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  • My First Encounter With The Gothic
    Michael Weldon Lewis discusses the influence of American television and goth music on his aesthetic tastes.
  • Encountering Rez Gothic
    My First Encounter With the Gothic, by Kaylee Lamb
  • Death Loved Me First: a micro play
    My First Encounter With the Gothic, by West Ambrose
  • CFP: Romanticism's Commons
    The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) is pleased to announce the theme of-and call for contributions to-their 2025 conference, which will be held online, accessibly, and hosted by Athabasca University, on August 14-16, 2025.
  • OGOM Conference 2025: CFP
    Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river
  • My First Encounter with the Gothic: Chloe Majstorovic
    Before I read Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, I had read many more ‘tame’ classics. Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Gulliver’s Travels. Whilst these tales delighted me —and remain to this day some of my favourites— they in no way prepared me for my first encounter with the Gothic.
  • Gothic Encounters: What can we learn from the Blair Witch phenomenon?
    My first scholarly encounter with the Gothic was through my study of the 1999 independent VHS horror cult hit The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. The basis for my intrigue concerned how the film “performed reality”, or how it presented itself as actual documentary evidence of strange occurrences in a forest in Burkittsville, Maryland.
  • My First Encounter with the Gothic: Eric Parisot
    It is a sense of the ineffable that keeps drawing me back to the Gothic, a mode that keeps challenging the limits of my rationality and understanding—whether as eschatological horrors played out on my TV screen, or in eighteenth-century graveyard poetry, or the revived memory of a song catching me, now a mid-mannered middle-aged academic, unawares as I drive to work.
  • The International Gothic Association Early-Career Essay Prize 2024-25
    The essay competition is open to postgraduate students or postdoctoral scholars who are currently in good standing as IGA members. A postgraduate may be a current or recent Masters’ student (within two years of graduation) or a PhD candidate; a postdoctoral scholar is defined as someone who holds a PhD but does not hold a permanent academic post – this includes independent scholars.
  • A background image of a starry night sky. White text says: Short list announced: The International Gothic Association Book Prizes 2024. The Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for best monograph. The Justin D. Edwards Prize for best edited collection.
    IGA Book Prizes 2024: Shortlists Announced
    We are delighted to announce the short lists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies and the inaugural Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies.
  • IGA 2024 Postgraduate/Graduate Student Bursaries
    Are you attending the IGA Conference in Halifax this year? If you are an IGA member and a (post)graduate student (Masters or PhD) you are eligible to apply for a bursary to support your travel expenses! Simply fill in our application form by 15 June 2024.
  • Gothic Studies Opportunity
    Gothic Studies, the journal of the International Gothic Association, is currently inviting expressions of interest in the role of chief editor. Applicants should submit a CV and covering letter addressing the requirements in the job description to info@globalgoth.org by 15 June 2024. Please note this role is only open to current members of the International Gothic Association.