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Gothic Panel (Standing Session; in-person): PAMLA Conference 2025 (PAMLA 2025 Conference)

San Francisco, CA
Organization: Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
Event: PAMLA 2025 Conference
Categories: Postcolonial, Digital Humanities, American, Hispanic & Latino, Interdisciplinary, British, Genre & Form, Popular Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Literary Theory, Women's Studies, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Adventure & Travel Writing, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Narratology, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-11-20 to 2025-11-23 Abstract Due: 2025-05-15

Gothic writers embrace the genre for its inclusive and representational nature. The genre is, in effect, a palimpsest as it prominently features both the past and memory. The creators in the genre continue to create plots that center on women, queer, transgender, and racialized characters and create stories that address societal inequalities. The environment (the Ecogothic) also continues to be a prominent character in the genre.

This in-person panel welcomes submissions about all aspects of the gothic as seen in a variety of media forms (literature, film, television, gaming, etc.). Feel free to submit an abstract about the gothic and the conference theme (the non-binding conference theme is “Palimpsests”) or about the gothic without reference to the conference theme. Please contact me if you have any questions.

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Submit abstracts (see link): https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP

Conference theme: https://www.pamla.org/conference/2025-conference-theme/

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19483

melaniemarotta@yahoo.com

Melanie A. Marotta, College of William and Mary