Dr Silvia E Storti

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

24 hours of free online talks and Q&As

Next Friday and Saturday

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Assoc Prof Sam George launches the 2nd day of #gothicmermaids #seachanges @ogomproject.bsky.social Looking forward to more tales and tails of watery wonders - starting with the Ningyō

‘Outcomes for students graduating with English degrees are not significantly different in the longer term than for those graduating with STEM degrees. Studying English provides training in skills and knowledge which will hold their value in years to come.’ #EnglishCreates 4/4

‘English is by far the largest Humanities subject at A Level. Overall, more students took one of the three English A Level than any other humanities A Level ; around 30% more than took the next most popular subject (History)’ 3/4

The takeup of gen AI in academia symptomises an obsession with speed and productivity over research and critical thinking. We're continually given crazy and arbitrary deadlines to mark work/return proofs/review articles/submit publications/respond to grant reviews. It's corrosive and unnecessary.

Call for chapters for an edited collection published by Routledge: "Children's Literature and Graphic Narrative."

Abstracts are due by 1 October.

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We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!

We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.

Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

CFP: Are you working on any aspect of folklore and want to publish your research as a short book of 20-30k words?
@cambridgeup.bsky.social's new series Elements in Folklore is now seeking proposals - please email me drfrancisyoung@outlook.com if you'd like a proposal form #cfp #folklore

Architect Alfred Waterhouse born #OTD 1830 to a Liverpool Quaker family. Buildings include Manchester Town Hall, London’s Natural History Museum, Liverpool University's Victoria building. His love of red brick and terracotta led to him being nicknamed 'Slaughterhouse Waterhouse'.

Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall – but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research

It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research

Schrödinger's academic humanities: Both so irrelevant in the modern world that no one wants to take our classes, and so powerful that we can singlehandedly convert our students to cultural Marxism.

There’s a lot to be said for saying nothing. Never happened to me but still.

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15th September 2025.

More info 👇
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The no assessment stress truly the selling point there! Also, well done!

BMI building in Birmingham

First time attending a @vpfa.bsky.social event and #VPFAExtremes made it so easy, I almost forgot this was my first full on multi-day conference in two years! Had a lovely time, and I gave my paper today, and it went fine, and people seemed to enjoy it, which is the important stuff. I’ll be back!

Our final paper of the Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures panel at #VPFAExtremes is Cecelia Rose, presenting 'A Fishy Tail: Edward Burne-Jones’s The Depths of the Sea (1886)'

On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'

Fowler says she finds walking a useful methodology because it allows her to situate herself in the landscape and understand why certain places were valued above others #VPFAExtremes

in a fascinating intersection of labour and colonial history, Ghandi visited Lancashire in 1931 to discuss the impact of the Indian boycott of British goods (particularly cotton) on the textile industry #VPFAExtremes

Take a look at Fowler’s book ‘Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire’. She has an opium walk through the Lake District and more. It is a useful way of understanding what our colonial histories in this country are #VPFAExtremes

Now for our final keynote of the conference, Corinne Fowler with her talk 'The Impact of Empire on the Countryside, 1837-1901' #VPFAExtremes

Edwardian spy fiction activated the idea of the chivalrous gentleman hero who is loyal to country, class, and kingdom. Ouida sets her spy fiction in the glamorous courtly world of high society and manipulates ideas of powerful men #VPFAExtremes

Adventure fiction often features a hero ‘whose connection to his world is eccentric, who cannot or does not accept the strictures of that world [...] undergoes many improbable adventures, and finally abandons the exotic and reintegrates into the adult world’ #VPFAExtremes

finally we have Helena Esser discussing Ouida's spy fiction! Ouida is often discussed as a sensation writer, but Esser says that discussions are lacking with regards to her as a writer of adventure fiction #VPFAExtremes

her writing asserts the permeability of geographical borders and finds new ways of asserting multilingual and multicultural identities. The mountains, particularly, represent a place where the world convenes and how she understood her own multicultural identity #VPFAExtremes

Collier writes ‘that “other side of Italy” where we had made up our mind to settle [...] I should see Italian ways in all their unsullied primitiveness’. Collier's use of 'primitiveness' reflects not an opinion on class, but an interest in their connection to nature #VPFAExtremes

Second we have Claudia Capancioni discussing Margaret Collier's writings on the Sibylline range of the Apennines. Collier married an Italian Lieutenant #VPFAExtremes

Last day of @VPFA1 conference :( I'm attending the Adventures Abroad panel, and first speaker is Alison Dingle talking about representations of the Holy Land in early Victorian fiction and society more broadly #VPFAExtremes

A great meal with great conference pals! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

Late Victorian botanical/environmental horror and dystopia is something I didn’t know I needed, so thanks, panel! #VPFAExtremes