Dr Joanna Turner

😍 @drclaireocall.bsky.social

#EnglishCreates: Futures

Today, Prof Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) discusses the profound value of reading in the age of social media:

'Just as smart phones and social media sites train us in one way, proper reading trains us in another...'

universityenglish.ac.uk/really-readi...

Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying.

#books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram

I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀

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...

A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.

Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history?

Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞

🎉 Congratulations, Dr Palmer 🤩 on passing your viva and for producing such an impressive thesis!
Also, thank you for coordinating our finishers group, and for being an inspiration to your fellow researchers. You’re simply amazing! x

The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian

Many happy returns! xx

New #EnglishCreates post. @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes ‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

Your work is just fascinating and I’m so impressed with how busy you are post-submission. Can’t wait to see where your research takes you next! 🤩

The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…

Did you read or review a great new book on #19thC periodical studies? Was it published in the last year? If yes, nominate it for a Colby Book Prize! We're still accepting nominations through 31 January. [NB: For tax reasons, authors *cannot* self-nominate.] More info here:

I was going through some old files and found these scans from Lewis Carroll's handwritten manuscript "Alice’s Adventures Underground" (1862). He originally gave it to Alice Liddell as a Christmas gift. The full text was available at the BL before the infamous hack.

BSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the Body Alternate Histories of the Body is the 2026 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium

"Alternate Histories of the Body" is next week! I'm highlighting our workshop, "Experiencing Academia Through the Body" by Francesca Young Kaufman (11:15 AM GMT). Join us if you're interested in neuroscience-based tools for managing academic stress. The workshop is free and online. #AcademicSky 1/4

Richard Fallon. Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology What if humans could tell the story of Earth’s history without rocks, or at least without an over attachment to the rock record as interpreted by palaeosci

Patrick Morgan on Contesting Earth's History in the Review of English Studies: 'beautifully detailed, intricately researched, and compelling'. What more could you wish for? The review, for those with access: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

Many congrats, Hannah! 🤩
I came for meticulous research (you NEVER disappoint!) and stayed for the unbelievable medical history of poor Mrs Glover!
I’m astounded how long she was ill for, and the notes are fascinating! I see from your article there is more where that came from - what’s next? xxx

The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.

'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...'

Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:

Very much looking forward to sharing my work on pregnancy and motherhood following gynaecological surgery in the mid-19th century as part of this fantastic programme! It is online and free - links in posts below about how to register. Thank you for including me @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social !! 🫀💫

Day 5: Diversity & Inclusion
An archivist and museum specialist from @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social collaborated to review their approaches to cataloguing, access and descriptive practice: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
#Archives #EYAInclusion #Diversity
📷Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Other updates include finishing a book chapter in an edited collection on Marie Corelli. My chapter is “Marie Corelli: Bestselling Decadent Author” and the edited collection is Marie Corelli in Context: Cultural Currency, Popular Fiction and the Literary Marketplace. Excited for it!

It was, quite honestly, the high point of the summer getting to put together this podcast with @nathankhensley.bsky.social for Studies in the Novel on his book ‘Action without Hope’

www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...

An exciting conclusion to my time as Research Fellow on the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project! Dr Melissa Dickson & I are co-writing a book ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the @manchesterup.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social series🦠

Excellent start to 6 months of showing how and why English Studies matters so much to all of us #EnglishCreates from @univeng.bsky.social and lots of our brilliant colleagues

Many congratulations! 🥂 And OA? I’ll get stuck in! x

Thank you so much for an amazing PhD experience! I have been so supported throughout and made to feel that I am a valued contributor to the department’s vibrant research culture!

Thank you so much! And I am loving the gif-work! 😂

Thank you my lovely friend! xxxx

Thanks so much, Hannah - I’m so pleased you enjoyed reading my work! I felt the same way about your thesis - your examiners are in for such a treat! xxxx