Are you a PGR/ECR working on the long nineteenth century? Does your research overlap with studies of Queerness? We’d love to hear from you! Beyond excited to be working with the wonderful Queer 19 to bring you their Summer Symposium on August 15th! More info below 👇

Just under a week until my Pint of Science UK talk at the Swan in the Rushes, Loughborough. I'll be discussing Victorian pet-keeping and animal experimentation - how did the former effect debates on the latter? Well, the doctor and spiritualist Anna Kingsford had something to say...

Ever wondered who Marie Corelli REALLY was? Joanna Turner has made some genuinely path-breaking discoveries in this article, and they are finally out in the world! Share far and wide - this is a must-read for Corelli scholars! So proud of you Jo🍾🙌🎉

Joanna Turner Marie Corelli 🖋️ Amazing new biographical discoveries by Jo Turner on Corelli! Read it in the latest VPFJ issue! For me, it’s like that moment of discovery in A.S. Byatt’s •Possession•. A dream for all academics - thank you for your hard work, Jo.

Congratulations Milly Kate Harrison!

Join us for an online seminar on Wed 29 Nov, 4-5 pm, on ageing 19th/20thC - DM for link! James Green James Aaron Green (Univ of Vienna), ‘“Death Outlived”: Desiring and Fearing Longevity in Fin-de-Siècle Britain’ Jade French (Lboro Univ), ‘Late lives, late styles: ageing in modernism’

📣 Event! Come along in person or online to our next Health Humanities research panel. Dr Sara Read and Hannah Palmer are so excited to be joined by Mary Fissell for an afternoon of research on the history of abortion in literature and culture. Tues 21 Nov @ 4pm-6pm (GMT). 👇

One week today! If you'd like to join us online for these fascinating papers, please DM this account or Sarah Parker

Tonight!

📢 This evening, the wonderful Jade French and I will be doing an academic tag-team on C19th/C20th longevity and aging in modernism. I also try to put current anti-aging in some hist. context ... Details below!

Thank you to Jade and to James Aaron Green for two brilliant papers this evening.

Now the index and corrected proofs are submitted, I can finally say that my next book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own will be published by Routledge in Feb 2024! routledge.com/Form-and-Moder…

The BAMS Essay Prize 2023 winner is Michael Allen's ‘Derek Walcott, Robert Lowell, and the Domestic Architecture of Autobiographical Poetry’. The judges highly commend Jade French's ‘Modernist Body Work: Mina Loy and Elizabeth Arden’s Gendered Economies of Ageing’.

Congratulations to Michael Allen and to Loughborough English's brilliant Jade French!! 👏🏼👏🏼🎉

I'll be giving a talk about my new book at Loughborough on Wed 7 Feb, 4-5pm - just give me a shout/DM if you'd like the Teams link.

Join us for an online seminar on Wed 7 Feb, 4-5pm in which Sarah Parker will discuss her new book, Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own - DM for link! routledge.com/Form-and-Moder…

Tomorrow!

Exhibition alert! ‼️🔔 All are welcome to 'Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to Death Couch' - an exhibition curated by our wonderful Health Hums researchers. Open 27 March - 23 April 2024. More details below 👇 lboro.ac.uk/arts/whats-on/…