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Tuesday, 2 August
9:00‐16:45 Registration at the Main Conference Venue – English Department, Kettengasse 12, D‐69117 Heidelberg
Opening – Alte Aula 17:00‐19:00
Keynote I: David Punter (University of Bristol) “Grievous Bodily Harm”
19:00‐21:00 Wine Reception (University of Wales Press) – Alte Aula
22:00 Gothic Guided Tour of Heidelberg Castle (only for participants who have pre‐registered for this option)
Wednesday, 3 August
9.00‐10.30 Parallel Sessions A
Panel A1 ‐ P.B. Shelley and the De‐limitation of the Gothic (Room 108) Chair:
Rajan, Tilottama (University of Western Ontario)
The Work of the Gothic: Shelley Between the Symbolic and the Romantic
Brookshire, David (University of Maryland)
Shelley's Wandering Jew: Superstition and Subjectivity
Hogle, Jerrold (University of Arizona) The 'Gothic Complex' in Shelley: From Zastrozzi to The Triumph of Life
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Panel A2 ‐ Neo‐Victorian Gothic I (Room 110) Chair:
Costantini, Mariaconcetta (G. d´Annunzio University of Chieti‐Pescara)
Neo‐Victorian Gothic and Spectral (Meta)fiction in Dan Simmons's Drood
Babilas, Dorota (Warsaw University) The Undead Queen: The Gothic Afterlife of Queen Victoria
Kolbuszewska, Zofia (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
Gothic Limits to the Neobaroque: Dystopian Horrors of the Kunstkammer Island in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by the Quay Brothers
Panel A3 ‐ Cinematic Mindscapes (Room 112) Chair: Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Redling, Ellen (University of Heidelberg)
Insanity and Obsession ad extremum: Modernisations of Poe and Stevenson in the Gothic cinema of Scorsese and Nolan
Baxter, Lee (University of Guelph), and Brown, Jodie (Independent Scholar)
The Gothic Dreamscape in Christopher Nolan's Inception
White, Eric (University of Colorado at Boulder)
The Shock of Modernity in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige
Panel A4 ‐ Intercultural Gothic (Room 113) Chair:
Chassot, Joanne (Université de Lausanne)
Walking through Generic and Cultural Walls: African American and Caribbean Ghosts and the Gothic
Romanets, Maryna (University of Northern British Columbia)
The Gothic Turn in My Dream of You and Sweet Darusia
Abello, Carolina (Universidad de La Salle)
Monstrosity, Perversion and Uncanniness: What haunts the pages of Latin American Gothic Fiction for Children?
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Panel A5 ‐ Gothic Nature (Room 115) Chair:
Alder, Emily (Edinburgh Napier University)
Gothic at sea: revenants, doubling, and the liminal realm of the ocean
Murphy, Bernice (Trinity College Dublin)
Nature is Satan's Church: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist and the Origins of the American Gothic
Tyburski, Susan (University of Denver)
Seduced by the Wild: Audrey Schulman's EcoGothic Romance
Panel A6 ‐ Stephen King (Room 122) Chair:
Reuber, Alexandra (Tulane University)
Stephen King's Indebtedness to and Transformation of the Classic Gothic Landscape
Sears, John (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Limits of Sense: Annie’s Speech in Misery
Panel A7 – Subcultures (Room 116) Chair:
Stephanou, Aspasia (University of Stirling)
Blood and Vampire Subcultures: Towards a Vampiric Becoming or Vampiric Consumption
Milione, Anna (Independent Scholar) The Scream. Expressionist Gothicism in Post‐punk Goth(ic) Rock.
