Haunted Shores IV Online Conference 2024
Welcome to the Haunted Shores 4th Conference, online from 10-14 June 2024.
This year we consider and re-assess the state of the field and explore more brilliant work by Haunted Shores Members and watery scholars.
We will meet remotely on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th June 2024 for the Fourth Haunted Shores Conference and recorded videos by presenters will be available on a private page on our website, accessible via the link below, from Monday 10th of June, please see more details below. To access the video recording, please register for the conference via the EventBrite link here.
Monday 10th – Thursday 13th June
Video presentations available for delegates to view in password-protected area of our website from Monday: bring your questions and enthusiasm to the live paper discussion sessions on 13th and 14th.
Live events take place at the end of the week on Zoom – see below:
Thursday 13th June
NB: Please note all times are in BST (British Summer Time / GMT +1)
1900 Conference welcome: Joan, Emily, Jimmy and Giulia
1915 Round 1 of paper discussions (attend either panel A or panel B – see list on next page)
2000 close
Friday 14th June
1315 Gather on Zoom
1330 Round 2 of paper discussions (attend either panel A or panel B)
1415 Break
1430 Blue Sea Thinking: a state-of-the waters roundtable with your HS hosts and Special Guests. Three years on from HS1, where are we? Leading the race, drifting with the current, or stuck in a gyre?
1530 Break
1545 Haunted Shores Network meeting
- Early-career academics programme 2024/25
- Seminar series 2024/25
- Reviews Officer
- HS5 (June 2025)
1630 Writing Coasts: reading and Q&A with Elizabeth O’Connor, author of Whale Fall: A Novel (2024). Chair: Jimmy Packham
1730 Closing Remarks
List of speakers and papers
Panel A
See speakers’ abstracts and bios here.
| Sam Bradley | Queer Dyschronia, Ghost Ecologies and Scurf Space: Derek Jarman in Dungeness |
| Belén Caparrós | Because the river asks for a body: Rewriting Femicide, Moody Trans-Corporealities and Fluvial Wastelands in Dolores Reyes’ Cometierra (2019) |
| Barbara Franchi | Polluting Memories: Coastal Landscapes, Debris and Palimpsests in A. S. Byatt Northern Fiction |
| Mark Fryers | Shifting Seascapes, Sexuality, Gender and Authorial Identity in Do Not Disturb (1991) |
| Rachael Murray | Styx and Stones: Submarine Spaces and Illusory Drowning in Garden Grottoes |
| Tsvetelina Petkova | Shoreline Spaces and (Non)Human Connections in Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) |
| Emily Robinson | Weird History, Eerie Folklore, and the Lost Island of Ravenser Odd |
| Yichun Zhang | Neo-Victorian Underground Waterways in Matthew Kneale’s Sweet Thames (1992) and Clare Clark’s The Great Stink (2005) |
Panel B
See speakers’ abstracts and bios here.
| Tony Alcalá | The Transgressions of Tláloc and Chac Mool: The Hauntings of Wate over Mexico City |
| Fredrik Blanc | Towards a Wayward Non-Transparency: ‘Opacité’ and The Hydropoetics of the Weird |
| Alissa Burger | “Mermaids Are Real”: Found Footage Aesthetic and Narrative Construction in Mira Grant’s Into the Drowning Deep and Animal Planet’s Mermaids: The Body Found |
| Federica Mascherpa | Dangerous Coasts, Broken Pasts and Broken Presents in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |
| Wade Newhouse | The Site (Sight) of Certainty: Horror on the Beach in It Follows and Lake Mungo |
| Pim Puapanichya | Prisoners to the Light: Gothic Nature, Cheap Labour, and Alienation in The Lighthouse (2019) |
| Jennifer Schell | From the Sublime to the Grotesque: Mei Mei Evans’ Oil and Water and the Petrogothic |
Feature photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash