Graham Rix @grahamrix

MA Victorian Gothic student @ Portsmouth | Writer | Bookworm | Antiquarian | All-round culture bore Melton Mowbray, England Joined April 2008

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

3 months ago

A huge thanks to the team at @ShoresHaunted for running their beautiful and strange #UnquietShores conference at Edinburgh Napier this week. A wonderful three days of papers exploring coastal soundscapes, selkies, flooded villages, and a tidal wave of weird and uncanny content!

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

As the last talk for the #CNCSI's all-day Contagion & Contamination #19thC Workshop, @amhistcurator shares museum objects, looks at the history of public health, and argues the importance of fully understanding a culture by knowing it medically and becoming "trauma informed"

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

Microbial warfare and the rise of germ theory: Prof. Priscilla Ward's paper 'A Germ's Eye-View' explores the thought-provoking origins of public health and the theory behind species interdependence. All part of the #CNCSI's all-day #19thC Contagion & Contamination online workshop

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

Next up, Mark Frost's exploration of contaminated waterways and the microbial threat: the @CN_CSI's #19thC Contagion & Contamination Workshop continues with the Thames transformed into a 'monster soup'. Only strong stomachs need apply!

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

'Constructing Cholera's Landscape': @asciampacone on miasma theory, troubling notions, and British reactions to racialised 'Indian cholera'. The @CN_CSI's #19thC Contagion & Contamination Workshop continues apace with engaging and erudite analysis of cholera maps and charts

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

Pseudoscientific health investigations in Timothy Mills' 'Implausible Deniability', a paper exploring imperialist responses to contagion in #19thC India & South Africa. A disturbing story of racial discrimination and segregation for the @CN_CSI's all-day Contagion Workshop

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

4 months ago

A compelling opener for the @CN_CSI's #19thC Contamination & Contagion Workshop: @melissaldickson on the Russian flu epidemic. Was the Influenza Fiend a deus ex machina or were the "boundaries between the everyday and the fantastic becoming more permeable"? Fascinating stuff!

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

9 months ago

Just finished this excellent critical study of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, written by @aoifemdempsey and published by @UniWalesPress. A fascinating read, erudite, superbly researched, loaded with intriguing detail and engaging analysis. Recommended.

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

Currently enjoying William Delisle Hay's DOOM OF THE GREAT CITY (1880), a London apocalypse story and early progenitor of better-known Wyndham and Matheson novels. It's only 50-odd pages, an overwrought combination of Victorian moralising and eerie death 'tableaux'.

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

Worth the wait: an illuminating paper from the erudite Dr Joan Passey @JoanPassey with 'Vampires on the Beach', exploring queer coastal eco-gothic literature via some less well-known 19th century writers. Spooky bloodsucking goodness to round off #C19Natureandhorror from @CN_CSI!

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

A whistle-stop tour from Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf1 on 'Gothic Insects Creeping Out the 19th Century' for #C19Natureandhorror: information rich with beautiful slides and an engrossing topic. Be afraid...be very afraid! @CN_CSI 🦟🪰🐜🪲

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

A trip across the pond as Professor Matthew Wynn Sivils takes on the deeply sinister Plantation Tales of Charles Chesnutt which bring rot and decay to the eco-gothic. #C19Natureandhorror and @CN_CSI keep on delivering 👍

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

"in the shrubbery [...] stood a strange horrible object" Daisy Butcher (@daisy2205) explores weird plant-women in the works of George McDonald & Jane G. Austin. Great feminist analysis and interpretation. Tolkien's ruddy-cheeked entwives they aren't! #C19natureandhorror @CN_CSI

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

#C19Natureandhorror continues with Dr Eleanor Dobson's "Familiar[s] of the Deep" on the spectral depths, aquatic nasties and a strange Titanic premonition. Fascinating stuff from @CN_CSI

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

10 months ago

Excellent opening paper from Dr Jonathan Greenaway @TheLitCritGuy for today's @CN_CSI #C19Natureandhorror webinar, exploring Zola's Germinal and its eco-gothic elements. The passage with the drowning horse continues to haunt me some two decades after I encountered it 😱

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

6 years ago

Halfway across a bridge when I paused on hearing a moorhen's distress call. Looked over to see a whole family of otters scurrying across the rocky riverbank, pups at the back squeaking their excitement. First time I've seen them (outside of TV). What a privilege! @BBCSpringwatch

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Graham Rix @grahamrix

6 years ago

A pleasure to see this fresh Southern Hawker dragonfly resting up in my garden earlier today #wildlife #nature #rewilding #Leicestershire @BBCSpringwatch