Katie MacLean
PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭
- Reposted by Katie MacLeanI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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- Happy Burns day! 🏴🏴 My dad was part of a Burns Club and would address the haggis every year. As I little girl I remember looking through his copy of Robert Burns: The Scottish Bard. I never found his book when he passed away but I hope he loaned it to someone who is using it tonight!
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- Okay my ‘radio voice’ made me cringe, I described an elegy as a sonnet (?), and flopped at the Austen question (!) but the whole show was a really great deep dive on Charli’s fans and my little segment touched on the nineteenth century’s contemporary relevance in pop culture 😊
- I’m going to be on BBC Radio 6 tonight at 11pm! I spoke to Amy Lamé for her series ‘Superfans’, tonight’s show being dedictaed to Charli xcx 💚 Not sure how much will actually be shown but we chatted about my article on Charli + Romanticism, Lord Byron as the first celebrity, and even Jane Austen
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- And a massive thank you to our keynote speaker Dr Michael Shaw (@glaikitscone.bsky.social) who delivered a paper on ‘Queering Scottish Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century’. It was a real treat to learn about Michael’s research in local archives and to reflect on queerness and national idenity
- Reposted by Katie MacLeanIt's here! We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below. We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles! www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8
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- There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
- Email signatures are really funny because I spent so much time creating mine and worrying about how long/short to make it rather than doing actual PhD work and I expect that no one has clicked on my 'recent publication', like I've never clicked on anyone else's!!!
- My article “‘In Just Seven Days, I Can Make You a Man’: Queerness and Masculinity in Frankenstein (1818) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)” has been published in the Keats Shelley Review! 👇🏼 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- The article is adapted from my essay that was a runner up for the 2024 Keats Shelley Essay Prize last January. One of my favourite days of my PhD so far was the prizegiving at the John Murray House in London! Nice full circle moment ☺️
- Shakira from Love Island x Judith Butler, lmao I love it 🙌🏼
- With almost a year left of my PhD I am thinking about ~life after~ which is scary! Pre-PhD, I didn't realise most academics move cities/even countries for their career. I don't want to move away from Scotland EVER!! I wish someone had told me this before 🏴
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- Registration for @rrrjournal.bsky.social's annual conference is now open! Please join us for what will be an intellectually stimulating and rewarding day for PGRs, ECRs, and academics to connect and discuss 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century'! www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...
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- When I’m not PhDing, I’m selling at record fairs, and then spending the money I make on finds like these 🪲 I have a 1962 record of OG monster Boris Karloff reading Hans Christian Andersen for children (v cute and heartwarming) but it didn’t occur to me they used to put spooky stories on vinyl too 🪲
- omg love the results but conference organising is SO HARD 🥲
- This is my Sophie's Choice
- I don't know anything about fantasy and sci-fi as genres - is there crossover? I feel like they share a lot of similar traits and I'm wondering if time travel narratives can be classed as fantasy 🤔 (does it depend on if the method is magical or scientific?) Any recommended reading?
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- Reposted by Katie MacLeanPiece about this Austen podcast I’m in theconversation.com/jane-austens...
- Reposted by Katie MacLeanAn excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning
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- Thanks everyone who came to hear my paper on 'Jane Austen and Scotland' at Stirling's Eighteenth Century Studies Group! We had some interesting discussion about Austen, race, and English depcitions of the Scottish in 18th c. literature. Also reflecting on adaptations like this 2023 Mansfield Park
- “For someone who’s never read Pride and Prejudice, I would desribe it like Love Island on a stately home.” - Harris Dickinson, Audible’s new Mr Darcy Just the most recent of 100s of instances of people comparing Austen and LI (including Helen Warner + Horrible Histories!)
- Reposted by Katie MacLeanWe are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm. Free! Online! All welcome! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Could Charli XCX be Gen Z's answer to Lord Byron? Read my first @theconversation.com article to find out!! theconversation.com/why-charli-x...
- 5 days left to submit your abstract!
- We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE! We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates. Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
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- Charli XCX on Lord Byron - interesting! Excited to see this film (Erupcja)
- USW have posted a response on their instagram which does little to explain why the wording of this email is openly discriminatory to Palestinians. It is shocking that anyone in Higher Education would think this is an appropriate email to send to a student.
- My time as Glasgow Zine Library's funding intern has come to an end! I am so grateful to @sgsah.bsky.social for offering paid internships for PGRs. The team at GZL were so welcoming and attentive to my development needs (I leave the role with a PVG, 420+ hours of experience, and SO MANY ZINES)
