Sixth Biannual Conference of the
International Gothic Association
Gothic Ex/Changes
17th – 20th July 2003
Liverpool Hope University College
Everton Campus
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sixth Biannual Conference of the
International Gothic Association
Hosted by:
LIVERPOOL HOPE
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Conference committee
Postgraduate Bursaries awarded by the
international Gothic Association to:
Ben Bird (University of Leeds, UK)
Wendy Witherspoon (University of Southern
California, USA)
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Note: all sessions are located in the Cornerstone Building of the Everton Campus,
with the exception of those on Friday evening, which will take place at Hope
Park (buses at 4pm, returning after the conference dinner).
WEDNESDAY 16TH JULY
4-6pm
Early registration
ATRIUM, CORNERSTONE BUILDING
THURSDAY 17TH JULY
8.30am-3.30pm
Registration
ATRIUM
9.15am-9.30am
WELCOME
9.30am-11am
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Racial Otherings at the Fin de Siècle
Chair Linda Dryden
Room
Allan Lloyd Smith (University of East Anglia, UK)
The Yellow Sign
Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
The Gothic Jew and Jewish Gothic
Denise Parkinson (University College of Worcester, UK)
Sir Henry Rider Haggard: Horror not Gothic: Mummies, the Matabele
and Mining the Gothic
2.
Transgressive Appetites
Chair Lucie Armitt
Room
David O’Shaughnessy (National University of Ireland, Galway, Eire)
The Role of Feast in Sadean Narrative
Linnie Blake (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Jorg Buttereit: Things to do in Germany, with the Dead
Anna Powell (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
3
The Bloody Countess and the Divine Marquis: Countess Bathory as
Sadean Libertine
3.
Postcolonial Haunting
Chair Ken Gelder
Room
Françoise Kral (University of Paris X Nanterre, France)
From Transposition to Contamination: the Evolution of the Gothic in
Black Australian Literature
Jenny Lawn (Massey University, New Zealand)
Mapping the Postcolonial Uncanny
Ardel Thomas (Stanford University, USA)
The Monstrous Nothingness of the Imperial Self in E.M. Forster’s A
Passage to India
4.
Eastern Engagements
Chair Richard Walker
Room
Marek Wilczynski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Secret Passage through Poe: Transatlantic Affinities of H.P. Lovecraft
and Stefan Grabinski
Magdalena Zapedowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Life-in-Death and Death-in-Life in Edgar Allan Poe and Antoni
Malczewski
Elaine Hartnell (Liverpool Hope University College)
Dracula: Adaptations
11am-11-30am
Refreshments
ATRIUM
11.30am – 12.30pm
OPENING PLENARY
Stephen Shapiro
(The University of Warwick, UK)
Capitalist Race and Gothic Telesthesia: Dracula,
Tolkien, Candyman, and Poe
Chair Steven Bruhm
Room
12.30pm-1.30pm
Lunch
ATRIUM
4
1.30pm-3pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Banks and McGrath: Pathologies in the Contemporary Novel
Chair Fred Botting
Room
Lucie Armitt (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)
Sexual Pathologies in Iain Banks’s The Crow Road and Patrick
McGrath’s Dr Haggard’s Disease
Magali Falco (University of Aix-Marseille I, France)
The Artist’s Disease in Patrick McGrath’s Novels
Moira Martingale (University of Bristol, Uk)
Complicity: Iain Banks and the Latent Double
2.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Chair Anne Quema
Room
Nancy Gillespie (University of Sussex, UK)
Ana Frankenstein: Gifts of Monstrosity, Grotext Hauntings, and
Gothic Ex/changes in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic
Angelica Michelis (Manchester Metropolitan University College, UK)
‘Dirty Mama’: Horror, Vampires and the Maternal in Late 19c Gothic
Fiction
Alan Roughley (Liverpool Hope University College, UK)
Derrida Misreads Mr Joyce’s Gothic
3.
Gothic Men/Popular Entertainment
Chair Catherine Spooner
Room
Coralinne Dupoy (NUI, Galway, Eire)
The Strange Case of Donnie Darko: Transmission and Transformation
of the Jekyll and Hyde Story in Richard Kelly’s Debut Film
Sharon Jones (Liverpool Hope University College, UK)
New Gothic Masculinities: Reinventing the Thinking Man in Buffy the
Vampire Slayer
Lucy Nevitt (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) and Andy W.
