👻🧐Dr Jen Baker 🧐👻
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lecturer Warwick Uni. assoc Editor @gothicstudies Same handle bsky and more likely to be over there! #Gothic #DeathStudies Views own
Joined March 2016
Join me online @ViktorWynd museum on 26th October, 8pm (GMT) for a talk on "Spectral Embodiments: Manifesting and Visualising the Ghost Child" 👻🖤 . LOADS of other amazing talks available throughout the year too, check out @TheLastTuesdayS.
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This talk examines the transformation of the ghost-child figure from oral folklore and legends to their literary incarnations in culture
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Traditionally Bristol doctoral robes don't have a hat, but today I was convinced to don one and I quite liked it!. Anyway, a fabulous day watching our @uniofwarwick English finalists graduate: Well done class of 2025 you were glorious 🎓🥂🍾
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Great first day at #HauntedModernities @FalmouthUni: highlights include M.A.Miller's keynote on precarious c19th Cornish miner's bodies; Vicki Aimers's stitching workshop; & 3 experimental films, particularly Lottie Davies's moving project Quinn
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A rather epic second day (Monday) of #GromitUnleashed3 on foot and back in the car, started at 9am, got the last one at 7.15pm. Completed but PHEW!
Have been out hunting Feathers and friends today around Bristol and the surrounding counties - did the big driving ones and managed 17/53 - more on foot tomorrow!. Here are some of my faves so far 😊. #GromitUnleashed3
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Have been out hunting Feathers and friends today around Bristol and the surrounding counties - did the big driving ones and managed 17/53 - more on foot tomorrow!. Here are some of my faves so far 😊. #GromitUnleashed3
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Outward bound to #GothicCrossroads in Manchester for a few days of conferencing joy (it's been a while!), catching up with old friends and acquaintances 😊 - got my supplies for the journey 🖤
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So very very sorry to hear of the passing of @ProfSJJames .We never met in person but had a fair few social media exchanges over the years and this was a shock to see. My condolences to all his colleagues, friends, family 💔.
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My excellent colleague @DrAliceKelly celebrating Professor Jay Winter, who was at Warwick in the 1970s when he worked in the Centre for Social History set up by E. P. Thomson. In particular, a deep-dive into his influential 1995 publication 'Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning'
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Next up on #HauntedBritain was the deliciously playful "His Bloody Project" by Graeme Macrae Burnet. Very much enjoyed discussions on the performance of authenticity & hos an imagining of mid-c19th Scotland is constructed and undermined through different kinds of sources 😈
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This week on #TalesofTerror - Topographies of Terror: The Haunted House 👻🏚. Using c19th short stories by Broughton, Braddon & Wilkins Freeman & secondary by Emma Liggins, we interrogated narrative form and space; gender & class isolation; anxieties of modernity & more!
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Final unit for #HauntedBritain module is Neo-Victorian Crime Narratives. Started w. Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008): the ethics of writing & reading the non-fiction historical crime novel, what seems to haunt the c19th British public & the author?🕵♀️📚
We finished off this unit of #HauntedBritain on Strange, Magickal, and Uncanny with Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" (2011): the intersection of Nation / Supernatural/ Policing and Law via riots, Punch & Judy, gothic underground and more. Next unit neo-Victorian crime fiction!.
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😡😡😔😔 solidarity with everyone affected not only at @NewcastleUcu but all across the country.
300 jobs at risk at Newcastle University 🚨. Our members should not pay the price for vice-chancellors' inability to manage finances. @NewcastleUniUCU say enough is enough.
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RT @pietersender: Just a few weeks now until my next lecture for @TheLastTuesdayS where I’ll be talking about Dante’s Inferno and asking se….
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Happy birthday to Me and Charley D! . Both not sure how we feel about it, but trying to stave off the birthday blues with a trip to Londonium.#CharlesDickens
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Week 5 of #TalesofTerror was "Terror of Translation", analysing the 1916 English edn of Rabindranath Tagore's "The Hungry Stones and other stories" & the 2019 Penguin edn of Lafcadio Hearn's "Japanese Ghost Stories", to grapple with politics of translation and the Gothic.
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We finished off this unit of #HauntedBritain on Strange, Magickal, and Uncanny with Aaronovitch's "Rivers of London" (2011): the intersection of Nation / Supernatural/ Policing and Law via riots, Punch & Judy, gothic underground and more. Next unit neo-Victorian crime fiction!.
This week on my module #HauntedBritain was Hilary Mantel's excellent "Beyond Black" (2005), talking about Spiritualism and trauma; Diana's ghost and the iconography of white femininity; the M25 ortibal as purgatory; the fallacy of "homeland" and security and more 🖤👻
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Week 4 of #TalesofTerror was on collecting and anthologising c19th short form Gothic - paratexts, marketing, ideologies - using the 1872 and the Oxford classics 1999 edn of Sheridan Le Fanu's "In a Glass Darkly", as well as "The Witching Time" (1887) & Australian Gothic (2013) 🖤
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This week on my module #HauntedBritain was Hilary Mantel's excellent "Beyond Black" (2005), talking about Spiritualism and trauma; Diana's ghost and the iconography of white femininity; the M25 ortibal as purgatory; the fallacy of "homeland" and security and more 🖤👻
This week on #HauntedBritain we discussed @dysonjeremy's "The Haunted Book" (2012), talking meta-fiction (there were some surprises about genre!); ghostly guidebooks (including my own copy of Hippiskey Coxe); detective fiction; troubled masculinity, and more! 🖤👻
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RT @Emily__Vincent: *Save the Date!* Join me and @Adam_Zed of the @ghostclubpod & @DarkLightBook for an online launch of my @BL_Publishing….
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