
Date | Subject | Speaker |
Online Here | Beauty Doctors: A Gothic History of Cosmetic Surgery | Rebecca Gibson |
Video to be uploaded later | ‘How could you fall in love with a human?’: Human-Jinn Relationships in Pakistani Serials | Javaria Farooqi |
Video will be released later | 5 – 2 = 3, ‘king’- ‘man’ = ?: Using Word-Embeddings to Explore the Early Gothic Novel | Maartje Weenink |
To be resceduled | Cli-Fi and the Gothic in Contemporary Film and Literature | Kristy Strange |
Online Here | Digital Monsters and the Online Wilderness | Vivian Asimos |
Online Here | ‘You Carry [the] Corpse on your Back’: The Southern Gothic Aesthetic in the work of Randall Kenan and Natasha Trewethey | Jill Goad |
Online Here | Hand of Glory: History, Myth and Legend | Shane McCorristine |
Online Here | Exploring Hellish Landscapes in the 19th century | Ruth-Anne Walbank |
Online Here | The Oriental Woman and the Romantic Gothic | Reyam Rammahi |
Online Here | ‘Beautiful, Spooky, and Stupid’: Introducing Gothic Drag | Thomas Brassington |
Online Here | “Life Finds a Way”: Jurassic Park as a Gothic franchise | Roxanne Douglas |
To be rescheduled | ‘The High Priestess and the Beast: Dion Fortune, Aleister Crowley and Occulture at the Fin-de-Siecle’ | Hannah O’Flanagan |
Online Here | The Thing with Horns: the insidious presence of the Horned God in modern supernatural horror | Anna Milon |
Online Here | An Excursion Guide to the Geological Gothic | Lindsay Williams |
Online Here | ‘Every Brutal Choice Has Elegance, Grace: Decoding Dress in NBC’s Hannibal | Helen Oliver |
Online Here | The Spectral as Political: Dystopia, Myth and Horror in ‘Ghoul’ (2018) | Rishiraj Pal |
Online Here | The [Haunted] House of Atreus | Christin Liberty |
Online Here | La Fée Verte: Absinthe and the Green Fairy myth in 21st Century Gothic | Kate Harvey |
To be rescheduled | From the Gothic Window: Gothic Parody in the work of Eliza Parsons (1739 – 1811) | Katarzyna Kalosza |
18th July | Skip to the Good Part – Romance Visual Novel (PAX Online East Event) | Sam Hirst, Laura Springer, Leeah |
Online Here | Mourning in Horror: Grief in 21st Century Horror Films | Tugce Kutlu |
Online Here | Rural Crafts and Folklore | Mark Norman |
Online Here | Trapped in the Labyrinth: The Minotaur as trans and disabled | Johannes Evans |
Online Here | The Most Magical of Mirrors: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Victorian Celebrity Photography | Harriet Fletcher |
Online Here | Devil or Double: Decoding the Demonic in the Scottish Gothic | Sam Hirst |
Online Here | Gothic Social Media and the Found Phone trope | Vicky Brewster |
Online Here | Spritualism, the Female Medium, and Ghosts in Victorian and Edwardian Supernatural and Occult Tales | Lindsey Carman Williams |
Online Here | Birth of a Monster: The Gothicizing of Insects in Fuseli, Blake and Mary Shelley | Lorenz Hindrichsen |
Online Here | The Thing! | Bridget Keown |
Online Here | Everywhere you turn is heartache: Aristocracy, Religion and Sex in the work of Madonna | Dan Pietersen |
Online Here | Treating the Socially Grotesque Man: Experimental Medicine and the Gothic | Kathleen Shaughnessy |
4th April | Infectious Diseases in Horror | Mitra Elgrail |
Online Here | Naked Pirates, Demonic Bears and Laundry Lists: Gothic Parody | Sam Hirst |
Online Here | The Divine Right of Statues: Gothic Encounters and Divine Retribution | Dominique Garcia |
Online Here | Killing the Radio Star: The Radio DJ and the Gothic in Cinema | Eric Lawrence |
Online Here | Space Gothic | Shiri Sondheimer |
Online Here | Doubling and Deception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Eric Jurgens |
Online Here | Gothic for Girls: Misty and British Comics | Julia Round |
Online Here | Horror, Race and Romance | Sam Hirst and Tanagra GGNOC |
Online Here | Space, Madness and Horror Film (The Descent) | Melody Blackmore |
