Kit Richards
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Birmingham. Working on disability in fantasy and medieval literature.
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsThe heraldic Iguanodon on Maidstone's coat of arms seems to be drawn a bit differently each time. The designer of this version went to quite a lot of effort to make the dinosaur look as early modern as possible, including giving it mammalian ears. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/kapta....
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsA (Disney+) alien egg outside the temporary space exhibition at the @nhm-london.bsky.social. I want to believe Alien: Earth will be good, as many claim, but the Alien franchise, live action at least, has a proud tradition of sucking for many decades now and it would be a shame to deviate.
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsDo you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please? (Please share!) forms.office.com/pages/respon...
- Reposted by Kit RichardsAt #SAGA2025, Yoav Tirosh @realmundiriki.bsky.social is giving a thought-provoking talk on #Trauma as an interpretative framework for #oldnorseliterature. @au.dk
- Reposted by Kit RichardsOur author Ármann Jakobsson gave today’s keynote at #SAGA2025 at the auditorium maximum @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social in #Krakow. If you want to know more about #oldnorse paranormal encounters, have a look at this volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @armannja.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsCampop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsMy wonderful friend is doing this research and is still looking for more people to take part! Please share 😊
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsThe excellent @anzamems.bsky.social "Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women: Accessing and Analysing Historical Sources" two days workshop has just wrapped up. Portrait of the Social Media guy attached:
- Reposted by Kit RichardsOur leading article is Carolyn Oulton's "polemical" piece 'Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary Heritage'. She talks about 'literary visiting', shared reading practices, and how literature, creative writing, and heritage can benefit one another
- Reposted by Kit RichardsStudies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large. 📖 Book Reviews 🎙️ Interviews 📜 Archive Meditations 📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds Link in bio!
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- Reposted by Kit RichardsAre you a Fantasy Lit Alumni? Would you like to help shape the future of Scattered Flock? We’re building this magazine from the ground up and are looking for volunteers to join our close-knit, creative team. Let us know you are interested by sending us an email at Info@ScatteredFlockJournal.com!
- Reposted by Kit Richards"Parma Eldalamberon 17: Words, Phrases & Passages in _The Lord of the Rings_" is available again on demand at: The Great British Bookshop: www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/par... and at: Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/parma-elda...
- #VPFAExtremes We have our final speaker of the 'Gender and Empire' panel; Chimi Woo is speaking on 'Religion and Otherness in the Victorian Novel'
- #VPFAExtremes Fascinating discussion on Wilkie Collins' critique of colonialist beliefs in English superiority
- #VPFAExtremes Up next we have Sophie Gwilt's talk on Indigeneity in Henry Kingsley's 'The Hillyars and the Burtons: A Story of Two Families' (1863)
- #VPFAExtremes Sophie Gwilt's paper is a fascinating and important discussion about the way in which the authority of adults over children is emphasised in Australian literature to parallel and justify the racist colonial power structures forced onto the indigenous Australians by white Europeans.
- #VPFAExtremes What a great talk! Can't believe that was Sophie's first paper!
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[Not loaded yet] - Heading into the final panel of the day with a fascinating talk by Sydney Wildman on 'Imperial Anxieties in Rider Haggard's "She: A History of Adventurr" (1887)'
- #VPFAExtremes Brilliant commentary from Sydney Wildman on the geological agency in Haggard's 'She' and how the landscape undermines the colonial intentions of the British characters by forcing them to crawl
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- Excited to hear the key note from Richard Fallon on 'Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction' at #VPFAExtremes
- Oh no! Richard Fallon referenced 'Zanoni' (1842) by Edward Bulwer Lytton in his talk as a text that explores the 'necromantic' impulse of Victorian de-extinction. I didn't think Bulwer Lytton wrote about such cool stuff! Guess I'll have to give it a read 👀 #VPFAExtremes
- 'Geography took the place of necromancy' - what a sick way to describe the literary trope of explorers discovering extinct animals when travelling. Also, Gaul's 'A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder' (1888) mentioned! 🙌 great choice by Richard #VPFAExtremes @richardfallon.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kit RichardsVictorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes
- #VPFAExtremes Final speaker in our panel is Emilie Laurent speaking on gender, desire and monstrous nonconformity in Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'. Love me a bit of monster theory!
- #VPFAExtremes Fascinating observations on the impact of the scientific discovery of sound waves on artistic responses to music from Emilie Laurent
- #VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.
- Reposted by Kit RichardsVictorian belief was that men were better at managing their emotions as they had greater wills and mental faculties, and women were unstable and unpredictable because of their reproductive systems. Also, women were expected to suppress their emotions and men to actively regulate theirs #VPFAExtremes
- Reposted by Kit RichardsNext we have Lucy Ella Rose discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes
- @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAExtremes Fascinating paper by Lucy Ella Rose on often overlooked Female Decadent Literature and its power to provide women with personal fulfilment
- How did I never know that 'mondaine' was a word for a 'cosmopolitan female dandy'! Thank you, Lucy, I have a new favourite word!
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- Starting strong on day two of VPFA 2025! We have Christina Hafner up first speaking on 'Art and Life' in Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and Hardy’s The Well-Beloved #VPFAExtremes
