drahsturgis

@drahsturgis@universeodon.com

#History Ph.D. who explores the intellectual history of #SpeculativeFiction. Currently working on projects related to the #Gothic, #DarkAcademia, #ScienceFiction, #StarTrek, and #StarWars. Contributes the “Looking Back on Genre History” segment to the #StarShipSofa podcast. Signum University faculty. Sherlockian. Tolkienian. Noirista. Bookish, fannish, and eldritch. She/her.

I #MaskUp. 😷

Header image: A steampunk bat sculpture mounted on blue/copper vintage wallpaper.

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drahsturgis, to Horror

#OpenAccess #FreeResource: A Guide to the #Gothic edited by Jeanette A. Laredo

A Gothic anthology of selections from more than 200 years of Gothic works in the public domain, this textbook covers major trends, tropes, and periods in the development of Gothic literature from 1764 to the present.

#GothicStudies #Horror #HorrorStudies #Book #Bookstodon #OpenEducationalResource

https://pressbooks.pub/guidetogothic/

drahsturgis, to history

Free #OnlineEvent sponsored by #LibraryOfAmerica:

The Revolutionary Writings of #BlackAmericans with James G. Basker and Annette Gordon-Reed.

The story told and retold about America’s founding often excludes the Black communities that existed during the Revolution and the early republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era, a new volume from Library of America, changes that.

#USHistory #BlackHistory #RevolutionaryHistory #Histodons #Bookstodon

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-revolutionary-writings-of-black-americans-registration-805970388127

drahsturgis, to Tolkien

#CallForPapers (#online presentations welcome): Arcastar Lerinosse: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Arda: #Tolkien Workshop at the University of Freiburg

More details are here:
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/12/19/arcastar-lerinosse-a-multi-disciplinary-approach-to-arda

Whether the metaphorical mountain is close, far away, deliberately omitted, or right underneath one’s feet, the possibilities for authors, fans, and academics to engage with Tolkien’s Legendarium are nigh on limitless.

Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to the following:
*Tolkien’s sources and inspirations
*His impact on #Fantasy and #ScienceFiction
*Tolkien’s #Worldbuilding and #Languages
*Themes in Tolkien’s writings, such as #Ecocriticism, #Music, #Artistry, #Gender, #Sexuality, #Race, #Imperialism, #Colonialism, #Religion, #Politics

#TolkienStudies #CFP

drahsturgis, to Romanticism

Edinburgh University Press has included 25 literary studies journals in its #OpenAccess campaign running this January.

This includes free access to #CrimeFictionStudies, #GothicStudies, #JournalOfInklingsStudies, #Romanticism, #Victoriographies, and many others!

Browse them all here: https://www.euppublishing.com/literarystudies

#Journals #CrimeFiction #Gothic #Inklings #Romantics #Victorian #VictorianStudies #FreeAccess #LiteraryStudies

drahsturgis, to books

Elevating for the Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/04/resolutions-2016/

drahsturgis, to StarTrek

2023 in Review: Books!

This year, with my wonderful co-editor #EmilyStrand, I published two scholarly anthologies with for #VernonPress.

🖖 #StarTrek: Essays Exploring the Final Frontier

🪐 #StarWars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#2023InReview #StarTrek #StarWars #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks #ScienceFiction #SFF
#ScienceFictionStudies
#PopularCultureStudies
#FilmStudies #FandomStudies
#FanStudies #Books #Bookstodon #Academics

STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY from Vernon Press (2023), edited by Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis. The cover art is a watercolor painting of a planet by Emily Austin.

drahsturgis,

@Virginicus Thank you so much!

drahsturgis, to Podcast

My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 722 of the #StarShipSofa #podcast. I discuss the work and legacy of #ManlyWadeWellman.

Here is the link!
http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2023/12/20/starshipsofa-722-rick-novy/

#Books #Bookstodon #ValancourtBooks #Fantasy #Appalachia #ScienceFiction #SFF #SherlockHolmes #HGWells #JohnTheBalladeer

A photo of two books on a brick walk. On the left is The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds by Manly Wade Wellman and Wade Wellman, with cover art depicting Sherlock Holmes (a black silhouette on red) and what appears to be a steampunk interpretation of an astrolabe. On the right is the collected John the Balladeer stories by Manly Wade Wellman, with cover art depicting John the Balladeer playing his guitar while surrounded by various fantastic and threatening figures from the woods.

drahsturgis,

@Virginicus I love this!

drahsturgis, to books

#Academic book sale alert! 📚 Palgrave is having a sale with £/$/€19.99 hardcover #books.

