Seeking paper abstracts for an upcoming SAW themed literary journal. The Horror Scholar Journal, vol 6, aims to be made available online in November 2024. This opportunity is paid 50 USD upon receipt of the final paper. Abstracts should be 300 words […]
University College Cork: 29-30 October 2024 Deadline for Submissions: August 24th, 2024 Email: [email protected]:@HauntedFutures Proposals for presentations are now being invited for the second annual Haunted Futures Conference to be held on the 29th and 30th of October at University College Cork. […]
17th Biannual Conference of the International Gothic AssociationJuly 30-August 2, 2024. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Conference theme: Gothic Trans/Iterations https://igahalifax2024.ca/ The conference theme is inspired by the transatlantic movement of the IGA’s biannual gathering from Dublin in 2022 to the east coast […]
Online symposium: 14 JUNE 2024 We invite abstracts for the fourth online symposium of the Haunted Shores network! In keeping with the expansive remit of the network, papers are welcome to explore any aspect of coasts, shores, beaches, and coastal waters in […]
Course Description: What do you think of when you think of the Midwest: Farms? Small towns? Fly-over country? This course explores depictions of the Midwest you might not be familiar with—the Gothic Midwest. We’ll explore Gothic depictions of the Midwest in literature […]
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the critical field of ecohorror, which combines scholarship on ecocriticism and the gothic. The first part of the course focuses on the foundational concepts of the field. Each student will create an individualized plan […]
Course Description: Gothic and horror novels, for the reader, each conjure up images of ghosts, monsters, and, centrally, haunted houses. Less attention has been paid to the smaller corners and crevices in which these haunting texts have often made their homes: short […]
Course Description: In his classic essay “The Uncanny” (1919), Sigmund Freud theorized the psychological implications of those aesthetic effects which disturb us, unsettle us, and creep us out without us quite knowing why. While theuncanny or das unheimliche evokes a peculiar form […]
Despite numerous post-apocalyptic storylines, many science fiction texts are a celebration of life and seek ways of making the most of it. Such an interest has informed a broad literary fascination with immortality and rebirth, particularly in nineteenth and early twentieth century […]
Poetry has been an integral part of the Gothic mode since its inception. However, the connection between poetry and the Gothic seems a less explored area of critical inquiry, in comparison to fiction. While the Graveyard Poets and other Anglophone poetry movements […]