“Gothic Currents of Barbaric Sexuality in George Lippard’s Quaker City” Heather Barrett, BU, Dept of English

“Dominus exaudiet cum clamavero ad eum”: The Monumentalization of Faith, Sound, and the Proxemics of Space” John Forrestal, BU musicology

“Knights of the Dining Room Table: The quest for a medieval life in the English Victorian home” Michelle Wilson, Dept of Art history, BU

LUNCH ON OWN 12-1:30

Session 2, 1:30-3:00pm, session chair, Jeannette Jones

“’Hovering Between’: Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Gothics, The Governess and Women’s Work” Lauren Wilwerding, Dept of English, Boston College

“Redefining the Sounds of Horror: The Musical Legacy of Hitchcock’s Psycho” Rose Bridges, BU musicology

“The Gothic as “monstrous mother”: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to examine the Gothic/reader relationship” Stephen Tsai, Dept of English, UMassBoston

Keynote, Renée Bergland, Dept of English, Simmons College, 3-4:30

Reception following.

View the Abstracts here.