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Tag Archives: politics
CFP and Events: Lady Caroline Lamb, Byron, and rebellion
A few related items here, centering on Byron and rebellion and including the Byronic vampire. 1. Rebellion, treachery, and glamour: Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon and the Byronic vampire, The Byron Society, Art Workers Guild, London, 20 April 2022, 6.30-8.00 pm … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged Byron, Gothic novel, Gothic romance, John Polidori, Lady Caroline Lamb, Paranormal romance, politics, rebellion, Romanticism, Vampires
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CFPs: Reimagining the Gothic, Gothic politics, Byron, folklore, Vampire Diaries, Japanese horror
A batch of conference calls for papers and calls for chapters: 1. Reimagining the Gothic 2020: Bodies and Genders, University of Sheffield, 1-3 May 2020. Deadline: 2 December 2019. Reimagining the Gothic is an ongoing project that seeks to explore … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences)
Tagged Byron, education, Folklore, gender, Gothic, horror, Japanese horror, politics, the body, The Vampire Diaries, war
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CFA: Edited collection – Oh, The Horror: Politics and Culture in Horror Films of the 1980s
A call for articles for an edited collection, Oh, The Horror: Politics and Culture in Horror Films of the 1980s. The editors are developing a new collection of essays with McFarland Books and seek essays investigating the ways horror films during … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged 1980s, Film, Genre, horror, Horror Film, monstrous feminine, politics
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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 Fairy tales, Gothic, horror, politics, psychoanalysis, serial killers, Vampires, Zombies
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Vampire Politics meets the EU
This article ‘Transylvania joining EU could see one million vampires in UK by 2020’ was published on the satirical news site NewsThump. Adding a Gothic twist to Brexit, it exaggerates fears regarding national identity by suggesting that by remaining in … Continue reading
CFP: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Newcastle University, 29 April 2015
Not strictly Gothic, but there’s space to contribute something to this conference, I think: Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction The modes of the Gothic and the dystopian often interact, especially in recent YA fiction, where, … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), Conferences
Tagged body, CFP, dystopia, gender, Genre, Gothic, politics, posthumanism, SF
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