The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS 2012 JOINT CONFERENCE Contact: louis.palmer@castleton.edu CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (12/15/11; National PCA/ACA Conference, 4/11/12-4/14/12) NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS 2012 JOINT CONFERENCE April 11-April 14, 2012 The Conference will be held at the Copley Marriott Hotel Boston, MA 1 (800) HOTELS-1 ( 800 468-3571 ) Wednesday, April 11 - Saturday, April 14, 2012 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2011 We

ICFA 2012: The Monstrous Fantastic 33rd annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts March 21-25, 2012 Orlando Airport Marriott Orlando, Florida, USA In his seminal article on Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien describes the three monsters of the poem as "essential, fundamentally allied to the underlying ideas of the poem." The Fantastic has many similarly integral monsters and monstrosities. But what do these monsters mean? How does the monstrous signify? The Monstrous Fantastic will explore the many creative and cultural constructions of monstrosity in the arts from monsters

Vampires and vegetarianism in the 21st century: ESRC Festival of Social Science Event: Public event Date: 01 Nov 2011 16:00 Start date: 01 Nov 2011 16:00 End date: 01 Nov 2011 18:00 Speaker(s): Emma King, PhD Candidate, Innogen, University of Edinburgh Dr Neil Stephens, Research Fellow, Cesagen, Cardiff University Dr Sarah Artt, Lecturer in English and Film, Edinburgh Napier University Organised by: ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, University of Edinburgh Venue: Rich Mix Screen 1 35-47 Bethnal Green Road London, E1 6LA FREE EVENT: Vampires aren't just for Hal

Apologies for the late notice - and with many thanks to our MLitt student Sadie Harlan - this is for those within travelling distance of Glasgow. The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow is showing stories of Edgar Allan Poe from 20th-22nd October 2011. Apologies if this is frustrating for those outside Scotland! - the presentation may be on the move - it certainly looks to be worth following up. See http://citz.co.uk/whatson/info/gothic/

he Tenth issue of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies is now online at

With thanks to David McWilliam of Lancaster University: http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/ Twisted Tales will be celebrating Halloween and one year of promoting the best of 21st century horror later this month. There are two forthcoming events of interest to Gothicists: http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-event-evening-of-occult-horror-at.html http://twistedtalesevents.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-event-house-of-fear.html (Both those flyers were designed by the very talented John Reppion). The project's first competition has been launched, to win one of five c

Wiam El-Tamami has been announced the winner of Harvill Secker’s second annual Young Translators’ Prize in association with Foyles. You can read the winning story and an interview with the author here http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Gothic-Night (published by Granta).

Gothic events across the North of England, advertised by The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/oct/03/map-events-gothic-whitby?newsfeed=true

This interview published in The Telegraph may of interest! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bath-childrens-literature/8782207/Roddy-Doyle-interview.html By Martin Chilton Roddy Doyle's recent book of short stories, Bullfighting, captured wonderfully the vaguely comic despair of middle-aged manhood. When I told him I'd enjoyed the book, Doyle replied: "If it's happening, you may as well use it. I just wish more middle-aged men would buy bloody books." There doesn't seem much that Doyle can't let his imagination roam around and transform into beautiful, mo