List of Panels with Papers

Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in

Modern Culture

16/04/20 to 17/04/201

List of Panels with Papers

Friday 16 April 2010

10:00 14:00 Registration Foyer

12:15 12:30 Welcome Dr Sam George Lecture Hall N003

12:30 13:30 Plenary: Gothic Charm School, or, How Dr Catherine Lecture Hall N003

Vampires Learned to Sparkle Spooner

13:30 15:00 Panels of Papers (Panels 1, 2, 3)

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1 Appetites of the Undead Syndicate Room R034

1 "Glutted with Strangeness": Appetite, Art Dorothea Schuller (University of Göttingen, Germany)

and Otherness in Suzy McKee Charnas' The

Vampire Tapestry

2 "Vegetarian" Vampires: Morality of the Anti- Shanna Flaschka (University of Mississippi, USA)

Villains in Selected Vampire Novels

7 ‘You beautiful piece of dead meat…’: the Alex Tankard (University of Liverpool)

negotiation of intimacy and sexual

exploitation in Charlaine Harris’s Sookie

Stackhouse novels

2 Undead Victorians Syndicate Room R035

32 Reimagining the Victorian Vampire Leslie Ormandy (Clackamas Community College, USA)

39 Steampunk Vampire: The diffusion of Dr Brigid Cherry (St Mary’s University College) & Dr Maria

steampunk style across the vampire Mellins (Croydon Higher Education College )

community

65 Vampirism and Victorianism in Kim Dr Dorota Babilas (Department of English Studies, University of

Newman’s Anno Dracula Warsaw, Poland)

3 Bad Blood and Infection Lecture Hall N003

6 ‘Who Ordered the Hamburger with Aids?’: Xavier Aldana Reyes (Lancaster University)

Blood Anxiety in True Blood.

24 Manic Street Creatures: The Infected of 28 Andrew Patch (University of Exeter)

Days Later

42 Sullied Blood, Semen, and Skin: Vampires Kimberly Frohreich Gaydon (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

and the Specter of Miscegenation

15:00 15:30 Tea and Refreshments Foyer

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15:30 17:00 Panels of Papers (Panels 4, 5, 6)

4 Zombies

3 ‘Death is the New Pornography!’: Gay Darren Elliott-Smith (Royal Holloway (University of London))

Zombies and Fascist Hypermasculinity in

Queer Horror Film

30 Race and Otherness in Romero’s “Dead” Robert Neuding (Bowling Green State University, USA)

Series

70 Zombies and Ninjas and Class, Oh My!: Julia S. Fullman (California State University, Fullerton, USA)

Marxist Paradigms in Pride and Prejudice

and Zombies

5 Undead Teens I

18 Female Representation in Teenagers' Leonor Ruiz-Ayúcar Bello (La Laguna University, Spain)

Vampire Fiction: Love with Fangs

48 The Eternal Teen: The Configuration of Simon Bacon (University of Roehampton)

Teenage Identity in the American Teen-

Vamp Film

49 The good, the gay, the glamorous: modern- Jagoda Szulia (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

day reinterpretations of the vampire myth in

young-adult fiction

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6 Politics of the Undead Chair: Bill Hughes

19 Fundamentalism, Hybridity and Remapping Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

the Vampire body: Postmodern Vampirism

and the Presidency of George W. Bush

31 Reflecting Our Inhumanity: The Vampiric David McWilliam (University of Liverpool)

Other and Genocide in Ultraviolet (1998)

64 Vampiric Economies at the Anglo-African Jane Ford (University of Portsmouth)

Margin: Bertram Mitford’s Imperial Romance

17:00 18:45 Panels of Papers (Panels 7, 8, 9)

7 Undead Romance I

10 “You are the most dangerous creature I’ve Karen Graham (University of Dundee)

ever met.”: Female Sexuality as Monstrous

in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series

22 Love at Vampires' Time: Love & Sex in Guido Mastroianni (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)

contemporary vampire literature

59 Undead, unwed, but not unread: vampire Dr Joanne Knowles (Liverpool John Moores University)

fiction and chick-lit

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8 Undead Teens II Chair: Dr Sam George

