Katie MacLean

Katie MacLean

@katiemaclean.bsky.social

PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭

415 Followers 663 Following 105 Posts Joined Nov 2024
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📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Why asking ‘Was Jane Austen gay?’ still causes controversy A review which posed the question – causing a storm in a teacup of Austenian proportions in 1995 – has now been set to music.

Was Jane Austen gay?

Michel Foucault says ‘non’!

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Can't believe I am starting to write the introduction to my thesis today !!!

It is actually really hard to put into words the context/framework of ideas you have been thinking and writing about for 4+ years 🤯

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Would You Survive Victorian Infancy? - Play online at textadventures.co.uk So you think you can survive childhood in 1856?

I looked for this ALL MORNING and finally found it

WOULD YOU SURVIVE VICTORIAN INFANCY?

textadventures.co.uk/games/view/l...

(The hosting is very 2003, but I made it on Twine in 2021 and must shift to hosting it locally)

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3 weeks ago

Come and join us!!!!!! Amazing experience for PGRs/ECRs in a v friendly and welcoming environment 🤗 There will be scope for progression for PGRs in more senior editing roles

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We particularly welcome interest from PhD/MA students and early-career researchers with expertise in nineteenth-century studies. Writing a review with us can be greatexperience for those who haven't published or want to gain more experience. We also try to get a physical review copy for our authors.

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📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers!

If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!

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Don’t fall in love this Valentine’s Day – read Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë’s novel celebrates the head-spinning, hair-raising, all-consuming experience of falling in love.

In which I essay a little click bait for the conversation 🖤

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As much as I am here for freaked out/quieky/bisexual Isabella, I did take serious issue with the presentation of Heathcliff’s abuse of her, which is presented as a funny sub-dom relationship because Fennell doesn’t want him to look too violent or undesirable.

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Some are calling this adaptation ‘subversive’ but it is only subversive if you are genuinely prudish. It’s essentially a teenage girl’s understanding of sex and romance in aesthetic packaging.

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Anyway, I support Jacob Elordi’s rights and wrongs but I gave it 2 stars on Letterboxed. A lil dissapointing!

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Did not expect there to be puppy play in Wuthering Heights but here we are I guess

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📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).

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ICYMI our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs are hosting a conference - check out our poster - please reskeet - share with your PGRs - and do come along and join us in June!

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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Contact | Romance, Revolution and Reform Get in touch if you want to submit an article or review, join our mailing list, or have any other questions about Romance Revolution and Reform.

📢 We're on the hunt for new reviewers!

If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at

www.rrrjournal.com/contact

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Alasdair Gray & Robert Burns - Pictured is Alasdair Gray’s 1953 Tam O’Shanter, inspired by Robert Burns. A fierce champion of Scots, Gray shows Tam riding home below as witches dance to bagpipes in the haunted kirk.

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The strangest feeling when your parent has died is that things happen that you really want to tell them about but cant - in this case, my dad would be so excited about the recovered Burns portrait!!!

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Happy Burns day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

My dad was part of a Burns Club and would address the haggis every year. As I little girl I remember looking through his copy of Robert Burns: The Scottish Bard. I never found his book when he passed away but I hope he loaned it to someone who is using it tonight!

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Call for Submissions | Romance, Revolution and Reform Submit a paper for the next issue of our interdisciplinary journal.

We are thrilled to announce that the CfS for Issue 9, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ is now live!

Articles should be submitted by 23:59 on 16th April 2026 to rrr@soton.ac.uk.

Do share widely and we look forward to hearing from you!

www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub...

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1 month ago
Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025) – BARS Blog

On the blog: the wonderful Dr Jodie Marley (@jodielmarley.bsky.social) takes us through some critical approaches to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025)!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

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1 month ago

It’s very Glaswegian of me to find faults in any cool things I do. Let me admit I’m proud of myself despite the cringe ✊🏻

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Superfans! - Charli XCX - BBC Sounds Amy Lamé tells the stories of Charli XCX's career through the words of her devoted fans.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m around the 40 minute mark!

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1 month ago

Okay my ‘radio voice’ made me cringe, I described an elegy as a sonnet (?), and flopped at the Austen question (!)

but the whole show was a really great deep dive on Charli’s fans and my little segment touched on the nineteenth century’s contemporary relevance in pop culture 😊

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eh eh x c x (XCX TAG) Stream eh eh x c x (XCX TAG) by dj methdoii on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

😆 She often uses her name as a kind of producer tag/beat:

m.soundcloud.com/dj-methdoll/...

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Me too! I think she is the perfect person for the vibe and the John Cale collab is already so cool

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On a more personal note we spoke about my pilgrimage to Barcelona to see SWEAT live, how I met my partner through a mutual love of hyperpop, and how clubbing culture has changed since the pandemic.

Clubbing has been a huge part of my life and I don’t think it is spoken about seriously enough! 🕺🏻

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Why Charli XCX might be gen Z’s answer to the Romantic poets Her lyrics are full of nods to the Romantics and share many of the same concerns.

theconversation.com/why-charli-x...

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1 month ago

I’m going to be on BBC Radio 6 tonight at 11pm!

I spoke to Amy Lamé for her series ‘Superfans’, tonight’s show being dedictaed to Charli xcx 💚

Not sure how much will actually be shown but we chatted about my article on Charli + Romanticism, Lord Byron as the first celebrity, and even Jane Austen

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1 month ago

Repost as Bluesky doesn’t have an edit button and I had erroneously credited BARS as our funder! I still love you anyway BARS!

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