Virtual symposium
OCTOBER 30TH, 2020
Please find the conference programme here and note that all times listed are UK times.
Tickets can be purchased on EventBrite here.
All welcome!
Though we are fascinated by unsettling environments, we are an open and inclusive community and warmly welcome anyone who may be interested in attending the event. Critical and creative conversations should be accessible to all, so we are offering a select number of conference fee waivers to those who need it. If this applies to you, please don’t hesitate to contact Elizabeth and Michelle at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com.
Keynote Speakers
Academic Keynote: Professor Dawn Keetley
(Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)
Dawn Keetley teaches broadly across horror and Gothic literature, film, and television. She has been widely published in leading international journals, has co-edited numerous collections including Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film and The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and is currently writing her next monograph on Folk Horror for the University of Wales Press. She is also co-creator of www.HorrorHomeroom.com.
Creative Keynote: Dr Anne Lister
Anne Lister is known in the folk music world as a songwriter and singer, writing songs which draw heavily on myth, folktales and legends and one of which, “Icarus”, has been recorded by a number of different artists. She has been telling stories professionally since the mid-80s. She has worked as a teacher of English and French to pupils of all ages from nursery to adults, and has run workshops for storytellers in a wide range of venues from holistic holiday centres to prisons! Anne has recorded nine albums of her own songs, and published one novel (so far).
