Senior lecturer in English at Birmingham. Writes about 19C US lit ~ Gothic voices ~ coasts ~ the deep sea ~ Melville ~ the Midlands. Gothic Utterance (2021).
Co-founder @shoreshaunted
Joined October 2014
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Jimmy Packham retweeted
"Submarine Museums,"
for @FelicityPicken and @EmmaWaterton1's
Shores, Surfaces, and Depths,
out now.
🪸🤿⚓️🎨
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Join us for our next online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp, on reindeer, Sámi herders, and shipboard transportation in Canada— Thursday 5th December at 3pm!
All info, with full abstract, here!
haunted-shores.com/2024/11/2…
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Join @CN_CSI on Thursday #Halloween from 9.45-5pm (Central European Time) for all or parts of the day for Horror and Nature in the C19! Our many amazing speakers: @TheLitCritGuy @JoanPassey @EllieCDobson @daisy2205, Matthew Wynn Sivils & @janetteleaf1: cn-csi.com/event/2024-nature…
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A reminder that our online seminar with @stevermentz runs *next Wednesday* - 30 October - at 5pm (UK)!
Info and registration here! haunted-shores.com/2024/10/1…
Zoom link for attendees to follow on Monday!
Online seminar news!
We’re delighted to invite you all to the inaugural seminar in Haunted Shores’ new online seminar series. We’re so pleased to be joined by Dr Steve Mentz, who will talk flooding, swimming, and Shakespeare.
30 Oct 5pm (UK) via Zoom:
haunted-shores.com/2024/10/1…
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Online seminar news!
We’re delighted to invite you all to the inaugural seminar in Haunted Shores’ new online seminar series. We’re so pleased to be joined by Dr Steve Mentz, who will talk flooding, swimming, and Shakespeare.
30 Oct 5pm (UK) via Zoom:
haunted-shores.com/2024/10/1…
Jimmy Packham retweeted
We are so exciting to be welcoming Dr Rachel Murray @murrayrachel89 to Bern in a few weeks! To anyone in the area, please feel free to come listen – otherwise, we will upload a recording shortly after on our website 🌊🌊🌊
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Headed to @hayfestival? Fancy lending some moral support and/or learning more about the enduring legacy of the Civil Wars? Then come and join me! hayfestival.com/p-21890-imog…
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#JobOpportunity ‼️
8 positions for researchers to work with me in #DigitalHumanities, #environmentalhumanities, digital literary & cultural history, digitally supported #storytelling & #creativewriting
Email / DM for an informal chat
Share widely 🙏
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Jimmy Packham retweeted
`Dracula is a novel obsessed with text.`
Read what @theadorajean has to say about Dracula! Fantastic piece!
@DracSoc
📜✍️ Dive into @theadorajean's fascinating exploration of Dracula as a palimpsest, in our latest blog, where she reveals the layers of narrative & textual power struggles in Stoker's masterpiece using our CLiC App! blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens… #GothicLiterature #CorpusLinguistics
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My review of @jfpackham’s excellent book, Gothic Utterance, is now out in the latest issue of Modern Language Review. Highly recommended! #ModLangRev @MHRABooks @IGA_Goths @MMUEnglishDept @gothicmmu mhra.org.uk/publications/Mod…
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Do you like the playing on the beach? Do you like messing about on the sea? Do you like floating in the haunted silence of the abyssal depths?
Then do I have a talk for you! Coming up on the 14th.
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English Memories of the British Civil Wars
1 Mar, 12.00pm, FREE
Join @ImogenPeck2, as she explores how the people of England remembered the British Civil Wars in the immediate aftermath.
Book now: nam.ac.uk/whats-on/english-m…
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On how our environmental moment is replacing the figure of Mother Earth with Baby Earth 👉🏻 🌍
Available in full here: pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scrib… @PN_Review
‘Baby Earth Environmentalism’ by @IGalleymore, whose collection Baby Schema is published by Carcanet next month – read the full article here for free: pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scrib…
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"Concretion: Submarine Growths and Imperial Wrecks"
is here. Without the support of colleagues like Sharad Chari, Isabel Hofmeyr, and Charne Lavery, it wouldn't be.
Thank you, @TheICCTP, for all your work.
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If the wintry weather is making you yearn for the beach, my article on how reading and beachcombing are very much alike is now out! Open access and everything! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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We're excited to have already received some amazing abstracts so far - Still a few days to submit your proposals for the interdisciplinary Ice and Water event in Reykjavik/online this May! ❄️🌊🌨️🧊⬇️⬇️⬇️
❄️🌊🌨️🧊☃️🏔️ Anyone interested in watery and icy things? See below a cfc for an interdisciplinary event I am co-organising with @ingaflakkari. @IGA_Goths @IGAPostgrads @ShoresHaunted @_Arctic_Circle @arcticfrontiers @uarctic @InuitArtFdn RT pls!
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Anyone have suggestions for #gothic & #horror fiction about eroding / eroded coastal settings. I'm interested generally, but I read a story a while ago about someone going back to a coastal village that had disappeared & can't remember what it is. Help appreciated! @ShoresHaunted
