Literary scholar & cultural historian; associate prof. @UniBirmingham. C19 & C20; depictions of ancient Egypt; gothic; magic, science and occultism. She/her
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In 1890 an 81-yr-old Alfred, Lord Tennyson showed Bram Stoker around his garden, and specifically pointed out 'some blue flowering pea which had been reared from seed found in the hand of a mummy'. I think the plant is likely the saucily-named Clitoria ternatea🌺
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Interesting stories of what amazing careers English graduates have gone on to pursue! #EnglishCreates #englishcareers #englishgraduate
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⭐️CALL FOR PAPERS⭐️
We are thrilled to announce the CFP for our 2024 virtual conference!
🪲Past Perceptions, Modern Perspectives: Contextualising Egyptomania 🪲
Deadline: 1st June
Conference dates: 10-11 August
Full CFP & plain text on our website issegyptomania.com
Featuring a brief mention of #Corelli100!
More popular than Dickens - Corelli celebrated
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The sun is out at @ShakesInstitute contrary to the forecast! Excited for delegates to get to see Corelli's garden in all its glory 🌞 #Corelli100
ALT A lawn and stone archway surrounded by shrubs in the sunshine
ALT A brick tower surrounded by greenery, with sunlight filtering through the trees
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In-person places have now sold out, but attendance at #Corelli100 is still possible online (thanks to @VPFA1 event funding) Tickets are £10, and available at shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-…
We are delighted to share our provisional programme for #Corelli100 Tickets are available to book now at commemoratingcorelli.wordpre… for in-person or zoom attendance.
It’s going to be a packed day of rich and exciting scholarship!
Jo's discoveries enormously impact our understanding of who Marie Corelli was and the breadth of her diverse career. Exciting that the publication of some of these findings coincides with the centenary of Corelli's death - and #Corelli100 of course...!
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Bravo Yousef! A pleasure to read and examine your thesis, which will make waves!
Thrilled to have successfully defended my PhD thesis with minor corrections! I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my amazing examiners @Kate_Hext & @EllieCDobson and my supportive supervisors @ProfARichardson & @Prof_JPlunkett for their guidance throughout this journey
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Today, large parts of the USA will be able to observe a full solar eclipse, but will it be as spectacular as the 1882 Egyptian eclipse?
On May 17, 1882 one could observe a full solar eclipse combined with a comet passage (!)☄️☀️ 1/10
Exciting postdoc opportunity!
Postdoctoral fellowship in Spirituality & the Arts
Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy with Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) Harvard, Warburg Institute, & Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations & Spiritualities Giorgio Cini
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Exceptionally excited to see @Emily__Vincent's article on the Gothic nursemaid in this issue of @CuspLate. Take a look for Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw' & Florence Marryat's 'The Blood of the Vampire' & 'Little White Souls', read in light of spiritualism and empire 🦇
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We are delighted to share our provisional programme for #Corelli100 Tickets are available to book now at commemoratingcorelli.wordpre… for in-person or zoom attendance.
It’s going to be a packed day of rich and exciting scholarship!
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In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Dr Seward’s journals are famously ‘Kept in Phonograph’. Join me for a nerdy deep dive in which I, brandishing back-of-an-envelope math, calculate the cost of Seward's phonograph habit, & encounter a creature more uncanny than Dracula himself! 1/13
ALT Edison phonograph machine
ALT Famous yellow cover of Dracula (1897)
If folks enjoyed this thread, the identification of artefacts from Tutankhamun's tomb that inspired pieces in the 1999 film formed the basis of an essay about the afterlife of the Tutankhamun excavations available here: archaeopress.com/Archaeopres…. Check out the other chapters too!
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Still time to get tickets for our Halloween lecture on Saturday:
“[S]tep Not Out of this Magic Circle” : Ancient Egypt and Occult Theatre of the Fin de Siècle by Dr Eleanor Dobson @EllieCDobson
Tickets:
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Members can attend for free!!
#Egyptomania
On 4 May 2024 @Coppertapestry & I are hosting a conference at Marie Corelli's former home, Mason Croft. The CFP is here: commemoratingcorelli.wordpre…, X account is here: @Corelli100, and the wider weekend will feature Corellian activites incl. afternoon tea in the garden hosted by...
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Brilliant key note from @Leire_Olabarria referencing the importance of critically reflecting on the histories of acquisitions. #NotesFromTheNile
