Provisional Programme

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TUESDAY 21 JULY

12.30-2.15 REGISTRATION (George Fox Building Foyer)

2.15-2.30 Opening remarks: Simon Bainbridge/Catherine Spooner/Fred Botting (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

2.30-4 KEYNOTE: Marina Warner, ‘Dark Magicians: William Beckford and the Oriental Imagination’ Chair: Simon Bainbridge (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

4-4.30 Coffee (George Fox Building Foyer)

 

4.30-6: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Gothic Nazis
Chair: Ardel Thomas
Eva Kingsepp, Stockholm University: ‘“The Freak in the Gas Mask”: The Cultural Significance of the Nazi Undead’
Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of the West of England: ‘Shadow of the Vampire: From Nosferatu to Hitler’
Barry Murnane, Martin-Luther-University, Halle: ‘Hitler drinking Gasoline: Heiner Müller’s Communist Gothic‘

2 Digital vampires
Chair: Amy Palko
Melinda Jacobs and Joanna Ioannidou, Utrecht University: ‘“I am the Internet, and I bid you welcome”: How the Internet has embraced and enhanced Vampire culture’
Maria Mellins, St Mary’s University College: ‘Fashioning a Morbid Identity: Female Vampire Fans & Subcultural Style’
Aspasia Stephanou, University of Stirling: ‘Vampiric Becomings: Blood in Blade and Fledgling’

3 The Gothic in theory 1
Chair: Alex Hope
Aishah Al-Shatti, Kuwait University: ‘The Gothic Beyond Fiction: A Rhizomatic Growth’
Justin D. Edwards, Bangor University: ‘Globalization and the Inhuman: Gothic Mediations’
Tim Jones, Victoria University of Wellington: ‘A Gothic Sensorium: Reading Practices and the Erotics of the Spooky’

4 Gothic and Romanticism
Chair: Dale Townshend
Jerrold Hogle, University of Arizona: ‘The Gothic Road to Imagination: Revisiting Coleridge's BIOGRAPHIA XIII’
John Williams, University of Greenwich: ‘Marginal Gothic: Mediating the Monstrous in British Romanticism’

5 Spectral Performances 1
Chair: Emma McEvoy
Mary Steadman and Amanda Price, Bath Spa University, University of Bedfordshire: ‘Last Night I Dreamt My House Was Leaking…’

6 Early cinema
Chair: Ellie Beal
Paul Foster, University of Chester: ‘Ghostly Flicker’: Fin-de-Siècle Gothic and Early Cinema
Nickianne Moody, Liverpool John Moores University: ‘The Mysteries of Isis: Egypt, Gothic Sensibility and Proto-Cinematic Narrative’

6-7.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Eco-Gothic
Chair: Andrew Smith
William Hughes, Bath Spa University: ‘“A Strange Kind of Evil”: Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man’
David Punter, University of Bristol: ‘Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit’
Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan: ‘Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace’

2 Gothic origins and identities
Chair: John Williams
Glen Brewster, Westfield State College: ‘Monstrous Philosophers in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya, or the Moor’
Dale Townshend, University of Stirling: ‘Improvement, Repair and the Use of History: Architecture and the Gothic in the 1790s’ 
Angela Wright, University of Sheffield: ‘The Story of Santon Barsisa, or, Gothic migrations in the eighteenth century’

3 Contemporary Gothic fictions
Chair: Lindsey Moore
Maria Beville, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick:  Gothic-postmodernism and the Spectral Subject
Monica Germana, University of Westminster: ‘The “Other” Story: The Spectral Self and the Monstrous Body in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me’
Victor Sage, University of East Anglia: ‘“Ashford International”: dark DNA and the archaeology of social surfaces in Nicola Barker’s Darkmans’

4 Spectral performances 2
Chair: Emma McEvoy
James Bell, University of Stirling: ‘“Gott ist tot”: Tanz der Vampire and the Postmodern Undead’
Steven Bruhm, The University of Western Ontario: ‘Wilis’
Dorothea Schuller, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: ‘“Nineteenth-Century (up-to-date) with a Vengeance”: Vampirism, Victorianism and Collage in Guy Maddin's Dracula – Pages from a Virgin's Diary’

