Tag Archives: Vampires

MA ‘Reading the Vampire’: Starts 5th October

Posted on 26th September 2015 by Sam George

My MA module ‘Reading the Vampire: Science, Sexuality and Alterity in Modern Culture’ is about to begin again on the 5th October. I’ve made some changes this year and included  Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown. The session is … Continue reading →

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CFP Books of Blood: Collaborative Project and Funding Bid

Posted on 10th September 2015 by Sam George
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Gothic Imagination Reviews OGOM

Posted on 19th August 2015 by Sam George

Matt Foley, Lecturer at the University of Stirling, has given a thoughtful and positive review of the Open Graves, Open Minds book for Gothic Imagination: Under the stewardship of Dr Sam George and Dr Bill Hughes, The Open Graves, Open … Continue reading →

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Roger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the eighteenth-century through Polidori, Varney the Vampire, ‘Carmilla’ and (inevitably) … Continue reading →

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UPDATE: Extended Deadline: Monstrous Messengers 17 Aug. 2015

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

Chapters still required for this collection of essays on ‘supernatural figures in children’s picture books and early readers’, edited by Leslie Ormandy. For this collection, three more papers from any discipline are welcome; however, advantaged are those focusing on a … Continue reading →

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Manchester’s Gothtastic Show: Darkness and Light

Posted on 17th July 2015 by Sam George

The John Rylands Library is pretty special for me being from Manchester. It is probably the most striking building in the entire city, delightfully imposing in its neo-Gothic splendour and housing some of the most rare and beautiful books ever … Continue reading →

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Grave Diggers Steal Vampire Director’s Skull: Is this why Bram Stoker has no Tomb ?

Posted on 15th July 2015 by Sam George

I was presenting on Nosferatu recently whilst in Romania and talking about what happened when the Dracula myth shifted to Germany in 1922. Today I was surprised to read that Murnau’s head had been stolen from his grave in Germany … Continue reading →

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Review of ‘Locating Fantastika’, University of Lancaster, 7th-8th July 2015

Posted on 14th July 2015 by firekrank

I have now been to enough conferences in my research area to start recognising people so that conferences become not only a place to proffer your work to other academics (flinching slightly when it gets to questions) but also to … Continue reading →

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Review of ‘Beliefs and Behaviours in Education and Culture’, West University of Timisoara, 25th-27th June 2015

Posted on 12th July 2015 by firekrank

Apologies for this being a little late with this review. It’s not because Sam and I got lost in Transylvania (though I think both of us would have liked to spend longer exploring Timisoara and the surrounding Romanian countryside). The … Continue reading →

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CFP: ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, University of Sheffield, 24-27 June, 2016

Posted on 17th June 2015 by William the Bloody

I’m very much looking forward to this conference, ‘Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil’, celebrating that moment of the Shelley-Byron circle when both Frankenstein and the literary vampire were born ‘The year without a summer’, as 1816 was known, was … Continue reading →

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