Interesting stories of what amazing careers English graduates have gone on to pursue! #EnglishCreates #englishcareers #englishgraduate
theguardian.com/education/2022…

Am so proud of the day that Ellie Dobson and I coordinated, and hugely grateful to all our chairs and speakers (from across the world as well as in Mason Croft) for their amazing contributions! Thanks to College of Arts+Law and Loughborough English and VPFA for their support for our event.

⭐️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

#Corelli100 group photo!

Featuring a brief mention of #Corelli100 !

The sun is out at Shakespeare Institute contrary to the forecast! Excited for delegates to get to see Corelli's garden in all its glory 🌞 #Corelli100

In-person places have now sold out, but attendance at #Corelli100 is still possible online (thanks to VPFA event funding) Tickets are £10, and available at shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-an…

Born on this day: Marie Corelli. My research indicates she was born in 1854 (not 1855 as previously assumed), so I believe that this year marks the centenary of her death, AND 170 years since her birth. Looking forward to commemorating her life and work on Saturday at #Corelli100

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...!

Bravo Yousef! A pleasure to read and examine your thesis, which will make waves!

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!

Exceptionally excited to see Dr Emily Vincent's article on the Gothic nursemaid in this issue of CUSP: Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth C. Cultures. 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 🦇

We are delighted to share our provisional programme for #Corelli100 Tickets are available to book now at commemoratingcorelli.wordpress.com for in-person or zoom attendance.
It’s going to be a packed day of rich and exciting scholarship!

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

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/Archaeopress/d…. Check out the other chapters too!

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 Ellie Dobson
Tickets:
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Members can attend for free!!
#Egyptomania

Next Thursday (19th Oct) I'll be joined by 3 of my HistoryManMet students (Kira, Samuel, and Aieyan) to talk about board games based on Ancient Egypt as part of the M.E.S.S. series. It's hybrid, on MMU's campus and via Zoom.