* You can download a PDF version of the Conference Programme here.
3 September 2015
09:15 10:45 Registration with Coffee and Mini-pastries Atrium
10:45 11:00 Welcome
Dr Sam George Lecture Hall N003
11:00 12:20 Parallel Sessions 1
1 Trash, Monsters, and Freaks
Chair: Darren Elliott-Smith Lecture Hall N003
1 Werewolves and White Trash
Victoria Amador (American University of Sharjah)
2 ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster!’: Fathers, Brothers, Lovers and Mothers in Werewolf and Vampire Romance
Sue Chaplin (Leeds Beckett University)
3 A Carnival of Monsters’: Wild Men, Wolf Men and Spectacles of Abhumanity in the
Victorian Freak Show
Alison Younger (University of Sunderland)
2 The Nineteenth-Century Werewolf
Chair: Sam George Seminar Room R110
4 ‘No More Than a Wild Beast or a Brute’: Wagner the Werewolf, Sweeney Todd and the Limits of Human Responsibility
Joseph Crawford (University of Exeter)
5 Wilderness Disrupted: Nineteenth-Century Werewolf Short Fiction
Janine Hatter (University of Hull)
3 Leader of the Pack
Chair: Matt Beresford Seminar Room R118
6 Spanish Werewolves and the conflict of masculine identity in Game of Werewolves
Irene Baena-Cuder (University of East Anglia)
7 Full Moon Masculinities: The Werewolf in Recent Young Adult Fantasy Texts
Tania Evans (The Australian National University)
8 ‘The Killing Moon Will Come Too Soon. Fate Up Against Your Will?’: The Myth-Ridden Figure of the Werewolf and Its Cinematic Representations of Tormented Masculinity and the Grotesque Body Caroline Langhorst (University of Mainz, Germany)
12:20 13:00 Lunch Atrium
13:00 14:20 Parallel Sessions 2
4 Becoming Animal
Chair: Kaja Franck Lecture Hall N003
9 ‘Stinking of me’: transformations and animal selves in contemporary women’s poetry
Polly Atkin (University of Strathclyde)
10 The stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again’: Transhumanist Becomings in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau
Michael Starr (University of Northampton)
11 A Running Wolf and Other Grey Animals: The Various Shapes of Marcus Coates
Sarah Wade (University College London)
5 Pack Politics
Chair: Bill Hughes Seminar Room R110
12 Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr.Hyde, the Monstrous Cat: animal imagery, catharsis, and writerly production in and beyond L.M. Montgomery’s Canadian WWI novel Christine Chettle (University of Leeds)
13 The Beast Without: The Cinematic Werewolf as (Counter)cultural Metaphor Craig Ian Mann (Sheffield Hallam University)
14 ‘One look and you recognize evil’: Lycan Terrorism, Monstrous Otherness and the Banality of Evil in Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon
Simon Marsden (University of Liverpool)
6 Bitches, Harridans, and Nannies
Chair: Sam George Seminar Room R118
15 The shape-shifting concept of female evil: Weregoats’ symbolism from a Portuguese legend to Landolfi’s The Moon Stone
Elena Emma Sottilotta (University of Sheffield)
16 ‘Open, open; let me in!’: The Female Werewolf and the New Woman
Jamie Spears (University of Sunderland )
17 Rabid Bitches and Fanged Whores: Misogynistic Discourses in Nineteenth-
Century Tales of the Female Werewolf and the Female Vampire
Charmaine Tanti (University of Malta)
14:20 15:20 Plenary 1: The Call of the Wild: From Preternatural Pastoral to Paranormal Romance
Dr Bill Hughes Lecture Hall N003
15:20 15:40 Tea and Red Riding Hood Biscuits Atrium
15:40 17:00 Parallel Sessions 3
7 Animal Magic
Chair: Jillian Wingfield Lecture Hall N003
18 From priculici to vampires: folkloric stories versus sensational narratives Marius-Mircea Crișan (West University of Timișoara,
19 Shapeshifters of the East: How Manga and Japanese Animal Spirits depart from the conventions of East European Gothic
Beverley Dear (University of Hertfordshire)
20 Wild Sanctuary: Running into the Forest in Russian Fairy Tales
Shannon Scott (University of St. Thomas, MN, USA)
8 Taxonomy and Hybridity
Chair: Bill Hughes Seminar Room R110
21 ‘I’m Hairy on the Inside’: Defining the Werewolf and the Nature of Lycanthropy in Contemporary Fiction
Carys Crossen (Manchester Metropolitan University)
22 Little Monsters: Hybrid offspring in steampunk and contemporary gothic texts
Karen Graham (University of Aberdeen)
23 Declassifying and Reclassifying Medieval Werewolves
Ksenia Winnicki (Simon & Schuster)
9 Where the Wild Things Are
Chair: Matt Beresford Seminar Room R118
24 Following Wolf Calls in the Wilderness
Chloe Donaldson (formerly Bangor University)
25 Putting the Luna in ‘Lunatic’: Werewolves, Wild Spaces and the Feral State of Madness
Catherine Pugh (formerly University of Essex)
17:00 18:00 Plenary 2: Wearing the Wolf: Fur, Fashion and Werewolf Fiction from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Dr Catherine Spooner Lecture Hall N003
18:15 19:15 Little Red Wine Reception
4 September 2015
08:30 14:30 Walking with Wolves: Excursion to UK Wolf Conservation Trust (with packed lunch)
14:30 15:00 Tea and Red Riding Hood Biscuits
