Máiréad Casey

CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music

Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine

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Call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes - Gothic Association Call for nominations by March 2nd for The Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for a Monograph of Gothic Criticism, 2026 and The Justin D. Edwards Memorial Prize for an Edited Collection of Gothic Critici...

A final reminder to @igagoths.bsky.social members that the call for nominations for the IGA Book Prizes closes soon! www.globalgoth.org/blog/call-fo... #gothic

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Next week for March @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club will be discussing the Ireland and Philippines co-production Nocebo, directed by Lorcan Finnegan

This book looks fantastic. I shall be definitely getting a copy. Check it out #horror fans and scholars 👇 #Horrorsky

Happening tonight! There is still time to sign up 🦇

Podcasting Fear: Conversations with Irish Podcasters Join the INGHS in conversation with leading Irish podcasts in the fields of horror, the gothic, and the weird.

Join us on 25th February at 7 pm Irish Time for the first of our discussions with Irish podcasters! We'll be talking to folks from Petrified & Scream Queens about their work, the genre, and the practice of podcasting. This online event is free & open to all (registration necessary). bit.ly/4qufUTv

Thank you Xavier! Your actually first in the acknowledgements 🥳

Very excited about the latest addition to the Horror Studies series. Huge congrats to @maireadcasey.bsky.social! #horrorstudies #horror @uniwalespress.bsky.social

A screenshot of the blog entry for "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia, 2026 Edition" featuring a cartoon drawing of a werewolf professor writing a letter with a quill pen.

The 2026 edition of "What We're NOT Writing About in Horror Academia" is up. Five free thesis ideas from PG-13 scares to fad diets to cringe horror, with hand-selected inspo pieces ready to read from @aaronrodriguezs.bsky.social @sarahstubbssays.bsky.social + more.
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Guardian headline - Top lawyer at Goldman Sachs resigns after revelation of Epstein relationship

So far it’s been the complicit women who have paid the price of association / collaboration with Epstein. Complicit women who support & benefit from the patriarchy should realise they / it will always throw you to the wolves when & if it suits. The men will save themselves #killthepatriarchy

Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema | UWP My Basket: 0 items

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‘Casey’s rich study shrewdly correlates the renewal of the possession genre with the cacophonous gender discourse of the post-2008 period, finding it to be a productive site for engaging and working through debates over agency, intimacy and violence.’ Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin

Out now!

'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' by @maireadcasey.bsky.social examines how demon-possession horror films dramatise and negotiate sexual violence, exposing the cultural myths that shape who is believed, blamed and silenced.

Thank you ✨

Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur by Linda Williams. The cover is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font. The author’s name is written in diagonally between two of the triangles in all caps and yellow. The editors are written in a serif font in the bottom red triangle.

"Melodrama as Provocateur," edited by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker, showcases the final project of influential film scholar Linda Williams, along with responses by a diverse collection of scholars. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PkD02nj

Well-spotted! It's from Faust I believe. Thanks Justin!

Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema | UWP

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Thanks Aaron! That reminds. I should post a link for folks to order it!

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Contents page of Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema

The first copy of my monograph 'Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema' arrived and it's beautiful! I'm so proud. Thank you @uniwalespress.bsky.social

The George A. Romero Foundation Encourages You To SCREAM LIKE A GIRL This March The George A. Romero Foundation is encouraging you to SCREAM LIKE A GIRL next month with their new campaign celebrating women in horror.

The George A. Romero Foundation is encouraging you to SCREAM LIKE A GIRL next month with their new campaign celebrating women in horror.

Still from 2009 film Jennifer's Body in black and white and photo negative in the style of Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your body is a battleground)

Made a little homage to Barbara Krueger and Jennifer's Body (2009)

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Join the Irish Network Gothic and Horror Studies for a film club discussion of The Abominable Dr Phibes Wednesday 4th at 7pm over zoom. Registration is free!
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Art!

Sailing Through Seas and Languages: A Particular Old French Copy of the ‘Navigatio Sancti Brendani’ Melania Marra, University of Alicante Among the manuscripts preserved at Trinity College Library in Dublin, MS 951 is a modest yet remarkable codex, an example of a medieval text that travelled acr…

📜🌊 Set sail into a rare Old French 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' with us! This manuscript tells us about a medieval adventure with a philological twist – come aboard and read about it in our new blog post by Melania Marra (Alicante)!

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Folk Horror on Television: Call for Proposals for an Edited Collection Editors: Derek Johnston and Diane A. Rodgers Since the first academic conference on the subject in 2014 to the present day, there has been a blossoming interest in the genre or mode of folk horror. There has been a particular boom in academic publishing on the subject in the past few years, including edited collections and monographs. However, this work has tended to focus on folk horror in film and literature, despite there being many televisual texts which can be seen as part of or closely related to the genre. The shared importance of ideas of identity of region and nation form a particular connection between television and folk horror. This collection would seek to address some of this gap. Authors are encouraged to engage with examples from a range of national and transnational contexts. Contributors are also urged to consider the breadth of different definitions of and approaches to folk horror, taking into account the concept of genres as cultural categories, defined by their usage rather than by particular textual characteristics. This can lead to a consideration not just of a wider selection of texts, but also to look beyond the text to consider what different audiences may be doing by claiming particular productions as 'folk horror'. We use here the broadest understanding of folk horror as that which also embraces the ‘wyrd’: texts which may be considered uncanny or unsettling rather than necessarily ‘horrific’. We are also keen to include a wide range of approaches to folk horror on television, whether textual studies, histories, fan studies, folkloristics, or other suitable approaches to broaden and deepen our understanding of the connections between folk horror and television. We have strong interest from Bloomsbury’s Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors series. Proposals of 500 words to derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk AND d.rodgers@shu.ac.uk. Closing date for proposals is 15 January 2026.

I'm not sure why it's flashing like that, but the image contains the CFP for the edited collection @dianearodgers.bsky.social and I are putting together on Folk Horror on Television. We're looking for a wide range of texts, contexts, and academic approaches. Proposals by 15 January.

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Join @irishgothichorror.bsky.social next week for a discussion of Guillermo Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaptation! 7pm December 3rd Irish time!