Recent years have seen a rise in horror and horror-adjacent narratives about the recovery and horrors of lost media. Paul Tremblay’s Horror Movie (2024) revolves around the reshoot of a cult classic horror movie with an unreleased ending. Horror podcasts such as […]
American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject. Please note that […]
Deadline: January 6, 2025 Contact: Phoenix Wang, Cornell University Email: [email protected] Panel: Gothic Air / Atmospheric Gothic (ASLE 2025 panel) This panel seeks to explore the relationship between the Gothic and the air/atmosphere through an ecocritical and interdisciplinary lens. Gothic representations of […]
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 […]