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Run by the Centre and affiliated researchers
Run by the Centre and affiliated researchers
Sundays with Frankenstein
‘Sundays with Frankenstein’ was a 15-week series, held over Zoom, which dissected, annotated, and anatomised Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Based at The Rosenbach, the series also looked at aspects of the museum’s collections that relate to the novel and at pages from Shelley’s manuscript.
See the Rosenbach website for more information, and catch previous episodes of ‘Sundays with Frankenstein’ on YouTube.
Maisha Wester, ‘Racial Nightmares in American Horror Films’, a lecture for Romancing the Gothic, January 2021
Maisha Wester’s guest lecture for Romancing the Gothic, a series of online classes on all aspects of the Gothic, was titled ‘Who’s the Monster?: Racial Nightmares in American Horror Films’, and looked at Candyman (original), Amityville Horror (remake), Skeleton Key and Bag of Bones.
Find the recording of her talk on YouTube.
‘Gothic and the Hermeneutics of Isolation‘, The Cambridge University Press Blog, 2020
Professor Angela Wright wrote this piece for The Cambridge University Press blog in 2020, about Gothic Literature and the Pandemic.
‘Beyond Belief: Frankenstein’, BBC Radio 4 programme, 2018
Professor Andrew Smith participated in the BBC Radio 4 programme, ‘Beyond Belief’, on an episode about Frankenstein, discussing the novel’s religious content.
The programme is available in full on the BBC Radio 4 website.
‘Frankenstein at 200 and why Mary Shelley was far more than the sum of her monster’s parts‘ The Conversation, 2018
Angela Wright wrote this piece for The Conversation in 2018, about Mary Shelley.
‘Frankenstein in Dundee’, BBC Radio Scotland programme, 2018
Angela Wright participated in BBC Radio Scotland’s programme, ‘Frankenstein in Dundee’ in 2018, discussing Mary Shelley’s time in Dundee and its influence on her seminal novel, Frankenstein.
More information and clips from the programme are available on the BBC Radio Scotland website.
Frankenstein Festival, Matlock Bath, 2018
The Frankenstein Festival was held in Matlock Bath in 2018, and featured a range of events, including a film presentation of Frankenstein (1931), a lecture about Mary Shelley’s novel, and a short story competition. The winning entries to the competition were read in the Caves of Abraham.
The Future of Gothic Studies: A Gothic Networking Day, July 2016
The Centre for the History of the Gothic hosted a networking day for postgraduates, early career researchers, and academic staff interested in the development of Gothic Studies.
The networking day took place on 8 July from 11am to 5.30pm and featured:
Presentation from Professor Angela Wright and Dr Andrew Smith, Co-Directors of the Centre for the History of the Gothic
Guest talk from visiting academic Dr Enrique Ajuria Ibarra (Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla)
Roundtable / panel discussion on the future of Gothic Studies and developing research through public engagement and interdisciplinary studies
Collaborative networking opportunities for Gothic Centres
“Getting Published”: A presentation on academic publication by Dr Andrew Smith
Reimagining the Gothic Research Award Presentation
Networking reception
The Centre for the History of the Gothic Short Story Competition, 2016
The Centre for the History of the Gothic hosted a short story competition based on the 1816 story competition which inspired Frankenstein. Entries were recommended to begin with the following line from Frankenstein: “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.”
‘Frankenstein and the Vampire: A Dark and Stormy Night’, BBC2 television programme, 2014
Angela Wright appeared in this BBC programme in 2014, which is still being broadcast on Sky Arts. More details are available on IMDB.
Run by postgraduate students
Run by postgraduate students
Evangeline R Payne:
Participation in the 2021 Gothic Retreat, module enrichment work with students in ‘Crime Literature’ and ‘Romanticism to Modernism’, MA student mentoring, and conference in Malmö: [t]ERROR on tour
Carly Stevenson:
Helped organise the annual PGR-led ‘Reimagining the Gothic’ conference and creative showcase from 2015-2019. In 2015, she gave a talk titled ‘Keats’s Living Hands’ at Sheffield Central Library as part of the city’s annual literary festival Off The Shelf. In 2018, she gave a talk at Keats House Museum on Gothic botany in Keats’s poetry.
Catherine Greenwood:
‘The Ballad of Isabel Gunn as The Daemon Lover: The Economic Migrant and Enchantment as a Recruitment Strategy.’ OGOM conference ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture, University of Hertfordshire. 9 April 2021
‘Defrosting the Gothic: EcoGothic Poetry in a Melting Sublime’ – Gothic Nature III: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic Symposium, University of Roehampton. 30 October 2020.
‘Defrosting the Gothic (or, Baked Alaska): EcoGothic Poetry in a Melting Sublime’ –Landscapes PGR Colloquium, School of English, University of Sheffield. 25-26 November 2020.
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