Erin Keating

@drerinnerung.bsky.social

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Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜

PowerPoint title slide reads “The Asexual Gothic in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children Series” in white text on a dark gray background. The slide is draped in white cobwebs and the outlines of ravens and trees cover the top and bottom of the slide respectively
Black and white border collie barking at the camera. A blue elephant toy with white polka dots lies in the snow at her feet.
Event poster. Author photo of Guy Gavriel Kay in a black blazer and white/tiny black polka dotted button-up shirt covers top half of poster. The event logo (In Conversation With) is in white text surrounded by a gold square frame broken by the word "conversation". The event detail text reads "Guy Gavriel Kay / Faculty of Arts alumni and international best-selling author" on the left and "Tuesday / November 18, 2025 / 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm / Great Hall, / 218 University College / Reception to follow / Open to all"
Image from airplane. Foggy suburban housing in the distance with mix of green and brown fields crossed by roads in the foreground.
Light blue book cover with large, star-eyed happy face opening to reveal a collection of small, red angry faces. Across the bottom is the title “Fandom is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture” and the author name, Mel Stanfill.
Grey tabby kitten sits away from camera with face turned back over shoulder. Blue,grey, and black patterned blanket and white dresser in the background.
White kitten with blue eyes standing on hind legs against a brown kitten tree.
Book on grey wood table. Book cover is purple with the text: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality / A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture/ Sherronda J. Brown (text in pink/white/pink).
Deep red, very full peony surrounded by green foliage.
Black and white tuxedo cat with symmetrical face pattern and black chin giving camera a skeptical look.
Navy image on a cream background of an 18th-century woman sitting and holding a book. Text reads "CSECS 2025 / University of Regina / Oct 15-18 / Extended Deadline: May 31 / Email: csecs2025@uregina.ca / Key note Presenters / Jason Farr / Kai Minosh Pyle / Ersy Contogouris"
Lego tower section of Rivendell from Lord of the Rings. Inside the tower you can see tiny figures of Bilbo and Frodo.
Brown and Black tabby cat sits beneath Christmas tree.
2 cats sitting on a black shelf and staring at the viewer. The one on the left is white and heterochromic; the one on the right is a black and white tuxedo.
Black and red book cover with black and white, woodcut style image of four men around a table and one man serving them in a 17th-century style interior.
Two cats (one brown and black tabby/tuxedo and the other black and white tuxedo) cuddling on a brown cat bed on a desk next to a stack of books and a computer mouse.
Book cover of DragonLance novel Time of the Twins.
Book cover of Mary Dora Russell's novel The Sparrow
Title page scan of The Player's Tragedy - white background, two thin black line outlines and lines bisecting the bottom third of the page. Text from top to bottom reads "THE" / "Player's Tragedy." / "OR," (all in a serif font) / "Fatal Love," (in black letter with Love underlined in pen) / "A NEW" / "NOVEL." Text continues under double lines: "LONDON:" / "Printed, and Sold by Ran- / dal Taylor, near Statio- / ner's Hall. 1693." (in a more narrow serif font). Bodleian circular library stamp on right side on bisecting lines.
Book cover with purple colour blocks at the top and bottom. Yellow sans serif font reads "The Cultural Politics of Emotion" in top box and "Sara Ahmed" in bottom. Centre of cover is an abstract painting.
Black fantasy book cover with "STEVEN ERIKSON" centred at the top in tan, serif font, "New York Times Bestselling Author" in white, small caps immediately below it, "Memories of Ice" in white, serif font immediately below that and image of soldier in armour holding a shield and axe, standing on rocky terrain and emerging from a fiery background.
Gold and brown book cover with white lettering "N . K . Jemisin" centred at the top and "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" centred at the bottom. The central image is an elaborate palace superimposed over a Black woman's face.
Brown book cover with magenta crayon lines over it drawn by a child figure in the bottom right corner. Title of the book, "Harold and the Purple Crayon" in large, light purple serif font across the top half, "by Crokett Johnson" in smaller italics in bottom left corner.
Book cover of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: an Introduction. Orange, Blue, and Black horizontal colour blocks with images of black spectacles on the left, white classical statues in the middle, and orange chain links on the right.
Two cats in a round, beige cat bed on a grey armchair. The black and white tuxedo cat on the left looks at the camera; the white cat rests her cheek against her tuxedo brother with half-closed eyes.
Page from Muñoz's Cruising Utopia with underlining in pencil of the lines "Queerness is a longing that propels us onward, beyond romances of the negative and toiling in the present. Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough, that indeed something is missing" and "Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world."