Essaka Joshua

From 18th-century Brazil to 1970s Chicago experimental dance, check out what our newest fellows are studying this year! www.newberry.org/blog/2026-27...

Applications are now open for 2027-28 Short-Term Fellowships at the Newberry library! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social These fellowships support PhD-holding scholars and PhD candidates for 1-2 months of intensive research in the Newberry collection. Deadline: Dec 4 www.newberry.org/research/fel...

I share everyone's mistrust of a new Christmas Carol movie that aims to make Scrooge relatable, but rethinking Scrooge is actually the most interesting area of ACC scholarship these days, like the brilliant reading of Scrooge as neurodiverse by @essaka.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Over the past two decades, English professor Essaka Joshua has focused her scholarship on disability studies. Now a fellow at the Newberry Library, she’s further exploring the topic, answering her research question: Where do we find disability in Romantic-era theatre? https://bit.ly/4qutS8A

Unboxed the hard copies today.

A big thank you to Terry F Robinson and her wonderful colleagues for hosting me at the U of Toronto this week for the Vincent De Luca lecture. I had a blast! www.english.utoronto.ca/people/infor...

Excellent!!! Can’t wait to see the physical copy.

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

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Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social

Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage

The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!

Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT

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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...

Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.

The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...

Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …

Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...

Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?

Wading through Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799). Blimey, that woman needed an editor, and a sense of irony. Particularly love the rant about women who think they can write.

A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.

Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.

Submissions for our special section of Theatre History Studies, "Disability Performance Histories," due January 1! Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions! www.academia.edu/115737170/Ca...

This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ

19th C classics as “I survived…” books…. Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money. Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….

2. It will join Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Godwin’s letters, both edited by moi-même, and published in 2011 and 2014 respectively. (Volume 3 is still in progress.)

I’m at the proof stage for “Disability and Mutable Spectatorship” in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection. Edited by: Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling, Oxford University Press.

Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk

Arrived today. Seriously looking forward to jumping in!

Congratulations to Xavier Aldana Reyes on the publication of ‘Contemporary Body Horror’ from our series Cambridge Elements in the Gothic.