8 “Don’t Go into the Woods Alone”: The Rebecca Owen (Liverpool John Moores University)

Function of Rape Myths in Adolescent

Vampire Fiction

15 Coming of Age in Vampire Fiction. The Maria Verena Siebert (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

Maturation of a Sub-Genre

25 Monstrous Sex: The Sexualisation of Cecilia Rogers (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)

Girlhood in Young Adult Gothic

26 My Boyfriend is a Vampire! - Gender Roles Johanna Schorn (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

and Teen Dating

9 The Gay Undead Chair: Darren Elliott-Smith

37 Silent? Stalkers: Homophobic Combatants Karrie Clinkenbeard (California State University, Stanislaus,

in Vampire Literature and Film

45 The (Un)Death of the Queer Subject: Dying Shramko Elizabeth (Central European University, Hungary)

and Political Rebirth

58 True Blood, Real Life?: Religious J Ryan Parker (The Graduate Theological Union, USA)

Fundamentalism, Gay Rights,

(Non)Violence, and the American South in

62 Vampires as Otherness: The Vampire as Ian Scales (York St. John University)

Metaphor for the Homosexual in Poppy Z.

Brite’s Lost Souls

18:45 19:45 Plenary: ‘Cancer with a Purpose’: Putting Dr Stacey Abbott Lecture Hall N003

The Cinematic Vampire Under the

Microscope

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19:45 20:15 Drinks reception Club de Havilland

20:15 Vampire-Themed Conference Dinner Comet Room, Club de Havilland

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Saturday 17 April 2010

09:00 10:30 Panels of Papers (Panels 10, 11, 12)

10 Undead in the New Media

21 He Walks Again: The Digital Translation of Larkin Romaneski (Florida State University, USA)

the Man’s Vampire in Legacy of Kain

29 Out of Character? Slashing Twilight Maria Lindgren Leavenworth (Umeå University, Sweden)

56 The Vampire in the Machine: exploring the Dr Ivan Phillips (University of Hertfordshire)

undead interface

11 Identity, Legality, and the Undead Chair: Dr Rowland Hughes

5 ‘Legally Recognised Undead’: Difference Bill Hughes (University of Sheffield)

and Assimilation in Contemporary Vampire

and Zombie Fiction (The Southern Vampire

series; the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter

series; and Generation Dead)

14 Charlaine’s Poor White Trash: Contemporary Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University)

Inhabitants of Paranormal Economies

60 Vampires and Southern Social Anxieties in Victoria Kearley (University of Southampton)

True Blood

12 Witchcraft and Folklore

34 Re-visioning the womb: Rethinking maternal Sara Williams (University of Hull)

knowledge and folklore in the works of Le

Fanu and Stoker

67 Whose curse is it? Both of us, of course! Domenec Mendez (LiveScripts, Spain)

69 Witch Craft, Black Magicians, Peers and Mr Waheed Mohiuddin (Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC))

Spiritual healers: Their place in literature

and society: A Case study of Pakistan.

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10:30 11:00 Coffee and Croissants Foyer

11:00 12:30 Panels of Papers (Panels 13, 14, 15)

13 Undead Romance II

35 Romance and Female Knight Errantry in the Tom Ue (McGill University, Canada)

Twilight Saga

36 Saki’s “The Open Window”: Summoning the Vahideh Sayedi (Ferdowsi University)

Undead, Moriendo Renascor, Birth of

Romance

44 That’s Why the Lady is a Vamp: The Dr Katie Edwards (University of Sheffield)

Resurgence of the Femme Fatale in

Contemporary Popular Culture

14 The Gothic Tradition and the Undead

38 Staking them Out: Shakespeare’s Vampires Danielle Rosvally (Rutgers-Newark, USA)

43 Tell-Tale Deaths and Monstrous Quests: Jacqueline de Giacomo (Technische Universität Berlin,

Being Human and Visions of Death in

Millennial Gothic Fictions

61 Vampires and the Gothic Rhizome Aishah Al-Shatti (Kuwait University, Kuwait)

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15 Undead Bodies

54 The Twilight Saga and the Pleasures of Dr Sarah Artt (Edinburgh Napier University) & Dr Sara-Patricia

Spectatorship: the Broken Body and the Wasson (Edinburgh Napier University)