5 Nineteenth-century monsters                 
Chair: Ardel Thomas
Kate Horsley, Lancaster University: 'After Frankenstein: the creation of contemporary gothic'
Stephan Karschay, Passau University, Germany: ‘“Unveiling Helen Vaughan”: The Great God Pan and Monstrous Sexuality’
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, University of Tolouse: ‘Modern Phantasmagorias and Visual Culture in Wilkie Collins’s Basil’

6 Terror(isms)
Chair: Susan Tyburski
Benjamin Brabon, Edge Hill University: ‘Cylon Gothic: Technologies of Terror and the Spectral Homeland’
Kevin Corstorphine, University of Dundee: ‘Mad Max to McCarthy: Gothic Gangs in Fiction and Film’
Richard Walker, University of Central Lancashire: ‘Hell’s Dexterities: Books, Bombs and the Metamorphosis of the Devil in Baudelaire and Stevenson’

7.30-9: Dinner (Barker’s House Farm)

9.00: Professor Heard’s Frightful Victorian Magic Lantern Show (Lancaster House Hotel)

 

WEDNESDAY 22 JULY

9-10.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Gothic/SF: cyberpunk and the posthuman
Chair: John Sears
Jim Byatt, University of Warwick: ‘Being (Un)Dead: The Ghost Stories of JG Ballard’
Anthony Enns, Dalhousie University: ‘Information Theories of the Soul: Spiritualism and Technology in Postmodern and Cyberpunk Fiction’
Sara-Patricia Wasson, Napier University: 'Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in Gothic science fiction'

2 American Spectres 1
Chair: Justin Edwards
Anna Milione, University of Palermo: ‘Optical Witcheries: Spectres of Hawthorne’s Magic Lantern’
Chiho Nakagawa, Nara Women’s University: ‘Narratives of Unspectacular Vampires: New England Witches and Vampires’
Troy White, University of Warwick: ‘Haunted Images of Concurrent Dark and Light in The House of the Seven Gables’

3 Global Gothic 1
Chair: Gary Bettinson
Katarzyna Ancuta, Assumption University of Thailand: ‘Ghost Screens/Ghost Screenings: Supernatural Technologies in Contemporary Thai Horror Film’
Colette Balmain, Buckinghamshire New University: ‘Ghosts of War: Korean horror cinema and historical trauma: Nam Na-yeong (R-Point, Su-chang Kong: 2004) and Gidam (Epitaph, Jeong Beom-sik and Jeong Sik, 2007)’
Reynold Humphries, University of Lille 3: ‘Curse of the Paranormal Polaroid: guilty secrets, spectral images and the Uncanny in Shutter’

4 Gothic Diaries
Chair: Jerrold Hogle
Kym Brindle, Lancaster University: ‘Lewis Carroll and the Curious Theatre of Modern Monstrosity’
Ben Fisher, University of Mississippi: ‘Monstrousness and the Cinematic in the Fiction of Samuel Warren’
Rachel Jackson, Independent scholar: ‘Diaries, Monsters and Queer Desire in Algernon Blackwood’s “The Listener”’

5 Fin-de-siecle monsters
Chair: Kelly Hurley
Athene Yi-jung Lin, National Taiwan Normal University: ‘From Foreignness to Foreigners: A Strange Transformation of Monstrosity in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’
Karen Macfarlane, Mount St Vincent University: ‘The Monstrous Knowledge of Dr. Fu-Manchu’
Elizabeth McCarthy, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘“Half-rotten fruit of the human race” - From Gothic Specters to Body Horror: Images of Criminals and Victims in the late 19th Century’

6 Monster Shows 1
Chair: Gilles Menegaldo
Jean-François Baillon, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3: ‘Spectrality and the deconstruction of the cinema in Neil Burger’s The Illusionist and Steven Millhauser’s short stories’
Christophe Chambost, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2: ‘TV Serialization of Gothic Investigations: from Twin Peaks to Dexter, or when Monstrous Norms Give Birth to Normal Monsters’
Nicole Cloarec, Université de Rennes 1: ‘Panoptic Matrix: Gothic Intertext and Silent Film Aesthetics in Guy Maddin’s Brand Upon the Brain’