Powell, Anna (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Gothic meets the Makers: Steampunk Culture and the Secular Sacred
10:30‐11:00 Coffee Break
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11.00‐12.30 Parallel Sessions B
Panel B1 ‐ Gothic History I (Room 108) Chair:
Wright, Angela (University of Sheffield)
England, France and the Crucible of War: the formation of Gothic in the eighteenth century
Thompson, Theresa Mae (Valdosta State University)
"The convent was now a madhouse": Possession in Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun
Crawford, Joseph (Cambridge University)
Gothic and the Limits of History: the Case of the French Revolution
Panel B2 ‐ Early American Gothic (Room 110) Chair: Erik Redling
Knirsch, Christian (University of Mannheim)
Now and Then: Gothic Novels as Popular Culture in Europe and the United States
McDermott, Don (National Kaohsiung Normal University)
Poe's Architecture of Gothic Space
Chandler, Ursula (Arkansas Tech University)
The limits of the hero's power to control his fate in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun
Panel B3 – Gothic Idylls (Room 112) Chair:
Schardt, Andreas (University of Heidelberg)
Terror in the Garden. The Gothic as (Anti‐)Pastoral in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour out of Space"
Gregory, Alan (Lancaster University) Paradise Restored: Psychological Reconstructions of the Edenic Space in Thomas Harris' Hannibal
Wright, Julia (Dalhousie University) Irish Gothic Writes Back: The Banims on the Wordsworthian Pastoral
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Panel B4 ‐ Gothic Film (Room 113) Chair:
Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha (Trinity College Dublin)
Gothic Limitations and Corporate creations: Problematic remakes in recent Gothic/Horror cinema
Menegaldo, Gilles (Université de Poitiers)
Gothic Tropes and Generic Hybridity in Contemporary Cinema: from Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) to Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
Ajuria Ibarra, Enrique (Lancaster University)
Global Horror, Local Haunting: La Llorona and Mexican Identity in Rigoberto Castañeda's KM 31
Panel B5 ‐ Gothic Science (Room 115) Chair: Stephan Karschay
Wasson, Sara (Edinburgh Napier University)
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman
Ogston, Linda (University of Stirling) The Clone as Gothic Trope
Corstorphine, Kevin (University of Hull)
'What's the Worst That Could Happen?' Splice and the Contemporary Scientific Gothic
Panel B6 ‐ Sellout Gothic (Room 122) Chair:
Buckley, Chloe (Lancaster University) The Perfect Gothic Brand: Contemporary Children's Series Fiction
Genz, Stephanie (Edge Hill University) Gothic Logo: Marketing (and) the Twenty‐First‐Century Vampire
Mizsei Ward, Rachel (University of East Anglia)
Plushies, My Little Cthulhu and Chibithulhu: The Transformation of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu from Horrific Body to Cute Body
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Panel B7 ‐ Postmodern Cases (Room 116) Chair:
Pinyaeva, Elena (Moscow State University for Management)
Postmodern Games with Genres, History and Gender and Gothic Farce in J. Winterson's Sexing the Cherry
Cengiz, Öznur (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University)
Reconstruction of the Role of Woman in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber
Palmer, Paulina (Warwick University) Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming Pool Library and Jeanette Winterson's The Power Book: queer approaches to the 'gothic postmodern'
12:30‐14:00 Lunch Break / IGA Executive and Advisory Committees Meeting (Room 333)
14.00‐15.30 Keynote II: Catherine Spooner (University of Lancaster) – Neue Universität HS 13 “Consuming the Edible Graveyard: Gothic Lifestyles and Lifestyle Gothic”
