Welcome!

Welcome to the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, Scotland. We aim to provide an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode, be it historical or as manifested in more modern and contemporary cultural events. We also seek to establish an internet-based community of Gothic scholars and enthusiasts, and to serve as a platform for the dissemination of information relevant to our mutual Gothic interests. In addition to news about the various Gothic programmes and events at Stirling, the site provides information about exciting new developments in Gothic studies around the world.

Our blog includes posts on new books, films and other media, as well as reports on Gothic conferences and other events. It functions to facilitate the exchange of information. Each month, on our guest blog, we invite an academic or writer to introduce issues relating specifically to his or her particular field of interest.

Our links, rather than focusing on the mainstream Gothic sites, will introduce lesser known websites and institutions with Gothic interests around the world. Please do get in touch if you would like to suggest new links: email glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk

   MLitt Gothic Imagination

The MLitt in The Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling offers an intensive historical, critical and theoretical investigation of the Gothic cultural phenomenon. The course covers writings from the rise of Gothic in the aesthetic and political discourses of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through its nineteenth-century British and American manifestations, and into a range of contemporary global, literary and non-literary contexts.