10.30-11: Coffee

11-12.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Classical Gothic
Chair: Amanda Potter
Paula James, Open University: ‘Heavenly? Creatures: Some Uncannily Classical Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer’
Zara Naghizadeh, Royal Holloway, University of London: ‘Rubbernecking with Virgil: Monstrous beauty in Jacob's Ladder, L'Inferno, The Divine Comedy and the Aenead’
Amanda Potter, Open University: ‘TV Hath No Fury: Sanitizing the Monstrous in Xena Warrior Princess and Charmed’

2 Gothic adaptations
Chair: Kamilla Elliott
Manuel Barbeito, Unjiversity of Santiago de Compostela: ‘The Brontës on screen’
Ognyan Kovachev, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia: ‘Between Frankenstein and Frankenstein: “He never gave me a name” and/or “my form is a filthy type of yours”’
Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Adapting Patrick McGrath’

3 Spectral performances 3
Chair: Steven Bruhm
Dorota Babilas, University of Warsaw, ‘Phantom and Fandom: Shifts in Popular Gothic Imagination in Amateur Derivatives of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera’
Madelon Hoedt, Leiden University: ‘Keeping a Distance: the Joy of Haunted Attractions’
Emma McEvoy, University of Westminster: ‘Vaudevillious: the Production of a Site-Specific Gothic Musical’

4 Global Gothic 2
Chair: David Punter
Kathryn Hardy Bernal, AUT University: ‘From Prey to Predator: Re-Imag[in]ing the Lolita in Japanese Shôjo Gothic Fiction’
Glennis Byron, University of Stirling: ‘Serving the people: Monstrosity and Modernity in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings’
Gina Wisker, University of Brighton: ‘Liminal spaces, Merpeople, Body Swaps and Facebook: Nalo Hopkinson‘s  Postcolonial Gothic.’

5 Gothic apocalypse
Chair: Andrew Smith
Susan Chaplin, Leeds Metropolitan University: ‘“What time will it be the End of the World?”: Gothic Futures – Imagining Apocalypse, H.G Wells to Wallstreet’
Catherine Lanone, University of Toulouse 2: ‘Cold Case: Photographic Disruptions in Atwood and Ipellie's Arctic stories’
Susan Tyburski, University of Denver, Colorado: ‘A Gothic Apocalypse:  The Wild Specters of The Last Winter’

6 Ruskin’s Gothic
Chair: Andrew Tate
Philip Harrison, Lancaster University: ‘Gothic Skin Show: A Medical Perspective through the Eyes of Ruskin’
Serena Trowbridge, Birmingham City University: ‘Christina Rossetti’s Moral Grotesques’
Stephen Wildman, Lancaster University: ‘“The draughtsman of skeletons”: John Ruskin and Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death’

12.30-1.30: Lunch (Barker’s House Farm)

1.30-3: KEYNOTE: Elisabeth Bronfen: 'Gothic Wars: Media's Lust' Chair: Fred Botting (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

3-4: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Spectral sounds and silences
Chair: Gary Bettinson
Brian Baker, Lancaster University: ‘Tape Spectra: Electronic Voice Phenomena, Analogue Recording and Contemporary Gothic Film’
Saviour Catania, University of Malta: ‘The Piper at Hanging Rock Gate: Weir, Lindsay and the Spectrality of Nothing’

2 Gothic Modernism
Chair: Avril Horner
Nancy Gillespie, University of Sussex: ‘Traversing the Gothic Fantasy: Grotesque Interventions in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood’
Shannon Leone Rathod, University of Colorado at Boulder: ‘“fear of him comes first”: Gothic Mechanisms in Jacob’s Room’

3 Monstrous bodies
Chair: Brigid Cherry
Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘“You guys and your cute little categories”: Cardiff, The Space-Time Rift and Torchwood’s Pansexual Gothic’
Marc Garçia-Martinez, Allan Hancock College: ‘In the Storm of the Eye: Curious Ocular Embodiments of Aesthetic (and Prosthetic) Monstrous Representation’

4 American spectres 2
Chair: Charles Crow
Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University: ‘Terror Nation: Benjamin Rush, Edmund Burke, and the Gothic Foundations of the US’
Zofia Kolbuszewska, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: ‘A Crisis of Monstrosity in Charles Brockden Brown’s “Somnambulism: A Fragment”: The Discontents of “Popular Teratology”’

