3pm Panel and reporting from Music & Dance! I'm 3rd on the lineup so can continue the livetweeting as much as I can! First up is Peter Schwenger with 'Earworms and the Sound of a Self' #IGAHalifax2024

Lastly we have Fredrik Blanc with 'Towards a Wayward Non-Transparency: Opacité and the Weird' #IGAHalifax2024

Finishing up we have Johan Höglund with 'Chthonic Grotesque: Extractive Gothic Beyond the Uncanny' #IGAHalifax2024

The 18th conference of the International #Gothic Association will be hosted by the University of Hull in 2026. Congrats! International Gothic Association

'Delighted to announce' doesn't quite cut it 🎉🦇 I'll be hosting the IGA conference in Hull in late July/early August 2026. Save the date! #gothsassemble #gothicstudies HullEnglish International Gothic Association IGA Postgrads

Do you want to know more about the kraken and its natural history? 🦑 Read about it in our latest blogpost from Martin Theiller, available here: haunted-shores.com/2024/09/11/fro…

'In a world where pink is ubiquitous, it can be empowering to choose black.' My thoughts on goth girls and goth mums in #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice: theconversation.com/beetlejuice-be…

The first 'Expression of Interest' deadline for our #GothicPractice special issue of Gothic Studies is tomorrow! Want to send us something but don't know what, or won't make the deadline? Drop us an e-mail at [email protected]. We're waiting to hear from you 👻

The last few days to get your proposals in for ‘Fear Studies in an Age of Fear’, an interdisciplinary one-day conference University of Warwick 31 January 2025. Fear/negative emotions and their social, cultural, and political meanings. Closes Friday! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…

Just under two days to go until our Haunted Shores seminar with Steve Mentz! Join us 5pm (GMT)/1pm (EST) for: '"A naughty night to swim in': Water and Alienation in King Lear and The Winter's Tale'. More info here: haunted-shores.com/2024/10/15/hau…

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me, among the people lost for e’re… My first lecture of 2025 is up on the The Last Tuesday Society & Viktor Wynd Museum site and we will be exploring the bowels of Dante’s Inferno! Ticket link below 👇

Join us for our next online seminar with Dr Isabelle Gapp, on reindeer, Sámi herders, and shipboard transportation in Canada— Thursday 5th December at 3pm! All info, with full abstract, here! haunted-shores.com/2024/11/26/hau…

Conference: Unquiet Shores: Coastal Acoustics and the Terpsichorean Ocean. Location and dates: Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. 18-20 June 2025. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conference…

We are thrilled to be co-hosting our first conference with the fantastic Haunted Shores project. Deadline for abstracts on coastal acoustics and the terpsichorean ocean is Monday 10 Feb 2025. Conference is 18-20 June at Edinburgh Napier and online. haunted-shores.com/unquiet-shores…

It’s publication day and my author copies have arrived! 😊 📚🥳 The book is open access (and downloadable) for another week: cambridge.org/core/elements/… #horror #bodyhorror

📕 Have you had a chance to explore the latest issue of Gothic Studies yet? Check out the full table of contents in this issue here: euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/26/3 Gothic Studies

A reminder that contributions to the essay prize are due 1st March - follow the link for more details! #GothicStudies

Gothic Studies is very pleased to publish this special issue (27.3) of eight essays delving into the life and work of Algernon Blackwood, Guest Edited by (self-confessed) Blackwood-obsessive Henry Bartholomew! euppublishing.com/toc/gothic/27/3