GANZA Online Interim Conference 2022

The Call for Papers is now closed.

CFP: “Gothic Trajectories”

An Online Conference

27th-28th January 2022

The Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) welcomes papers for its upcoming online conference, to be held on 27 January 2022.

The conference will be organised in the spirit of the Association. 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 and foster collaborations with the wider Gothic community as a whole.

The Association invites abstracts for 15-minute online presentations related to the theme of ‘Gothic Trajectories’. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

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• Revisions / revisitations / reimaginings of classic Gothic texts

• Hauntings and spectrality

• Monsters and the monstrous

• Gothic cycles, exchanges, trans/mutations and trans/routes

• The Undead

• Gothic forms in popular culture

• Horror in its various contexts (evolutions and re-imaginings)

• Gothic mutations, incarnations and reincarnations

• Gothic histories

• Memory and trauma

• Folklore and fairy tales

• Gothic intertextualities

• Travel Gothic and Gothic tourism

• Genre and the Gothic

• Gothic adaptations (from novel to film, from film to television etc.)

• Gothic regionalities and geographies

• Global Gothic

• Postcolonial Gothic

• The Gothic in a post-COVID world

• The Gothic in the past, present, and future

Please send your abstracts (250-300 words) together with a short bio (100 words max), to: conference@ganza.co.nz.  The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 October 2021.