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Category Archives: OGOM Research
Sophie Lancaster: Representation and Appropriation
I am just posting this link to the drama about the murder of goth girl Sophie Lancaster ten years on for my Generation Dead YA Fiction and the Gothic students next year. I haven’t watched ‘Murdered for Being Different Yet’ … Continue reading
OGOM at the Being Human Festival 2017
We are proud to announce that OGOM has been successful in its bid to participate in the Being Human Festival 2017. Our event is detailed below: Animal-Human Boundaries: Banishing the Big, Bad Wolf Saturday 18th November, University of Hertfordshire 6.30. … Continue reading
OGOM: Tales from Gothic Hertfordshire 1
I have decided to introduce a new searchable feature on Gothic Hertfordshire on the blog ahead of Supernatural Cities 3 which OGOM will co-host in March 2018. (‘Gothic Hertfordshire’ is now a Category, found on the right-hand side here.) I’ll … Continue reading
White Wolves in and out of the Academy
OGOM is keeping track of wolf related stories ahead of the Being Human Festival in November. I posted earlier that May is the month of the wolf and Dr Catherine Spooner, a plenary at the now legendary Company of Wolves … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged Catherine Spooner, Freud's Wolf Man, OGOM Company of Wplves, white wolves, Yellowstone
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What to do when the Folk Horror is us
Tomorrow marks the publication of the eagerly awaited ‘Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange’ by Adam Scovell (Auteur publishing, 2017). Scovell has defined such genres in relation to (mostly British) landscape as ‘the evil under the soil, the terror in … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, OGOM Research
Tagged Adam Scovell, English eerie, Folk Horror, St Albans
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Gothicise and Supernatural Cities
I’m setting up a permanent link (in the Related Links column on the right) from the site to the art collaborative Gothicise, which was launched in 2010. Gothicise create site-specific performances that interrogate the relationship between site and narrative including the 2015 … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Events, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged art, Dr Karl Bell, Dr Tracy Fahey, Gothic, Gothicise, Supernatural Cities
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OGOM Celebrates the Rise of Dr Kaja Franck
Woo hoo…huge congratulations to Kaja who passed her PhD viva today!!! Dr Franck OGOM is very, very proud of you. It has been a joy and a delight to supervise you from day one. We are all so very pleased … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research, OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Kaja Franck, OGOM, Werewolves, Wolves
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Kaja’s Pulp Fiction Werewolves
Kaja and I have both been asked to write features for the Folklore Thursday website. Mine is on vampires and the OGOM project and is very late (sorry Willow) but Kaja’s is out now and is an excellent read. Have … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM Research, OGOM: The Company of Wolves
Tagged Folklore, Folklore Thursday, Kaja Franck, Werewolves
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Werewolves in the Academy
OGOM’s very own Kaja Franck submitted her PhD thesis yesterday. It has been an absolute pleasure and a joy to supervise this project and see it grow into such a substantial piece of research. ‘The Development of the Literary Werewolf: … Continue reading
Wolves in the Asylum at the Wellcome
I visited the new exhibition on Bedlam at the Wellcome this week and was thrilled to find the wolf paintings of Freud’s ‘Wolfman’ on display. As we are currently working on the publications from the Company of Wolves conference it … Continue reading
Posted in exhibitions, OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged Company of Wolves, Freud, Richard Dadd, Wellcome collection, Wellcome Trust, wolfman
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