16.00‐17.30 Parallel Sessions C
Panel C1 ‐ American Regionalism (Room 108) Chair:
Brown, Jenny (Trinity College Dublin) Yeehaw! The Regional Cannibals
Hantke, Steffen (Sogang University) Monsters and Aliens for Cowboys and Indians: Gothicizing the Southwestern Desert in the American Science Fiction Cinema of the 1950s
Crow, Charles (Bowling Green State University)
Roots of Northern California Gothic
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Panel C2 ‐ Horrid Mysteries and Imaginative Alchemy: The Limits of the German Gothic (Room 110) Chair:
Murnane, Barry (Martin‐Luther‐University Halle‐Wittenberg)
Envenomed Crucibles. Transfer, Translation and the Creation of German Gothic around 1800
Sage, Victor (University of East Anglia)
Tieck and his Boundaries
Cusack, Andrew (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Berlin)
Intercultural Transfer in the Dublin University Magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German Gothic
Panel C3 ‐ Gothic Bodies (Room 112) Chair: Paulina Palmer
Mulvey‐Roberts, Marie (UWE Bristol) From Celluloid to Cellulite: Dissection, the Art of Strip‐Tease and the Brides of Frankenstein
Heise‐von der Lippe, Anya (Freie Universität Berlin)
"I am the monster's mother" ‐ Aesthetic strategies of monstrous creation in contemporary Gothic narrative
Aldana Reyes, Xavier (Lancaster University)
'Snuff' is Enough: Contemporary Horror, Corporeal Liminality and the 'Gothic' Experience
Panel C4 ‐ Intermedial Hauntings (Room 113) Chair:
McKean, Kathy (University of Greenwich)
"I've already seen a ghost tonight": Apparent Apparitions in the plays of Phyllis Nagy
Lin, Min‐Tser (National Cheng‐Kung University)
Silence as/at the Limit: Non‐Verbal Modes of Ghostly Communication in Victorian Ghost Stories
Downey, Dara (Trinity College Dublin) "Fitted to a Frame" ‐ The Dangers of Pictorial Memorialisation in the American Ghost Story
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Panel C5 ‐ Gothic Culture (Room 115) Chair:
Cleary, Sarah (Trinity College Dublin) Shock and Awe. Exploring the manipulation of the Gothic genre from Victorian to contemporary sensationalism in the media
Filip, George (Philadelphia School District)
Growing Up Gothic: How Genre Affects Social Perception
Lindsay, Stuart (Stirling University) Urban Exploration and the Gothicisation of Reality
Panel C6 ‐ National Traumata (Room 122) Chair: Sara Wasson
Schneider, Franziska (University of Tübingen)
The breakdown of Swedish paradise ‐ Gothic themes and settings in the writing of John Ajvide Lindqvist
Grumberg, Karen (University of Texas at Austin)
Israeli Gothic: Transgression and Displacement in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr Mani
Post, Sarah (Lancaster University) 'Sites of Untold Violence': Trauma Gothic and the Creation of Postcolonial Britain
19:00 Conference Dinner – Tiefburg, Handschuhsheim (only for participants who have pre‐registered for this option) Gothic DJ Set
Thursday, 4 August
9.00‐10.30 Parallel Sessions D
Panel D1 ‐ Posthumanist Gothic (Room 108) Chair:
Stephan, Matthias (Aarhus University)
Friend, Foe or Food: The Alien Other in District 9
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Christiansen, Steen (Aalborg University)
Spliced Screens
Lippert, Cornelia (University of Bristol)
Lovecraft's Alien Imagined: Transgressing the Limitations of Humanocentrism in "The Colour out of Space"
Panel D2 ‐ The Limits of Irish Gothic (Room 110) Chair: Christina Morin
O'Malley, Patrick R. (Georgetown University)
"Terror has no diary": Melmoth the Wanderer and the Limits of Gothic History
Haslam, Richard (St. Joseph’s University)
Maturin's Catholic Heirs ‐ Expanding the Limits of Irish Gothic
Riquelme, John Paul (Boston University)
Delimiting the Language of Irish Gothic: Figure, Etymology, & Anagram in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
