Sheffield Gothic is delighted to announce that our keynote for Reimagining the Gothic 2017: Gothic Spaces will be Professor Dale Townshend.Dale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Centre for Gothic Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University. His most recent publications include The Gothic World (with Glennis Byron; Routledge, 2014) and Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion … Continue reading Announcement: Reimagining the Gothic 2017: Gothic Spaces: Keynote
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Announcement: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Event
One of the best pieces of advice I received as undergraduate was to use Wikipedia. Now, before you come for me with pitchforks and throw me out of academia, let me explain. Wikipedia a wonderful resource and remains the starting point for a lot of my research, be it to familiarise myself with the basics … Continue reading Announcement: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Event
Reimagining the Gothic 2017 – Gothic Spaces
Sheffield Gothic is pleased to announce its new 2017 symposium and showcase event: Reimagining Gothic: Gothic SpacesWhat is dead may never die: Reimagining the Gothic is returning. Now in its third year, Reimagining the Gothic is ongoing project created and run by the Centre for the History of the Gothic’s postgraduate team- better known as Sheffield … Continue reading Reimagining the Gothic 2017 – Gothic Spaces
Review: Iqbal Khan’s Macbeth
I feel as if I should preface this review/blog with a disclaimer: I am neither a Shakespearean expert (at least no more than anyone with an undergraduate degree in English Literature is) nor a ‘purist’. Shakespeares’s Globe’s Wonder season, Emma Rice’s first as the theatre’s artisitc director, has been the topic of much conversation, both … Continue reading Review: Iqbal Khan’s Macbeth
Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil, event Review
Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil24-27 June, University of SheffieldThe University of Sheffield recently hosted an international conference to commemorate the bicentenary of the infamous summer of 1816, where a small circle of radical intellectuals (Mary Godwin, P.B. Shelley, Lord Byron, his no.1 fangirl Claire Claremont and John Polidori) came together at the Villa Diodati … Continue reading Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil, event Review
Review: Liam Scarlett’s ‘Frankenstein’ at the Royal Opera House
Coinciding with the bicentenary of the notorious ‘Summer of 1816’, Liam Scarlett’s adaptation of Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece 'Frankenstein' was screened in cinemas nationwide last week, live from the Royal Opera House. A co-production by the Royal Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet, this adaptation featured Federico Bonelli as Victor Frankenstein, Laura Morera as Elizabeth Lavenza, and … Continue reading Review: Liam Scarlett’s ‘Frankenstein’ at the Royal Opera House
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