Daily Archives: 5th April 2017

CFP: Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the 21st Century, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, 10 November 2017

Call for papers for a conference on popular fiction–sadly, too far for us in the UK, but looks great. Deadline is 21 April 2017. Popular fiction is one of the most dynamic cultural and commercial divisions of twenty-first century publishing. … Continue reading

Posted in CFP (Conferences) | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

CFP: The Popular and the Weird: H.P. Lovecraft and 21st Century Media Cultures — special issue

Call for Articles for a special issue of Studies in Gothic Fiction on H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Chloé Germaine Buckley (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Kerry Dodd (Lancaster University). In his seminal essay on the Gothic, titled “Supernatural Horror in … Continue reading

Posted in Call for Articles | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

CFP: Steampunk: Then, Now, and Then Again, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln 25-27 August 2017

Not much time left to respond to this CFP for a steampunk conference, in conjunction with the Asylum Steampunk Festival–deadline 14 April 2017. Despite the development of both science fiction and Neo-Victorian studies, academia has been slow to engage with … Continue reading

Posted in CFP (Conferences) | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CFP: The Handbook to Horror Literature: Select chapters needed

A Call for Articles here for a collection on horror literature edited by Kevin Corstorphine and Laura Kremmel. The deadline is 30 April 2017. Most handbooks on the subject of horror focus specifically on film, whereas books on the literary … Continue reading

Posted in Call for Articles | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Curtis Runstedler, ‘Amongst the Hermetick Philosophers’: Alchemical Afterlives in Medieval and Early Modern England

Curtis Runstedler, whose article will be appearing in the forthcoming OGOM Company of Wolves special issue of Gothic Studies, is giving this public talk on alchemy–it looks fascinating and I’m sorry not to be able to attend myself, but do … Continue reading

Posted in Events | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment