Literary Detective (newly minted PhD) @lboroenglish.bsky.social
I know a little bit about Marie Corelli, #19thcentury popular fiction and #genealogy
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/staff/joanna-turner/
Dr Joanna Turner
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Been thinking about #critical #creativity/ #creative #criticism recently as alternatives to literary critical essays and decided to set extracts from #Ouida novels to music, and then music video. Here's the first. How successful is it at clarifying her argument here?
youtu.be/JSDkZsMKjS4
Come and study English and History with us on our new joint honours degree at @lborouniversity.bsky.social.
Or better yet: tell all the 17-year olds you know.
www.lboro.ac.uk/study/underg...
#Loughborough #HE #undergraduate #BA #English #History
Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying.
#books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram
Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...
I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀
Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.
Wim Van Mierlo
Anne-Marie Beller
Andrew King
Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history?
Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞
Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer
#EnglishCreates: Futures
Today, Prof Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) discusses the profound value of reading in the age of social media:
'Just as smart phones and social media sites train us in one way, proper reading trains us in another...'
universityenglish.ac.uk/really-readi...
PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian
Bestselling novelist Marie Corelli was born today in 1854 as Caroline Cody.
It’s a great day to perform a cover reveal for my volume of the @vpfa.bsky.social Key Popular Women Writers series on Corelli—out VERY soon. I am incredibly excited for it to be out in the world! @lboroenglish.bsky.social