Panel D3 ‐ Gothic Sexualities (Room 112) Chair:
Broders, Simone (Friedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen‐Nürnberg)
"No Sex Please, We're Vegetarians" ‐ Marketing the Vampire and Sexual Curiosity in Twilight and the Sookie Stackhouse Novels
Lowczanin, Agnieszka (University of Lodz)
Thanatos and Eros in the Chambers of Horror ‐ M. G. Lewis's The Monk
Billone, Amy (University of Tennessee)
Sentenced to Neverland: J.M. Barrie, Michael Jackson and the Future of Gothic Studies
Panel D4 ‐ Digital Gothic (Room 113) Chair:
Kirk, Neal (University of Lancaster) Virtual/Real Estate
Balmain, Colette (Kingston University)
Fatal Frames: Gothic games and the Spectre of the Other
Haahr, Mads (Haunted Planet Studios)
Liminal Gameplay: Reinventing the Gothic Tale as a Location‐Based Mobile Game
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Panel D5 ‐ Spaces of Confinement (Room 115) Chair:
Haslam, Jason (Dalhousie University) Sentencing Limits: The Terror of the Happy Prison
Jia, Qian (University of Hong Kong) Circumspection and Transformation: Spatial Confinement and its Mutation in Atwood's Short Stories
Kremmel, Laura (Lehigh University) “There Are Certain Ones Who Love Death”: The Undead Lover and Melancholic Containment
Panel D6 ‐ Early Gothic Drama (Room 122) Chair:
Kish, Jeaneen (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Pre‐Gothic Goths: Shakespeare's Usage of the Goths as Gothic Monsters in Titus Andronicus
Gruß, Susanne (Friedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen‐Nürnberg)
Jacobean Gothic and the Law: Revengers and Ineffectual Rulers in Middleton and Massinger
Matysiak, Agnieszka (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
“[M]y heart's blood should curdle at thy sight”: the Backstage in Joanna Baillie's De Monfort
Panel D7 ‐ Gothic Knowledge (Room 116) Chair:
Schlegel, Johannes (University of Göttingen)
"The Devil in the Printing‐House": The Medium of Literature and the Limits of the Knowledge of Evil in James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Keep, Christopher (University of Western Ontario)
That Which Ought To Have Remained Hidden: The Gothic Nature of Information in Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
Haner, Tim (University of the Fraser Valley)
Poe’s “Ligeia” and the Poetics of Encryption
10:30‐11:00 Coffee Break
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11.00‐12.30 Parallel Sessions E
Panel E1 ‐ Postmodern Sublime (Room 108) Chair:
Horner, Avril (Kingston University) and Zlosnik, Sue (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Apocalypses Now: The New Gothic Sublime
Beville, Maria (Aarhus University) Delimiting the Unspeakable: Gothic Preoccupations in Joseph O Connor’s Star of the Sea
Bobe, Melissa (Queens College of the City University of New York)
Infinite Halls, Endless Footnotes, and "the cries of Animals": the Domestication of Burke's Sublime and Textual Peculiarities in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
Panel E2‐ American Dichotomies (Room 110) Chair:
Stiebritz, Andrea (University of Würzburg)
The Awful and the Comic in William Faulkner's Snopes‐trilogy and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
von Senff, Naomi (University of Newcastle)
North vs South ‐ the divide in representation of American vampirism in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse Novels
Wester, Maisha (Bowling Green State University)
African American Gothic: Uncovering a (Not So) New Tradition
Panel E3 ‐ Fin de Siècle (Room 112) Chair:
Karschay, Stephan (University of Passau)
Normalising the Deviant Subject: Normativity, Degeneration and the Gothic in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan
De Cicco, Mark (George Washington University)
"More than Human": Queer Science and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle
Thomas, Ardel (City College of San Francisco)
