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Category Archives: OGOM News
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
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
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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OGOM News: January, 2024
We’d like to wish all our followers a happy and successful 2024. We were thrilled this month to see the book jacket for our latest OGOM publication The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny, which is … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, Publications
Tagged John Polidori, Open Graves Open Minds, vampire, Werewolves, Wolves
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Merry Christmas 2023
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to those who celebrate from all of us at the Open Graves, Open Minds Project
Hellebore: The Darkness Issue
As the ancient festival of Samhain approaches and Halloween events are still underway, I’d like to draw your attention to HELLEBORE, a publication founded in 2019 by writer and editor Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, with art direction by Nathaniel Hébert. It is … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research, Publications
Tagged English vampires, Folk Horror, Folklore, Hellebore, vampire
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OGOM Halloween Event Diary
The spooky season is the busiest time of the year for gothic scholars; here are some of the Halloween events that you can catch up with the OGOM crew at between now and 31st October. Friday 20th October: OGOM: In … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News
Tagged events, fairies, Halloween, Monsters, Vampires, Werewolves
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Invitation to join us in the Company of Wolves
We’re excited to share the fabulous poster for the forthcoming online event In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves and Wild Children 2023. We look forward to seeing you and joining you in a lively discussion on representations of wolves … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News
Tagged Angela Carter, Dr Who, Fashion, Gothic, nature, Paranormal romance, Werewolves, Wild children, wol;ves
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