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Conference Report: Queer Fears Symposium (University of Hertfordshire), Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, 28 June 2019
Conference report by Daisy Butcher, PhD candidate, University of Hertfordshire On Friday the 28th of June I attended the Queer Fears Symposium run by my wonderful secondary PhD supervisor Dr Darren Elliott-Smith at the Odyssey Cinema in St Albans. The … Continue reading
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Tagged body horror, Film, gay, horror, lesbian, queer, serial killers, TV, Vampires, Zombies
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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
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Tagged Female Gothic, Feminism, horror, technology, Vampires, women, YA Fiction, Zombies
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CFPs: Dracula, vampires, zombies, otherness
Quite a few CFPs here: Better rush for this one–deadline tomorrow, 15 August: A Cross-Platform Dracula Conference, 17-19 October 2018, Brasov Our aim is to present groundbreaking research on Bram Stoker, his novel Dracula and related topics on a bi-annual … Continue reading
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Tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, otherness, popular culture, urban, Vampires, Zombies
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CFPs: iZombie, tropical Gothic
Two tempting CFPs to announce: A Call for Articles for an edited collection on iZombie: I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE Deadline: August 30, 2018 Editors Szanter and Richards seek original essays for an edited … Continue reading
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Tagged iZombie, orientalism, postcolonialism, tropical Gothic, Zombies
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RIP George Romero
The zombie as it has appeared in popular culture–the abject, shambling, carnivorous undead rather than the animated slaves of Caribbean folklore–was practically invented by the director George Romero, who has sadly died. Romero’s pioneering film Night of the Living Dead (1968) … Continue reading
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Tagged Film, George Romero, sympathetic monster, undead, Zombies
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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
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Tagged Fairy tales, Gothic, horror, politics, psychoanalysis, serial killers, Vampires, Zombies
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Stacey Abbott and Zombies
Dr Stacey Abbott of the University of Roehampton has been a generous contributor of great brilliance to the OGOM Project since its inception, both with captivating (and very witty!) plenary talks and chapters in the OGOM books. She has a … Continue reading
Stacey Abbott, Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century
Dr Stacey Abbott of the University of Roehampton is well-known for her work on Buffy, Angel, and other cult TV series, and for research into various cultural manifestations of the Undead. She has also been a valuable participant in OGOM … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Interviews
Tagged Film, Monsters, sympathetic monster, TV, undead, Vampires, Zombies
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Generation Dead: YA and the Gothic – An Announcement
If you have already read Sam’s post, ‘Vampire and Undead Studies 2016-17’, you’ll know that I have received some incredibly exciting news. As of the final week of September this year I will be teaching the module ‘Generation Dead: YA … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark Fairies, Vampires, Werewolves, YA Fiction, YA Gothic, Zombies
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CFP: Edited collection on iZombie
I’ve not seen the TV series iZombie (nor the graphic novel on which it is based) but I’ve heard very enthusiastic reports on this new manifestation of the sympathetic zombie (of which one of our favourites, Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead … Continue reading
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Tagged Generation Dead, graphic novels, paramormal romance, sympathetic monster, TV, Zombies
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