Conference Registration: The Year of Gothic Women
2023: The Year of Gothic Women, University of Dundee, 29-31 August 2023. An interdisciplinary project devoted to spotlighting undervalued and understudied women writers
Register for the conference at this link.
The conference fee will be £100 for salaried delegates or £55 for unsalaried delegates (at the early bird rate). When you register for the conference, you will also be able to sign up for conference excursions and events, including the conference dinner.
The draft programme is attached here.
We have a limited number of £100 PGR / ECR / unwaged bursaries, kindly sponsored by BSECS and BARS. If you would like to apply for a bursary, please send an email to gothicwomenproject@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Bursary Application’, giving your name and paper title and your current funding / salary status.
For further details on travel and other activities: https://gothicwomenproject.wordpress.com/conference-the-year-of-gothic-women/
The Conference
The year 2023 marks the bicentenary of both Ann Radcliffe’s death and two major publications for Mary Shelley: the first edition of Valperga and the second edition of Frankenstein,which now bore her name as author. The Gothic Women Project showcases exciting new strands of research on women’s writing in the Gothic mode, focusing on underappreciated texts by major authors as well as works by marginalised figures. Building on our successful online seminar series, this conference brings scholars into conversation with creative writers, artists, and heritage professionals. We aim to examine the different ways in which the Gothic raises questions of self-definition in a time of crisis, to explore the diversity of women’s Gothic writing in the Romantic period, and to celebrate the afterlives and legacies of this work through the centuries. Collectively, we will challenge mainstream narratives, including those of nationhood, gender, sexuality, and race. Our conference is built on the principles of inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility; we are committed to furthering such principles within and beyond the academy.
Topics covered will include:
Representations and performances of gender and sexuality;
Responses to ecological and political crises;
National, transnational, racial or cultural identities;
Underappreciated texts and marginalised figures;
Adaptation, imitation, translation and other forms of textual appropriation;
The Gothic and the medical humanities;
The presence or impact of women’s Gothic writing in a pedagogical context
Plenary Speakers
Professor Eileen M. Hunt (University of Notre Dame)
Dr Maisha Wester (University of Sheffield & Indiana University)
Professor Angela Wright (University of Sheffield)
This conference is organized by Daniel Cook, Laura Kirkley, Anna Mercer, Deborah Russell, and Lauren Nixon, and is supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