Smith (University of Reading, UK)
Historicized Gothic versus Post Modern Gothic in Buffy the Vampire
Slayer and Angel
4.
Gothic Feminism
Chair Elaine Hartnell
Room
Agnieszka Zabicka (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Female Gothic Motifs in Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael
Maria P. Dos Santos (Rutgers University, USA)
The Culture of the Monster: Charlotte Brontë’s Madwoman
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3pm-3.30pm
Refreshments
ATRIUM
3.30pm-5pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
The Gothic Child
Chair Steven Bruhm
Room
Ellis Hanson (Cornell University, USA)
Trauma, Gothic, and the Sexual Child in American Cinema
Ed Ingebretson (Georgetown University, USA)
Bodies under Scandal, Bodies under Law: Priests and Tainted Sex
(Proxy Delivery)
Steven Bruhm (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
Dancing in Michael Jackson’s Mouth
2.
Scottish Border Fictions
Chair Andrew Smith
Room
Christopher Cairney (Dogus University, Turkey)
Ideological Transmission and Transformation in Radcliffe’s Gothic
Tales
Scott Brewster (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Borderline Experience: Madness, Mimicry and Hogg’s Confessions
Benjamin A. Brabon (University of Stirling, UK)
Changing Nations – Gothic Cartography and the Remapping of the
Union
3.
Eighteenth-Century Gothic Histories
Chair Sue Chaplin
Room
Angela Wright (University of Sheffield, UK)
The History of France or, English Gothic in the 1790s. A Tale of
Mutual Recrimination
Alexandre Dias Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Rebel or Prodigal Son? Power, Persecution and the Circuitous
Journey in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
Ben Bird (University of Leeds, UK)
Treason and Imagination: The Subject’s Anxiety of Legitimacy in the
Novel of the 1760s
5pm
Reception
ATRIUM
6pm
6
MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE
Room
EVENING
Gothic Guided Walks in the City of Liverpool (Free tickets available at
Registration.)
FRIDAY 18TH JULY
9.30Aam-11pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.Transgression and Punishment: aspects of Eighteenth-Century Gothic
Chair William Hughes
Room
Adriana Craciun (University of Nottingham, UK)
Virtue and Terror: Robespierre, Women Writers and the Gothic
Sue Chaplin (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
Written in the Black Letter: The Gothic and/in the Rule of Law in
Eighteenth-Century England
Marie Mulvey-Roberts (University of the West of England, UK)
The Gothic Apron: Masonic Ritual Punishment
2.
Gothic Vision
Chair Karyn Valerius
Room
Dale Townshend (Keele University, UK)
Exchanging Glances: Monks, Italians, Moors
Peter Schwenger (Mount St. Vincent University, UK)
Gothic Optics
Alex Naylor (University College, London, UK)
The Secret Behind the Door: ‘Gothicised Cinema Space, Narrative and
Mise-en-scène in the 1940s Gothic Woman’s Film
3.
Victorian Shockers
Chair Alison Milbank
Room
Dick Collins (Independent Scholar)
The Last Great Gothic Novel
Terry Hale (University of Hull, UK)
Living or Dead? The Problem of the Plot in the Victorian Shilling
Shocker
Linda Dryden (Napier University, UK)
A London Horror: H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds
4.
Gothic and Religion
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Chair Terry Phillips
Room
Royce Mahawatte
The Melodrama of Evangelicanism: ‘Janet’s Repentance’ and the
‘whiteneck-cloth species’
Jim Cheshire (University of Lincoln, UK)
Gothic Patrons
Wendy Witherspoon (University of Southern California, USA)
Haunting the American Frontier: Gothic Parody in Maria Ward’s
Female Life Among the Mormons
11am-11.30pm
Refreshments
ATRIUM
11.30am-1pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Fin de Siècle Gothic
Chair Ardel Thomas
Room
Julia M. Wright (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
The Gothic Underbelly of Empire: The East End in Wilde’s Picture of
Dorian Gray
Alison Milbank (University of Virginia, USA)
Sacrificial Exchange in the Gothic Fiction of Charles Maturin and
Oscar Wilde
Richard J. Walker (University of Central Lancashire, Canada)
Perfect little Monsters: Double Crossing the Channel in the Nineteenth
Century
2.