Online Here | M R James, non-sexual queerness and 19th century ghosts | Hannah O’Flanagan |
Online Here | Arthurian Gothic | Mira Gutoff |
Online Here | ‘A Child Gathering Shells: Victor Frankenstein and the Medical World of the Early 19th Century | Cat Irving |
Online Here | ‘Gothic and Second Language Acquisition’ | Alicia Dominguez Perez |
Online Here | ‘Byron, Manfred, and the Transgender Self’ | Julia Ftacek |
Online Here | Stage Hauntings: Contemporary Gothic Drama | Marita Arvaniti |
Online Here | The Ghosts of Salem | Sebastian Crane |
Online Here | Cannibalism Fact and Fiction: Anthropological Record versus Romantic Imperialism in 21st Century Frontier Gothic | Madelyn Schoonover |
Online Here | And to Live in a New House Would Kill Me’:Transylvania in Gothic Literature vs Gothic Literature in Transylvania | Cristina Diamant |
Online Here | A trilogy of the damned: Classic Argentinian gothic in film | Valeria Villegas Lindval |
Online Here | ‘I am Stone: R Murray Gilchrist and the Gothic Weird Tale’ | Dan Pieterson |
Online Here | ‘Sometimes an Abbey is just an Abbey: Jane Austen and Gothic Satire’ | Prema Arasu |
Online Here | Old monsters are new again: the changing interpretations of Grendel’s mother in Beowulf. | Eric Jurgens |
Online Here | The ‘Exotic’ American Vampire: Blood and Sugarcane in Louisiana | Rose Sinister |
Online Here | A Ghost or a Wronged Woman?: The Gothic and the Explained Supernatural | Sam Hirst |
Online Here | Monstrous Feminine in South East Asian Folklore and Horror | Andrew Ng |
20th September | ‘Curses, Corpses & Coffins: Egyptomania in 19th and 20th Century Britain’ | Rebecca Bruce |
Online Here | ‘It wasn’t like any color I’d ever seen before’: Colour in Horror Film and Literature | Chelsea Davis |
Online Here | A Reluctant Movie: What happened between page and screen | Lucie Bea Dutton |
Online Here | Gothic Food: Examples of Consumption and the Cruelty of its Consequences in Gothic Literature | Alessandra Pino |
Online Here | Funny Bones: A Look at Ossuaries in Europe | Cat Irving |
Online Here | A Spectacle of Gore and Horror: The French Revolution and its Gothic Representations | Rayna Rosenova |
9th August | The Magic and Mysticism of Central Park: The Park’s Complicated History and How 19th Century Occult and Gothic Interests Inform Its Creation | Leanna Renee Hieber |
Online Here | Anne Rice’s Vampire Women between Impairment and Power | Laura Davidel |
Online Here | “Tales of ink and tears : a brief visual history of the gothic” | Nadjah O |
Online Here | Dicing With Death: How D&D learned to love the Gothic | Dan Pietersen |
Online here | ‘What You Buy is What You Own’: Neocolonial Masculinity, Appropriation, and Guilt in Pet Sematary | Madelyn Schoonover |
To be Resceduled | Playing with the Gothic: Identities, Bodies and Gender in Tabletop Role-playing Games! | Holly Jane Warrington |
Online here | ‘Depraved’ Bisexuals: Biphobia and Bi-erasure in Post-Millennial Gothic Television | Hayley Louise Charlesworth |
Online here | Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Romance | Caroline Duvezin |
Online here | The Testament of the Mexican Mummy | Abraham Castillo Flores |
Online here | Messing With Your Castle, Telling Your Secrets, and Stealing Your Girl: Comics and the Gothic | Shiri Sondheimer |
31st May | More Terror than her reason could justify: Confronting the transcendent in Radcliffe | Sam Hirst |
Online here | “Is this our Great Becoming? Gender and Adaptation in the Hannibal Lecter Franchise” | Mason Hawthorne |
Online here | ‘It’s only Twilight if it’s from the Forks region; anything else is just sparkling vampire romance’: Twilight, the Gothic Novel and the Female Reader | Kaja Franck |
Online here | “Mysterious Influences”: Religion, Empathy and Illness in the Victorian Queer Gothic | Brontë Schiltz |