15:00 16:00 Plenary 4: Cultural Images of the Wolf and the Wolves’ Re-emergence in Europe
Prof. Garry Marvin Lecture Hall N003
16:00 17:20 Parallel Sessions 4
10 Humanising the Wolf
Chair: Sam George Lecture Hall N003
26 Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: YA literature and the metaphorical wolf
Kaja Franck (University of Hertfordshire)
27 The Inner Beast: The Human/Animal divide in George MacDonald’s The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris (1882)
Rebecca Langworthy (University of Aberdeen)
28 The Benevolent Medieval Werewolf in William of Palerne
Curtis Runstedler (Durham University)
11 Monstrous Media
Chair: Rowland Hughes Seminar Room R110
29 An American Werewolf In America: Stephen King’s Cycle Of The Werewolf and Silver Bullet
Simon Brown (Kingston University)
30 Swearwolves and Werewolves: Mockumentary, Masculinity and Mundane
Monsters
Lorna Jowett (University of Northampton)
31 I was a teenage Whovian but I’m all right now-eee-ooooooooo-ooo-eeh-yooooooooo’: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who
Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire)
12 Queer-wolves
Chair: Lisa Nevárez Seminar Room R118
32 ‘Queer-Wolves and Wolf-Boyz and Were-Bears, Oh My!’: Queering the Wolf in Gaysploitation Horror
Darren Elliott-Smith (University of Hertfordshire)
33 Coming Out as Werewolf
Lisa Metherell (Birmingham City University)
34 Barebacking Werewolves in Rural America: Queer Erotic and Ecological Fantasies in M/M Paranormal Romance Fiction
Andrea Wood (Winona State University, Winona, MN, USA)
17:20 18:40 Parallel Sessions 5
13 Dancing with Wolves
Chair: Sam George Lecture Hall N003
35 The wolves in the woods: staging Carter’s Gothic
Frances Babbage (University of Sheffield)
36 Real Men versus Emo Pansies? Music, class and masculinity in supernatural film and television narratives
Steve (Janet) Halfyard (Birmingham City University)
14 Animal Kinship
Chair: Bill Hughes Seminar Room R110
37 Behind that façade, you’re no meek little puss-in-boots’: were creatures in Yasmine Galenorn’s Sisters of the Moon series
Malgorzata (Gosia) Drewniok (University of Southampton)
38 Sealskins: Finns, Seal Wives, and Mythmaking
Peter Le Couteur (Royal College of Art)
39 Dog-Faced Deities, Wolf Mothers and other Canine Women from Classical Myth, and their Representations in Modern Popular Culture Amanda Potter (Open University)
15 The Beast Within
Chair: Kaja Franck Seminar Room R118
40 What if there was something dark inside of me?’: Gender, Red Riding Hood and Internalizing the Wolf on Screen
Karrie Ann Grobben (University of Exeter)
41 Encountering the Beast Within: Location and the British Werewolf Film
Laura Hubner (University of Winchester)
42 ‘Violating all the rules of civilized vampirism’: identity, sexuality, alienation, and ‘vampire wolf-dogs’ in Andrew Fox’s Fat White Vampire Blues
Jillian Wingfield (University of Hertfordshire)
18:40 19:40 Plenary 5: ‘Creatures of the Night, what music they make’: The Sound of the Cinematic Werewolf
Dr Stacey Abbott Lecture Hall N003
19:40 20:10 Magic Lantern Show: Lycanthropic Lantern of Fear
David Annwyn Jones Comet Room, Club de Havilland
20:10 22:30 ‘In Red Riding Hood’s Basket’: Conference Dinner Restaurant de Havilland
5 September 2015
09:30 10:50 Parallel Sessions 6
16 Transforming Myths
Chair: Jillian Wingfield Lecture Hall N003
43 The Wolves of Old: Classical accounts of the werewolf myth
Matt Beresford (University of Hertfordshire)
44 Altered Beasts: The Werewolf in Popular Culture from Punishment to Power-up
Matthew Crofts (University of Hull)
17 Savage Playgrounds
Chair: Sam George Seminar Room R110
45 Through the eyes of a child: Hybridity and Morbidity in Jo Sung-hee’s A Werewolf Boy
Colette Balmain (Kingston University)
46 The Cinematic Representation of the Wild Child
Michael Brodski (University of Mainz, Germany)
47 Playgrounds in the Zombie Apocalypse: The Feral Child
Lisa Nevárez (Siena College, New York, USA)
10:50 11:20 Coffee and Wolf Cupcakes Atrium
11:20 12:00 Plenary 6: ‘This is what it sounds like when wolves cry’: Storytelling, Wild Children, and the State of Nature
Dr Sam George Lecture Hall N003
12:00 13:00 Marcus Sedgwick in Conversation and Reading
Marcus Sedgwick Lecture Hall N003
13:00 15:30 Excursion: Peter the Wild Boy Graveyard Picnic (with picnic lunch)
15:30 16:00 Tea and book signing (Marcus Sedgwick) Atrium
16:30 17:30 Plenary 7: Inside the Bloody Chamber: Angela Carter’s Wolves
Sir Christopher Frayling Lecture Hall N003
17:30 18:15 Book Signing: Sir Christopher Frayling Atrium
18:15 18:30 Closing Remarks
Dr Sam George Lecture Hall N003
18:30 Conference Close
The conference arrangement and programme are alright to me.Thank you.Emmanuel Adeyemi.
Ok Emmanuel. We look forward to seeing you in September.
Please note that the event at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, Beenham is a talk & tour & not a wolf walk as you have advertised. – Office Manager UKWCT)