Eric Parisot

Living / Building—A joint RSAA & David Nichol Smith Conference | Te Wāhanga Aronui / Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington Exploring eighteenth-century connections in today’s world.

The CFP deadline for the 2025 David Nichol Smith Seminar (for ANZSECS & RSAA) in Wellington has been extended to 31 July. Come along - it'll be a hoot!

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Apropos to nothing: so disappointed to belatedly learn that Apple TV+ pulled its funding for Sofia Coppola's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country. I'll file that one with Todd Haynes' doomed biopic of Peggy Lee as 'abandoned projects I would've loved to see'.

Very excited to receive these books in the mail today - one new, and one I've been eager to read for a while now. Can't wait to dive in. #sarahsiddons #davidgarrick #eighteenthcentury #poetry #drama #celebrity #loneliness

We are delighted to announce that all content from Studies in Romanticism published in 2025 will be available on the Project Muse platform via an Open Access model: muse.jhu.edu/journal/754. @projectmuse.bsky.social

The Routledge History of Loneliness The Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the presen...

Very pleased that our Routledge History of Loneliness is now out (& reasonably priced) in paperback - 30 multidisciplinary essays exploring the history of loneliness, its form and development across cultures c.17C to the present. #skystorians🗃️
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Looking forward to diving in to this one, and bumping into my old mate the Wandering Jew.

Front cover of a new book on the cultural history of love, featuring a Meissen porcelain scene where a gentleman kneels to kiss a lady’s hand while she drinks coffee

Happy to see this edited volume on the cultural history of love with @katieebarclay.bsky.social finally out in the world, the fruit of many labours during the pandemic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-... 💕

Get it while it's cheap(er)!
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium
20% of printed and e-books until April 17.
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Double book launch!
Graveyard Gothic (Manchester UP) and Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave). Join as the Tavern at Flinders Uni for some food, drink, and conversation.
Wed 10 April, 5.30-7pm
The Tavern, Student Hub, Bedford Park Campus
Registration: trybooking.com/CQBZK

Are you an Adelaide honours or postgraduate student or an academic interested in body horror? Join us for a masterclass from Xavier Aldana Reyes on ‘Contemporary Body Horror: Becoming “Other(-)Wise”.
Wed 10 Apr, 10am-12pm
Social Sciences South 145, Flinders University
RSVP: trybooking.com/CQBZF

Adelaide peeps! Come along to a special screening of Hatching (2022, dir. Bergholm) at The Mercury, introduced by
Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University).
Entrance is free. Free drink on arrival.
Tuesday 9 April. 6.30 for 7pm start.
Register here: trybooking.com/CQAAV

Picked up these lovelies at Adelaide Booksellers.
The Grenadillo Box is, in part, a fictionalisation of Lord Montfort's suicide in 1755. Suicide also features prominently in Sarah Siddons' great career. And a lot of these Victorian love stories end... well, you know.

Stoked to have received my copy of this bad boy... I mean, this sombre tome. I've missed working on poetry, so perhaps this will inspire some new work.

Have just seen all Oscar-nominated shorts at the Capri Theatre. I'd be very happy to see Pachyderme (Fra) win the animated category, and either Knight of Fortune (Den) or Invincible (Can) win for live action. #oscars2024

HKU Careers The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.

University of Hong Kong is advertising for a Prof/Assoc. Prof on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Prof in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century). Applications close March 29. @19birkbeck.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social

Congrats Rory!