Promoting Gothic studies since 1991

The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. From the literary ghosts and vampires of the past, to the most contemporary representations of the strange, the horrific,  and the uncanny, our members have pioneered new research in Gothic Studies across disciplinary boundaries, genres, media, geographical locations and time periods.

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  • My First Encounter with the Gothic: Chloe Majstorovic
    Before I read Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, I had read many more ‘tame’ classics. Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Gulliver’s Travels. Whilst these tales delighted me —and remain to this day some of my favourites— they in no way prepared me for my first encounter with the Gothic.
  • Gothic Encounters: What can we learn from the Blair Witch phenomenon?
    My first scholarly encounter with the Gothic was through my study of the 1999 independent VHS horror cult hit The Blair Witch Project, directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. The basis for my intrigue concerned how the film “performed reality”, or how it presented itself as actual documentary evidence of strange occurrences in a forest in Burkittsville, Maryland.
  • My First Encounter with the Gothic: Eric Parisot
    It is a sense of the ineffable that keeps drawing me back to the Gothic, a mode that keeps challenging the limits of my rationality and understanding—whether as eschatological horrors played out on my TV screen, or in eighteenth-century graveyard poetry, or the revived memory of a song catching me, now a mid-mannered middle-aged academic, unawares as I drive to work.

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