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Please join the CSAReps Project Team for our online project launch event on April 29th & 30th with esteemed guest speakers @drcisme.bsky.social @theflyingchild.bsky.social @hazelklarkin.bsky.social @brenrooney.bsky.social
Please follow the link below to register
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This may be of interest: on creative works about child sexual abuse & the cultural ramifications of creative works (& we'd appreciate a repost) @lucycogan.bsky.social @alicemauger.bsky.social @rhetorician.bsky.social @drdara.bsky.social @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social

CFP – My Wild Heart Bleeds – Edited Collection CFP: ‘My Wild Heart Bleeds: Exploring Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ and its legacy’ Sheridan Le Fanu published his sapphic vampire tale ‘Carmilla’ in 1872, reworking the vampire genre, and creating…

What is this I see before me!?

An exciting CFP for an edited collection on 'Carmilla' and its legacy?

I rather think so!

romancingthegothic.com/2025/02/09/c...

Solidarity.

I refuse the faux patriotism of flags and exceptionalism. My love of my country comes from its common wealth of folklore. It is delight in walking hollow hills and hearing exhalation of sleeping dragons. Following wraith ways, stirring up stories alive in its ghost soil. – #CLNolan #Folklore

Alternative Domesticities, which pondered tactics of dwelling, was a real meeting of the minds. Housing equity and migration, “home” as interrupted and unfinished business, hauntings, modernist materials (glass!), and domestic recoveries. Huge thanks to Thresholds of Knowledge and the UCDHI

So exciting 👇

The Romancing the Gothic conference call is live!

Online! Open to all! Send us a pitch!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820 Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820

I know some of you will want to know that Emma McEvoy’s new book The Music of the Gothic is currently free to download, with original audio files, on the CUP website. cup.org/4feLPki

Several years ago, a group of my students collectively decided that he was a queer icon, setting out all excited to furnish his new bachelor pad with his coffin far away from his oppressive homeland. I've never been able to see him any other way since.

Painting of a woman making a fairy-tale-like tower out of white lace. Dark background, blue tones.

Dentelles by Rachel Baes (1912-1983)

Coming Soon: The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies SAVE THE DATE: Network re-launch on Saturday 22 February 2025 at Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub. We are holding an in-person networking event on Saturday 22 February 2025, in the Long Room Hu…

Save the Date! 22 Feburary 2025 will see the re-launch of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies. This free in-person event at TCD will include a keynote by @middleagewitch.bsky.social, panel discussions, and more! For more information and to register: irishgothicjournal.net/coming-soon-...

I went away, for the sake of my phone's storage capacity. Now I'm back, having somehow managed to free up space ...

Satirical votive candle with an image of Shirley Jackson as a Saint. It says 'Saint Shirley'.

Happy 108th Birthday to the legend that is Shirley Jackson.

The International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25 - Gothic Association The essay competition is open to postgraduate students or postdoctoral scholars who are currently in good standing as IGA members. A postgraduate may be a current or recent Masters’ student (within tw...

Submissions are open for the IGA early-career essay prize - the deadline is 1 March 2025 and the full details are here:
www.globalgoth.org/blog/the-int...
Queries to the convenor @jendeavour.bsky.social

Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century 3 CFP! Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century 3: The United States of Shirley Jackson 4 July 2024 Hybrid Event (in-person with some limited online capacity) The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Du...

Don't forget! The deadline for abstracts for "Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century 3: The United States of Shirley Jackson" is fast approaching!
This is a hybrid conference, so online presenters welcome. See the CFP for more information: shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/r...

Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century 3 CFP! Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century 3: The United States of Shirley Jackson 4 July 2024 Hybrid Event (in-person with some limited online capacity) The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Du...

Our CFP for "Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century 3: The United States of Shirley Jackson" is now live! The deadline is 12th April 2024. See the CFP for more information: shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com/2024/03/12/r...

We've won!

A photoshopped image of Shirley Jackson (and one of her dogs) holding an American flag, the declaration of independence behind her, with the title and date of the event next to her: The United States of Shirley Jackson 4 July 2024.

Save the Date! 'Reading Shirley Jackson in the 21st Century' 3 will take place this 4th of July. It should be a hybrid event, with an in-person element at Trinity College Dublin. Expect a CFP in the coming weeks, with info here or at shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com
#ShirleyJackson

Guy Debord     
“Work is the Blackmail of Survival"

The Society of the Spectacle    
1967

You can't make me...

Book Groups and Author Visits Each week we have a book group on Fridays. There are two slots: 10 am and 7 pm (BST) and you're very welcome to either, wherever you are in the world and however much you'd like to participate. To sig...

The Romancing the Gothic online book group is open to all. Pop in! Meet an author! Discover new writers! Read Gothic classics!

See what we've got coming up here

romancingthegothic.com/book-group-a...

😽🖤

Goths for Breakfast R omancing the Gothic is running a charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. Th

It's GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST time!

A full day of writing workshops, talks and cooking classes on creepy, Gothic, horror, supernatural and spooky themes!

All for CHARITY.

We're supporting Magic Breakfasts - free breakfasts for hungry kids

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goths-for-...

I have accepted my fate.