Join the VPFA for a workshop on publishing Victorian Popular Fiction!
✅ Turning your thesis into a monograph.
✅ Writing a winning book proposal.
✅ Insights from the VPFJ editorial committee.
✅ Handling peer review & rejection
📅 26th February at 6pm
🔗 See your emails for the registration link!
We have received some brilliant abstracts already and would love to see a few more! Get your ideas down and get them to us! The deadline is tomorrow (19th February), but I'm taking the day off and won't be checking my emails until the 20th, so ....... 🤷♀️😉
@ukiedh.bsky.social Can you please share with your members. We are keen to have a DH session showcasing some of the tools or programs that can aid research into the nineteenth century and would greatly appreciate the share!
Just 9 days left to get an abstract in for this @vpfa.bsky.social study day on "The Critical Age". Please re-post to share as widely as we can. Thank you!
@nanetworkinaging.bsky.social Do any of your members focus on the nineteenth century?
3 weeks to get your abstract into us for our fabulous study day on (peri-)menopause in Victorian literature. That's 1 week to jot it down on your never-ending to-do list, 1 week to forget about it & 1 week to write down your brilliant research ideas in a somewhat coherent manner and send it to us!
Hello 2026! Here's to a great new year, the same fabulous you, and a new(ish) CFP to submit an abstract to....
I'm thrilled to be co-organising this study day next year. Please consider submitting an abstract and joining us in this important and fascinating conversation about women's (peri-) menopause in Victorian literature
The reading packs produced by the @vpfa.bsky.social's third sex reading group are always gorgeous, and the discussions are always great. What's not to love!
Join us Wed 17th Sept @ 5.30pm UK time to discuss the highly problematic "Lodore". Everybody welcome... message for more details.
The link for the reading group on Lodore is now live ... www.eventbrite.com/e/lodore-tic... please join us!
@drsallybd.bsky.social @janeford.bsky.social
Come and join us in our discussion on the book. For your summer reading, audio and text versions both available on Internet Archive or Gutenberg 📖
Double page spread of black printed text on white paper which is the first two pages of chapter three of Mary Shelley's Lodore. The pages are covered in handwritten annotations (mine)
This photo may be upsetting to some people as it shows a book being vandalised... aka my notes on Mary Shelley's Lodore. Key words so far are: Incestuous, Angel of the House, and depression. Looking forward to discussing further on 17 September at the VPFA 3rd sex reading group.
Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg. @vpfa.bsky.social
@janeford.bsky.social
Oh where has the time gone?! We are approaching our final Research Seminar. Join us this Wednesday (28th May) at 2pm UK time to hear Suzy Corrigan's paper on Vernon Lee, Ethel Smyth & Sapphonics. Everyone welcome
VPFA speed networking event - this Friday, the 30th May!
🗣️ Connect, converse, and collaborate!
🧑🎓 Who’s it for?
This event is designed for postgraduate students and researchers who are members of the VPFA. Come as you are—whether you're just starting out or writing up your thesis.
"No wonder people are tired" .... "It is a dreadfully tough job to live nowadays, and do it as our friends expect us to do it"
Published in The Opelousas Courier, Sep 30, 1905, Louisiana.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83026...
Love this article from 1905. When I first read "Women especially are tired out. You can't find one who has energy enough to make her husband a shirt" I did a little eye-roll and was ready to dismiss it as 19thC patriarchal BS, but then I kept on reading....
@ukiedh.bsky.social
Join us for Teesside University's next research seminar...
Paper: ‘Exploring Conceptual Spaces with Co-Creativity: Using Human and AI Collaboration to Investigate Constraints in Literary Forms’
By: PhD Student Sam Pegg (Southampton University)
When: Wednesday 7th May at 2pm BST
Where: Online
📖🖊️🖥️🤖💭
if "Vernon Lee and her Dead Dolls" doesn't grab your attention, I don't know what will! 😯
What a line up ... this year's Graduate Conference organised by Teesside's MA students looks incredible, so much so that we've joined forces with them to host our Research Seminar Series, which is being given by Dr Susan Civale. It is online and free to attend so please join us, Wed 26 Mar @ 2pm
#ThinkingForwards in #Collaboration #Arts #Humanities #Curators #Libraries #DataScientists #Technology Join us, join in, next week, free online! 😊
#EduSky #TeamEnglish #Education
englishassociation.ac.uk/thinking-for...
A poster, the background is different shades of yellow and brown with unreadable handwriting. The foreground is supposed to look like old paper - a mixture of brown shades with printed details of the upcoming talks. Email siobhan.smiht@tees.ac.uk for more information.
There are just four presentations left of this year's English & Creative Writing Research Seminar Series (organised by PhD students at Teesside University). Don't miss out on your chance to join us in what sounds to be four fantastic talks .....
A dusty pink background with a black and grey sketch like illustration of William Shakespeare with text about an upcoming event organised by Teesside University's English & Creative Writing Department, this year's research seminar series. The next event is on Wednesday 5th February at 2pm which will be Dr Adam Hansen from Northumbria University talking about "Macbeth in/and Class". An abstract of his talk is provided.
Having a teenage daughter who has just started reading Macbeth at school, I'm looking forward to hearing Adam Hansen discuss the role class plays in the Shakespearean classroom. Everybody is welcome to join. Please message me for the Teams invite.
A reminder of the great lineup for Teesside University's English & Creative Writing Research Seminar Series ... next up we have PhD student Georgia Dalton from Northumbria University presenting on grassroots theatre and the women's liberation movement. Wed 15th Jan at 2pm UK time on Teams
A simple poster with a table on a white background, there is green shading behind the dates, and the titles of the speakers are also in green. The Teesside University logo is on the top left and bottom right.
I am looking forward to hosting Dr Francesca Benatti tomorrow (Wed 4 Dec) at 2pm UK time. Her paper "Webcomics: Digital Innovations in Reading and Writing" looks at how readers and authors experience webcomics. Email me if you'd like to join online: siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk
So looking forward to hearing @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social speaking next week. If you'd like to join us please email me for the meeting invite ... siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk
