Association of Adaptation Studies

Ghost of Emily Brontë: am I remembered?

Me: yes, a new Wuthering Heights is coming out now

Brontë: and does it look good?

Me: no, it looks like it will be an almost unbearable saga of confusingly sexy suffering for everyone involved

Brontë: I love it.

Second this - if you're interested, I've hosted an AAS conference before/am on the board and more than happy to chat!

Looking forward to AAS 2026 at Burman University, Canada & dreaming of what comes next...

If your institution would like to host a future AAS conference, get in touch! Our Board considers applications throughout the year. Past conferences: www.adaptation.uk.com/category/aas...

i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero

Romancing Wuthering Heights An interactive workshop with two different times to choose from

Wuthering Heights is not a romance.

Obviously.

But why do people think it is?

So many reasons but... I'm going to be exploring how we got here through adaptation history in a workshop so come join me!

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a woman in a red dress is walking through a field with trees in the background ALT: a woman in a red dress is walking through a field with trees in the background

With strong Shakespearean threads, Station Eleven haunted me as a novel during the pandemic. Have now finally caught up with the remarkable tv adaptation.
What survives of us, what’s worth preserving .. care, theatre, music, love, togetherness …
just need to find words to write about this now.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

Netflix Presents Our Italian 2026 Slate: The Year of the Stars - About Netflix

A particularly interesting announcement for European cinema watchers comes from Italy, where Netflix's slate includes 5 original films and two series that are based on films. (1) about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

Our favorite category! 🫶
What was your favorite adaptation? Snubs welcome 👀

Veteran IP adapter Ryan Coogler making the list this year for Original Screenplay: we love to see it!

Screenshot of an NPR KQED webpage for All Things Considered. The headline reads, ‘Public domain contest challenges filmmakers to remix Betty Boop, Nancy Drew and more.’ The article is dated January 21, 2026, credited to Chloe Veltman, and includes a blue button labeled ‘4-Minute Listen.’

🎙️Thanks to All Things Considered & @npr.org for highlighting the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest!

🎧 Listen to the item on NPR here ⤵️
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#publicdomain #publicdomainday #publicradio

Polish literary adaptation continues its winning streak!

Congratulations to @kylemeikle.bsky.social for his new publication! 🎉

Get those abstracts in TODAY! 🗓️

Happy new year! 🥳 🥂 📖 the ECR Prize winning essay is available full OA in the journal Adaptation for a limited time: doi.org/10.1093/adap...

LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word!

Online participation is an option 💻

said Special Guest is Eric Sandberg, scholar extraordinaire and my co-editor for a volume in the Adaptation in Visual Culture series (Palgrave) about awards culture & adaptations, a topic I suspect will be especially relevant this year... @adaptstudies.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

LAST CHANCE! Extended submission deadline expires 15 January. Get your abstracts in this week for AAS 2026 & please spread the word!

Online participation is an option 💻

Happy new year! 🥳 🥂 📖 the ECR Prize winning essay is available full OA in the journal Adaptation for a limited time: doi.org/10.1093/adap...

OBC Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: 2026 Call & Guidance - Open Book Collective The Open Book Collective is pleased to launch the third call for applications for funding from our Collective Development Fund. This document outlines the det…

The Open Book Collective Development Fund Call for Applications 2026 is open from now until March 7.

obc.copim.pub/obc-collecti...

The call and guidance is available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese and applications are welcomed in all these languages.

Truly a PSA for us all. Pitch your reviews to any of the media editors at Adaptation @academic.oup.com:
- Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social
- Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social
- Madeleine Hunter @huntressleine.bsky.social
- Peter Lewis @pwlewis007.bsky.social

🪧 EXTENDED DEADLINE January 15
Online participation welcome! 💻

Truly a PSA for us all. Pitch your reviews to any of the media editors at Adaptation @academic.oup.com:
- Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social
- Christina Wilkins @stinaface.bsky.social
- Madeleine Hunter @huntressleine.bsky.social
- Peter Lewis @pwlewis007.bsky.social

A stellar example of self-adaptation! We love to see it 💿🕺🎶🎞️

20 years ago today I started my blog & to quote Elton John "I'm still standing". Thanks to everyone who has read, commented or shared anything I've done in the last 2 decades. Here's an infographic I made to celebrate.

A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol Only one movie has ever managed to recreate that uniquely Dickens magic, achieving it not so much through adaptation as through transmutation.

"I hope the skeptics have been satisfied by my 'puppets are uncanny' argument, because now I have to mount my third point and achieve the hat trick that will seal my grand yuletide theory: Kermit the Frog is the only performer to ever truly embody Bob Cratchit."

A figure draped and hooded in a black robe points at a grave; an old man clutches his face in distress.

Green's image provides an intriguing reinterpretation of John Leech's original illustration, "The Last of the Spirits". Green is slightly more faithful to Dickens's text in representing Scrooge clutching at the Spirit's robe, but the miser's name is not evident on the gravestone as in Leech.

not to let down this fine academic organization,
but this announcement had me at killer squirrels

CFP of potential interest to AAS members & friends! www.facebook.com/events/63988...

EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!