With apologies for cross-posting, please note the extended deadline for abstracts for this conference (deadline now 31 Jan 2016) and please feel free to forward to all relevant mailing lists and interested parties.
Best, Julia
The Seventh International Conference of Graphic Novels and Comics present
GRAPHIC GOTHIC
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK: w/c 11 July 2016
In association with Studies in Comics (Intellect Books), the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Routledge), and the Gothic Studies Network
Proposals (for 20 minute papers) on the relationship between comics and Gothic are now invited for our seventh annual conference, including but not limited to:
* Gothic icons and archetypes in comics (vampires, zombies, witches, monsters, ghosts, and everything else!)
* Gothic symbols and structures in comics (the crypt, the Other, etc.)
* Psychoanalytic readings and themes of comics (the uncanny, the abject, fragmented identity, etc.)
* Horror and violence
* Censorship, sensation and outrage
* Monstrosity and the grotesque
* Caricature and subversion
* The Grand Guignol, the theatrical and the Romantic
* Absorption, inversion, subversion, authenticity
* Classic gothic texts, adaptation and rewriting
* Gothic and underground subcultures and music
Papers not related to any of the above themes will be considered for the third day of the conference. Selected conference papers will be published in one of the above journals, or an edited collection. Please submit your abstract (300 words) and brief biography (100 words) to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> before 31 January 2016.
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