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The Monster Of Walden Pond

October 25, 2021 Gothic Nature 1 Comment

By Bryan McMillan, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) is undoubtedly ecocriticism’s urtext, and…

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Scene from The Bay (2012), of a woman with a rash in a hospital.

Movie Mutation:

September 1, 2021 Gothic Nature

Levinson’s found footage film forecasts the horror of environmental pollution By Justin Howard Query Since its earliest entries into the…

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Posted in: Blog Post Filed under: blog, films, movies
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Vegetal Violence, or When Plants Commit Murder

August 9, 2021 Gothic Nature

By Dr. Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona Plants seem like the most peaceful creatures on earth. We expect no sudden…

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scene from The Orphan showing a treehouse on fire.

Treehouses of (Eco-)Horror

July 9, 2021 Gothic Nature

By Dr. Caitlin Duffy, Stony Brook University caitlin.duffy@stonybrook.edu A recurring setting found in films hoping to activate some sense of…

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Dew on spider webs

The Vegetarian: Reading Abject as a Site of Agency Through a Gothic Ecocritical Lens

May 7, 2021 Gothic Nature

By Gizem Damla Çakmak, Sabancı University Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (first published in South Korea in 2007 and translated into…

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Image of man swiming with octopus, from film My Octopus Teacher

Loving the Monster: A Meditation on Chernobyl, COVID-19, and My Octopus Teacher

January 28, 2021 Gothic Nature

By Heather Duncan, University at Albany Sometime in the early days of 2019, I came across an article published in…

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In-game screenshot from Don't Starve

‘Whatever it is, it’s definitely Canadian’: Don’t Starve and the Canadian EcoGothic

December 14, 2020 Gothic Nature

By Dr James Green, University of Exeter(j.a.green@exeter.ac.uk) In Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in The Bush; or, Forest Life in Canada…

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Unbecoming: Awe of the Unknown in The Southern Reach Trilogy

September 17, 2020 Gothic Nature

Dr. Melinda Backer Melinda Backer delves into the dark wildernesses of Jeff Vandermeer’s The Southern Reach trilogy and the Smoky…

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Trophy Dark Review

August 6, 2020 Gothic Nature

By James L. Smith Images by: Art by Jesse Ross, © 2020 Hedgemaze Press LLC. James L. Smith reviews Trophy…

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“You’d probably like it if you didn’t know what was in it”: Looking behind the ‘Leatherface’ of the meat industry in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

June 11, 2020 Gothic Nature

By Dr. Harriet Stilley, University of Oxford For Aaron In the opening scene of Tobe Hooper’s slasher classic, The Texas…

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Gothic Nature is a new interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed academic journal seeking to explore the latest evolutions of thought in the areas of ecohorror and the ecoGothic. It welcomes articles, reviews, interviews, and original creative pieces from researchers and artists interrogating the darker sides of our relationship to the nonhuman. Get in touch with us at this email.

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