In Defense of Her Queer Community: Vernon Lee's Coded Decadent Gothic
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Panel E4 ‐ Vampiric Varieties (Room 113) Chair: Jeaneen Kish
Veldman‐Genz, Carole (RWTH Aachen University)
Serial Experiments in Popular Culture: The Resignification of Gothic Symbology in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, Sookie Stackhouse and the Twilight Series
Grixti, Joseph (Massey University) Embracing Uncertainty: The Other as Hybrid Soulmate in Contemporary Vampire Fiction and Films
Marks, Christine (LaGuardia Community College)
Mixed Liminalities: Vampires, the Gothic, and Ojibwa Mythology in Drew Hayden Taylor's The Night Wanderer
Panel E5 ‐ From Innocence to Experience (Room 115) Chair:
Oppolzer, Markus (University of Salzburg)
Gothic Puberty in Charles Burns's Black Hole
Deans, Sharon (University of Stirling) Death and the Teenager
Bruhm, Stephen (University of Western Ontario)
The Global Village of the Damned
Panel E6 ‐ Gothic TV (Room 122) Chair:
Rehling, Petra (Dayeh University) Here Be Monsters: Battlestar Galactica and the tale of a Gothic civilization lost in space
Lörke, Melanie (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bound to the house: uncanny space in Six Feet Under
Schober, Regina (University of Mannheim)
Redefining the Real: The New American Gothic in Alan Ball's Television Series Six Feet Under and True Blood
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Panel E7 – Gothic Intermediality (Room 116) Chair:
Eilittä, Leena (University of Helsinki) "The Gothic" in Intermedial Descriptions of the Romantics
Cocksey, David and Belyakova, Ilrina N.K. Roerich's theological aesthetic and the Gothic
Gillespie, Nancy Transgenerational Haunting as Cultural Critique: From Margaret Atwood's Surfacing to Fiona Bowie's Intermedial Surface
12:30‐14:00 Lunch Break
14.00‐15.30 Parallel Sessions F
Panel F1 ‐ PopGoth I: Text, Film, TV (Room 108) Chair:
Byron, Glennis (University of Stirling) Gothic, Grabbit and Run: Carlos Ruiz Zafón and the Gothic Marketplace
Germana, Monica (University of Westminster)
Being Human?: Twenty‐First Century Monsters
Botting, Fred (Kingston University London)
Love Your Zombie: Horror, Ethics and (post)Humanity
Panel F2 ‐ Asian Gothic (Room 110) Chair: Anita Raghunath
Ancuta, Katarzyna (Assumption University of Thailand)
In search of Asian Gothic ‐ Thai Literary Gothic
Campoli, Alessandra (University of the West of Scotland)
The dark side of the Land of Smile: Gothic myths and haunted geography in Thailand
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Nakagawa, Chiho (Nara Women´s University)
Japanese Gothic ‐ Past and Present, East and West
Panel F3 ‐ Gothic Realities (Room 112) Chair:
Purves, Maria (Cambridge University)
"If it hadn't been for those meddling kids...": the explained supernatural in an irrational age
Bauer, Gillian (Loyola University Chicago)
Slumming Gothic: Defining American Gothic Realism
Kropp, Colleen (Temple University) Crises in England: Where the Non‐Real Becomes Real
Panel F4 ‐ Female Gothic I (Room 113) Chair:
Brabon, Benjamin (Edge Hill University)
Female Gothic Limits and Postfeminist Gothic Frontiers
Gonzalez‐Rivas‐Fernandez, Ana (Complutense University)
Woman and Death: Transgressing Boundaries in Genres and Formats
Smith, Orianne (UMBC) Female Monstrosity and Narrative Overkill in Mary Shelley's Mathilda (1819)
Panel F5 ‐ Domestic Gothic (Room 115) Chair:
Chambost, Christophe (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3)
"Not safe in my skin any more": the Intrusive Quality of the Gothic in Todd Haynes's Safe (1995) and Marina de Van's In my Skin (2002)
Hughes, William (Bath Spa University)
A Perverse Domestic Gothic: Revisioning the Family in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls
Parrino, Maria (University of Bristol) "Welcome to my house! Enter freely at your own will!". Hospitality in Bram Stoker's Dracula
