Research group in English at Loughborough University fascinated by 19th-20th century literature and culture. Lovers of all things weird, gothic, decadent and modernist: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/research/groups/cultural-currents/
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Next week! Tues 19 May - and you can still sign up below.
We're getting ready for a new semester - our first event will be Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla (University of Liverpool), ‘Imagining Alternative Arctics’: Literature and the Legacy of Polar Science from the 1890s to the Present - Wed 25 Feb, 16.00-17.00, in person and online via Teams (DM for link).
This week!
There's still time to sign up to Prof Anne Stiles' talk on Tues 19 May, whether in person or online - see the link below.
Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
Another fantastic achievement from one of our doctoral researchers: @millykateh.bsky.social has an article on "The Cosmos and the Cage: Masculinity and Mysticism in Blackwood's ‘The Eccentricity of Simon Parnacute’ (1910)" out in latest edition of @gothicstudies.bsky.social: doi.org/10.3366/goth...
It was a delight to host @frankiedytor.bsky.social yesterday with their fascinating paper 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle'
Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
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
Hybrid - International House & Teams Webinar, 19 May 2026, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
www.lboro.ac.uk
Algernon Blackwood's fascination with the concept of the personal ‘cage’ and the potential for liberation is central to both his worldview and literary legacy. This article explores these themes in hi...
Our next event features Professor Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University) who will be visiting us as an @lboroias.bsky.social fellow in May. Sign up for Anne's talk on 'Marie Corelli, Marie Curie, and the Wonders of Radium' on Tues 19 May (12-1pm) at the link below: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
Hybrid - International House & Teams Webinar, 19 May 2026, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
We're so excited to welcome everyone to Loughborough for Weird Modernisms! Registration opens next week and, if you're a grad student or ECR, consider signing up for our workshop ('What's Next - Life and Work After Submission) & informal social event 💃
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Hybrid - International House & Teams Webinar, 19 May 2026, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
Registration for the Weird Modernisms conference opens in ONE week. In the meantime, if you're looking for info about conference registration, hotel costs, and travel to Loughborough you can find it here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Check back in one week to register/ book your hotel!
