Steve Asselin

Assistant Prof, @BrandonUni; Long 19th Century; Catastrophe Studies; Ecocriticism; Speculative, Gothic, Polar Fiction; Publishes Creative Writing as Trent Roman

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

Out now! The #Gothic #Ecologies special issues of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, edited by Katharina Boehm & Stephen Karschay. I contributed an article to this special issue entitled "'Still Marked on Many Maps': Gothic Treatments of Landscape in Disaster Fiction"

[Helena Goodwyn @HelenaGoodwyn]

@VPFJournal special issue ‘Religion and Victorian Popular Literature’ is out now! https://t.co/b1XNariZMs thank you to guest editors @ClareGS87 and @DrNHetherington for your spiritual undertakings. You really have done celestial deeds in bringing this issue together…

[Dr Matt Crofts 🦇 @MattRCrofts]

New issue of @Revenantjournal, Post-Apocalyptic Waste, is out now! It's a fantastic issue that bridges #waste studies, #Gothic, and #apocalyptic fiction across its 12 articles & even includes amazing creative pieces, such as Olivia Steen's artwork 'The Impossible Heap'

[Revenant Journal @Revenantjournal]

👀 New Issue Alert! 👀

POST-APOCALYPTIC WASTE

Edited by @DisasterScholar, @MattRCrofts and @Janine_Hatter

Check it out folks! It's all FREE Open Access!
https://t.co/Y8m9XoRqOv

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

Hello @RhysJames22 , I was hoping to speak with you regarding the Apocalyptic Waste special issue of Revenant--would you be so kind as to direct message me back?

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

I'm emerging from my four-load hidey-hole to say that I have two days left on my contract before I fall back into the poverty of adjuncthood so if you have any book recs for Disaster Lit, Vic. Ecocrit, or EcoGothic let me know while I can still charge them to a university. Thx!

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

Dear friends across social media platforms: my Facebook account has been hacked. If you see any weird activity or messages from me on Facebook, disregard and especially do not click anything while I try to find a way out of Facebook's Sisyphean circular recovery instructions.

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

#OnThisDay, 1981, a #Somali plane attempts to take off from #Mogadishu during a #thunderstorm; buffeted by gusts, the plane dives suddenly, shearing off a wing, and the resultant crash kills all 50 onboard. It remains the deadliest crash in Somali airspace. #DisasterADay

[Madeline Potter @madeline_cct]

Official CFP for Theology and Vampires. Very excited about this. Please share.

https://t.co/aTV0mH10ig

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

⚠️Catastrophic outbreaks of extreme weather have been reported on four continents in one day.

🌏Record floods and forest fires caused emergencies everywhere from the US and Russia to China and New Zealand

Thread 👇🧵
https://t.co/MgR6JCZRYO

[VPFA @VPFA1]

#CFP for a special issue of @VPFJournal 2023 on Religion & Victorian Popular Literature & Culture guest edited by @DrNHetherington & @ClareGS87. Proposals due 1 Nov 2021. Final articles due 30 Sept 2022. 👇

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

#OnThisDay, 64 CE, #fire breaks out in merchant stalls near the Circus Maximus in #Rome; it burns out of control for most of a week, destroying two-thirds of the city. Rumours abound that Emperor #Nero ordered the fires as part of his ambition to rebuild the city. #DisasterADay

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

#OnThisDay, 1996, TWA Flight 800 explodes in flight off the coast of New York, killing all 230 people aboard. Despite early reports by eyewitnesses of a missile attack, investigators concluded that a spark from faulty wiring detonated the fuel tank. #DisasterADay

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Western Germany has suffered the most brutal impact of the violent and deadly floods that also pummelled Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, leaving streets and homes submerged in muddy water and isolating entire communities
https://t.co/Gni3adsilk

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Floods swept Germany, fires ravaged the American West and another heat wave loomed, driving home the reality that the world’s richest nations remain unprepared for the intensifying consequences of climate change. https://t.co/afSyS8iC7w

[The Weather Network @weathernetwork]

Thursday's tornado in #Barrie, Ont., was significant enough to cause damage and injuries, perhaps also spinning up memories from the devastating #BlackFriday twister in 1985 #ONstorm #ONwx - https://t.co/LfJeSn3I1b

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

Sometimes, when running #DisasterADay, I worry about the propagation of false stories. Today, I came across a note about a Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinking in the Caspian Sea in 1957 (270 dead), but all attempts to corroborate simply turn up the same copy/pasted statement...

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

@green_romantic I feel like this is a situation where Rule 34 is rendered redundant by what actually happens in the novel.

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

#OnThisDay, 1995, a magnitude 6.8 #earthquake strikes the border between #Myanmar and #China, killing eleven, injuring 136, and destroying 100K homes. Casualties were low because the quake was successfully predicted and the area evacuated on the basis of foreshocks. #DisasterADay

[Steve Asselin @DisasterScholar]

#OnThisDay, 1983, a flight crew, unused to their new Boeing 737, accidently fly the plane too low and crash into a mountain while trying to land in Cuenca, #Ecuador, killing all 119 aboard. It remains Ecuador's deadliest air disaster. #DisasterADay