CFP: "Horror" - 35th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/American...
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference CenterAlbuquerque, New MexicoFebruary 19-22, 2014The area chair for Horror of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites all interested scholars to...
View ArticleCFP: Late Medieval Court Records
IMC Leeds 7-10 Jul 2014From the twelfth century on, public courts and the institutionalized legal process obtained a prominent profile in many parts of Europe. Legal authorities and litigants...
View ArticleCFP: Fighting Dragons and Monsters: Heroic Mythology
The International Association for Comparative Mythology 8th Annual ConferenceMay 24-26, 2014Institute of Archaeology and EthnographyNational Academy of Sciences of the Republic of ArmeniaYerevan,...
View ArticleCFP: The Medieval Chronicle - Die Mittelalterliche Chronik - La Chronique au...
Seventh International Conference7th-10th July 2014University of LiverpoolLiverpool, UKThe Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The University of Liverpool is delighted to announce...
View ArticleMANCASS News and Programme 2013-14
New publications from the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies:- Nicholas J. Higham and Martin Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon World, London, Yale University Press, 2013.- Nicholas J. Higham ed., Wilfrid:...
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My Favourite Fictional World... a guest post by Douglas Thompson
As part of the Impossible Spaces blog tour currently being organized by Hic Dragones, I thought it would be nice to invite some of the writers onto the blog to talk about imagined worlds. I asked each...
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Blood and Water Launch Parties (Manchester and Leeds)
Blood and WaterThe debut novel by Beth DaleyRelease Date: 7th November 2013Publisher: Hic DragonesFor more information, visit the publisher's websiteDora lives by the sea. Dora has always lived by the...
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CFP: True Crime: Fact, Fiction, Ideology
Fact, Fiction, Ideology6-7 June 2014Manchester, UKKeynote Lecture: David Schmid (University at Buffalo, SUNY), author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture: ‘The Moors Murders...
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Review of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival 2013 (Thursday)
Whitby, 24-27 October 2013This is part one of a three-part review. You can read part two here. This month, my partner (RS) and I headed to the Whitby Spa Pavilion for the Bram Stoker International Film...
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Review of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival (Friday)
Whitby, 24-27 October 2013This is part two of a three-part review. You can read part one here, and part three here.We were up bright and early on Friday for Throwback (dir. Travis Bain, 2013), an...
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Review of the Bram Stoker International Film Festival (Saturday and Sunday)
Whitby, 24-27 October 2013This is part three of a three-part review. You can read part two here, and part one here.SaturdayNothing on the main screen on Saturday morning appealed to us, so we decided...
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OUT NOW: The Gothic World (Routledge, 2013)
Edited by Glennis Byron and Dale TownshendThe Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion,...
View ArticleCFP: Reading Animals: An International English Studies Conference
School of English, University of Sheffield, UK17-20 July 2014Abstract Deadline: 19 December 2013Keynote Speakers: Erica Fudge, Tom Tyler, Cary Wolfe, others TBCReporting in the journal PMLA on the...
View ArticleCFP: Hrotsvit 2014: Pageants and Pioneers Conference
To be held on Saturday 31 May 2014 at University of Hull, EnglandIn January 1914 in London, England, the Pioneer Players theatre society produced a remarkable and disturbing play about prostitution....
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My Favourite Fictional World... a guest post by Margrét Helgadóttir
As part of the Impossible Spaces blog tour currently being organized by Hic Dragones, I'm inviting some of the writers onto the blog to talk about imagined worlds. I've asked each guest to name their...
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OUT NOW: Blood and Water by Beth Daley (Hic Dragones, 2013)
Out now from Hic Dragones, the debut novel by Beth Daley: Blood and WaterWatch the trailer here:Dora lives by the sea. Dora has always lived by the sea. But she won’t go into the water.The last time...
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November eBook Bargains
To celebrate the release of Blood and Water, the fantastic debut novel by Beth Daley, my publisher is having an eBook sale! All other titles are just 99p for the whole of November.If you haven't...
View ArticleHappy Holidays: Three Lady Gaga Covers
I haven't blogged in a while... working five jobs and trying to get both academic and creative publications completed makes blogging a little difficult. I resolve to do better in 2014. So this is just...
View ArticleCFP: North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium
8th Annual University of North Texas Medieval Graduate Student Symposium October 2nd, 2014 Interdisciplinarity in the Age of RelevanceWe are happy to announce that the College of Visual Arts and Design...
View ArticleJohn Rylands Medieval Research Seminar
(including information on Manchester Medieval Society lectures)Semester 2, 2013-2014February 6th 2014 – John Rylands Medieval Research Seminar (5.30pm) Professor Gale Owen-Crocker, English, University...
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