8:30 am-3:00 pm: Conference Registration

9:00-9:15 am: Welcome Remarks

9:15-10:45 am: 3 Concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

1–Domestic Culture and Gothic Fiction

Chair, June Sturrock

1 (A) Kate Lawson (University of Northern British Columbia) "The Alien at Home: L.M. Montgomery and F.W. Myers"

1 (B) Ruth Anolik (Haverford College) "Gothic Murder: Containment of Horror in Charlotte Yonge's Chantry House"

1 (C) Rich Pascal (Australian National University) "Arsenic in the Sugar: Gothic Domesticity in Shirley Jackson's 'We have Always Lived in the Castle'"

2--Postcolonial Gothics: Old World

Chair, Noel Currie

2 (A) Andrew Smith (University of Glamorgan) "Colonising the Americans: Bram Stoker's Post Colonial Gothic"

2 (B) William Hughes (Bath-Spa University College) "'An angel satyr walks these hills': Imperial fantasies for a post-colonial world"

2 (C) Alan Lloyd-Smith (University of East Anglia) "This Thing of Darkness: Racial Discourse in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

3--American Gothic: Self-conscious Interventions in the 19th C. Literary

Chair, Evie Shockley

3 (A) Christine Wooley (University of Washington) "Hawthorne and His Readers"

3 (B) Amy Strand (University of Washington) "Gothic Women and Vocal Eruptions in Poe, Stowe, and Melville"

3 (D) Monique Allewaert (Duke University) "Gothic-Nation: Critical Investments in Nineteenth Century Nationalism"

10:45-11:00 am: Refreshment Break

11:00 am-12:00 pm: Opening Plenary Address

Nancy Armstrong, Chair, Department of English, Brown University

"The Malthusian Gothic"

This paper considers what gothic fiction does for a readership who enjoyed tormenting themselves with what Thomas Malthus called "the principle of population." I am especially interested in tracing the shift from the production-sided nightmare of biological reproduction that shapes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) to the consumption-sided figure of the vampire that haunts late nineteenth-century gothic (e.g., Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1897) and imperial romance (e.g., H. Rider Haggard's She, 1887). The question is why, over the course of the century, Max Nordau's classic description of "degeneration" replaces overpopulation as the prevailing cultural phobia of Western Europe.

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch (on own)

1:00-2:30 pm: 4 Concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

4--Domestic Culture and Gothic Fiction (2)

Chair, Kate Lawson

4 (A) June Sturrock (Simon Fraser University) "The Kindly Ones: Margaret Oliphant's Dead"

4 (B) Evie Shockley (Duke University) "Housebroken: Or, At Home with Haunting in Dickens's Bleak House and Morrison's Paradise."

4 (C) Elaine Hartnell (Liverpool Hope University College) "Predictions, Portents and Propriety: The Domestic Gothic of Mrs Henry Wood"

5--Postcolonial Gothics: New World

Chair, Andrew Smith

5 (A) Deborah Allen (University of Stirling) "Postcolonial Gothic and the Short Fiction of Rosario Ferre"

5 (B) Blanca Chester (Simon Fraser University) "Coyote Vampires: A .A. Carr's 'Eye Killers'"

5 (C) Noel Currie (Simon Fraser University) "Nation and Legitimation: The Gothic in Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Fiction"

6--Darwinian Gothic

Chair, Paul Heyer

6 (A) Mason Harris (Simon Fraser University) "Mad Prohibitions: Demonic Memory, the Culture of Science, and the Religion of the Beast People in The Island of Doctor Moreau"

6 (B) Valerie de Courville Nicol (University of Ottawa) "The Deployment of Eugenic and Behaviourist Theories in Victorian Gothic"

6 (C) Mary Beth Neff (University of Memphis) "J.K. Huysmans' Against the Grain and the Inescapable Monstrosity of Nature"

7--Revisioning the Gothic: Djuna Barnes, Anne Marie MacDonald, and Toni Morrison

Chair, Christine Wooley

7 (A) Kathy Gentile (University of Missouri-St. Louis ) "Haunted Texts: The Cult of Damned Love in Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Djuna Barnes' Nightwood"

7 (B) Gabriella Parro (Wilfrid Laurier University) "The Gothic Tradition in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees: A Study in Genre"

7 (C) Jennifer Agnew (St. Louis University) "'Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts: 'Rememory' and the Ambiguous Nature of Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

2:30-3:00 pm: Refreshment-Break

3:00-4:30 pm: 4 concurrent Sessions (1.5 hours)

8--Slavery, Gothicism and Intertextuality (19th c.)

Chair, Joseph Bodziock,

8 (A) Peter Coviello (Bowdoin College) "The American in Charity: Benito Cereno and Gothic Anti-Sentimentality"

8 (B) Monika Elbert (Montclair State) "The Ramifications of Slavery in New England Gothic"

8 (C) Dana Luciano (Hamilton College) "Is that Story True? Charles Chesnutt's Gothic Realism"

9--Print Culture & Gothic Technologies

Chair: Betty Schellenberg

9 (A) Margaret Linley (Simon Fraser University) "Keepsake Gothic: Books, Bodies and Parallel Doubleness"

9 (B) Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario) "The Cyborg Activity of Writing: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl as Gothic Hypertext"

9 (C) Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia) "The Gothic Nation in Hyperspace"

10--Locked Rooms: The Gothic In Criminology & Popular Culture (1)

Chair, Charmaine Perkins

10 (A) Robert Menzies (Simon Fraser University) "Criminal Lunacy and Cultural Representations of Horror: The Case of The Colquitz Mental Home, British Columbia, 1919-1964"

10 (B) Margaret Jackson (Simon Fraser University) "Women on the Boundaries: Historic Gothic and Contemporary Criminal Images"

10 (C) Ognyan Kovachev (St. Kliment Okhridski University) "Locked Room Revisited: Gothic Crime and Punishment in Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch"

11--Gothic Analysis: Freud's Dora, Hitchcock's Rebecca, & the Matrix

Chair, Catherine Spooner

11(A) Kim Wheatley (The College of William & Mary) "Gender Politics and the Gothic in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca"

11(B) Kathleen O'Brien (University of California, Davis) " The Mysteries of Analysis: Exploring the Gothic Elements of Freud's 'Dora'"

11(C) John Paul Requilme (Boston University) "Not a Reading of Dracula, But the Reading of It."

4:30-6:00 pm: Conference Reception

6:30-9:00 pm: Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery at the Vancouver Museum (Optional Event)