[ecrea] Call for Papers for the 14th International Gothic Association Conference, Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches

THE MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR GOTHIC STUDIES INVITES THE SUBMISSION OF 
ABSTRACTS THAT CREATIVELY INTERPRET AND RESPOND TO THE THEME OF GOTHIC 
HYBRIDITIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY, MULTIMODAL AND TRANSHISTORICAL 
APPROACHES. PAPERS MIGHT EXPLORE THE WAYS IN WHICH THE GOTHIC MODE HAS 
ENTERED INTO CONCEPTUAL AND THEMATIC DIALOGUE WITH OTHER FORMS OF 
REPRESENTATION IN TIME, OR ADDRESS THE ROLE THAT THE GOTHIC HAS PLAYED 
IN FOSTERING EXCHANGE ACROSS DIFFERENT MEDIA AND DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES.

Topics may include (but are by no means limited to) the following:

- Generic hybridities: the Gothic in horror, science fiction, noir, 
romance and other contiguous genres; the difficulties of defining the 
Gothic; the (im)possibility of a ‘pure’ or ‘original’ Gothic
- Gothic audiences: YA Gothic/teen Gothic, children’s Gothic, adult Gothic
- Gothic / Classical hybrids
- Gothic polyvalence and heteroglossia: the many voices of the Gothic text
- Gothic value: the Gothic as genre, as mode, as type of art, as style, 
as critical tool
- Gothic interdisciplinarity: Gothic perspectives from history, the 
social sciences, medical humanities, culture, politics and philosophy, 
fashion, media studies, reception and fan studies
- Hybridisation or ‘degothicisation’: the critical and conceptual 
implications of the hybridisation of the Gothic
- Crossing cultural, social or global boundaries: the type of work that 
Gothic hybridity carries out at the borderlands of cultures, classes and 
nations
- Gothic diachronicity: evolution and historical changes to the Gothic 
as a word and artistic category; the role of academia in shifting the 
reception and value of the Gothic
- Gothic infringement and transformations: the use and adoption of the 
Gothic in other genres/modes: what does it mean to ‘gothicise’ a mode, 
text or genre?
- Transmedia Gothic: the Gothic across media, the role that different 
media have played in altering public and academic understandings of the 
Gothic
- Frankenstein Gothic: changes in the reception of this quintessential 
Gothic text and its afterlives in different media
 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet (Lausanne), 
Prof Angela Wright (Sheffield), Dr Bernice Murphy (Trinity College, 
Dublin). The conference takes place from July 31st to August 3rd at 
Manchester Metropolitan University.

Please submit a 250 word abstract by 31 January 2018 to 
(IGAManchester2018 /at/ mmu.ac.uk), including your name, a short biography, 
affiliation (if any), and contact details. We are also happy to consider 
pre-formed proposed panels. The conference website may be found here: 
https://igamanchester2018.wordpress.com.


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