Author Archives: William the Bloody

About William the Bloody

Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Co-convenor OGOM Project

‘Ill met by moonlight’ Gothic Fairies programme

Posted on 25th March 2021 by William the Bloody

Preparations are going well for our fabulous conference, ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture (online, 8-11 April 2021). Tickets are now sold out, alas (though there may be cancellations). You … Continue reading →

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Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity, Online Workshop – 24 March 2021

Posted on 22nd March 2021 by William the Bloody

You are warmly invited to attend the forthcoming workshop “Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity,” to be held online via Zoom at Tübingen University on 24 March 2021. Please see the program below. The workshop will examine medieval and post-medieval … Continue reading →

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Gothic Fairies conference – new plenaries

Posted on 29th January 2021 by William the Bloody

We are beyond excited to announce that we have two more very special plenary speakers for OGOM’s online Gothic Fairies conference, ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture, on 8-11 April … Continue reading →

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Events: Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Gothic ocean, Byron, Polidori

Posted on 28th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Despite the pandemic isolation, scholars in Gothic and allied fields are finding creative ways to keep literary and cultural dialogue flourishing with on-line events. here are a few we’ve noticed: 1. BARS Digital Event: ‘The Late Mary Shelley’, 18 February … Continue reading →

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Calls for submissions: Fairy tale and fantasy, Angela Carter and Barthes, sex and Supernatural

Posted on 28th January 2021 by William the Bloody

We have various calls for articles, creative writing, and reviews coming up: 1. Call for Submissions: Articles, creative writing, reviews and visual art relating to fairy tales, fantasy and speculative fiction, Gramarye.Deadline: 21 March 2021 The Chichester Centre for Fairy … Continue reading →

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CFPs: Dark Economies, Lovecraft Country, Zombies

Posted on 28th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Some excitng CFPs for conferences here–the deadline for ‘Dark Econimies’ is very soon, so hurry! 1. ‘Dark Economies: Anxious Futures, Fearful Pasts‘, Falmouth University, UK, 7-9 July 2021. A face-to-face conference! Deadline: 1 February 2021. The present is dark. With … Continue reading →

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Virginia Woolf, ‘A Haunted House’

Posted on 25th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Virginia Woolf’s (whose birthday is today) short story ‘A Haunted House’ is a superb modernist reworking of the classic Gothic haunted house tale. In its tenderness, it might be a fine example of what Catherine Spooner calls ‘happy Gothic’. https://www.charleston.org.uk/a-haunted-house-by-virginia-woolf/

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Burns Night: Tam O ‘Shanter

Posted on 25th January 2021 by William the Bloody

As it’s Burns Night, here’s a link to Robert Burns’s delightfully Gothic poem Tam O ‘Shanter (1791), in which, after a heavy bout of drinking, Tam narrowly escapes the clutches of a horde of witches. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43815/tam-o-shanter

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CFP: Corporeal Creations: Bodily Figurations of Creativity, online workshop, 24 March 2021

Posted on 15th January 2021 by William the Bloody

Zoom symposium, the Department of English, Tübingen University From John Gower’s account of Robert Grosseteste’s construction of a talking head to George Herbert’s depiction of the heart as a place for divine encounters; from Ben Jonson’s pride in his literary … Continue reading →

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Online Educational Packs for Sixth-formers: Redeeming the Wolf, Understanding Otherness

Posted on 11th December 2020 by William the Bloody

OGOM are pleased to announce the publication on line of our Educational Packs. If you teach Literature (or related subjects)to sixth-formers or A Level students (or their equivalent internationally), please take a look by following the links below. We really … Continue reading →

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