5 Monster Shows 2
Chair: Jean-François Baillon
Gaïd Girard, Université de Brest: ‘Spectralizing the Monstrous in Quatermass and the Pit’
Gilles Menegaldo, Université de Poitiers: ‘Staging the Spectral: Blurred Boundaries, Specularity and Sensory Interaction in The Uninvited and The Innocents’

6 Gothic/SF: fictional identities
Chair: John Sears
Emily Alder, Napier University: ‘Genetic Imperialism and Reverse Vampirism in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Series’
Anthony Levings, Independent scholar: ‘SF Shakespeare and Post-Kantian Space Monsters in “The Muse”’

4-4.30: Coffee

4.30-6: PARALLEL SESSIONS

1 Monstrous laughter
Chair: Kamilla Elliott
Lauren Curtright, University of Minnesota: ‘The Shock of the Intermediary: King Kong, Gojira, and Max Mon Amour as Gothic War Films’
Kathy Gentile, University of Missouri-St. Louis: ‘Spooks and Spoofs or “Who’s Afraid of that Ghost?” in The Castle of Otranto and Ghost Busters’
Elaine Hartnell, Liverpool Hope University: ‘“Blood and Ice Cream”: Spectres of Normality in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz’

2 Gothic/SF: hybridities
Chair: John Sears
Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University:‘The Daemons of Unplumbed Space: Mixing the Planes in Hellboy’
Jude Roberts, University of Nottingham: ‘Complicity: Iain (M.) Banks's literature of traumatic identification’
John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Learning to “become”: Desiring-Machines and Generic Hybridity in Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers’

3 Gothic television
Chair: Linnie Blake
Brigid Cherry, St. Mary’s University College: ‘Trading Away Wonder For Reason: Gothic Aesthetics and the Cult Appeal of Carnivàle’
Gayle Gorman, University of Alberta: ‘The In-Between of Cinema and Spectral Subjectivity in Television´s Touching Evil’
Maria Antonia Lima, University of Évora/University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies: ‘From Videodrome to Dexter: “Long Live the New Flesh!”’

4 Monstrous music
Chair: Martin Iddon
Free-J Inc, with commentary by J Lee, University of Derby: ‘Music of the Spheres: body morphic disorders, being, Being, bare buttocks & super-woofers’
Atte Oksanen, University of Tampere: ‘Abject Imagination: Industrial Music and the Politics of Monstrosity’
Isabella van Elferen and Charlie Blake, Utrecht University, Liverpool Hope University: ‘In search of Kraftwerk's Überthing: Music, Machines and Spectrality’

5 Gothic photography
Chair: Glennis Byron
Gregory Brophy, McGill University: ‘A Mirror with a Memory: The Development of the Negative in Victorian Gothic’
Meredith Inksetter, University of Toronto: ‘Conjuring Monsters: Photographs of Mediums and Ectoplasmic Birth in Spiritualist Photography’
Carrie O’Connor, Louisiana State University: ‘L'Eve Future: Visualizing the Android through Photographic Media’

6 IGA executive committee meeting (committee members only)

6-7.30: Special event:
Sarah Kember, The Optical Effects of Lightning
Chair: Charlie Gere

7.30: Dinner (Barker’s House Farm), followed by a performance of Bizarre Magic by Nik Taylor and Stuart Nolan, and cash bar

 

THURSDAY 23 JULY

9-10.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 The Gothic in theory 2
Chair: Arthur Bradley
Alex Hope, Lancaster University: ‘The unseemly in-appearance of Khora: Plato's spectrality’
Kelly K Hurley: University of Colorado at Boulder, ‘Specters of Grief’
Jenny Lawn, Massey University: ‘Traumatising the Gothic’

2 Graphic Gothic
Chair: Brian Baker
Simon Marsden, Manchester Metropolitan University: ‘Gothic Cityscapes and their Monstrous Margins in Joss Whedon’s Fray and Firefly’
Markus Oppolzer, University of Salzburg: ‘Strange Embrace: Gothic Possibilities of the Ninth Art’
Christian Schneider, University of Heidelberg: ‘“In the midst of death we are in life”: the Anti-Gothic of Graphic Novels’

