CALL FOR PAPERS

Gothic Journeys: Paths, Crossings, and Intersections

The Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) welcomes papers for its fourth biennial conference, to be held at the Mantra on View Hotel in Surfers Paradise, Australia, on 22-23 January 2019.

GANZA is interdisciplinary in nature, bringing together scholars, students, teachers and professionals from a number of Gothic disciplines, including literature, film, music, television, fashion, architecture, and other popular culture forms. It is the aim of the Association to not only place a focus on Australasian Gothic scholarship, but also to build international links with the wider Gothic community as a whole.

The conference invites abstracts for 20-minute presentations related to the theme of 'Gothic Journeys’.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:

Gothic wanderers, travellers, and explorers
Journeys of the mind and body
Gothic spaces, regionalities, and geographies
Death, haunting, and ‘crossing over’
Boundaries and transgressions
Monsters and the Monstrous
Gothic maps and migrations
Gothic histories and Gothic folklore
Horror in its various contexts
Displacement and identity
Trauma and trauma narratives
Movement through time, space, and digital worlds
Gothic forms in popular culture
Navigating the Gothic (from the road well-travelled to new pathways)
Intersections between the Gothic and other fields of study
Global Gothic
The Uncanny
Postcolonial Gothic
Travel Gothic and Gothic tourism
The Gothic in the past, present, and future

Please e-mail abstracts of 200 words to the attention of the conference organisers at: conference@ganza.co.nz

Abstracts should include your name, affiliation, e-mail address, the title of your proposed paper, and a short bio (100 words max). The deadline for submissions is 30th September 2018.

For more information, visit our web site: www.ganza.co.nz. Alternatively, please contact Dr Gwyneth Peaty (g.peaty@curtin.edu.au) and/or Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz).