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Joanne Ella Parsons

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Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex

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Bristol academic to lead discussion on macabre Victorian phenomenon The curious phenomenon gripped the 19th-century Britain

Lovely piece on my upcoming talk in @bristol247.bsky.social by a recently graduated student from ELCE. Please share - we have seats and all proceed go to the brilliant @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social

www.bristol247.com/student/news...

03.03.2026 08:02 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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The long 2010s are finally over

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Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: 27th March 2026 A VPFA Study DayHosted by Loughborough University Registration now open! Click here to register Scroll down for the Study Day Programme The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect…

Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...

09.02.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations Hannah. Please do get in touch if you are looking to turn it into a monograph. I have a couple of book series with University presses which you may be interested in

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Mapping Nineteenth-Century Obscenity - Sarah Bull Last summer I discovered the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps and had a lot of fun plotting addresses I found in my research for Advertising Pornography and Obscenity Trials. I found ...

A version of this is now up β€” will post expanded versions in the future. sarahbull.me/mapping-nine...

16.02.2026 13:24 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

So cool! Thank you

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Last summer, I got super into plotting addresses of nineteenth-century British pornographers that I'd collected as part of a project using the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps. Collecting the data was a painstaking process, as was plotting it as many of these addresses no longer +

13.02.2026 12:12 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Ooooh!

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Love.

29.01.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OUT TODAY @titanbooks.bsky.social ! So grateful to tell the stories those who came before me couldn’t or were not permitted to. I do believe we are here for ourselves and for our ancestors. Writing is more than a book for me.
THANK YOU READERS!
Grab a copy

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/maria-the-...

10.02.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting

Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

13.01.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting

Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century
thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

07.01.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Digital Events - The Last Tuesday Society

#Bonktastic #Bonkbusters!: Sexing Up Late Twentieth-Century #WomensWriting

Join me on Tues 13 Jan for a saucy and fun introduction to the #Bonkbuster and the ways in which it spiced up both women’s writing and their bedrooms in the late twentieth century
thelasttuesdaysociety.org/digital-even...

07.01.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MeetCute Book Festival to host Regency-themed event for debut authors

ICYMI: MeetCute Book Festival is set to host a Regency-themed event for debut authors, hosted by author and comedian Rachel Parris πŸ‘‡ #BookSky

06.01.2026 17:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark romance: an introduction This article examines the rise of dark romance from the fringes of self-publishing to a bestselling genre. After surveying definitions of dark romance, the article provides a detailed chronology of...

A new publication by Katie Deane, on dark romance, is the first work of romance scholarship of 2026. And it's open access!

05.01.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Our International women's writing online conference will be held on the 15th and 16th of January 2026. In a chance to explore the global role and impact of women's writing, we are so excited to welcome all discussions about any woman's writing from any time period, any place and any genre!

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Sounds fabulous!

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The CFP List An academic call for papers database.

Do join us for the Inaugural International Women's Writing Association conference in Falmouth www.cfplist.com/CFP/46601

#iwwa @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

30.12.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Laura. Really appreciate it. We are currently sorting a website for it and some other stuff now but its amazingly helpful i can link to your site in the interim!

12.11.2025 21:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New #CFP International #WomensWriting online conference

12.11.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Glitching Gender This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in which technology can be used as a mechanism to dismantle or reinforce existing gender ideologies.

Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity

More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...

#sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth

30.10.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That sounds like a lot. Hope they all go smoothly and you return swiftly to good health. I'm always interested in phds in this area so just feel free to get in touch whenever you are ready.

10.11.2025 08:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry Laura. Total incompetence on my part!

10.11.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We do usuallu advise it, but i think you may have emailed me? Im a bit behind on correspondance so will get back to you next week but were you thinking of doing a creative practice or critical one?

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This call may be of interest to our readers!

07.11.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes please! That'll be loads of fun. Im hoping to come up to london again early next year (but hopefully before if i can wangle funding!).

08.11.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social, I hear our 'lovely' friend @pwcraddock.bsky.social has been grassing me up!

05.11.2025 11:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Romance and/or Erotica This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: Romance and/or Erotica

Come and study with me! Call for doctoral proposals in the field of Romance and/or Erotica at Falmouth University: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...

05.11.2025 10:59 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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#13CornishGhostStories at #Truro @waterstones.bsky.social last #Halloween - such good fun! Loved hearing about the audience's spooky encounters!

@emmacowellauthor.bsky.social @lizfenwick.bsky.social

31.10.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Glitching Gender This doctoral project will open up new critical and creative ways of thinking about the ways in which technology can be used as a mechanism to dismantle or reinforce existing gender ideologies.

Please do consider applying for my doctoral brief: Glitching #Gender: Creative/Critical Interrogations of #Technology and Identity at #FalmouthUniversity

More info here: www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...

#sextech #phd #pgr #Falmouth

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