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Dr. Dina Pedro (she/her)

@mrsdreadful.bsky.social

Assistant Prof. at Universitat de València (Spain). Neo-Victorian, gender studies & medical humanities. Vampires 🦇 🧛‍♀️ & potatoes 🥔🥔Secretary at @popmec_research

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Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻

Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.

Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

31.10.2025 11:59 — 👍 78    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 9
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📢 CFP – “The Blood is the Life!”: Narratives of Illness, Gender and Identity in Vampire Fiction Seminar

📍 University of Valencia
📅 April 16–17, 2026
🎤 Keynote: Dr. Purificació Mascarell (University of Valencia)

🔗 More info: bit.ly/49vNtPd

31.10.2025 09:24 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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🗓️ Save the Date!

We’re thrilled to announce the dates for our international conference:
18–20 May 2026 🎉
Mark your calendars—more details coming after the summer break!

#RELY #LitAssemblage #internationalconference

29.07.2025 09:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 CFP open! The Poetics and Politics of Literary Assemblages in the Anglosphere. An International Conference 🌍
📅 University of Málaga, 18–20 May 2026
📝 Send title + 300-word abstract + bio note to literaryassemblage@gmail.com by 9 December 2025.

#CFP #LitAssemblage #RELY

01.10.2025 07:33 — 👍 4    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

📢 We are organising an International Conference (18-20 May 2026) at U of Málaga, attached to our @assemblagelit.bsky.social project
Join us! It will be a great event!☺️
Check out our CFP: literaryassemblage.com/events/

#LitAssemblage

01.10.2025 11:35 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa

CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…

🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information

02.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 25    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 2
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‼️Very happy to announce that my colleage Dr. Alaez and I are organising this year's HEAL's conference on #MedicalHumanities and #EnvironmentalHumanities at the University of Oviedo (Spain):
📨 You cand send us your abstracts up until the 5th of march!
⤵️ All info here!

12.02.2025 18:21 — 👍 13    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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“Snatch, Eat, Erase”: The Demonization of Women’s (Sexual) Appetite Through Eating Disorders in the CW TV Series the Vampire Diaries (2009–2017) Ever since the Victorian period, eating disorders have been influenced by patriarchal discourses that monitor women’s bodies. Female vampires in Victorian Gothic narratives—e.g., Dracula (1897) and...

My latest article, "Snatch, Eat, Erase”: The Demonization of Women’s (Sexual) Appetite Through Eating Disorders in the CW TV Series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), now available on English Studies:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GCWEQ...

14.01.2025 22:43 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

I hope so

28.11.2024 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No voy a decir lo que parece porque mi religión no me lo permite 🤣🤣

28.11.2024 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mentales, más, jajaja

19.11.2024 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

El Twitter este es muy raro, no me acostumbro. Estoy mayor.

19.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Por favor y gracias

19.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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