Speakers
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature and co-director of the MA Specialization Program in American Studies at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Her publications include聽The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth Century American Literature聽(Ashgate, 2010),聽The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture聽(co-editor, Routledge, 2012), and most recently,聽War Gothic (co-edited with Steffen Hantke, Routledge, 2016), and聽Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age聽(co-edited with Linnie Blake, Manchester University Press, 2017). She has also recently published articles on Edgar Allan Poe, feminism, queer theory, war adventure and melodrama, among other topics.
Karen E. Macfarlane
Karen Macfarlane is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. She has published on monsters in popular culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, most notably, “Zombies and the Viral Web” (Horror Studies, 2018), “Here Be Monsters” (Text Matters聽2016), “The Monstrous House of Gaga” (PopGoth, 2012), and “Mummy Knows Best” (Horror Studies, 2010). She has also published on contemporary politics and the Gothic, including “Market Value:聽American Horror Story’s Housing Crisis” (Neoliberal Gothic, 2017).
William Veeder
William Veeder is Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Henry James: The Lessons of the Master: Popular Fiction and Personal Style in the Nineteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1975), and the co-author of The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883, with Elizabeth K. Helsinger and Robin Sheets (University of Chicago Press, 1989). Among his works on the Gothic are Mary Shelley and Frankenstein: The Fate of Androgyny (University of Chicago Press, 1988), and “Children of the Night: Stevenson and Patriarchy” in his collection edited with Gordon Hirsch, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after One Hundred Years (University of Chicago Press, 1988). His other publications and talks on the Gothic focus on Monk Lewis, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, J. S. Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Gaston Leroux and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Witold Gombrowicz, and Toni Morrison. He is now writing a Gothic novel entitled Pierce.
Julian Sands
Julian Sands is known for his roles in films including The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Gothic, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Impromptu, Naked Lunch, Tale of a Vampire, Boxing Helena, The Turn of the Screw, Witch Hunt, Leaving Las Vegas, The Phantom of the Opera, Vatel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Extraordinary Tales. On television, he has appeared in 24, Smallville, Castle, Dexter, Gotham, The Blacklist, Elementary, and What/If. He has also narrated A Study Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and written the preface for John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Essential Poems. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for A Celebration of Harold Pinter.
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