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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.
SSAG and the Ecohorror/Ecogothic interest group at #ASLE 2025! Come join us!

#ASLE2025 #SSAG #GothicLiterature
July 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you are at the ALA consider checking out our sponsored sessions!

#ALA2025 #AmericanLiterature
#Conference #GothicLit
May 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
CFP: Madalynn L. Madigar (Cherokee Nation, University of Oregon) and Jennifer Schell (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) are editing a collection titled Haunted by Hyrdocarbons: Petrogothic and Petrohorror in the Contemporary Imagination.
January 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Happy birthday to the Gothic Grandfather Edgar Allan Poe, who we modeled our icon after. What is your favorite piece of his?

Mine has always been the Cask of Amontillado.

#GothicLit #AmericanGothic #SSAG #Poe
January 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Happy belated birthday to the one and only Shirley Jackson! May your houses be haunted and your lottery numbers lucky this holiday season.
#SSAG #AmericanGothic #GothicLiterature #GothicLit #ShirleyJackson
December 15, 2024 at 8:30 PM
March 20, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Mfw I realize I miscounted days ago, and we’re not three days away from our inaugural symposium, but TWO
(more in excitement than embarrassment although that is slightly a factor!):
March 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Five days until the Symposium, and the weather looks to be mostly sunny during our stint in Salem — for now. Our members from more sultry climes would be wise to prepare for a spring chill!
(Right: Forecast in Fahrenheit, Left: Forecast in Celsius.)
March 16, 2024 at 5:48 PM