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Panel F6 ‐ Gothic (Anti‐)Modernism (Room 122) Chair:
Plaschka, Oliver (University of Heidelberg)
Damsels of Distress: The perilous women of James Branch Cabell
Foley, Matt (University of Stirling) Lady Cynthia's Lover: Lawrence's short stories and Gothic Modernism
Perez, Juan L. (University of Córdoba)
Lovecraft, Darwin and Communities
Panel F7 ‐ Early Gothic Fiction (Room 116) Chair:
Omdal, Gerd Katrin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Variety and limits in 18th‐century Gothic fiction
Bennett, Mark (University of Glamorgan)
Picturesque (dis)appearances: Gothic Emergence and Limitation in Charlotte Smith's Early Fiction
Townshend, Dale (University of Stirling)
Gothic Architecture, Romance and the Limits of History, 1750‐1820
15:30‐16:00 Coffee Break
16.00‐17.30 Parallel Sessions G
Panel G1 ‐ Neo‐Victorian Gothic II (Room 108) Chair:
Smith, Andrew (University of Glamorgan)
The Limits of Gothic History: Kostova's The Historian and the Neo‐Victorian Gothic
Kohlke, Marie‐Luise (Swansea University)
The Gothic Puppetry of Lust and War: The Neo‐Victorian Underworlds of Kathe Koja's Under the Poppy
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Lanone, Catherine (Université Toulouse II)
Mother‐country and violated child: Richard Flanagan's Wanting and Neo‐Victorian colonial revision
Panel G2 ‐ Graphic Gothic (Room 110) Chair:
Schneider, Christian (University of Heidelberg)
"The Irony of Death!" ‐ A Gothic reappraisal of 1950s horror comics
Redling, Erik (Martin‐Luther‐University Halle‐Wittenberg)
Monstrous Woodcuts: Experiments with Scary Word‐Image Relations in Lynd Ward's Gothic Work
Campbell, James (University of Stirling)
'Building a Better Batmobile': Transactions Between the Gothic and Pop in the Batman Comics of Grant Morrison
Panel G3 ‐ Gothic Discourse (Room 112) Chair:
Fox, Timothy (National Ilan University)
The Fat Vampire: Metaphors of Adiposity in Terence Taylor's Novel Bite Marks
Schwenger, Peter T. (University of Western Ontario)
Phenomenology of the Scream
Bowring, Nicola (University of Nottingham)
'When the music stops, the rest is silence', or 'when dialogue stops, the rest is − ?': Communication Anxiety and Genre in Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Panel G4 ‐ The Gothic of Joss Whedon (Room 113) Chair:
Soltysik Monnet, Agnieszka (University of Lausanne)
Human Pets and Pretty Zombies: The Ethical Universe of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
Patrick, Cara (Lancaster University) The Soul as Commodity: Limits and Limitations of the Self in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Drewniok, Malgorzata (Lancaster University)
Vampires, lurks, TV celebrities and dolls: Joss Whedon, the Constant Vampire Reinventor
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Panel G5 ‐ Female Gothic II (Room 115) Chair:
Krombholc, Viktorija (University of Novi Sad)
Vampiric Imagery in Sarah Waters’ Affinity
Miller, Hildy (Portland State University)
Crossing Over: The Gothic Rhetorics of 19th Century Women Mediums
Mallia, Marilyn (University of Southampton)
Female Gothic doubles in George Sand's Indiana (1832)
Panel G6 ‐ Gothic Horror (Room 122) Chair:
Kuo, Chia‐wen (National Cheng‐chi University)
Carnivalesque Dalliances with Superegos in the Potential Space of Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart
Kraft, Susanne (University of Heidelberg)
Caught Between Worlds ‐ The evolution of Gothic horror in H.P. Lovecraft's sonnet sequence Fungi from Yuggoth
McRobert, Neil (University of Stirling)
Telling Some Stories is Committing Suicide: The Gothicisation of Storytelling in Stephen King's Misery and Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted
Panel G7‐ Gothic History II (Room 116) Chair:
