CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

Folk Horror in the 21^st Century, with Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University, September 5-6, 2019

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“(Eco)-weirding folk horror in Alex Garland’s Men,” Symposium on the Eco-Weird, Society for the Study of the Eco-Weird, September 30, 2023 (virtual).

“Doomwatch, The Edge of the World, and Ecohorror in the Sacrifice Zone,” invited keynote address, Haunted Landscapes 2 Conference, Falmouth University, July 4-6, 2023.

“Ecohorror,” invited roundtable participant, BAFTSS Horror Studies SIG, March 29, 2023 (virtual).

“The Old Woman’s Body and the ‘Crime’ at the Heart of Horror,” invited keynote address, Crones, Crime and Gothic Conference, Falmouth University, June 10-11, 2022.

“Forms of Folk Horror in Halloween III,” British Association of American Studies Conference, University of Hull, UK, April 21-23, 2022.

“Sacrifice Zones in Appalachian Folk Horror,” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, Virtual, June 2-5, 2021.

“Folk Horror’s Monstrous Communities,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 2020. [Re-scheduled due to COVID-19]; Virtual, March 17-19, 2021.

Invited participant in a roundtable panel, “Summoning Candyman: A Panel Discussion of the Cinematic Urban Legend,” Society for Cinema and Media Conference, Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group, Virtual, March 18, 2021. News report: https://pittnews.com/article/164327/arts-and-entertainment/black-history-is-black-horror-panel-discusses-legacy-of-black-slasher-film-candyman/.

Here we are:

“Climate Change, ‘Anthropocene Unburials’, and Agency on a Thawing Planet,” Keynote address, Gothic Nature III, University of Roehampton, UK (virtual), October, 2020.

“Black Mold and the Haunted House: Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House,” Haunted Nature Symposium, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, November 8-9, 2019. (Invited and partially funded)

“True Detective’s Folk Gothic,” Symposium on Gothic in the Anthropocene, Linneaus University, Vaxjo, Sweden, May 31 – June 1, 2019. (Invited and funded)

“Mike Flanagan’s Mold-centric Haunting of Hill House,” Pennsylvania College English Association, Bloomsburgh University, May 23-24, 2019.

“The ‘Man Thing’: The Agency of Things in Watership Down and the Folk Horror Tradition,” Watership Down at 40, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, November 2018.

“Sleep and the Reign of the Uncanny in the Post-Recession Horror Film,” Fear 2000: Horror Media Now, Sheffield-Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, April 2018.

“The (Horrifying) Agency of Trees,” Gothic Nature Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2017.

“The Final Girl of 21^st century Ecogothic Cinema,” Gothic Feminisms Conference, University of Kent, Kent, UK, May, 2017.

“Sacrificial Animals and the Vanishing “Human” in The Walking Dead Franchise,” Austrian Association of American Studies, Innsbruck, Austria, November, 2016 (invited).

“Hater: Zombies and Post-Millennial Rage,” 36^th Annual Conference of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2016.

“Ecophobia, Ecogothic, the Nonhuman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Elsie Venner,” MLA Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016. (Organized Panel on EcoGothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.)

“The Body’s Memory: Beyond Amnesia in Young Adult Fiction,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Philadelphia, November 2015.

“’It’s Alive!’ The New Unconscious and the Horror Film,” the 35^th Annual Conference of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2015.

“The Zombie Gaze in The Walking Dead,” PAMLA Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2013.

“From Redneck to Film Student: The Changing Locus of Horror in George Romero’s Dead Cycle,” 42^nd Annual Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, Boston, April 2012.

“Murder, Dime Novels, Imitation, and Memes: The Case of Jesse Pomeroy,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, March 2011.

“Western Dime Novels and Serial Murder: The Case of Jesse Pomeroy,” American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2010.

“The Absent Psychopath of Showtime’s Dexter,” Popular Culture Association of the South/American Culture Association of the South, Wilmington, NC, October 2009.