Shining Body

63 Vampires vs. Creatures of Moonshine Dr Jacob Huntley (University of East Anglia)

68 Wildean Aesthetics and the Trope of Non- Dr Sam George (University of Hertfordshire)

reflection:vampiric bodiesfrom Mona Lisa

to Edward Cullen

12:30 13:30 Lunch Restaurant de Havilland

13:30 15:00 Panels of Papers (Panels 16, 17, 18)

16 Dracula Lives! Chair: Dr Andrew Maunder

13 Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Sciences of Andrés Romero-Jódar (University of Zaragoza, Spain)

the Mind: Vampires as Products of Mental

Disorders

20 Gender and Sexuality in Dracula Prof. Graham Holderness (University of Hertfordshire)

27 New Men and the New Chivalry in Bram Dr Sara Clayson (Open University)

Stoker’s Dracula

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17 Jagieollian University

28 Opened graves, singing dead and the Wojciech Kosior (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

bringing up from Sheol. Metaphors of life,

death and un-death in the Hebrew Bible

33 Remains of Freud: Souless bodies, bodiless Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

spirits and the spectre of the Enlightenment

46 The Anatomy of the Undead. Cognitive Katarzyna Bajka (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

approach to the study of nonhuman entities

18 Ethnicity and Nation among the

9 “Others” of Turkey in a Female Vampire Story Pelin Aslan (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)

11 A Fledgling Biopolitics of Vampire Frann Michel (Willamette University, USA)

47 The Brutal and Bloody: Representations of Prof. Suryendu Chakraborty (Krishnagar Women’s College,

the ChupaCabra in Rudolfo Anaya’s Curse

of the ChupaCabra

15:00 16:45 Panels of Papers (Panels 19, 20, 21)

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19 Crypts, Coffins, and Bad Language Chair: Dr Sam George

4 ‘I feel strong. I feel different’: Malgorzata Drewniok (Lancaster University )

Transformations, vampires and language in

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

12 Bloody hell. Sodding, blimey, shagging, Dr Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh)

knickers, bollocks. Oh God, I’m English-

Translating Spike

52 The Tomb of Dracula: Horror Comics and Prof. Peter Hutchings (Northumbria University)

the reinvention of the Vampire in the 1970s

57 The Vampire: Only The Coffin Is That In Sian Lindsay Flinders (Monmouth University, USA)

Which It Fits

20 Film, TV, and the Undead Chair: Dr Rowland Hughes

17 Failed Vamps? Blood Ties, Moonlight and Dr Alison Peirse (University of Northumbria)

Canadian TV

41 Stoker’s Castle and Park’s New Clothes: The Zachary J Bellino (Louisiana State University, USA)

Political/Libidinal Economy of Desire in

Park Chan-Wook’s Thirst and Bram Stoker’s

Dracula

50 The Humanization of the Undead: An Dr Antonio Sanna (University of Westminster)

Analysis of 2000s Films on Vampires, From

Queen of the Damned and The Little

Vampire to Perfect Creature and I Am

51 The Other as Undead: representations of Gábor Gergely (University of Exeter)

exilic bodies as already dead in 1930s

Hollywood cinema

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21 Gendering the Undead

16 Dark Ladies: Vampires, Lesbians, and Dr Victoria Amador (Heriot Watt University)

Women of Colour

23 Loving the Vampire. Masculinity, Judith Coffey (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Heteronormativity and Female Desire in

Twilight and True Blood

53 The Twilight of Anita Blake: Resistance and Luz María Gordillo (Washington State University Vancouver,

Submission in an Undead Postfeminist Era

66 When death is not enough: the return of the Hanène Kooli (University of Kairouan, Tunisia)

repressed in Morrison'sBeloved

16:45 17:15 Tea Foyer

17:15 18:15 Plenary: Breathing Life into the Undead: Marcus Sedgwick Lecture Hall N003

Writing Vampire Fiction

18:15 19:15 Book Signing Marcus Sedgwick Foyer

18:15 Conference drinks Club de Havilland

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