George, Charlie (University of the Basque Country)
Act of Union and Union with the Devil in Melmoth the Wanderer
Elbert, Monika (Montclair State University)
Domestic Gothic in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's and Ambrose Bierce's Civil War Fiction
17:30‐19:00 International Gothic Association AGM – all welcome (Room 108)
19:00 A Gothic Night: Selection of Gothic Music / Dramatic Reading of “The Raven” Two sessions (19:00 / 20:30)
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Friday, 5 August
9.00‐10.30 Parallel Sessions H
Panel H1 ‐ PopGoth II: Spectacle, Performance, Music (Room 108) Chair: Benjamin Brabon
van Elferen, Isabella (Utrecht University)
Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny
Macfarlane, Karen (Mount Saint Vincent University)
The Monstrous House of Gaga
McEvoy, Emma (University of Westminster)
"'Boo!' to taboo": Burlesque, Circus, Walkabouts and Museums of Curiosities
Panel H2 ‐ Rising Again: Being Undead in the American South (Room 110) Chair:
Kramer, Kaley (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Necro‐politics, history, and undead citizens in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead
Chaplin, Susan (Leeds Metropolitan University)
The Sacred Remains: Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls
Watkiss, Joanne (Leeds Metropolitan University)
'Never in the House!' Demarcating the Domestic in Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Panel H3 – Spiritualism (Room 112) Chair:
Good, Joseph (University of South Florida)
The Dark Backward: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo‐Victorian Gothic Fiction
Schuller, Dorothea (Georg‐August‐Universität Göttingen)
"We are all haunted houses": Spiritualism, Spectrality and Cultural Trauma in H.D.'s Post‐War Novels
de Giacomo, Jacqueline (Independent Scholar)
Angels of Twilight: Gothic Transmutations of the Fallen Angel Narrative
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Panel H4 ‐ Irish Histories (Room 113) Chair:
Gillespie, Niall (Trinity College Dublin)
Irish Republican Gothic, c. 1796‐1820
Morin, Christina (Trinity College Dublin)
'A New and Agreeable Species of Writing': The Gothic Novel in Eighteenth‐Century Ireland
Poznar, Susan (Arkansas Tech University)
The Invited and Uninvited: Ghostly Trespassers in Dorothy Macardle's Uneasy Freehold
Panel H5 ‐ Victorian Gothic (Room 115) Chair:
Dyson, Gennie (Sheffield Hallam University)
Non‐Stokerian Victorian Vampires
Hurley, Kelly (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Victorian Psycho‐Gothic
Lovelace, Ada Fairfax (University of Stirling)
A Tale of Two Canines: The Development of the Dog and its Ghost in Fin de Siècle Gothic Fiction
Panel H6 ‐ Cinematic Architecture (Room 122) Chair:
Barefoot, Guy (University of Leicester)
Hollywood, Modernist Architecture, and the Gothic, from The Black Cat (1934) to The Second Woman (1950)
Doyle, Kelly (University of British Columbia)
Fire, Cobblestone, and Criminality: London as Hell in the Hughes Brothers' From Hell
Panel H7 ‐ Postcolonial Gothic (Room 116) Chair:
Raghunath, Anita (Vrije Universiteit)
Colonial Horror: Images of Otherness and the Emergence of British National Identity in the Age of Empire
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Wisker, Gina (University of Brighton)
Reclaiming the key to Bluebeard's room: ethnicity, women and empowerment in contemporary postcolonial women's Gothic. Nalo Hopkinson's rewrite of the Bluebeard tale, “The Glass Bottle trick”
Althans, Katrin (University of Münster)
De‐Commodifying the Gothic: The Strange Case of the Split Kadaitcha
10:30‐11:00 Coffee Break
11.00‐12.30 Keynote III : Diane Hoeveler (Marquette University) – Alte Aula “Haunted archives: stalking the gothic from the dusty to the digital”
12:30‐13:00 Closing Remarks
13:00‐14:00 Lunch
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