Fraser Riddell
@fraserriddell.bsky.social
Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
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Fraser Riddell
@fraserriddell.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Affective Experience
The Affective Experience Lab brings interdisciplinary insights into the link between feeling, emotion and affect.
medhumsplatform.org
See upcoming events at the Affective Experience Lab @durhamimh.bsky.social, part of the Discovery Research Platform in Medical Humanities: medhumsplatform.org/labs/affecti...
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ReaderBank has a sparkly new website!
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
August 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
ReaderBank has a sparkly new website!
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
readerbank.org
And new modules to help us better understand reading experiences, how the imagination works and what this means for mental health.
Sign up to get involved in the world’s most ambitious study of the reading imagination!
🧵
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Today's spotlight is on In-Two Minds: readerbank.org/experience/in-two-minds
Stories we read can often be like an emotional rollercoaster - positive moments can make us smile, tragedy can make us tear up, and a ghost story can even give us a good scare.
Stories we read can often be like an emotional rollercoaster - positive moments can make us smile, tragedy can make us tear up, and a ghost story can even give us a good scare.
August 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Today's spotlight is on In-Two Minds: readerbank.org/experience/in-two-minds
Stories we read can often be like an emotional rollercoaster - positive moments can make us smile, tragedy can make us tear up, and a ghost story can even give us a good scare.
Stories we read can often be like an emotional rollercoaster - positive moments can make us smile, tragedy can make us tear up, and a ghost story can even give us a good scare.
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@durham-university.bsky.social research is supporting a new exhibition inspired by the works of Lafcadio Hearn
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
Research brings the Japanese ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn to County Durham - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@durham-university.bsky.social research is supporting a new exhibition inspired by the works of Lafcadio Hearn
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
September 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures
Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2025
Special Cluster: Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp
#S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE
tinyurl.com/yamapeh2
CONTRIBUTORS
Shinjini Chattopadhyay
Joshua Brorby
Tim Clarke
Yasmin Akhter
and more!
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Excited to mark the launch of my book alongside Katharina Herold-Zanker’s Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany. Two wonderful guests, Stefano Evangelista and Megan Girdwood, will be introducing the works.
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Book Launch - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Excited to mark the launch of my book alongside Katharina Herold-Zanker’s Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany. Two wonderful guests, Stefano Evangelista and Megan Girdwood, will be introducing the works.
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
If you're in the Durham area, please join!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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"Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball" Languages graduates are in high demand and have a lot to offer the economy and society www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
"Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball" Languages graduates are in high demand and have a lot to offer the economy and society www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
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'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'The University of Cambridge has announced it has acquired and for the first time unsealed Levy’s personal archive, including letters, draft manuscripts, photographs and diary entries. It is expected the material will inform a wealth of new scholarship on her life, work and mental health.' 1/2
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Just under a week left to apply for 3 x Editorial roles @the-polyphony.bsky.social! Come and join our stellar team!
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just under a week left to apply for 3 x Editorial roles @the-polyphony.bsky.social! Come and join our stellar team!
Really enjoying @piercepenniless.bsky.social new politics podcast from @lrb.co.uk. Intelligent, informed and wide-ranging discussion. The most recent episode even manages to make the bond markets exciting!
New @lrb.co.uk ON POLITICS: I speak with @danielagabor.bsky.social & Andy Haldane on bond markets, gilt vigilantes, and the role of Britain's central bank. Instructive and hugely illuminating conversation on finance, democracy, & how we get out of the doom loop.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 10/29/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Really enjoying @piercepenniless.bsky.social new politics podcast from @lrb.co.uk. Intelligent, informed and wide-ranging discussion. The most recent episode even manages to make the bond markets exciting!
Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
Volupté 8.1 - Lafcadio Hearn — Volupté
volupte.gold.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Excited to announce this new special issue of Volupté on the (reluctant) decadent Lafcadio Hearn: volupte.gold.ac.uk/hearn
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Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Materialising Methods
What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...
medhumsplatform.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hello Bluesky!
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.
Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite
medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
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***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums
ndhumanities.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
***CFP*** Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions, Durham University, 24-26 June 2025
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...
Deadline for 300 word abstracts: 28 Feb 2025
Fully hybrid, no registration fee, bursaries+fellowships available.
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Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Critical Neurodiversity Studies
Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book introduces a ne…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
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I'm starting a newsletter! Neurodiversity and Capitalism will cover theory, history, politics culture and strategy. I mean to post weekly (with some flakiness) starting this week.
substack.com/@neurodivers...
substack.com/@neurodivers...
Neurodiversity and Capitalsim | Substack
I am a philosopher and social theorist. I wrote Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism.
substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I'm starting a newsletter! Neurodiversity and Capitalism will cover theory, history, politics culture and strategy. I mean to post weekly (with some flakiness) starting this week.
substack.com/@neurodivers...
substack.com/@neurodivers...
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📣MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apply by: 16/3/25. Preferred research topics: Gothic Aspects in Scottish Literature since James Hogg till Jenni Fagan | Satire in English/Scottish Literature since Chaucer to Banksy | Scottish Writers of Postcolonial Identity
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
www.euraxess.cz
January 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apply by: 16/3/25. Preferred research topics: Gothic Aspects in Scottish Literature since James Hogg till Jenni Fagan | Satire in English/Scottish Literature since Chaucer to Banksy | Scottish Writers of Postcolonial Identity
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"Now, researchers from Oxford University are using the technique of “body mapping” to help patients better communicate the physical, cognitive and emotional dimensions of their illness to family, friends and health professionals." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘We think of the body as a map’: a new approach to deciphering long Covid
People with post-infectious diseases sometimes struggle to communicate the debilitating impact of their conditions. But a new technique can help them explain visually
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Now, researchers from Oxford University are using the technique of “body mapping” to help patients better communicate the physical, cognitive and emotional dimensions of their illness to family, friends and health professionals." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Great to see the publication of 'Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context'. A super line-up of essays. Thanks to Martin Dubois for all his fine editorial work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context
www.cambridge.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Great to see the publication of 'Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context'. A super line-up of essays. Thanks to Martin Dubois for all his fine editorial work: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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Donna Haraway AND the fabulous @mariettarosetta.bsky.social talking SF and dystopia? This is going to be fantastic! @britishacademy.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Donna Haraway AND the fabulous @mariettarosetta.bsky.social talking SF and dystopia? This is going to be fantastic! @britishacademy.bsky.social
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Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum #LGBTQ #gay #queer @natmemarb.bsky.social @fightingwithpride.bsky.social 🌈
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum
The memorial will take the form of a crumpled letter made of bronze, made up of words from evidence of personnel who were impacted by the ‘gay ban’.
www.independent.co.uk
January 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Memorial for LGBT veterans to be built at National Memorial Arboretum #LGBTQ #gay #queer @natmemarb.bsky.social @fightingwithpride.bsky.social 🌈
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vete...
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Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today.
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
December 27, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today.
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
Spotted in the Vatican Museum: From 480BCE, an Attic vase in which same-sex desire is symbolised through the gift of a hare.
December 21, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Spotted in the Vatican Museum: From 480BCE, an Attic vase in which same-sex desire is symbolised through the gift of a hare.
Really powerful piece on Gisèle Pelicot, male sexual violence and rape culture in the LRB from Sophie Smith: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Really powerful piece on Gisèle Pelicot, male sexual violence and rape culture in the LRB from Sophie Smith: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
December 18, 2024 at 8:00 AM
3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies
Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman
#AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies