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Daughter of Fangdom:

A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire

18 April 2015

The University of Roehampton



Following the success of TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires 
in 2013, the organisers announce a follow-up one-day conference, 
Daughter of Fangdom: A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire. 
Though Dracula remains the iconic image, female vampires have been 
around at least as long, if not longer, than their male counterparts and 
now they play a pivotal role within the ever expanding world of the TV 
vampire, often undermining or challenging the male vampires that so 
often dominate these shows. Women have also long been involved in the 
creation and the representation of vampires both male and female. The 
fiction of female writers such as Charlaine Harris and L.J. Smith has 
served as core course material for the televisual conception and 
re-conception of the reluctant vampire, while TV writers and producers 
such as Marti Noxon (Buffy) and Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries and The 
Originals) have played a significant role in shaping the development of 
the genre for television.



Since vampires are not technically human, the terms male and female may 
apply, but representation of gender has the potential to be more fluid 
if vampires exist outside of human society. Given the ubiquity of the 
vampire in popular culture and particularly on TV, how is the female 
represented in vampire television? What roles do women have in bringing 
female vampires to the small screen? In what ways has the female vampire 
been remade for different eras of television, different TV genres, or 
different national contexts? Is the vampire on TV addressed specifically 
to female audiences and how do female viewers engage with TV vampires? 
What spaces exist on television for evading the gender binary and 
abandoning categories of male and female vampires altogether?



Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:

    * TV’s development of the female vampire
    * Negotiation of gender and sexuality
    * Evading binaries
    * Female writers/ directors/ producers/ actors in vampire TV
    * Adaptation and authorship
    * Genre hybridity
    * Female vampires in TV advertising
    * New media, ancillary materials, extended and transmedia narratives
    * Intersection with other media (novels, films, comics, video 
games, music)
    * Audience and consumption (including fandom)
    * The female and children’s vampire television
    * Inter/national variants
    * Translation and dubbing

We will be particularly interested in proposals on older TV shows, on 
those that have rarely been considered as vampire fictions, and on 
analysis of international vampire TV. The conference organisers welcome 
contributions from scholars within and outside universities, including 
research students, and perspectives are invited from different disciplines.



Please send proposals (250 words) for 20 minute papers plus a brief 
biography (100 words) to all three organisers by 15th December 2014.

(s.abbott /at/ roehampton.ac.uk)

(lorna.jowett /at/ northampton.ac.uk)

(mike.starr /at/ northampton.ac.uk)



Conference Website: 
http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/daughter-of-fangdom-a-conference-on-women-and-the-television-vampire/





This conference is run in collaboration with the Centre for Research in 
Film and Audiovisual Cultures at the University of Roehampton and the 
Centre for Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory at the University 
of Northampton.


Dr Lorna Jowett
Reader in Television Studies
The University of Northampton

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