I’m happy to have contributed an essay to VIRTUAL DARK TOURISM (2018) and the introduction to THE TRANSMEDIA FRANCHISE OF STAR WARS TV (2020) with Palgrave. #Gothic #StarWars #DarkTourism #BookSale #bookstodon #academics #ScienceFiction #SFF

https://link.springer.com/shop/springernature/hardcover-sale/en-us/?sap-outbound-id=4485272027E242C7BFFB33FD809036FA98E72CB8&utm_source=standard&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=103_RGQ2846_0000033200_CONR_PRINT_ECOM_GL_PHSS_01Z4U_Pa-holiday&utm_content=EN_61511_20231220&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9EB9EB7EC2DE3DF9

drahsturgis, to sciencefiction

In March 2024, I will be offering the module "Meet The Last Man" with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity.

#MaryShelley's novel #TheLastMan is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I'm really looking forward to exploring it with students!

https://youtu.be/k2EcVRnhii0?si=mqKiOPsZRPFJY_dR

For more information, see http://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/r/DFQwln

#ScienceFiction #PoliticalSF #SFF #ApocalypticFiction #Apocalyptic #PandemicFiction #Shelley #LordByron #MaryWollstonecraftShelley #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon

drahsturgis, to movies

I'm already counting the days until the Halloween season returns. But for now, here are three of my favorite set in . I highly recommend them! What are yours?

  • The Lion in Winter (1968) Perhaps my favorite , full stop. ("What shall we hang, the holly or each other?")

  • Beware, My Lovely (1952) Brilliant turns by two of the greatest stars of , and .

  • Black Christmas (1974) A cult classic for good reason.

The poster for Beware, My Lovely shows Robert Ryan encountering a visiting group of small children, sending them away (top), and facing Ida Lupino, armed with a knife (bottom).
A poster for Black Christmas ("If this picture doesn't make your skin crawl... it's on TOO TIGHT") shows the body of a young coed in a rocking chair, her head covered in plastic and her mouth open on a silent scream.

drahsturgis,

@Virginicus Hepburn’s delivery of that line is chef’s kiss.

drahsturgis, to sciencefiction

It’s flashback time on #EscapePod! I loved narrating “Anna and Marisol in Time and Space” by #TimPratt. #ScienceFiction #Podcast #SFF

https://escapepod.org/2023/11/23/escape-pod-916-anna-and-marisol-in-time-and-space-flashback-friday/

drahsturgis, to books

I'm delighted to be joining SPACE (Signum Adult Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online with #SignumUniversity. My upcoming modules in early 2024 include The Haunting of Hill House by #ShirleyJackson, A Haunting on the Hill by #ElizabethHand, and The Last Man by #MaryShelley. I hope to see you in SPACE!

Registration is now open for January's module (#TheHauntingOfHillHouse).

For more information on my offered modules, please visit http://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/r/DFQwln

#Books #Bookstodon #Gothic #Horror #ScienceFiction #SFF #OnlineEducation

drahsturgis, to history

On November 18, 1897, junior student Bertha Lane Mellish vanished from Mount Holyoke College. Her disappearance remains an unsolved mystery.

I'm currently working on a research project that involves the Mellish case. I'll be posting more! Today it feels especially important to say her name.

#OTD #BerthaMellish #History #Histodons #DarkAcademia #TrueCrime

Clipping from newspaper (The San Francisco Call on November 24, 1897) reads as follows: "Missing from the College: Strange Disappearance of Miss Bertha Mellish."

drahsturgis,

@Virginicus Yes. It’s pretty grim.

drahsturgis, to NativeAmerican

#CallForPapers: Special Issue on #IndigenousSpeculativeFiction

Orbit: A Journal of American Fiction now seeks contributions for a special issue on #Indigenous authors and their works, with a particular emphasis on US (#NativeAmerican, including but not limited to #AlaskaNative and #PacificIslandNative) and Canadian (#FirstNations, #Métis, and #Inuit) authors and works.