3 Visualising the Gothic 1
Chair: Stephan Karschay
Kamilla Elliott, Lancaster University: ‘Monstrous Portrait Identification in First-Wave Gothic Fiction’
Susan Poznar, Arkansas Tech University: ‘“Painted Emblems” in Dissolving Frames: Aristocratic Gothic Portraiture from The Castle of Otranto to Denver Ducis’
Michela Vanon Alliata, University of Venice, Italy: ‘Fatal Women and the Vampire’s Spell: from Sheridan Le Fanu to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’

4 American spectres 3
Chair: Karen Macfarlane
Charles Crow, Bowling Green State University: ‘Who’s Your Daddy? Suppressed Genealogies in American Racial Gothic’
Ardel Thomas, City College of San Francisco: ‘Haunted Salem: Puritan Monsters in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lois the Witch’
Joshua Toth, Grant McEwan College, Alberta: ‘Coloring the Water: Faulkner, McBride and the Curing of Racial Spectrality in American Literature’

5 Ghostly and bizarre magic
Chair: Steven Bruhm
Orsetta Innocenti, Università di Siena: ‘“Killing Me Softly”: Electromagnetism, Magic and Monstrosity in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige’
Stuart Nolan and Nik Taylor, University of Huddersfield, Independent scholar: ‘Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magic’
Mary Oliver, University of Salford: ‘Sinister Unseen Things: the Public and the Private Space of Spectral Magic’

6 Gothic fashion
Chair: Catherine Spooner
Marc-Edward Carrigan, Independent scholar: ‘Costuming Death’s Fiancée and her Maidens in Cinematic Projection’
Royce Mahawatte, London College of Fashion: ‘“Between the sacred and the secular”: Gothicized Fashion Consumption in The Mill on the Floss’
Maria Parsons, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘The Blood is the Life: Menopausal Vampires and Cosmetic Youth’

10.30-11: Coffee

11-12.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Artificial bodies
Chair: Sue Zlosnik
Paulina Palmer, University of Warwick: 'Jeanette Winterson's Stone Gods: Explorations in the Queer Uncanny'
Natasha Rebry, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan: ‘Mechanised Man: Mesmerism and Human Automatons in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle’
Pao-Hsiang Wang, National Taiwan University: ‘Necessary Monster: the Golem between Two Worlds’

2 Alan Moore’s Gothic
Chair: Eddie Robson
Matt Green, University of Nottingham: ‘“Bring me my Bow of burning gold”: The Spectre of Violence in William Blake and Alan Moore’
Laura Hilton, University of Birmingham: ‘Visualising Gothic Narrative: Heroes, Monsters and the Abhuman in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’
Antonio Venezia, Birkbeck College, University of London: ‘Seduction of the Innocent: V For Vendetta as Gothic (Graphic) Novel’

3 Phantasmagoria
Chair: Aloisia Sorop
Mervyn Heard, Independent scholar: ‘Gin Fiends and Whisky Demons’
David Jones, Open University: ‘Returning to Fear: New Discoveries in E. G. Robertson’s Fantasmagoria’

4 Mexican Gothic
Chair: Jenny Lawn
Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Lancaster University: ‘Fantasy, Desire and the Nation in Guillermo de Toro’s Cronos’
Barbara Brodman, Nova Southeastern University: ‘The Mexican Cult of Death as Native American Gothic’
Anna Reid, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos: ‘Persecution and the Uncanny in Carmen Boullosa’s Novel Before’

5 Technophobia
Chair: Emily Alder
Jennifer Bann, University of Glasgow: ‘Telegrams, Vampires and Blue Screens of Death: Broken Technology and Modern Horror’
Vera Cuntz, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz: ‘The Medium is the Monster: Medial Monstrosity in the Poltergeist Series’
Florian Leitner, Hochschule für Gestaltung/School for New Media, Karlsruhe: ‘Absorbed by the Image: The Fear of Immersion, a Gothic Paranoia’

