Tag Archives: Female Gothic
CFPs and Events: Shirley Jackson, zombie theory, Victorian popular fiction, Angela Carter
Academic and cultural life is still persisting, thankfully. The Gothic creative spirit is resisting Gothic times! So, some announcements here on events, conferences, and edited collections. 1. CFP for an edited collection, Dark Tales: Re-evaluating the Short Fiction of Shirley … Continue reading
CFPs: Vampires, Gothic feminism, zombies, youth horror, creative work
A set of conference CFPs and call for articles: 1. Academic Vampire Conference: Hammer, Highgate, and the Vampire, 10-13 July 2019, Lauderdale House, Highgate Village. Deadline: 3 May 2019. The University of South Wales, in association with the IVFAF, calls … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Female Gothic, Feminism, horror, technology, Vampires, women, YA Fiction, Zombies
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Genre, dreadpunk, mannerpunk, the female Gothic
What constitutes a genre or subgenre and whether even the concept of genre itself has any use is much debated; it’s certainly a focal point of OGOM research, where we’re often concerned with what happens when genres collide or mate, … Continue reading
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: academia and Gothic heroines
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a foundational text in many ways–not least, for OGOM’s origins, being the series which, with its wit, humanity, and dark imagination led me into vampire studies. It’s probably the TV series most written about by … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged Amerciacn Gothic, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Female Gothic, TV, Vampires
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Manderley Today: 80 Years of Du Maurier’s Rebecca
I first read Daphne du Maurier’s haunting Gothic Romances in my early teens. In my thirties I did an evening class in Female Gothic run by the pioneering Avril Horner and Sue Zloznik. This featured Rebecca among other exciting texts. … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM Research
Tagged Du Maurier, Female Gothic, Genre, Gothic romance, Paranormal romance, women's writing
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Book: Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses
This new book by Gina Wisker, Contemporary Women’s Gothic Fiction: Carnival, Hauntings and Vampire Kisses, looks marvellous. It covers Angela Carter and vampires–two topics that always whet my OGOM appetite–but many other aspects of contemporary women’s Gothic too. I really … Continue reading
Andrew Smith, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein
Andrew Smith of the University of Sheffield has edited this exciting new collection of essays on Frankenstein in the always-useful Cambridge Companions series–out in September 2016. It approaches the classic Gothic novel from a variety of perspectives and considers adaptations … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged adaptation, ecocriticism, Female Gothic, Frankenstein, Gothic novel, posthumanism, queerGothic
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‘Prints of Darkness: macabre vintage posters’
The Guardian has posted a series of macabre vintage posters entitled ‘Prints of Darkness’. (Whoever thought of that title needs some form of award!). They are dark, decadent and delightful. It is interesting to see the ways that the Gothic … Continue reading
Posted in Fun stuff, Resources
Tagged fear, Female Gothic, Gothic, horror, posters, visual arts
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Fairy Tale Fashion at the FIT, NY
This is another post for my transatlantic friends (and one which I am bitterly jealous about and on which I have previously blogged). The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, are hosting an exhibition on Fairy Tale Fashion (15 January – … Continue reading
Posted in exhibitions, Fun stuff, Resources
Tagged body Gothic, exhibition, Fairy tales, Fashion, Female Gothic, femininity, Feminism, Gothic, sexuality
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The Lesbian Vampire: A (Fairly) Brief Media Retrospective
The Mary Sue has written a relatively brief (as the title suggests), but still interesting, media retrospective on the lesbian vampire. It covers more recent portrayals and I was very pleased to see that the Carmilla web series on YouTube … Continue reading