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Join my students and I for a #BHM26 event exploring the life & writing of Ignatius Sancho & his letters to Laurence Sterne.
12/10/26, 6–7.15pm
Free to attend: eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-his…...
The first 20 to book get a free printed copy of our book. #18thCentury @yorkstjohn
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Some of the most trusted political voices in 18th-century Britain were fictional: why this tradition lives on theconversation.com/some-of-… via @elementaladam
As the "Human Fox" steps out of the Clacton by-Election because it has "become a farce", we ask what happens when actual satire takes the stage in actual politics... By public demand, this is our Binface Girl Summer episode:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Zr… #CountBinface @SatireNoMore
McKenzie Crooke should run #DoctorWho for two short seasons, small scale but creepy and magical in a cozy folk horror kind of way, with a beguiling bohemian Doctor who is somehow both charming and awkward at the same time. And the Doctor should have a steampunky gothic vibe.
#CFP: SPECTRAL TOURISM
30-31 July 2026
York St John University
"This symposium seeks to explore the ghosts of tourism, or tourism itself as a spectral presence, through an interdisciplinary exploration of spectral tourism in York and elsewhere."
#hauntology
If you're into licking walls and seductive "egg play", this latest episode is for you.
#WutheringHeights #TalkAboutSatire
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Our listeners demanded it, we have delivered...
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#WutheringHeights #TalkAboutSatire
In which we talk about the one film that has completely captured the discourse, that literally everyone is talking about rn...
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Jo & Adam explore the satirical history of Zombies, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple & tease their upcoming coverage of Wuthering Heights:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple #wut
This Valentine's Day...
Who tells the story of radical print?
A public lecture on Winifred Gales and the hidden labour behind Sheffield’s late-eighteenth-century radical press.
Sat 14 Feb | York Medical Society | £5
georgianyork.org.uk/what-s-o…
#YorkEvents #18thCentury
One of my undergraduate students, Oliver Lewis, has a Substack and he's written a piece about Laurence Sterne & Charlotte Lennox, & it's actually left my head spinning - what a remarkable, deeply thoughtful piece of writing:
open.substack.com/pub/oliver… #18C
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#Newbooks: "Impolite Periodicals: Reading for Rudeness in the Eighteenth Century" by editors Emrys D. Jones, @Elementaladam, and @KatarinaStenke, and "Magical Realism and the History of the Emotions in Latin America" by Jerónimo Arellano.
To order: tinyurl.com/89yw6np6
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Last call! ASLE-UKI online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment. Thur 29 Jan, 15:00-19:00 GMT. With me, Eric Gidal, James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews, & Tobias Menely. Register FREE at asle.org.uk/events/seminars/
With honorable mentions for Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Yellow Wallpaper and Jacqueline Wilson (& yet somehow still less derivative than #TheHousemaid and #StrangerThings...).
#StrangerThings5 #TheTraitors
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Is The Housemaid satire?
What do The Traitors memes tell us?
How did the internet handle Stranger Things?
Featuring Toast Man, buttered-toast confidence, and Adam vs cutlery. 🍞
Listen:
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#StrangerThings #TheTraitors #thehousemaid
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Special Interest Groups are waiting for submissions to their panels at the ISHS conference in Niterói! If you are interested in the legal aspects of humor, submit your abstract to the "Humor Studies and Free Speech Adjudication: From Theory to Practice" panel by February 10!
"In disassociating satire from comedy... Rulo has demonstrated satire’s transhistorical ubiquity when understood as a deconstructive discourse"
My review of Kevin Rulo's Satiric Modernism is out now:
tandfonline.com/eprint/NIDWK…
#ComedyStudies #Modernism #Satire
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This forthcoming collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodical.
Available for pre-order here📚 ow.ly/vBKj50XStJu
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#18c
Apparently ChatGPT thinks I'm earnest and pedantic, especially when discussing 19th-century novels... All this and more in the festive Smith & Waugh 🌲
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Permission to start feeling Christmasy, our festive special has arrived....
Jo & Adam bring you The Grinch Who Stole Satire, Plur1bus, Wake Up Dead Man, Alan Partridge, Christmas cheer, and the return of beloved fan-fave, Toast Man.
open.spotify.com/episode/0hE…
“They said we were crazy. They said we couldn't put HAUNTOLOGY inside of JANE AUSTEN. They were wrong.”
Here's my final post for The Classics Club #ReadingAusten2025 readalong, playfully proposing a hauntological reading of Persuasion:
theclassicsclubblog.wordpres…
#JaneAusten
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In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
#earlymodern #cfp #historycfp
"There is no bearing the driveling idiotism of the Mankin"
Lord Byron on the "P*ss a bed poetry" of "Johnny Keats"
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
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"To take [Poe] with more than a certain degree of seriousness is to lack seriousness one's self."
Henry James on Edgar Allen Poe.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Join us for an episode filled with spectacular spats, bruised egos & top-tier shade as we explore the art of literary feuding:
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