[Commlist] CFP: Horror Studies Now

Horror Studies Now: A Two-Day Conference (30-31 May 2024, Northumbria 
University, UK)

Deadline for Abstracts: 31st March 2024

Researchers working in the broad field of “Horror Studies” are invited 
to submit abstracts about their research for an in-person conference, 
hosted by the Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University 
(Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK), on 30-31 May 2024. The event will be free to 
attend.

Speakers will each deliver a 15-minute talk about their research, 
followed by extended discussion and questions from the conference 
delegation. We invite submissions from scholars at any career stage, but 
we particularly welcome abstracts from early career researchers and new 
voices in the field. The event is intended to provide a supportive space 
in which to develop new ideas, network, and forge new collaborations 
with fellow Horror Studies researchers.

The event seeks to explore ideas and approaches that have not yet been 
adequately accounted for or represented in the field, encompassing (but 
not limited to):
-       The diversity of perspectives, identities, and voices that 
comprise Horror Studies and horror production
-       Independent horror production, alternative histories, and horror 
originating from outside of Europe and North America
-       The field’s methodological richness, including archival 
research, audience research, practice-based research, and new 
theoretical approaches
-       The breadth of cultural perspectives that inform Horror Studies 
and horror media
-       Horror in all its media forms including games, film, comics, 
music, social media, television, literature, art, and so forth

We seek to foreground scholarly excellence within the field by embracing 
a wide range of approaches, confronting representational biases within 
the canon, highlighting strategies to counter these biases, and 
contributing to a more diverse and inclusive academic landscape. We 
encourage and welcome expressions of interest from members of the global 
majority and people from underrepresented or marginalised groups.
Other events across the two days will include:
-       Keynote lectures by Professor Alison Peirse (University of 
Leeds; editor of 2020’s award-winning anthology, Women Make Horror: 
Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, and the 2024 special issue of MAI, “Doing 
Women’s Global Horror Film History”) and Dr Kartik Nair (Temple 
University, Philadelphia; author of 2024’s Seeing Things: Spectral 
Materialities of Bombay Horror)
-       A masterclass about “hidden horror histories”, with Adam Hussam 
Murray (founder of Bristol Black Horror Club) and Dr Laura Mee 
(University of Hertfordshire; co-editor of Liverpool University Press’s 
Hidden Horror Histories book series and author of 2023’s Reanimated: The 
Contemporary American Horror Remake)
-       A publishing workshop with Dr Erin Weigand (interim 
commissioning editor for Film and Television Studies at Palgrave 
Macmillan, and recent alum of Northumbria’s Horror Studies Research Group)

To improve access to the event, a small number of travel bursaries (of 
£150 each) will be available to PhD researchers, independent 
researchers, and scholars who do not have institutional funding for travel.

The deadline for abstracts (250 words) is 23:59 (GMT) Friday 31 March 
2024. Abstracts should be accompanied by a biographical statement 
(50-100 words).
To submit an abstract, please complete the form at the following link: 
https://t.co/VSftgyWFuT
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their proposal within 7 
days of the deadline.

Any questions should be directed to (horrorstudies /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)


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