Bernice M. Murphy

It's alive! The long-awaited issue #19 of the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is now available on our website. Huge thanks to our contributors for making this such an amazing issue. irishgothicjournal.net/latest-issue...

All are welcome - join us!

Boston University’s Creative Writing Program & English Department is hiring a senior poet, at the rank of tenured Full Professor. 📢📢📢

An exciting Gothic conference that I'm co-organising with Strawberry Hill House and a few other organisations, to be held at Strawberry Hill next June. Please circulate the CFP far and wide: www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk/gothic-confe...

I will be in conversation with the great Keir-La Janisse (author of 'House of Psychotic Women'/Director of 'Woodlands Dark & Days Bewitched' and much more) this Tuesday evening in the IFI Dublin - if you're about, join us! Followed by a screening of 'Eyes of Fire' @irishgothichorror.bsky.social

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

History / Irish Studies job at Boston College, applications for a senior scholar to serve as the inaugural Jane B. and Thomas E. Hachey Professor invited The appointment will be a tenured position at the rank of full Professor of History #irishhistoryjob apply.interfolio.com/194167

I submit that train station waiting room pianos are only enjoyable for the person trying to play the piano

Stories about TCD didn't begin with Sally Rooney, or Catriona lally, or JP Donleavy. Perhaps the first was Margaret Wolfe Hungerford with this tale... Now available as an audio drama podcast from A Brilliant Void (episode 2) @tramppress.bsky.social stg-productions.simplecast.com/episodes/the...

I have such a fondness for very misleading Shirley Jackson paperback cover art.

Have you explored American Gothic Studies issue 2.1 yet? It includes the "Gothic & Politics" round table, interview with Grady Hendrix, an essay on Colson Whitehead, and more! The journal comes with Society for the Study of the American Gothic membership, www.americangothicsociety.com.

Marsh's Library will be closed to visitors from September 5th-14th as we prepare for our new exhibition. We will reopen on September 15th at 9:30am and look forward to welcoming you back.

2026 is starting to near 2016 levels of widely beloved famous people attrition - have they been messing around with the Large Hadron Collider again?

IASIL 2027 CFP now live! Children of the Nation 28 June – 2 July 2027 University of Otago, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Aotearoa New Zealand #IrishStudies #AcademicSky #SpeirGorm Share widely! www.iasil.org/conference-2...

We're now accepting applications for the newly created role of Assistant Professor of the Practice / Assistant Director of Irish Studies! Apply here apply.interfolio.com/191724 by October 18.

An online, and unfunded, encyclopaedia of Dublin's architectural history celebrates 30 years. Archiseek specialises in "unbuilt Irish architectural proposals and lost buildings, giving the public a rare look at 'the Ireland that almost was'", says founder Paul Clerkin.

Few scholars know the goopy, bloody, retch-inducing world of body horror quite like @xaldanareyes.bsky.social, and now he's got (another) book to prove it! "Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology" is out in paper & ebook @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

📣 GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27 📣 ANZSECS is excited to announce three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships for postgrads and ECRs to support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and use digital humanities methodologies.

Coming in 2029.... 'Born Bad: A Cultural History of the Haunting of Hill House'

Watching this pretty good adaptation of Marlen Haushofer's classic ecofeminist/SF(?) novel 'The Wall', 10/10 for Good Dog (and cat, and cow) representation.

The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.

Hopping back on here to say my new book is finally out! Tell your university librarian to buy a copy, please!

#IrishHistory #IrishLaw #IrishStatutes #ILD Good news for those working on Irish history from 1692 to 1800. The Irish Legislation Database is back online at a new address. resources.qub.ac.uk/ild/ Much thanks to Prof David Hayton. Please share widely.

Coming soon: the game-changing, years-in-the-making new biography of M.R. James written my most excellent colleague, Darryl Jones! @profdarryljones.bsky.social @irishgothichorror.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

August 1988 letter to the NYT:

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) The University of Manchester - History Department www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSB645/l...

This June 27th, may your aim be true!

Coming soon: the debut feature film from my very talented cousin Sinèad Murphy. An intense psychological thriller with a unique regional twist, 'Sludge'.

It was probably inevitable that undeniable Shirley Jackson echoes would surface in Widow's Bay... (spoilers in article for season finale so avoid if you haven't watched it yet). www.salon.com/2026/06/18/w...

Romanticism folks, I am looking for new contributors for The Year's Work in English Studies (YWES). YWES is an annual review of scholarly work. It's the largest & most comprehensive work of its kind. I am looking for two people to join the poetry team and one person to take over drama.

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

In October 2026, the upcoming PGR-led conference, Dark Enchantments: Gothic Folklore and the Monstrous Fairy-Tale, will be held at the University of Sheffield. Interested in getting involved? Follow the QR code and send us your abstracts by the end of July! 🦇👻

Widow’s Bay manages the rare trick of being an often hilarious take on well-worn genre tropes as well as being a genuinely effective horror show.

Applications for a new, 2 year postdoctoral position are now open! Please share widely. The Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, based at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, is open to Ph.D. graduates in any area of Irish studies.

A really engaging & readable survey of apocalyptic fiction and film

'It is as much an exercise of history as it is an experiment of alchemy' - Wisconsin Death Trip.

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Pack your saris, prepare for ghosts, we're heading to Bollywood! Meraj Ahmed Mubarki's "The Horror in Hindi Cinema" examines decades of Indian myth and monsters onscreen, now out in paperback. #Routledge www.routledge.com/The-Horror-i...