Dr Emily Vincent
👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
- If you’re a BAVS ECR, join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom tomorrow anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the first @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time of 2026! DM us for the link 🫖
- Exciting news! I’m now a Teaching Associate in English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social on the Astrophoria Foundation Year - a FANTASTIC access scheme for students. I’ll be teaching & assessing a ‘Ghosts Across Time’ course I’ve designed and supervising an extended project 👻 foundationyear.ox.ac.uk
- An exciting conclusion to my time as Research Fellow on the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project! Dr Melissa Dickson & I are co-writing a book ‘A British Literary Contagion: ‘Russian Flu’ and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle’ for the @manchesterup.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social series🦠
- Join the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR team today (anytime between 5pm - 6pm GMT on Zoom) for our festive final BAVS Tea Time of 2025 to chat about all things ECR and nineteenth century. DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for link or to be added to the BAVS ECR mailing list for future events! 🫖 ☕️ 📚
- These metaphorical conceptions of #influenza #flu #superflu have been shaping our understanding of epidemic diseases from the late nineteenth century 1890s influenza pandemic to now
- Join @gothicauob.bsky.social on Thursday 6pm (Zoom) with @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️
- Have a listen to my analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Playing With Fire’ on the fantastic @ghoststorybookclub.bsky.social podcast! 👻
- Join us next Thursday for an exciting @gothicauob.bsky.social with the amazing @sorchanf.bsky.social ⬇️
- Get your BAVS abstracts in! ⬇️
- Check out the BAVS 2026 conference website: www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026 CfP deadline extended until 12th December 2025!
- A little insight into some archival research on influenza I did at the National Archives last week on the unfolding 1890s influenza epidemic in Britain and Barbados and its ties to the current #Covid19 enquiry ⬇️
- Reminder that the next @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea Time will take place tomorrow at 5pm - 6pm on Zoom! DM me or @laurenicullen.bsky.social for the Zoom link and join us for an informal chat about all things early career and nineteenth century 🫖 ☕️
- Our Media and Epidemics team is clearly on the same (archival) page with an unplanned encounter in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social archives! ⬇️
- Had an exciting invitation on Sunday for a book reading, Q&A, and book signing for my @blpublishing.bsky.social ‘Summoned to the Séance’ #TalesOfTheWeird collection at Hestia Books in Wirksworth! Thanks to everyone who attended and hope you enjoy your spooky tales 👻
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- 🎃2 days until @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween ‘Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives’ with Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social - join us (for all or part of the day) here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme! 🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Honoured to be on this spooky starter pack 👻
- Register below for this Friday’s @cncsi.bsky.social #Halloween Nineteenth-Century #Gothic Afterlives event with our 5 fantastic speakers: Sonja Lawrenson, @romgothsam.bsky.social, Richard Hand, @marijkevalk.bsky.social & @drdjohnston.bsky.social ⬇️🎃
- Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme! 🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Delighted with my copy of Peter Lang ‘Where Love Happens: Changing Social Practices of Love in the Long Nineteenth-Century. My chapter is on #love, loss, and #spiritualism in texts by Florence Marryat, Oliver Lodge & the Brownings. Thanks to Helene Grøn, Lene Østermark-Johansen & Victoria de Rijke!
- Lovely autumnal views from my office on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🍁
- Calling @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECRs! Our next BAVS Tea Time will take place tomorrow (Weds 22nd) at 5pm-6pm (UK) on Zoom - join for all or part of an informal catch up about all things Victorian and ECR. DM me for link! We will also welcome our new BAVS ECR Rep @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🎉🫖☕️
- Sign up for this week and next week’s online #Halloween #Gothic events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social 🎃⬇️
- The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Reposted by Dr Emily VincentThe official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.
- A reminder to sign up for our below #Gothic #Halloween events with @gothicauob.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social - tis the spooky season! 👻 ⬇️
- The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Our @cncsi.bsky.social C19 Gothic Afterlives programme! 🌴Sonja Lawrenson on Melmoth in Latin America 📖 @romgothsam.bsky.social Adapting Heathcliff 📻 Richard Hand haunted airwaves 🎮 @marijkevalk.bsky.social occult gaming 📺 @drdjohnston.bsky.social Gothic TV Register ➡️ cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Register & sign up below for 2 exciting #Halloween season #Gothic events! ⬇️🎃
- The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Tis the #Halloween séance season 👻 and a great time to read the #TalesOfTheWeird @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections! Summoned to the Séance features 14 lesser-known stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Florence Marryat, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more. Really enjoyed editing this! 👻
- Just in time for #Halloween, the @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesOfTheWeird books have merch! Here’s the t-shirt for my Summoned to the Séance collection: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
- The #Gothic haunting season is upon us! Free online events⬇️ 👾👹 Thurs 23rd Oct (5-6.30pm, UK) @gothicauob.bsky.social with @dreframss.bsky.social - email Gothica for link. 🎥📖 Fri 31st Oct, Halloween (10.45-5pm, CET) @cncsi.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Exciting news! Join @gothicauob.bsky.social for 👾 Video Game Gothic 👾 with our special guest speaker @dreframss.bsky.social on Zoom on Thursday 23rd October 5.00pm - 6.30pm (UK). As an expert in occulture, Efram's talk will explore issues of video game censorship during the 1980s ‘Satanic Panic’ ⬇️
- Join @cncsi.bsky.social on Halloween 🎃 for 1 day of talks on ‘Nineteenth-Century Gothic Afterlives’. Our 5 expert speakers (announced very soon!) will focus on multimedia (video game, radio, film, TV, art) adaptations, receptions, revivals, and reimaginings. Register here: cn-csi.com/event/hallow...
- Take a look at some of our project’s work on narrative vulnerability during the #Covid19 pandemic and its impact on young people and textual expression, perhaps what we could see as a form of scriptotherapy ✍️
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- Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉
- Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
- A free online conference (Oct 2-3rd) organised by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai on #C19 royal asiatic societies and nineteenth-century science. See on @cncsi.bsky.social here: cn-csi.com/conferences/... #hstm
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- I’ll be presenting our team’s findings later this afternoon 🎉 🇵🇱
- I’m looking forward to presenting our findings on historic epidemics and technologies of communication on behalf of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social at the @euchanse.bsky.social conference in Kraków on Monday! 🇵🇱 #hstm #histsci #litsci #epidemics #pandemic #medhums
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- Exciting news! @bavs-uk.bsky.social are hiring an ECR/Postgrad Rep to work alongside me to develop early career professional development and networking opportunities. 10th Sept deadline, details below ⬇️ DM me with any queries 🎉
- Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...
- Me and Melissa Dickson will be co-presenting research from our forthcoming @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social book to the Sydney Uni Interdisciplinary 19C Study Group on Thursday 21st on Zoom. I’ll be looking at how influenza epidemics were represented in spiritualist fiction and periodicals 📰 📖 👻
- Visited the UK’s official book town Hay-on-Wye and was pleasantly surprised to find this excellent selection of @britishlibrary.bsky.social #TalesoftheWeird! Thanks to the bookseller at Addyman Books for my 5 minutes of fame with my collection, Summoned to the Seance: shop.bl.uk/products/sum...
- A summery day on campus @unibirmingham.bsky.social for yesterday’s group writing day in the Arts building ✍️ 💻
- A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025