#IndigenousFuturism #IndigenousLit #SFF #SpecFic #SpeculativeFiction #Academics #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror

https://orbit.openlibhums.org/news/655/

drahsturgis, to books

Hello, #FediBookFair! I have two new co-edited anthologies with #VernonPress: STAR TREK: ESSAYS EXPLORING THE FINAL FRONTIER and STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY.

They are both available from major booksellers & can be requested via libraries in hardcover or ebook formats. (Library requests help us so much!) The coupon code CFC10822213C4 provides a 24% "new release!" discount at the Vernon Press website.

https://vernonpress.com/author/134857

#Books #Bookstodon #StarTrek #StarWars #SFF #StarTrekBooks #StarWarsBooks

STAR WARS: ESSAYS EXPLORING A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY from Vernon Press (2023), edited by Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis. The cover art is a watercolor painting of a planet by Emily Austin.

drahsturgis, to Starwars

Thanks for the shout out, Paul Kennedy!

#StarWars #Halloween

https://www.antiquetrader.com/collecting-101/growing-up-star-wars

drahsturgis, to Halloween

Thread! 🧵🎃 📚 Happy October! This month I'll be making a daily #Halloween Countdown post on the theme of #DarkAcademia, with a separate book recommendation and atmospheric, eerie quote each day.

This will be "Part 2," in a way, adding to a previous thread, which I reposted recently with the tag #31DABooks.

I hope you enjoy these posts!

CW: Death, ghosts, and other dark subjects

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA

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drahsturgis,

Oct. 14

#DarkAcademia novel: DON'T BREATHE A WORD by Jordyn Taylor (2021)

Quote:
“Yesterday” starts to play again from the beginning, but it’s a hell of a lot eerier as it becomes the backdrop to the story I typed on the next slide: “In 1962, Hardwick sent a small group of students underground to test a nuclear fallout shelter. Six went down, but only five survived…”

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA #31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween #Horror

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drahsturgis,

Oct. 15

#DarkAcademia novel: THE IT GIRL by Ruth Ware (2020)

Quote:
Afterwards, it was the door she would remember. It was open, she kept saying to the police. I should have known something was wrong.

... Dr. Myers’s door was closed, as it always was. But the other door, her door, was open. That was the last thing she remembered. She should have known something was wrong.

But she suspected nothing at all.

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA #31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween #Horror

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drahsturgis,

Oct. 16

#DarkAcademia novel: MISSING CLARISSA by Ripley Jones (2023)

Quote:
Everyone from Oreville knows the story of Clarissa. Her living ghost haunts the long rain-dark winters alongside the looming specters of Washington’s grim army of infamous serial killers and litany of missing girls…. Clarissa Campbell, who vanished so completely that no one has found a trace of her – not the full investigative force of the Oreville police department, not legions of armchair sleuths and online obsessives, not television news crews or magazine reporters or Clarissa’s friends and family.

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA #31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween

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drahsturgis,

Oct. 17

#DarkAcademia novel: THE SOCIETY FOR SOULLESS GIRLS by Laura Steven (2022)

Quote:
The page was exactly as I last saw it, with one tiny, significant exception: the droplet of blood in the bottom right corner....

The sight made me smile. Someone had tried to perform the ritual. I knew it in my bones. There was someone at Carvell as intrigued by the occult as I was. For some reason, this knowledge bolstered me.

In a moment, the decision was made. I was going to attempt the ritual too.

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA #31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween #Horror

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drahsturgis,

Oct. 18

#DarkAcademia novel: RIVER OF ASHES by Alexandrea Weis and Lucas Astor (2022)

Quote:
The stars weren’t twinkling, and there was no moon. Perfect.

He cut across the field of high grass. Not far from the cells, the lone howl of a dog stopped him in his tracks. Silence. Seconds ticked by, but the only sounds were the chirp of the crickets and the occasional croak of frogs.

When the dogs appear, death is near.

He chuckled. Maybe the dogs knew what he had planned.

#Gothic #Books #31DaysOfDA #31DaysOfHalloween #Halloween #Horror

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