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Category Archives: OGOM News
OGOM BOOKS ON SPECIAL OFFER UNTIL 7 JULY
Our publishers MUP currently have a summer sale where you can purchase half price books until 7th July 2025!! These include In the Company of Wolves and The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny. Use the … Continue reading
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Tagged #MUPGOTHIC, book offers, Polidori, vampire, Werewolves, Wolves
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Plant Women and Female Mummies
Congratulations to OGOM member Daisy Butcher who passed her viva on Friday. Daisy’s project was praised by the examiners for being a great read and something of a page turner – its originality and rigour was very much in evidence. … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged botanical Gothic, botany, Female mummies, femmes fatales, Gothic, mummies, plants, Victorian literature
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Gothic Herts Reading Group 10 December 7.00 online
A reminder that the Gothic Herts Reading Group will be discussing Poe’s The Raven this week in relation to ecophobia via ‘Deep Into That Darkness Peering‘ by Tom J. Hillard. The session is on Wed 10th December 2024 at 7.00 GMT … Continue reading
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Tagged ecophobia, Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic Herts, reading group
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Sam George: Bram Stoker’s Vampire online 27th November
Whilst it is still the spooky season I thought I’d let you know that I will be taking part in Lunchtime Bites for an AHRC-funded project called Dracula Returns to Derby (led by Prof. Matthew Cheeseman of Derby University). It was in Derby … Continue reading
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Tagged Bela Lugosi, derby, Dr Sam George, Dracula, Folklore, Hamilton Deane, reflection, theatre, vampire
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GOTHIC HERTS – new Gothic Reading Group starting this October
Gothic Herts is the home of a new reading group based at the University of Hertfordshire. It comprises undergraduate, postgraduate and research students and is dedicated to all things Gothic: We read Gothic-related material such as journal articles, poetry and … Continue reading
IGA Book Prize 2024 – OGOM Shortlisted
We are delighted to announce that OGOM’s In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children has been shortlisted for the Justin D. Edwards Prize 2024 awarded to an edited collection that is best advancing the field of gothic … Continue reading
Congratulations Daisy
Congratulations to OGOM’s Daisy Butcher who has submitted her PhD thesis today: ‘Monsters of (In)fertility: The Plant-Woman and the Female Mummy in Victorian Gothic Literature’. Daisy has been a joy to supervise & a huge asset to OGOM. She has … Continue reading
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Tagged botanical Gothic, Daisy Butcher, Evil Roots, Female mummies, Feminism, mermaids, selkies
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CONFERENCE: Bodies of Water: Mermaids, Selkies, and other Marine and Freshwater Hybrids
Exciting announcement claxon! We’re beyond excited to reveal that the next OGOM conference will be a collaboration with the Haunted Shores network called ‘Bodies of Water: Mermaids, Selkies, and other Marine and Freshwater Hybrids’. We are keen to explore the … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences, OGOM News
Tagged Fairy tales, Gothic, Hybridity, mermaids, selkies
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Egg Shell Lore: Witches & Fairies
There’s an interesting overlap between witches and fairies in folklore, this is seen, for example, in the shared idea of their uncanny voyages and the unusual vessels they choose to travel in. According to A Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), witches … Continue reading
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Tagged A Discovery of Witches, boats, egg folklore, eggshell, fairies, witch boats, witches
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Ethical Gothic Studies
Some exciting news, OGOM is going to be editing a special edition of Gothic Studies on Ethical Gothic. This will add to the issues we have already edited on the vampire 15.1. (2013) Undead Reflections: The Sympathetic Vampire and its Monstrous Other … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM: Ethical Gothic, Publications
Tagged enchantment, ethical Gothic, ethics, Gothic, Gothic Studies
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