Ana Parejo Vadillo

Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…”

“… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

Due to public demand we have increased the number of tickets available, for the book launch of Alice Meynell. Talks by Alex Wong, Laura Mulvey and yours truly. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Just a reminder of the conference tomorrow

‘Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now? Contemporary interventions in art and literature’.

Date and Location: starting at 9am, Sat 20 Sept 2025, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK.

For all the details: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Book launch of a new Alice Meynell collection! Please book your seat. Talks by Alex Wong and great grand daughter, and renowned film theorist, Laura Mulvey. Date 31 October 2025.
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I would do some Vernon Lee, 'Oke' story from Hauntings.

Feliz de que se pueda leer por fin en castellano a Levy, Harkness y Black. Gracias Gonzalo Montor y gracias a El Pais.

Las ‘sinsombrero’ inglesas de finales del XIX llegan a España tras 100 años de olvido El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness elpais.com/cultura/2025...

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As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza amidst its ongoing genocide, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed themselves and their families.

Read on: amn.st/63322fK1Ze

79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.

Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them

Unbearable
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Spanish TV before Eurovision today

I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer.
#nonfictionreads

The wonderful Isabel Davis!

It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!

Word of the day? Penguins

Tesla tea party! 😂

Would be great to have you there and here your thoughts!

I loved every minute of this. What a wonderful conference. With thanks to the brilliant @juliemariewise.bsky.social and @yivory.bsky.social Papers by new scholars in the field were 🔥🔥And there was a #MichaelField strand too!

Publicity announcement for a conference, featuring a drawing of a woman in 1890s dress, rendered in bold yellow, white, and black

What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.

Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field Book" Houghton Library welcomes Ana Parejo Vadillo, who will give the Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field...

Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu
libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949

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Huge congrats Isabel!!!! It’s beautiful

Table of contents for the new special issue, “Transition and Transformation”: Special issue preface by ERIK GRAY tracing Victorian Poetry’s recent transitions and celebrating the field’s debt to JOHN B. LAMB, journal editor from 2005 to 2024 LINDA K. HUGHES, “Queer Forms, Queer Grief: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains in Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Michael Field’s The Longer Allegiance” MARY ELLIS GIBSON, “Sensation, Sati, and Retribution in Mary E. Leslie’s Sonnets on the Indian Mutiny” HERBERT F. TUCKER, “Compost Happens: Composition and Decomposition in Victorian Literature” BRITTA MARTENS, “From the Execution Ballad to the Dramatic Monologue: Criminal Confession Reconfigured” FLORENCE BOOS, “Morris the Skald: Icelandic Translation as Social Liberation”

Table of contents for 60th anniversary issue: JOHN B. LAMB, “Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry” ERIK GRAY, “Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry” STEPHANIE KUDUK WEINER, “Reflections on Years in Victorian Poetry” LEE O’BRIEN, “Victorian Women’s Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a Category” MICHELE MARTINEZ, “Undisciplining Art Sisterhood” HELEN GROTH, “Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry” MONIQUE R. MORGAN, “Poetry, Politics, Possibilities” JASON RUDY, “Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian Archive” LEE BEHLMAN, “Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall” MARION THAIN, “Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns” ANDREW M. STAUFFER, “Analog Intelligence” CHARLES LAPORTE, “Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization” LINDA K. HUGHES, “Whithering: Or ’Tis Twenty Years Since”

Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644

This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely

hang in there Martin. Sending you all my love

Thinking of you Martin x

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Biblioventures: The Picture of Dorian Gray | Virtual Program Join us on a new Biblioventure with a special subscription-only show on Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I'm very excited to serve as one of the cohosts of this virtual program on The Picture of Dorian Gray, which will run weekly February through March! 💜

#OscarWilde