mainz. The arch has the colour of sandstone and is decorated with frescos of vine branches, a depiction of Jupiter an Juno and scenes of a sacrificial nature.
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Found an encyclopedia of prehistoric life in a little free library. Tag your Friday mood.
Ape Fish Horned dinosaur Mammal-like reptile
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Welcoming the weekend like...

#earlymodern #17thC
Illustration of a fish that is supposed to look like a bishop. It stands on two legs and lifts three fingers as in a greeting whilst grinning in a relaxed way. From: The Workes of that famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, 1634, Lib.25, p. 1002.
December 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
evelynkoch.bsky.social Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social · Aug 26
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"[...] von den vnreinen Weibern hat/wie obt ist gemeldet worden. Dann der Basiliseus wächst vnd wurt geboren auß vnnd von der groſſen vnreinigkeit/ der Weiber/nemlich auf dem menstruo vnnd auf dem blut ſpermatis, so dasselbig inn ein glaß vnnd cucurbith gethon/vnd in ventre equino putreficiert, in solcher putrefaction der Bafilise geboren würt. Wer ist aber nun so keck vnnd freudig/denselbigen zumachen/oder auß zunemmen/oder widerumb zu tödten / der sich nit mit ſpiegeln bekleidet vnnd bewahret? ich rhats niemandts/sonder es foll hiemit meniglich gewarnet sein.“ Pseudo-Paracelsus. De Natura Rerum, IX Bücher. Ph. Theophrasti von Hohenheim, genant Paracelsi, bey Bernhart Jobin, 1584, fol. Bv verso.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM