Join our Gothic Reading Group on Aug. 17, 2026, for Narrative of the Life of Arthur Gordon Pym. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our Gothic Reading Group will meet to discuss Daniel Mason's North Woods on Monday, July 27, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT). Register Here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

It’s me, talking about the “most important American author no one’s heard of”, Charles Brockden Brown, whose gothic novels we should all be reading during #America250 @c19americanists.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-founding...

The Founding Father of American literature, Charles Brockden Brown saw his nation’s dark side

Charles Brockden Brown’s work addressed the violence, psychological torment and corruption that Americans faced in urban centres and along the frontier.

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REMINDER: Call for proposals: The SSAG will sponsor a paper session at the American Literature Association’s symposium on the American novel, which will take place in Santa Fe November 5th – 7th of this year. Accordingly, we are issuing a general call for proposals.

We will meet to discuss Daniel Mason's North Woods on Monday, July 27, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT). Register here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us on June 22 at 4:30 PM EDT for our Gothic Reading Group to discuss Daniel Kraus' Whalefall. Register Here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Requesting American Gothic Studies submissions! AGS is the first scholarly journal dedicated to the American Gothic and publishes rigorously vetted scholarship on the topic. This encompasses literature, film, television, comics, and new media, as well as cultural artifacts and practices.

CFP: Theory and Practice in Horror Transmedia Fandom and Creation (IGI Scientific Publishing) (Ed.) Jason DeHart, University of Tennessee Knoxville, United States Proposals Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026 Full Chapters Due: October 30, 2026 Submission Date: October 30, 2026

Join us on June 22 at 4:30 PM EDT for our Gothic Reading Group to discuss Daniel Kraus' Whalefall. Register Here: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

LA Review of Books is looking for someone to review Alma Katsu's forthcoming incarnate. Contact Jeffrey Weinstock for more information. #BookReview #SSAG

The Winner of the 2026 Best Scholarly Monograph in the American Gothic is Maisha Wester’s African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and honorable mention is Sarah Robertson’s Gothic Appalachian Literature (Anthem, 2024).

Our next Gothic Reading Group takes place on June 22 at 4:30 PM EDT to discuss Daniel Kraus' Whalefall. Registration Link: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Dates for our next round of 2026 Gothic Reading Groups. Links to come as dates approach. #SSAG #ReadingGroup #GothicLiterature

If you teach composition or would like to include a style guide, examination copies of my Mad Scientist's Guide to Composition are available via Broadview Press's website using this link: broadviewpress.com/product/the-... #SSAG #Composition

The LA Review of Books is looking for someone to review Jen Julian's The Winter Folk. Please contact Jeffrey Weinstock if interested! #SSAG #NewBooks #BookReview

I had the pleasure of presenting @ssag.bsky.social last month in Salem on a panel about @stephengrahamjones.com ! I was fortunate to be talking through some ideas about colonial horror, Indigenous futurity, and slasher tropes in Earthdivers. And? *Had* to bring the SGJ Rules hat.

If you missed this week's excellent talk on folklore and horror in Indo-Caribbean and Métis cultures... you can find it here! It was a great talk and a good introduction to the subject (with a whole slide worth of author recommendations!) youtu.be/uBeVXlOnn_M

Folkloric Frankensteins: Navigating Horror in Culturally Hybridised Communities by Tyler Sookralli

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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It's up! You can book! My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May! 'Transformations of the Gothic' Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

Heading home after @ssag.bsky.social #americannightmaresII in Salem, Mass. Salem is awesome and the conference was great! 🦇🐈‍⬛🖤🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️

Many thanks to the organizers of the #SSAG @ssag.bsky.social conference! I saw tons of great panels & loved meeting other Gothic folks. If you're still in #Salem I highly recommend you stop by the Peabody Essex Museum #PEM to see the Edmonia Lewis exhibit. It's wonderful. www.pem.org/exhibitions/...

From our Ecogothic in the Photography of Andrew Moore panel. #SSAG #AmericanNightmaresII

From the Exhumations panel during the 11:30-12:45 session. #SSAG #AmericanNightmaresII

Victor LaVelle reading from The Devil in Silver. #SSAG #AmericanNightmaresII

A selection of presentations from our 3:45-5:00 session. “Haunting Returns: Black Sophia Gothic and the Vampiric Dominion of Whiteness” by Arline Wilson.

Presentations and panels from our 11:30-12:45 session. Pictured presentations are Joshua Gooch's "Doom Loop: Horror's Time Loop Narratives" on the Strange Frequencies Panel.

Pictured here are Kevin J. Wetmore's “‘But seriously, watch out for fire. Fire bad’: Frankenstein for Kids on Stage and Screen” and Mimi Manyin's “Veterinary Gothic: Remaking Nonhumans as Humans in the Midst of Viruses, Bacteria, and Superstition in The Walking Dead and The Witch."

Panelists from the Subterranean Gothic session.

Photos from "The Outside" Panel

Our first round of papers begins shortly at 8:30. We have a number of great sessions today so be sure to check out as many as you can! #SSAG #AmericanNightmaresII

Siân Silyn Roberts is our keynote speaker, seen here giving an address titled "Reporting Back on Pain" on the failures of individualistic frameworks in the Anthropocene.