Society for the Study of the American Gothic

Likewise, if you have questions about the collection, please
contact either of us.
Jeanie Wills is Associate Professor and D.K. Seaman Chair of Professional and Technical
Communication in the Graham School of Professional Development, College of
Engineering, University of Saskatchewan.

Contributors are encouraged to build upon these themes. Chapters have a 7000-word limit, due by 1 January 2026 with MLA formatting. Authors will be notified by 15 January 2026.
Please send your completed paper to Jeanie Wills, jeanie.wills@usask.ca and Roxanne
Harde rharde@ualberta.ca.

• Depictions of spiritual leaders
• Depiction of evil embodied
• Depictions of faith
• Rhetoric of transformation | transubstantiation
• Rhetoric of Resurrection

• The unlikely hero
Material rhetoric
• Technology
• Music
• Consumer rhetoric
• Environments
Public health
• Contagion and infection
• Addiction & recovery
• Cannibalism
Spiritual rhetoric

Topics might include but are not limited to the following:
• Public Address, Public Arena, and Public Character
• Political rhetoric
• The Rhetoric of Leadership
• Equity & social justice
• Failure of systems of civilization
• Writers and writing
• Adolescent lives / King’s YA readership

The Everyday Horror of American Life: The Rhetorical Vision of Stephen King

This collection explores King’s work through a various rhetorical lenses to examine
the exigencies in the popular/political culture that his writing addresses across rhetorical theories and methodologies.

American Gothic Studies

American Gothic Studies, the official peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, seeks your contributions! If you research and write about the Am. Gothic, we hope you will consider us as a venue for your scholarship. Info at www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...

American Gothic Studies

American Gothic Studies, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, seeks your contributions! If you research and write about the American Gothic, we hope you will consider us as a venue for your scholarship. Info at www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
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Tomorrow is the deadline!

Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:

americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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Please direct 250-word proposals (demonstrating appropriate conversance with relevant existing scholarly literature), as well as inquiries, to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu and Anthony.Magistrale@uvm.edu. The deadline for proposals is December 1st, 2025.

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For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s The Shining, eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.

Those interested in proposing an Exhumations piece should contact Tom Hillard and Matthew Sivils at thomashillard@boisestate.edu and sivils@iastate.edu respectively.

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In issue 1.1, this meant introducing readers to nineteenth-century American William Leete Stone's fiction, but Exhumation pieces could also republish neglected or obscure works by better-known and/or more contemporary authors, including authors not necessarily associated with the Gothic genre.

American Gothic Studies is seeking contributions for our "EXHUMATIONS" section.

Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.

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It's Alive!!

Our Gothic Reading Group Returns September 26th at 2:30 PM EDT with The Ballad of Black Tom.

Zoom Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Reminder that the deadline for SSAG proposals for our American Nightmares II Conference in Salem, MA, is due October 1st!

More info: americangothicsociety.com/symposium/

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January 23—Jessica Johns, BAD CREE (259 pp.)
February 27—Victor Lavalle, LONE WOMEN (275 pp.)

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Fall 2025 Gothic Reading Group Schedule (Fridays 2:30-3:30 EDT/EST) (Link to come)
September 26—Victor Lavalle, THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM (149 pp.)
November 7—Maryse Condé, I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM (225 pp.)
December 5—Robert Eggers, THE VVITCH (90 minutes)

In AGS 2.1 we will be publishing "engagements" a short response (250-1k words) to pieces published in prior issues. To submit contact Jeffrey Weinstock at Weinstock@cmich.edu.

Our Gothic Reading Group will not meet in August. If you are interested in joining us this fall, please fill out this When2Meet so we can decide a day and time to meet!

Link: www.when2meet.com?31462640-i4qeL

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A Shirley Jackson panel at PAMLA (Nov. 20-23; San Francisco) is seeking submissions. Please let us know if you are interested so we can pass your information along!

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Re-up:

American Gothic Studies

Very nice to make into the very first issue of a new journal, and American Gothic Studies looks like it'll be a great new venue for the field. Lucky to be amongst some terrific essays. My bit is a trip down the Funhole with Kathe Koja.... www.psupress.org/Journals/jnl...

We've had to delay a week so please join us on July 25th instead! Registration link is below:

gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Cover for the first issue of American Gothic Studies, The Pennsylvania State University Press, vol. 1, n°1, 2025. The cover represents a blurry spectral body with closed eyes, on a grey/black background.

In addition, one essay, “Carrie at 50,” by Anthony Magistrale and Michael Blouin, is available to the general public using this link: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/article/1/1/6/401260/Carrie-at-50. You are welcome to share this link with colleagues and on your socials. SSAG members may access the journal by starting at the SSAG homepage http://www.americangothicsociety, selecting “American Gothic Studies Journal” from the top menu, logging in to the members area, and then clicking where indicated to access the journal. Here is the Table of Contents for this issue: “Editorial Summonings,” Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Essay: “Carrie at 50,” Michael J. Blouin and Tony Magistrale Essay: “The Edge of the Fringe: (Not) Reading Kathe Koja’s The Cipher” Essay: “Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s The Trees,” M. Keith Booker Essay: “Harmonic Psychotherapy: Reading Fun Home Through a Gothic Lens,” Kyle William Bishop Essay: “The Waterworks: A Parallax View of a Modern Gothic Tale,” Theodora Tsimpouki and Maria Pirgerou

Exhumation: “The Spectre Fire-Ship” (1834) by William Leete Stone, edited by Tom J. Hillard and Matthew Wynn Sivils Provocation: “Against Entanglement,” Heather Ray Milligan Provocation: “Gothic Readings of America’s Third Places: Starbucks, Craft Beer, and Cultural Anxieties,” Alana Seaman Published semi-annually, American Gothic Studies is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic, broadly construed. This encompasses considerations of literature, film, television, comics, and new media, as well as cultural artifacts and practices. Submission information is available at https://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_AGS.html Thank you for your support for the Society for the Study of the American Gothic! Sincerely, Jeffrey Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock President: Society for the Study of the American Gothic Editor, American Gothic Studies

The first issue of American Gothic Studies has been published, Penn State University Press.
Thanks, @cypheractive.bsky.social and @ssag.bsky.social
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Our next Gothic Reading Group is July 18, 2025 and covers Jeff VanderMerr's Absolution. Join below!

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SSAG and the Ecohorror/Ecogothic interest group at #ASLE 2025! Come join us!

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Guidelines:
Please submit a 250-300 word abstract and a short bio by 8/15/25 to ddaniels1@arizona.edu with subject: American Gothic Studies Submission – [Your Last Name].

Accepted essays due 2/1/26; 6000 word length and with MLA formatting.

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