Romantic Gothic
Chair Scott Brewster
Room
Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University, USA)
‘To originality of character I make no pretense’: The Gothic Villain
and the Vilification of the Plagiarist
Anthony Burns (University of Leeds, UK)
Gothic Platonism – Shelley’s Reworkings of The Monk and Zofloya
Michael Meloy (University of South Carolina, USA)
Licentious Descents: Transforming Plato’s Cave in The Monk
3.
Monstrosity in the Victorian Novel
Chair Terry Hale
Room
Matthew Beaumont (Pembroke College, Oxford, UK)
Emily Brontë’s Cannibal: Heathcliff and the Metaphor of
Consumption
Maria Costantini (University ‘G. d’Annunzio’, Pescara, Italy)
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From the Gothic Chamber to the Bloody Lab: the Dislocation of
Literary and Cultural Paradigms in Heart and Science by Wilkie
Collins
Ben Fisher (University of Mississippi, UK)
‘The Awful Shadow of Some Unseen Power’: How George Meredith
Pilfered Wilkie Collins’ The Dead Secret for Evan Harrington
4.
Gothic Transformations
Chair Gilles Menegaldo
Room
Stephanie Alkofer (University of Strasbourg, France)
From Gothic to Grotesque: Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables
Evert Jan van Leeuwen (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Hawthorne’s Alchemy Reconsidered: Gender Roles and the Dissident
Potential of the ‘Mad Scientist’
Mark Elliott (Liverpool Hope University College, UK)
Early Modern and Modern Dealings with Occult
1pm-2pm
Lunch
ATRIUM
2pm –3.30pm
PLENARY
Fred Botting
(Keele University, UK)
Transgothic
Ken Gelder
(University of Melbourne, UK)
Fantasy and Terrorism
Chair
Room
Jerrold E.Hogle
4pm
BUSES TO HOPE PARK
5pm
PLENARY
Patrick McGrath
Transgression and Decay
Chair
Room
Allan Lloyd Smith
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6-30pm
DINNER
BUSES BACK TO EVERTON
BAR FROM 9pm
SATURDAY 19TH JULY
9.30am-11am
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Private and Public Histories: Gothic Dimensions
Chair Sue Zlosnik
Room
Elissa Rospigliosi (Mansfield College, Oxford, UK)
Mina Loy and the Autobiographical Double
Anne Quema (Acadia University, Canada)
Walter Benjamin’s Ghostwriting of History
2.
Gothic in Popular Culture
Chair Linnie Blake
Room
Stephen Brie (Liverpool Hope University College, UK)
Gotham Gothic: In the Shadow of the Dark Knight
Catherine Spooner (University of Reading, UK)
‘Selling the Don’t Belong’: Gothic Merchandising and the Pursuit of
the Undead Dollar
Ange Webb (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Parallel Universes and an Exchange of Power
3.
New Perspectives on Le Fanu and Stoker
Chair
Room
William Hughes (Bath Spa University College, UK)
‘Something secretly creeping along within it’: The Origins and
Implications of J.S. Le Fanu’s ‘Green Tea’
Matthew Gibson (De Montfort and Surrey Universities, UK)
Possible Sources for Bram Stoker’s The Lady of the Shroud
Andrew Smith (University of Glamorgan, UK)
Gothic Love: The Female Gothic and Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of the
Seven Stars
4.
Gothic Slippage
Chair Gina Wisker
Room
Elizabeth Young (Mount Holyoke College, USA)
American Frankenstein: Race and Transatlantic Gothic Exchange
Avril Horner (Kingston University, UK)
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‘The Fun of the Shudder’: Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep as Comic
Gothic
John Whatley (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Gothic cults of Yesterday and Today
11am-11.30am
REFRESHMENTS
11.30am-12.30am
PLENARY
Anne Williams
(University of Georgia, USA)
Horace Walpole’sGothic Operas
Chair
Room
Angela Wright
12.30pm-1.3Opm
Lunch
ATRIUM
1.30pm-3pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Glamorous Gothic
Chair Anna Powell
Room
Gina Wisker (Anglia Polytechnic University, UK)
Biting Back – Contemporary Women’s Vampire Fictions
Milly Williamson (London Metropolitan University, UK)
The Glamour of the Vampire
Candice El-Asmar (University of Sydney, Australia)
Monstrous Pretty
2.
