Category Archives: OGOM Research

CFPs, new resources: Gothic Nature, Middle Eastern Gothics, Science Fiction and empire

Posted on 16th May 2020 by William the Bloody

We recognise this is a very uncertain time and we at OGOM hope everyone is well and safe. Despite the barriers, academic life goes on and we have a few CFPs to advertise, plus some new resources added to the … Continue reading →

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Vampires, werewolves, and Jane Austen

Posted on 24th April 2020 by William the Bloody

I am being interviewed here by Brian from Toothpickings. I talk about vampires and werewolves, the folklore of these creatures and its transmutation into literature. I also make some very tenuous links between this, the Enlightenment, Jane Austen and paranormal … Continue reading →

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Vampire criticism: Slayage and Angel; Holly Black’s Coldtown

Posted on 29th November 2019 by William the Bloody

Angel, the tormented ‘vampire with a soul’, was, through his love affair with Buffy in Joss Whedon’s TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997‒2003), one significant archetype of the romantic vampire of paranormal romance. Whedon then developed his character further … Continue reading →

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OGOM postgraduate successes: Matt Beresford and Daisy Butcher

Posted on 15th November 2019 by William the Bloody

Dr Sam George has supervised some very fruitful research projects at the University of Hertfordshire with her PhD students and we’d like to announce two great achievements. First, we’d like to congratulate Dr Matt Beresford for successfully defending his thesis, … Continue reading →

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UK Werewolf Hauntings: Are We Living in Gothic Times?

Posted on 30th October 2019 by Sam George

In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, with Trump in the White House and Brexit on the horizon, Angela Carter’s famous assertion of 1974 that ‘we live in Gothic times’ has never been more apt. This theme of ‘Gothic … Continue reading →

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OGOM Supernatural St Albans Halloween Tour

Posted on 16th September 2019 by Sam George

Join the Open Graves, Open Minds Project on 31st October to explore the magical and spectral history of St Albans. Your hosts will be vampire expert Dr Sam George and Dr Kaja Franck (a specialist in werewolves); together they will … Continue reading →

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Evil Roots: book launch and film showing, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, 7 September 2019

Posted on 27th August 2019 by Daisy Butcher

If you’ve been enjoying the @OGOMProject #BotanicalGothic theme on Twitter, come along and celebrate the release of my book Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic with myself at the Odyssey Cinema. (For the Twitter Moments on #BotanicalGothic, click … Continue reading →

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Gothic Times 26 October 2019

Posted on 20th August 2019 by Sam George

In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, with Trump in the White House and Brexit on the horizon, Angela Carter’s famous assertion of 1974 that ‘we live in Gothic times’ has never been more apt. But from the eighteenth … Continue reading →

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Werewolves and Wildness: The Open Graves, Open Minds special issue of Gothic Studies

Posted on 11th July 2019 by Sam George

Reblogged from EUP Blog, 8 July 2019 The first issue of Gothic Studies published by EUP is also the first ever issue devoted to werewolves. In the twenty-first century, the era of late capitalism, new werewolf myths have emerged from our cultural … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Elizabeth von Arnim, Vera

Posted on 9th July 2019 by William the Bloody

As you may know from previous posts, I have been tracing the genetic mutations from which the genre of paranormal romance arose by looking at an earlier manifestation, Gothic romance (or romantic suspense). This genre flourished from about the 1940s … Continue reading →

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