Registration for the 2024 Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (Oct. 16-18 in Santa Cruz, Calif.) is coming very very soon. Meanwhile, you can check out www.youtube.com/@ucscmonster... to see videos from last year's talks.
This is the official channel for the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monsters Studies (monsterstudies.ucsc.edu). Videos from our 2023 Festival of Monsters will be posted in the week or two after the conferen...
I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...
What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How did writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W.B. Yeats,…
I *loved* Isabelle Greenberg’s Glass Town, a graphic novel take on the Brontë juvenilia, so I bought Young Hag as soon as I recognised the illustration style - it’s a fun feminist retelling of Arthurian legend with some Christina Rossetti thrown in - go buy!
Just talk about what you care about—no one else there will be 19th c lit or medical humanities people, so you can be the one who talks about why it’s important for a field to have the flexibility to thrive at points of intersection. But also, wear the t-shirt
My continuing obsession with open access to sources for exploring the 19th century has resulted in a new edition of this guide to free, searchable full texts of magazines www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe...
finally located a copy of the greatest nineteenth century novel of them all: Middlemarch: or, The Whale
Romanticists! Coleridgeans! Who will join me in the Albatross Death Cult?
Birmingham-based chef Alex Claridge is opening an omakase style restaurant in the city’s Jewellery Quarter this summer.
Talking about dead bodies, reanimation and monsters with @cookiegoth.bsky.socialnewbooksnetwork.com/the-necroman...
t’s not too late to send in a proposal for our 2024 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline is Monday 🧛🏻♀️🧟♀️❤️ www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2024festcfp?...
Get it while it's cheap(er)! Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium 20% of printed and e-books until April 17. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