Gothic Victims
Chair John Whatley
Room
Yale Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Women Gone Bad: Disgust and Female Transgression in The Monk
Virginia H. Cope (Ohio State University, USA)
A Simple Story’s Gothic Plot Exchange
Patrick O’Malley (Georgetown University, USA)
Changing the Subject in Radcliffe and Maturin
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3.
American Gothic
Chair
Room
Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers, France)
The Haunting of Hill House: From Text to Film
Sylvia Vance (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK)
From the Lady ‘Ligeia’ to ‘Lady Lazarus’: American Gothic and
Sylvia Plath
Alastair Wisker (Ruskin College, Oxford, UK)
Nathanael West and American Gothic: a Reading of The Day of the
Locust
4.
Nineteenth-Century Trajectories
Chair Ben Fisher
Room
Chris Ferns (Mount St. Vincent University, Canada)
Incest, Madness and Death: Scott’s Novel of Manners
David S. Hogsette (New York Institute of Technology, USA)
When Adam Creates: Rebellion and Transgressive Autonomy in
Frankenstein
Jane Liljedahl (US Navy)
Desperate Remedies: Thomas Hardy’s First Gothic Novel
3pm-3.30pm
Refreshments
3.30pm-5pm
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Gothic and Romantic Poetry
Chair Peter Schwenger
Room
Andrea Rummel (University of Bonn, Germany)
Supernatural Romance: Versions of Bürger’s Lenore in the Gothic Art
Ballad
Amy Billone
Between Poetry and Prose: Twilit Gothic Corridors
Jerrold E. Hogle (University of Arizona, USA)
‘Christabel’ as Gothic: Abjecting Cultural Indecision in the GothicRomantic Relationship
2.
A Haunting Refrain: Music and the Gothic
Chair Matthew Gibson
Room
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Marion Treby (Anglia Polytechnic University, UK)
Slavery and Gothic Haints: Unifying Fragments and Spiritual Excesses
Val Scullion (Open University, UK)
Gothic Transformations and Appropriations in Susan Hill’s The Bird
of Night
Emma McEvoy and Catherine Spooner (University of Reading, UK)
‘Paint it Black’: Repetition and Exchange in the Goth Cover Version
3.
Gothicized Bodies
Chair Angelica Michelis
Room
Karyn Valerius (Hofstra University, US)
A Not-So-Silent Scream: Gothic and the US Abortion Debate
Wendy Shorter (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Psychic Skin, Sutured Identities and Maternal Development
4.
American Gothic Women: Institutions and (Re)Interpretations
Chair Jodey Castricano
Room
Michael Ackerman (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Architecture of Grief: Trauma and Haunting in Toni Morrison’s
Beloved
Jodey Castricano (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada)
Hauntology and the Fourth Dimension in Shirley Jackson’s The
Haunting of Hill House
Jason Haslam (University of Notre Dame)
‘The Strange Ideas of Right and Justice’: Prison, Slavery and the
Bondwoman’s Narrative
5pm-6pm
AGM
6pm
DRACULA
A dramatised reading of John Godber’s adaptation.
SUNDAY 20TH JULY
9.30am-11am
PARALLEL SESSIONS
1.
Gothic Transformations II
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Chair Andrea Rummel
Room
Elena Vassilieva (Kingston University, UK)
Prophecy and ‘Flying Saucers’ in John Fowles’ A Maggot
Emma McEvoy (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)
‘Really, though Secretly, a Papist’: Catholic Rewritings of the Gothic
Eric White (University of Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Devolutionary Transmutation in Arthur Machen’s The Three
Impostors
2.
Gothic at the Margins
Chair Faye Hammill
Room
Ailsa Cox (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Canadian Gothic – Murder and Mayhem in Alice Munro
Karen E. Macfarlane (Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada)
The Testimony of a Single Woman: Maria Monk’s Awful Disclosures
of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s
Tale
Terry Phillips (Liverpool Hope University College)
Out of the Mud: The Evolution of Liam O’Flaherty’s Grotesques
11am-11.30pm
Refreshments
11.30am-12.30pm
CLOSING PLENARY
Kelly Hurley
(University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Mecha-Oedipality
Chair Sue Zlosnik
Room
12.30pm
Lunch
ATRIUM
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