Thanks to everyone who attended my talk ‘Gothic Angels of Death’ at Highgate Cemetery this October for the London Month of the Dead. As ever Stephen Coates was a brilliant host and tour guide, enabling me to see Highgate at…
We are pleased to announce the resurrection of the Gothic Centre’s Film Club, spearheaded by our fantastic PGRs. The first rule of Gothic Film Club is you DO talk about Gothic Film Club. So, if you are an English Studies…
Celebrate Halloween with free content and discounts from MUP’s Spooky Season FREE Gothic content! To celebrate both Spooky Season and Open Access Week, Manchester University Press are making the Introductions to all books from the Open Graves, Open Minds project…
Watch Kirsten’s research paper presented at the International Gothic Crossroads Conference, 2025.
“It’s alive,” manically proclaims the mad scientist in James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), the source material which not only nuanced the Gothic but also gave birth to science fiction. And across the plentiful variations and imitations of this classic text and its themes,…
A conference series organised by the foremost scholars in the field of Gothic and Vampire Studies. “Children of the Night International Dracula Congress” series is a non-profit academic initiative founded by international scholars and supported by worldwide renowned Dracula experts. Our…
The 18th Biennual Conference of the International Gothic Association: 28-31 July, 2026. Hull, UK Call for Papers ‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, University of Hull, UK (28-31 July, 2026) Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its…
Words by Emma Liggins, photographs by Farheen Fatima. Heritage fairs bring together objects, collections and curators in a shared accessible space. I’d really enjoyed taking part in a fair at Gladstone’s Library in Wales as part of the British Association…
The Gothic Crossroads Conference at Manchester Metropolitan University ran from the 25th- 27th of June and was organised by Dr Emma Liggins and Dr Eleanor Beal. I was hired as the Event and Communications intern alongside fellow student, Jia Madlani.…
About Jia Madlani Jia Madlani is a first-year English degree student at Manchester Metropolitan University with an interest in media and Gothic literature. Alongside her academic interests, she is an active member of the Manchester Hindu Society where she currently…