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Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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Established in 2023 to promote and advance the study of the American Gothic through research, teaching, and publication.
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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What's that I see before me? A new Romancing the Gothic conference! Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Radcliffe's last publications with a conference on the work of women and people of marginalised genders in the Gothic and horror...

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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Conference CFP
More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Ann Radcliffe’s final po…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The University of Minnesota Press is offering 30% off Jeffrey Weinstock's forthcoming Horror Theory Reader if you order by October 31st. Order at z.umn.edu/ajp2 and use the code MN93850.

The book will be out early January.

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The Horror Theory Reader
A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes—fear, dread, and dis...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The Everyday Horror of American Life: The Rhetorical Vision of Stephen King

This collection explores King’s work through a various rhetorical lenses to examine
the exigencies in the popular/political culture that his writing addresses across rhetorical theories and methodologies.
October 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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American Gothic Studies, the official peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, seeks your contributions! If you research and write about the Am. Gothic, we hope you will consider us as a venue for your scholarship. Info at www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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American Gothic Studies, the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic, seeks your contributions! If you research and write about the American Gothic, we hope you will consider us as a venue for your scholarship. Info at www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...
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American Gothic Studies
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October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Please join our Gothic Reading Group on November 7 @ 2:30PM EST for a discussion of Maryse Condé's I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM.
Here's the Zoom registration link:
gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#SSAG #GothicLiterature #ReadingGroup
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Tomorrow is the deadline!
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Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:

americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
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American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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September 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Proposals for our Biannual conference in Salem, MA, "American Nightmares II: Return to Salem" are due Oct. 1st, 2025. Please check our website for details:

americangothicsociety.com/symposium/
#SSAG #CFP #Conference #GothicLiterature
American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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September 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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For the 50th anniversary of Stephen King’s The Shining, eds. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale solicit chapter proposals for an edited collection Fifty Years of The Shining: New Essays. Proposals are welcome on any aspects of the novel, adaptations, paratexts, and cultural influence.
September 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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American Gothic Studies is seeking contributions for our "EXHUMATIONS" section.

Exhumations present new editions of American Gothic texts (max 12K words) that have been lost, forgotten, overlooked, or otherwise unavailable to contemporary readers.
September 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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It's Alive!!

Our Gothic Reading Group Returns September 26th at 2:30 PM EDT with The Ballad of Black Tom.

Zoom Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Reminder that the deadline for SSAG proposals for our American Nightmares II Conference in Salem, MA, is due October 1st!

More info: americangothicsociety.com/symposium/

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American Nightmares II: Return to Salem – Society for the Study of the American Gothic
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September 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Fall 2025 Gothic Reading Group Schedule (Fridays 2:30-3:30 EDT/EST) (Link to come)
September 26—Victor Lavalle, THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM (149 pp.)
November 7—Maryse Condé, I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM (225 pp.)
December 5—Robert Eggers, THE VVITCH (90 minutes)
August 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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In AGS 2.1 we will be publishing "engagements" a short response (250-1k words) to pieces published in prior issues. To submit contact Jeffrey Weinstock at Weinstock@cmich.edu.
August 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Our Gothic Reading Group will not meet in August. If you are interested in joining us this fall, please fill out this When2Meet so we can decide a day and time to meet!

Link: www.when2meet.com?31462640-i4qeL

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Gothic Reading Group—Fall 2025 - When2meet
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July 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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A Shirley Jackson panel at PAMLA (Nov. 20-23; San Francisco) is seeking submissions. Please let us know if you are interested so we can pass your information along!

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July 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
July 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Very nice to make into the very first issue of a new journal, and American Gothic Studies looks like it'll be a great new venue for the field. Lucky to be amongst some terrific essays. My bit is a trip down the Funhole with Kathe Koja.... www.psupress.org/Journals/jnl...
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July 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We've had to delay a week so please join us on July 25th instead! Registration link is below:

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July 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The first issue of American Gothic Studies has been published, Penn State University Press.
Thanks, @cypheractive.bsky.social and @ssag.bsky.social
#Gothic Studies 🤩
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Cover for the first issue of American Gothic Studies, The Pennsylvania State University Press, vol. 1, n°1, 2025. The cover represents a blurry spectral body with closed eyes, on a grey/black background. In addition, one essay, “Carrie at 50,” by Anthony Magistrale and Michael Blouin, is available to the general public using this link: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/article/1/1/6/401260/Carrie-at-50. You are welcome to share this link with colleagues and on your socials. SSAG members may access the journal by starting at the SSAG homepage http://www.americangothicsociety, selecting “American Gothic Studies Journal” from the top menu, logging in to the members area, and then clicking where indicated to access the journal. Here is the Table of Contents for this issue: “Editorial Summonings,” Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Essay: “Carrie at 50,” Michael J. Blouin and Tony Magistrale Essay: “The Edge of the Fringe: (Not) Reading Kathe Koja’s The Cipher” Essay: “Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s The Trees,” M. Keith Booker Essay: “Harmonic Psychotherapy: Reading Fun Home Through a Gothic Lens,” Kyle William Bishop Essay: “The Waterworks: A Parallax View of a Modern Gothic Tale,” Theodora Tsimpouki and Maria Pirgerou Exhumation: “The Spectre Fire-Ship” (1834) by William Leete Stone, edited by Tom J. Hillard and Matthew Wynn Sivils Provocation: “Against Entanglement,” Heather Ray Milligan Provocation: “Gothic Readings of America’s Third Places: Starbucks, Craft Beer, and Cultural Anxieties,” Alana Seaman Published semi-annually, American Gothic Studies is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic, broadly construed. This encompasses considerations of literature, film, television, comics, and new media, as well as cultural artifacts and practices. Submission information is available at https://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_AGS.html Thank you for your support for the Society for the Study of the American Gothic! Sincerely, Jeffrey Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock President: Society for the Study of the American Gothic Editor, American Gothic Studies
July 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Our next Gothic Reading Group is July 18, 2025 and covers Jeff VanderMerr's Absolution. Join below!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: Absolution. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Gothic Reading Group: Absolution. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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SSAG and the Ecohorror/Ecogothic interest group at #ASLE 2025! Come join us!

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July 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26
June 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM