We are delighted to welcome visiting international scholar Eric Parisot to Manchester Metropolitan University this week to work with our staff and students. This event is only open to students at Manchester Metropolitan University and is on campus. It is hosted by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies in association with PAHC.

Please come to the Grosvenor East building, GE.3.09 on the third floor.

Eric will discuss his work on the history of emotions and its potential applications to researching Gothic literature. He will talk particularly about his own research on eighteenth-century death and suicide and the ways in which drawing on the history of emotions has helped to shape his research practice.

This workshop will be of general interest to any students working in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. There will be opportunity for students to share details of their own research projects and the methodologies they have used for researching the Gothic and/or the history of emotions.

Eric Parisot is an Associate Professor in English at Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia). His primary interests lie in British eighteenth-century literature and culture, especially related to death and suicide, the Gothic and the history of emotions. He is the author of Graveyard Poetry (Ashgate, 2013) and Jane Austen and Vampires (Palgrave, 2024), and co-editor of Graveyard Gothic (Manchester University Press, 2024). He is also the convenor of Flinders’ Horror and Gothic Group (HaGG).