“Hawthorne’s Influence on Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things: Gender and the Pursuit of Art,” Literature/Film Association Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, October 2007.

“Jealousy:  Wife Murder in Richard Henry Dana’s Paul Felton,” American Literature before 1900 Session, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 2004.

“What Happened to the Women of The Apprentice?” (with Stephen Tompkins) at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association of the South, New Orleans, September 2004.

“Poe’s Parturient Women,” at the Poe Studies Association Session, MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.

“Imperial TV,” at the Popular Culture Association Session, MLA Convention, San Diego, December 2003.

“Deathly Whiteness:  Susan Petigru King and the End of Slavery,” part of a session I organized called “Racial Fantasies:  Black and White Women Imagine Each Other, 1850-1930,” for the Society for             the Study of American Women Writers Convention, Fort Worth, Texas, September 2003.

“Poe’s Parturient Women,” British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales, April 2003.

“Mothers and Others:  The Turn of the Screw and Anxieties over Substitute Mothers,” International Henry   James Society Conference, Paris, France, July 2002.

“A Husband’s Jealousy: Antebellum Legal Cases and Caroline Lee Hentz’s Ernest Linwood,” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Convention, San Antonio, February 2001.

“Literary Instruction or Evasion? Glaspell’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ and Battered Women,” American Studies Association Convention, Detroit, October 2000.

“Familicide and Insanity in the New Republic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland,” American Studies Association Convention, Washington, D.C., November 1997.

“Beautiful Poisoners: ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ and the Trial of Hannah Kinney,” MLA Convention, Washington, D. C., December 1996.

”Free but Frenzied: The Construction of Dishonorable Southern Men in the Fiction of William Gilmore Simms and Antebellum Law,” SAMLA Convention, Savannah, November 1996.

“The Kentucky Tragedy: Controlling Passion in Antebellum Law and Literature,” MLA Convention, Chicago, December 1995.

“’Dark Webs of Circumstance’: Violent Women and the Problem of Representing Criminals in Antebellum Law and Literature,” American Studies Association Convention, Pittsburgh, November 1995.

“’Personating’ Antebellum Womanhood: The Autobiographical Writings of Actress Anna Cora Mowatt,” Midwest MLA Convention, St. Louis, November 1995.

“The ‘Trying’ Ground of Marriage: Representations of Polygamy in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women’s Diaries,” Midwest MLA Convention, St. Louis, November 1995.

“’Such an Angel Could Never Have Been a Murderer’: Narratives of Women’s Violent Crime in Antebellum America,” International Convention of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, Park City, Utah, April 1995.

“Competing Versions of the Female Body in Antebellum America: Medicine,, Health Reform, and Mary Gove Nichol’s Mary Lyndon,” Midwest MLA Conference, Chicago, November 1994.

“’Neither Black nor White’, Indeterminate Racial Bodies in Southern Slave Law and Slave Narratives,” Midwest MLA Conference, Chicago, November 1994.

“Testifying to the Identity of Race in the Case of ‘Sally Miller,’ 1841-44.” Conference on Women and Gender Expectations in Popular Culture, sponsored by the Midwest Women’s Studies Association and the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, University of Nebraska at Kearney, March 1994.

“Autobiography and Travel Writing: Moving Women and Mobile Subjectivity in the ‘Frontier’ Narratives of Caroline M. Kirkland,” Centenary Conference, “ First-Person Singular: Autobiography Past, Present, and Future,” Hofstra University, March 1994.

“Ideology and Ethics in the Classic Detective Genre: Why We Should Care about Agatha Christie,” Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1993.

“James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick Read Race: The American Historical Novel and the Representation of Native Americans,” Sixth Annual Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, Miami University, February 1992.

“Women Reading (in) Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World,” Fifth Annual National Conference of Graduate Students in English Studies, Ohio State University, October 1991.

“Margaret Drabble’s The Waterfall: The Creation of Female Fictions,” “Women, the Arts, and Society,” Susquehanna University, November 1988.