6 Visualising the Gothic 2
Chair: Marc Garçia-Martinez
Thomas Mical, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: ‘Hauntology of Transparency’
John Whatley, Simon Fraser University: ‘Architecture as Self Fashioning in Othello, Vathek, Crime & Punishment, and Mystic River’
Gilda Williams, Goldsmiths College, University of London: ‘Making Monsters: Gothic Processes and Metaphors in Contemporary Art’

12.30-1.30: Lunch (Barker’s House Farm)

1.30-3: KEYNOTE: Christoph Grunenberg,'Forever Young: The Eternal Gothic' Chair: Gilda Williams (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

3-4: PARALLEL SESSIONS:
1 Ireland, Gothic, Media
Chair: Victor Sage
Kelly J.S. McGovern, University of Maryland: ‘“when his flesh hit the airwaves”: Television and Changing Images of Embodiment in Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore’
Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University: ‘Transforming the National Tale: Le Fanu’s Early Contributions to the Dublin University Magazine’

2 Zombie Cinema
Chair: Ognyan Kovachev
Juliane Langenbach, University of Zurich: ‘Screening the Undead: Zombie Cinema and Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie’
Gloria Valedon, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon: ‘The Transgeneric Crossings of Zombie Themes in Films: Collaborative Genre Categorization’

3 Monstrous suburbia
Chair: Ranita Chatterjee
Bernice Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘Selling the American Nightmare: Estate Agents and the Suburban Gothic’
Lorna Piatti, Loughborough University, ‘“At My Cooking I Feel It Looking”: Consumption, Advertising and Monstrosity in Sylvia Plath’s Domestic Verse’

4 Gothic Gotham
Chair: Laura Hilton
Mark Bendell, University of Chester: ‘Gothic in Gotham’
Avril Horner, Kingston University: ‘The Dark Knight: Fears, Flows and Fragility’

5 Afterlife of the vampire
Chair: Agnes Andeweg
Lorrie Carano, University of Missouri, Kansas City: ‘Lord of Darkness: The Creation of Byron’s Gothic Persona’
Min-tser Lin, National Cheng-kung University: ‘From the Symbolic to the Literal: Growing Obsession over the Veracity of the Vampire Figure in Nineteenth-Century Vampire Stories’

4-4.30: Coffee (George Fox Foyer); cream teas (Ruskin Library foyer)

4.30-6: International Gothic Association AGM (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1) – all welcome.

Special late opening of the Ruskin Library for private viewing of the Annual Miscellany.

6-7.30: Special event:
Writing the Gothic featuring Jo Baker, Daragh Carville and Paul Magrs
Jo, Daragh and Paul will be talking to Catherine Spooner about their work, giving short readings/screenings, and answering questions.
(George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

7.30: Dinner (Barker’s House Farm)
Cash bar and Goth DJ set by Paul Hodkinson (Cartmel Bar)

 

FRIDAY 24 JULY

9-10.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Digital Gothic
Chair: Amy Palko
Stephen Curtis, Lancaster University: “You Have Been Saved”: Digital Memory and Salvation’
Leanne Page, University of British Columbia: ‘The Emergence of a New Gothic Genre: Todorov’s The Fantastic and the “Virtual-Natural”’
Anne Quema, Acadia University: ‘Gothic as Database’

2 Gothic Neo-Victorianism
Chair: Kym Brindle
Claudio di Vaio, University of Pescara: ‘Gothic Machinations and Machineries in John Harwood’s Neo-Victorian Fiction’
Ruth Gregson, Lancaster University: ‘Focalizing Phantoms: the Presentation of Ghostly Embodiments in Affinity and its TV Adaptation’
Tammy Ho, King’s College London: ‘Gothic Neo-Victorian Novels’

3 Ghostly Re-mediations 1
Chair: Francesca Saggini
Pietro de Andrea, University of Torino: ‘Unravelling Unpersons: Visualising the Spectres of Contemporary Slavery in the UK in Nick Broomfield’s film Ghosts’
Lidia de Michelis, University of Milan: ‘Haunted Narratives: Politics, Fiction and Ghostwriting in Robert Harris’ The Ghost’
Aloisia Sorop, University of Craiova: ‘Rewriting as a Form of Phantazein or How to Haunt a Ghost Story’

