On Blushing

A wide landscape still life. Two white porcelain theatre masks resting side by side on dusty sage green fabric — one feminine, one with stronger, more angular masculine features. Both masks have a soft, diffused rose blush spreading gently across their faces, understated and natural-looking. Diffused natural light from the left. Photographic realism, moody and intimate atmosphere. No background clutter — just the two masks and fabric.

The Red Room

Welcome to the blog; topics will include: first-person narratives, psychoanalytic approaches, blushing in popular culture and more.

From the Author The Male Blush

Recent notes from The Red Room

  • Nineteenth-Century Blushers

    Nineteenth-Century Blushers

    An excerpt from ‘Flushing and Morbid Blushing’, 1890, by the physician Henry Campbell, which I am reproducing here as some of these case studies have stayed with me for the many years since I first read them, due to their vividness, including accounts of a…

  • Welcome, fellow blushers!

    Welcome, fellow blushers!

    Please bear with me as I start to build out this site. It’s a labour of love and a personal project. Lots of the research was undertaken during the first years of my PhD (here in the UK), which I put on pause due to…