Iain Biggs
Mapping Spectral Traces: notes from and on a Debatable Land
Dr Iain Biggs (http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk) is an independent visual artist / teacher / researcher / writer / occasional performer with heterogeneous interests in issues relating to place, memory and identity. These include the resurfacing of animism in contemporary culture and the potential for testimonial imagination of the spectral traces of a submerged mentalité in the supernatural ballads associated with the English/Scottish Borders region.
He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, where he was formerly Director of the PLaCE interdisciplinary Research Centre, and he continues to act as a coordinator for PLaCE International (http://placeinternational.org) and for the Mapping Spectral Traces (http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org) and LAND2 (http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk) networks.
Iain had kindly uploaded his paper to his site at http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2014/10/locating-the-gothic/.
Mapping Spectral Traces: notes from and on a Debatable Land
Dr Iain Biggs (http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk) is an independent visual artist / teacher / researcher / writer / occasional performer with heterogeneous interests in issues relating to place, memory and identity. These include the resurfacing of animism in contemporary culture and the potential for testimonial imagination of the spectral traces of a submerged mentalité in the supernatural ballads associated with the English/Scottish Borders region.
He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, where he was formerly Director of the PLaCE interdisciplinary Research Centre, and he continues to act as a coordinator for PLaCE International (http://placeinternational.org) and for the Mapping Spectral Traces (http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org) and LAND2 (http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk) networks.
Iain had kindly uploaded his paper to his site at http://www.iainbiggs.co.uk/2014/10/locating-the-gothic/.
Tabish Khair
The Significance of the Scream: Otherness in Postcolonial and Gothic Fiction
Dr. Tabish Khair is the author of various books, including the poetry collections, Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000) and Man of Glass (HarperCollins, 2010), the studies, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels (Oxford UP, 2001) and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness (Palgrave, 2010) and the novels, The Bus Stopped (Picador, 2004), Filming (Picador, 2007), The Thing About Thugs (Harpercollins, 2010; Houghton Mifflin, 2012) and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (Interlink and Corsair 2014).
His honours and prizes include the All India Poetry Prize (awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council) and honorary fellowship (for creative writing) of the Baptist University of Hong Kong. His novels have been shortlisted for nine prestigious prizes in five countries, including the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Encore Award, and translated into several languages.
The Significance of the Scream: Otherness in Postcolonial and Gothic Fiction
Dr. Tabish Khair is the author of various books, including the poetry collections, Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000) and Man of Glass (HarperCollins, 2010), the studies, Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels (Oxford UP, 2001) and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness (Palgrave, 2010) and the novels, The Bus Stopped (Picador, 2004), Filming (Picador, 2007), The Thing About Thugs (Harpercollins, 2010; Houghton Mifflin, 2012) and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (Interlink and Corsair 2014).
His honours and prizes include the All India Poetry Prize (awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council) and honorary fellowship (for creative writing) of the Baptist University of Hong Kong. His novels have been shortlisted for nine prestigious prizes in five countries, including the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Encore Award, and translated into several languages.
Monica Germana
Guilty Pleasures: Haunting Whitechapel
Dr. Monica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Her research concentrates on contemporary British literature, with a specific emphasis on the Gothic and gender. Her publications include Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Ali Smith: New Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2013) co-edited with Emily Horton. She is currently working on a new monograph called Bond Girls: Body, Dress, Gender (Bloomsbury). As a creative writer, her work has been published in various anthologies, including Lost, Cold Turkey, and Book (all published by Inkermen Press). She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a London-set novella, Off-Peak. As a photographer, her freelance work has been published in The List magazine, which also selected her work for the Beck’s photography competition in 2002. She had her first solo exhibition, wonderwander, at The Arches in 2003: the exhibition focussed on journeys, of the body and the mind. Her camera is mostly active on her journeys away from home. Her travel-writing blog is at www.monicagermana.com.
Guilty Pleasures: Haunting Whitechapel
Dr. Monica Germanà is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Westminster. Her research concentrates on contemporary British literature, with a specific emphasis on the Gothic and gender. Her publications include Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Ali Smith: New Critical Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2013) co-edited with Emily Horton. She is currently working on a new monograph called Bond Girls: Body, Dress, Gender (Bloomsbury). As a creative writer, her work has been published in various anthologies, including Lost, Cold Turkey, and Book (all published by Inkermen Press). She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a London-set novella, Off-Peak. As a photographer, her freelance work has been published in The List magazine, which also selected her work for the Beck’s photography competition in 2002. She had her first solo exhibition, wonderwander, at The Arches in 2003: the exhibition focussed on journeys, of the body and the mind. Her camera is mostly active on her journeys away from home. Her travel-writing blog is at www.monicagermana.com.
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Vampires in the City: Mergence, Mystique, and ‘that New Orleans thing’
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests focus mainly on popular culture studies, with an emphasis on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, Gothic fiction and film, animation, cultural history, and food studies. She is President of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, and Gothic Area Chair for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ). Her publications to date include a large number of academic articles and book chapters, and three monographs: Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2011), Beef: A Global History (London: Reaktion, 2013), and The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature (New York: Routledge: 2014). She is currently editing a collection on The Lord of the Rings and fan cultures.
Vampires in the City: Mergence, Mystique, and ‘that New Orleans thing’
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests focus mainly on popular culture studies, with an emphasis on twentieth and twenty-first century literature, Gothic fiction and film, animation, cultural history, and food studies. She is President of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, and Gothic Area Chair for the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ). Her publications to date include a large number of academic articles and book chapters, and three monographs: Food and Culture in Contemporary American Fiction (New York: Routledge, 2011), Beef: A Global History (London: Reaktion, 2013), and The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature (New York: Routledge: 2014). She is currently editing a collection on The Lord of the Rings and fan cultures.