Sheffield Gothic recently joined forces with the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium, a network dedicated to researching animals and the nonhuman across the humanities and social sciences. A few weeks ago we held our first (but hopefully not last) collaborative reading group in order to explore the overlap between animal studies and the Gothic. Under the … Continue reading Call of the Squid people: ‘Sea Monsters’ by Sheffield Gothic and the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium
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Forshadowings: Religious Gothic and ‘The Monk’ by Matthew Lewis
Last week, Sheffield Gothic had its first meeting of the new semester, screening the 1947 film Black Narcissus, based on Rumer Godden's 1939 novel of the same name. It was a brilliant film about madness and desire in an isolated convent full of troubled nuns. Afterwards we discussed surveillance within convent life and how the … Continue reading Forshadowings: Religious Gothic and ‘The Monk’ by Matthew Lewis
Forshadowings: ‘No Place for a Nunnery’: the Powell and Pressburger’s Sublime "Black Narcissus"
On asking my tutorial group ‘what makes Wuthering Heights a Gothic novel’, I rediscovered just how much the popular conception of the Gothic is rooted in aesthetics. Ghosts were mentioned, someone touched on morality – but the dead giveaway, the ultimate indicator of Gothicness, was the setting. As a Gothic scholar, and one who is … Continue reading Forshadowings: ‘No Place for a Nunnery’: the Powell and Pressburger’s Sublime "Black Narcissus"
Religious Gothic: Gothic Reading Group schedule for Autumn, 2015
A new semester of Gothic is upon us! As the season of pumpkins and Halloween begins and we all come back from summer holidays, the University of Sheffield Gothic Reading Group has prepared a new year's worth of cake AND death! This semester's theme? Religious Gothic!Note: All meetings will take place from 4-6 pm unless … Continue reading Religious Gothic: Gothic Reading Group schedule for Autumn, 2015
Travel Back in Time to a Very Gothic Nineteenth Century: GRG meets the Nineteenth Century Reading Group
The Gothic Reading Group, or the GRG, is without a doubt the best reading group the University of Sheffield has to offer. Ok, I’ll admit I may be a littlebit biased here. But while I am an avid fan and regular attendee of the GRG, this post is actually about another reading group at the … Continue reading Travel Back in Time to a Very Gothic Nineteenth Century: GRG meets the Nineteenth Century Reading Group
Foreshadowings: Terror and Technology in the Digital Age
Ahead of our next GRG meeting, I wanted to explore the ways in which technology – specifically, the internet – has changed how horror stories are disseminated and received. We will be looking primarily at the phenomenon known as Creepypasta: popular horror microfiction (often centred on allegedly ‘haunted’ images, videos, games or other media) that … Continue reading Foreshadowings: Terror and Technology in the Digital Age
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