Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OTD, 7 March, 1671. 200 years before Marvel & Star Wars, @profdanielcook.bsky.social argues, Walter Scott’s novel about the Scottish outlaw helped create today’s fascination with “the anti-hero, the reluctant rebel”
#romanticism
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The tree on my street is up for European Tree of the Year!
+ in particular if you haven't read my essay from the Strange Horizons criticism special last year it's the thing I'm proudest of: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
focused on Celtic-language cultures but hopefully speaking to general questions about fantasy's extractive use of colonized cultures
📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).
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Episode Four of our AHRC-sponsored podcast series ‘Ann Radcliffe: A Gothic Heroine for today’ features @dalegothic96.bsky.social and Elizabeth Bobbitt, discussing Radcliffe’s posthumous works. A real treat for all Radcliffe fans!
@radcliffecup.bsky.social
📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers!
If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!
A messy, scribbly oil painting from my brother’s photos of Prussia Cove in Cornwall. An uneven stone wall leads from centre foreground back to the curve of the cliff on the right, parallel to the trail; All sides from the ridge line drop down to the narrow, rocky cove. A couple of cottages are nestled in the ridge line, beneath a clouded, rainy sky.
The finished (I think!) piece: Prussia Cove, Cornwall: oil and pigment sticks on panel, 60 x 80cm
#oilpainting #seascape #prussiacove #cornwall
scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol... my review of Michael D. C. Drout’s The Ruin and the Tower ( Norton) for the Journal of Tolkien Research
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for the BARS Conference 2026. Applicants should now have been informed whether their proposal has been accepted. If you submitted a paper and have not heard back, please get in touch using the conference email address (bars2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk)(1/2)
Look forward to this one!
Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b. #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important #modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance
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Great to see #Tolkien in the #Oxford Handbook series. Congratulations to the editors and authors!
We've just sent out proposal decisions for Fantasy's Present Pasts (Glasgow, 23rd-25th June 2026) - if you submitted a proposal, check your inbox! If you haven't heard from us and think you should have done, please drop us an email (using the Centre address, arts-fantasy@glasgow.ac.uk).
Poster for the ECEN Inaugural Seminar: Dr. Jeremy Davies (Leeds), 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture' Thursday 26" February, 2026 Heslington Hall, University of York (H/G21) and Online 17:00-19:00 GMT Please jown us for the inaugural seminar of the ECEN, in which Dr. Jeremy Davies of the University of leeds will address us on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture? From 17:00 to 19:00 GMT, both here at Heslington Hall and over a Zoom link which will be provided nearer the time, Dr. Dayies will speak on the Georgic mode, the rise of the machine, and Romantic green onsciousness. We are incredibly excited to welcome a scholar as important to the field, and to our own work, as Dr. Davies, and hope that as many of you as possible will be able to jormus, and enjoy what promises to be a brilliant paper and a lively discussion! Visit us at: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e
The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network (@e-cen.bsky.social) will be hosting their inaugural seminar online and in-person at Heslington Hall, Uni of York on 26th Feb at 5pm! Dr Jeremy Davies (Leeds) will present on 'Continuity and Change in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Culture’.
Join the waitlist for Affective Atmospheres — 18–19 Feb at Civic House, Glasgow.
A free, in-person conference Supported by @triphilosophy.bsky.social and @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Just had a fantastic interview with Prof Kirsteen McCue in Glasgow about Scottish song culture and folk music and the instrumental role they played in changing the fate (and sound) of Western music, from Beethoven to Bob Dylan. The episode will come out in a few days…
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📢 #CfP for the 22nd #Tolkien Seminar of the @germantolksoc.bsky.social in cooperation with the Environmental Education Centre in Augsburg and WTP
📜Environment, the World around us, and the Connatural World in Tolkien’s Works
#envhum #ecocrit
www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/55214/tolkie...
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Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 by Jimmy Packham
Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic
@dalegothic96.bsky.social
@jfpackham.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Photo of a multi-branch, light grey lichen having overgrown half of a round, bright yellow lichen. Both species are growing flat on grey rock.
Some lichens are A-holes.
A Physcia sp lichen (light grey) growing over a Polycaulinia sp lichen (yellow).
On seaside cliffs, #Newfoundland, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Round 1 of our training and travel grant is open!
Grants up to £500 are available to support the training and development of PhD students and postgraduate research assistants.
Send us your application by 25 January ⏰
I'm excited to share that you can now pre-order your copy of this forthcoming intervention in the Gothic. I have a piece on the Windigo in it! @universitypress.cambridge.org @msvuenglish.bsky.social @igagoths.bsky.social
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Poster for a PGR/ECR networking event. 30 January 2026, 12pm-2pm (CET), 11am-1pm (UK). This event affords the opportunity for ECRs and PGRs working on research projects relating to literary studies in any language to build their research community. The event will include two short academic talks, opportunities to network, good conversation, and signposting to exciting opportunities in the future! Schedule: 5 Minutes Opening Remarks 20 Minutes: Presentation from James Dowthwaite 25 Minutes: Zoom room meet and greets in breakaway groups (with a primary text to inspire discussion and break the ice) 20 Minutes: Second Presentation TBC 10 Minutes: Contact exchange, open room for discussion, plus the circulation of a list of opportunities in the future that might be open to PhDs and MA graduates 5 Minutes: Closing remarks, and information on a follow up meeting If you would like to join the event, please email Roslyn Irving at rirving@uni-mainz.de
Mainz University are organising an online networking event for ECRs and PGRs, which may be of interest to our members! Contact Roslyn Irving (rirving@uni-mainz.de) to join.
Taking place today!! Get your tickets at the link below!
Copy of my book, Theological Monsters
And it’s here! My author’s copy has arrived 🖤
An iconic resident of the Caledonian forest: the #redsquirrel 🐿️🌲 The #Highlands are their largest remaining stronghold and #rewilding is helping them return to their former range.
Watch to discover more about this forest icon!
#RedSquirrelAppreciationDay @scotsquirrels.bsky.social
Come along to the ALSE-UKI online seminar on 29 Jan, featuring a wide range of papers from contributors to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literature & the Environment.
Book your free place here:
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#18thCentury #18C #18thC
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Walking with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Dorothy Wordsworth
Taking place: Jan 14, 2026 05:00 PM GMT
For more details and to register: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6260
New BARS Digital Event Announcement: Re-reading the Minerva Press
Taking place 22 Jan 2026, 6pm GMT
For more info and to register for the Zoom link:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6265
