If you missed this week's excellent talk on folklore and horror in Indo-Caribbean and Métis cultures... you can find it here!
It was a great talk and a good introduction to the subject (with a whole slide worth of author recommendations!)
youtu.be/uBeVXlOnn_M
A Queen of Spades by Pushkin Mythic Delerium The Old Nurse's Story Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo Wuthering Heights Uncanny An image of two women in a forest from Carmilla Dark Matter magazine Carnivorine by Lucy Hopkins William Hodgson Jamaica Inn Dragonwyck Sing, Unburied, Sing A Rose for Emily The Monster of Elendhaven I am Stone by Robert Murray Gilchrist Through the Woods by Emily Carroll The New Mother by Lucy Clifford
It's up! You can book!
My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May!
'Transformations of the Gothic'
Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Heading home after @ssag.bsky.social #americannightmaresII in Salem, Mass. Salem is awesome and the conference was great! 🦇🐈⬛🖤🧙♀️🧛♂️
Black and white photograph of Edmonia Lewis, a woman of Black and Indigenous (Mississauga) descent, from about 1870. She is seated at a table, looking at the camera.
Photograph of a sculpture in white marble by Edmonia Lewis of two hands clasped.
Many thanks to the organizers of the #SSAG @ssag.bsky.social conference! I saw tons of great panels & loved meeting other Gothic folks. If you're still in #Salem I highly recommend you stop by the Peabody Essex Museum #PEM to see the Edmonia Lewis exhibit. It's wonderful. www.pem.org/exhibitions/...
From our Ecogothic in the Photography of Andrew Moore panel.
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From the Exhumations panel during the 11:30-12:45 session.
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Victor LaVelle reading from The Devil in Silver.
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The Wicked Mistress as a Gothic Villainess: Mrs. Flint’s Intersectional and Gothic Characterization in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Morgan Acord.
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“On the Lifeblood of Others: Confederate Sympathies and the American
Vampire” by Hunter Mueller."
A selection of presentations from our 3:45-5:00 session. “Haunting Returns: Black Sophia Gothic and the Vampiric Dominion of Whiteness” by Arline Wilson.
Noah Gallego's "Come, little children, I'll take thee away:' The Return of the Pied Piper in Weapons" from our Gothic Cinema panel. #SSAG #AmericanNightmaresII
Charles Archer's "The Home Economics of Imprisonment in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables" and Brynnar Swenson's Haunted Forms: Chesnutt's 'Goophered Grapevine,' Scooby Doo, and the Mystical Nature of Capitalist Slavery" from our All Work and No Play panel.
Presentations and panels from our 11:30-12:45 session. Pictured presentations are Joshua Gooch's "Doom Loop: Horror's Time Loop Narratives" on the Strange Frequencies Panel.
You can also see members of our Edith Wharton and Shirley Jackson and Victor LaVelle panels.
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Pictured here are Kevin J. Wetmore's “‘But seriously, watch out for fire. Fire bad’: Frankenstein for Kids on
Stage and Screen” and Mimi Manyin's “Veterinary Gothic: Remaking Nonhumans as Humans in the Midst of Viruses, Bacteria, and Superstition in The Walking Dead and The Witch."
Panelists from the Subterranean Gothic session.
Photos from "The Outside" Panel
Our first round of papers begins shortly at 8:30. We have a number of great sessions today so be sure to check out as many as you can!
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Siân Silyn Roberts is our keynote speaker, seen here giving an address titled "Reporting Back on Pain" on the failures of individualistic frameworks in the Anthropocene.
Please join us in the Hawthorne Hotel's Grand Ballroom for our opening ceremony!
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Our tour of the House of the Seven Gables is beginning soon!
Wanted to let you know there is a Vampire Lounge happening Saturday night as well! Let us know if you’d like more info! 🦇
If any SSAG people are in Salem, let me know! Got here a bit early but would love to connect before the conference!
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My odyssey begins shortly!
So excited to be back in Salem for the SSAG Conference. 🤩 Starting the trip in Concord, Ma.
Our biennial conference starts soon! Use #AmericanNightmaresII to connect with others!
We are seeking proposals for a session with the title GOTHIC: culture, power, conflict.
Those interested should send 250-word abstracts and CVs to Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu by March 24th. Please indicate any A/V requirements.
The Society for the Study of the American Gothic has been invited to propose a special session for the 2026 meeting of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association). The event will take place in Seattle Nov. 12-17, 2026.
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Our final program for American Nightmares II: Return to Salem is out! Check it out below!
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