@maireadcasey.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies/Post-Doctoral PM for MSCA-Funded REBPAF project at University of Galway. Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
Poster for film club discussing Japanese horror film house with a red background and scary cat face and white silhouette of a house
Looking forward to next month's INGHS Film Club with @irishgothichorror.bsky.social We'll be discussing the surreal, wild and wacky Japanese movie Hausu!
10.10.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you everyone who joined @irishgothichorror.bsky.social for a wonderful discussion about giallo, bright colours & glorious sets, problematic & auteurs and contemporary slasher films
01.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for online film club 1st October of Tenebre. Woman holding old-fashioned razor
Join us tomorrow evening 7pm to discuss Dario Argento's classic giallo Tenebre (1982)
www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...
In the very early stages of a blog about GIFs of femme monsters from horror films and how they recontextualise moving images for humour, relatable and activist content. Have a look!
femmonsterarchive.wordpress.com
This promises to be loads of fun. Come join us and test your spooky trivia knowledge 🕷️🦇🐐🎃
23.09.2025 15:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We're having an online pub quiz to celebrate the spooky season! This will be an informal, relaxed, fun evening of socializing while flexing our trivia knowledge.
Registration is free and open to everyone.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-onli...
Galway Simon are looking for volunteers for their Charity Shops in Galway City. If you would like to find out more about the roles, just go to https://bit.ly/gvcsimonshop
Galway Simon are looking for volunteers for their Charity Shops in Galway City. If you would like to find out more about the roles, just go to bit.ly/gvcsimonshop #galway
19.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tonight! Our film club discussion of "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." Everyone is welcome, but registration is necessary. See the link below.
03.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I feel like this job (horror scholarship!) would be a great fit for a load of people I know or that follow me on here!
Pass it on!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM520/r...
Join me and @irishgothichorror.bsky.social next week for a discussion about Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). All welcome but registration is required: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...
26.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
CFP 📣Trans-scriptions: Cultural Codings and the Poetics of the Body📣
DEADLINE EXTENDED: abstracts by 14 Sept 2025!
Keynote: prof. Jack Halberstam
🗓️ 11–13 February 2026
📍 University of Wrocław, Poland
🌐 Hybrid Format
📌 Our site: wordpre150.wordpress.com
The cover of the book "Games of Terror Halloween, Friday the 13th and the Films of the Stalker Cycle," featuring a color-distorted image from the film HALLOWEEN in which Michael Myers attempts to strangle Laurie.
It's a blood red-letter day! Vera Dika's early, studious, practically geometric breakdown of the slasher film, from the stalkers to the survivors, is updated and lookin' good. One to buy. @uniwalespress.bsky.social @danieljsheppard.bsky.social @wick85c.bsky.social
www.uwp.co.uk/book/games-o...
06.08.2025 23:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder that our @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club meets tomorrow at 7pm Irish time💀 We'll be discussing the 1963 Shirley Jackson novel adaptation, The Haunting!
05.08.2025 14:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]
@irishgothichorror.bsky.social
31.07.2025 15:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies online film club with image of a spooky house for the 1963 film The Haunting
Join us next Wednesday at 7pm Irish time to discuss Robert Wise's stunning b/w adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"
31.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Cover of Introducing the Medieval Fox which features an illustration of a fox playing with a magpie.
'This is a delightful and informative book that will be of interest to scholars and a public audience.'
A lovely review of Paul Wackers' 'Introducing the Medieval Fox' in the most recent issue of Speculum!
Discover more about this 'charming' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/introdu...
#MedievalSky
Conference on screen music/sound:
🚨 CFP: Sound on Screen V
🗓️ 5–17 Jul 2026
📍 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester UK
📩 Deadline: 1 Oct 2025
I had the pleasure of attending (and, on occasion, presenting at) several iterations of this fabulous event. A really collegial, supportive gathering!
So pleased (and honoured) to be part of this impressive line up for the autumn ❤️
@uniwalespress.bsky.social #Gothic #precarity #neoliberalism #GothicPrecarity
The 11.3 issue of FMH is live! 🤩🥳
This issue is devoted to the 30th anniversary of Lara Croft, with every article discussing the character and the Tomb Raider franchise!
You can read the editors' introduction, written by Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen, below:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
My monograph, ‘Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic’ coming out next year 🖤🧛♀️
25.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0My monograph "Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Recession American Horror Cinema" is in the Autumn catalogue of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. Here is the beautiful cover!
25.07.2025 13:53 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
📯 Of course, we're also @imc-leeds.bsky.social!
Tomorrow at 7PM, Kaila Yankelevich (Bristol) joins the Medieval Animal Data Network (MAD) Roundtable on 'Wolves'. Drop by and learn new facts to impress your friends! 🐺📜
#REBPAF #MSCA #IMC2025 #BookHistory #ResearchImpactEU #Wolves
A cartoon illustration of a werewolf dressed as a college professor, using a quill pen to write a letter.
Horror Lex is hiring! In search of a part-time, paid clerical assistant to help us maintain the database. Love horror films? Got mad search skills? Obsessive about punctuation? We love that. Details on the blog:
horrorlex.com/blog/horror-...
Can't wait 🖤
30.06.2025 11:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Watched Eyes Without a Face for the first time the other day. Looking forward to talking about it on Wednesday! Can't believe I hadn't seen this gorgeously bonkers movie before.
If you want to join our discussion, it's free to register: www.eventbrite.ie/e/inghs-film...
Just watched Eyes Without a Face/Les Yeux Sans Visage in preperation for our @irishgothichorror.bsky.social film club on Wednesday! Gorgeously horrifying. Still plenty of time to register!
29.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.
Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.
Happy dykes & supporters fill the space outside the gates of the Garden of Remembrance. There are many queer flags, but many Palestinian flags also.
Images of the crowd assembling for Dublin's Dyke March this evening.
28.06.2025 01:39 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
