Very proud and excited that the Trans 19th Century Symposium is finally available online! Featuring Kadji Amin, Emma Heaney, Mark Rifkin, @activisthistory, Jules Gill-Peterson and @GretaLaFleur. The brilliancy of these papers, I hope, makes up for the conference room audio quality.

every class I teach on Poe I bring this in and leave it sitting on the desk just in case my students had any lingering thoughts that I’m cool. Another Poe week now in the books🫡

one of our department cats needs help! : Emergency Surgery for Magic gofund.me/38f09db7

it’s officially “woman in white” 🤍 next !!! we’ll see you to discuss Victorian Bagels Nov 14 at 5pm at BU English

one year since Contemporaries @ Post45 and all my brilliant collaborators shared our thoughts re the inimitable fast & furious franchise, if you’re looking for some weekend reading 🚗

Excited to share part of my diss at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard New Work in Victorian Studies event tomorrow! I’ll be talking about how we better understand Eliot’s Dinah and Dorothea within the transatlantic debate about women’s religious authority. All welcome! mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/new-work…

Excited to present my paper on Jude the Obscure at #NeMLA today!

#Caturday: "Kitty and the Ball of Yarn," by John Tenniel. Alice in Wonderland's cat was based on the Liddell children's family pet. She's getting herself in a nice tangle here! victorianweb.org/art/illustrati…

I had so much fun presenting my paper ‘“‘Pigs must be killed’”: Queerness and Animal Kinship in Jude the Obscure’ alongside a group of fantastic panelists at #NeMLA this weekend! Thank you to everyone who attended!🐷 Jude the Obscure world domination 🔜

Really pleased to see my piece about Dickinson children’s books and how adults interpret kids interpreting poetry out in the world! Available to read below!

Dave Foley BU Grad Workers “We fight from necessity and they fight for greed! We are already winning and our labor is our power.” -Meiya, BUGWU bargaining team

Day 1 on the picket line fighting for a fair contract and a living wage! #BUGWUOnStrike BU Grad Workers

We love you @maxchappy!!!

bookclubs are praxis ‼️aka Bekah Waalkes and I theorize about our favorite activity in ASAP/J ASAP/Journal 📚 asapjournal.com/feature/readin…

so excited for next Wednesday!! Come learn about the Gothic and support BU Grad Workers!

tomorrow!! join us and the brilliant Kelsey G. Quinn to learn about gothic fiction 🦇

Kelsey G. Quinn discusses how through the idea of "the will" (legal) Dickens prompts us to consider redistribution of wealth and property as the deceased tangible presence in the lives of those they leave behind 🧐📃✒️ Gothic secrets and action are propelled by these documents

I’m a few days late now, but I had a wonderful time presenting at Dickens Day UK last Saturday! Really grateful for the helpful engagement with my ideas from all of the brilliant scholars in the room! And every presentation I got to see was incredible! 🫶🏻👻