4 Monstrous femininities
Chair: Paulina Palmer
Agnes Andeweg, Maastricht University: ‘Vampirist Sisterhood? Feminist Subjects in Dutch Gothic and Gothic Subjects in Feminist Discourse’
Katherine Farrimond, Newcastle University: ‘Inside her Skin: Femininity and the Monstrous Alien-Woman in Contemporary Cinema’
Elizabeth Mullen, Université de Bretagne Occidentale: ‘What Would Mother Say? Spectres of Monstrous Maternity in Wise's The Haunting and Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’

5 Pornographic visions
Chair: Benjamin Brabon
Patrycja Antoszek, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: ‘(Un)lucky Pierre or, the Ambiguities: Performing the Phantom Body in Robert Coover’s The Adventures of Lucky Pierre’
Eleanor Beal, Lancaster University: ‘Post-pornography: Visual Obscenity, Female Sexuality and the Woman Artist in Jack O’ Connell’s The Skin Palace’
Agnieszka Soltysik, University of Lausanne: ‘Seeing in the Dark: Night Vision and Gender and the Contemporary Horror Film’

6 Monstrous fantasies 1
Chair: Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Ursula Chandler, Arkansas Tech University: ‘The Outcasts in Guillermo del Toro’s Films’
William David Floyd, Charleston Southern University: ‘“Here, truly, was the apotheosis of the unnamable”: Gothic Images of Indeterminacy in the Story and Film Versions of The Unnamable’
Joanne Watkiss, Leeds Metropolitan University: ‘Whose Dark Materials? Dust, Dæmons and Symbols Readers in Phillip Pullman’s Northern Lights’

10.30-11: Coffee

11-12.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS:

1 Gothic Gaming
Chair: Stephen Curtis
Xavier Aldana Reyes, Birkbeck College, University of London: ‘Transgressive Digital Monsters: Bodily Awareness in the Video-Games of Clive Barker’
Ewan Kirkland, Kingston University: ‘Silent Hill’s Alessa Gillespie as Gothic Heroine’
Gwyneth Peaty, University of Western Australia: ‘Building and Becoming Grotesque in Video Games’

2 Ghostly Re-mediations 2
Chair: Francesca Saggini
Ilse M. Bussing Lopez, University of Edinburgh: ‘Strange Case of Effluvia and Drafts: Vaporous Ghosts of the Victorian Home’
Francesca Orestano, Università degli Studi Milano: ‘Sublime, Fantastic, Phantasmic Images: the Magic Lantern and the Nature of the Text’
Susan Pyke, University of Melbourne: ‘(be) Coming Through: Divine Mutations of Cathy’s Ghost’

3 Monstrous fantasies 2:
Chair: Katherine Farrimond
Amy Billone, University of Tennessee: ‘Fantasies about Monstrosity and Spectrality: Feminism and the Gothic’
Ranita Chatterjee, California State University, Northridge: ‘The Vivisection of the Soul: Harry Potter as Voldemort’s Monstrous Progeny’
Dara Downey, Trinity College, Dublin: ‘Fractured Idols: Excavating the Gothic in Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon’

4 Monstrous textuality
Chair: Kym Brindle
Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Freie Universität, Berlin: ‘The Monster and its Medium: Monstrosity as Female Autobiographical Narrative in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus’
Anthony Mandal, University of Cardiff: ‘“Lies on Paper”: Textuality, Alterity, Monstrosity in Recent Gothic Fiction’
Amy Palko, University of Stirling: ‘Perilous Publications: Stephen King and his Internet Publishing Experiments’

5 Musical hauntologies:
Chair: Martin Iddon
Steen Christiansen, Aalborg University: ‘The Earth Died Screaming: The Hauntology of Tom Waits’ Bone Machine’
Mariaconcetta Costantini, Universita G. d’Annunzio, Pescara: ‘Shakespearean Hauntology in Heavy Metal Music’
Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln: ‘Ghosts of the Gristleized: TG, Hauntology and Crowd Control’

12.30-1.30: Lunch (Barker’s House Farm)

1.30-3: KEYNOTE: Tanya Krzywinska, ‘Reanimating HP Lovecraft:  The Ludic Paradox of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth’ Chair: Debra Ferreday (George Fox Lecture Theatre 1)

3-3.30: Closing remarks