Scholars from across all disciplines are invited to convene for a (tentatively) two-day conference on the weekend of his 215th deathday where we will critically examine the Tomahawk’s works,
including his poetry, prose, novel, and essays.
WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE
Ring in the Halloween season by celebrating the life and works of the U.S.’s grandfather of Goth, Edgar Allan Poe! Scholars from across all disciplines are invited to convene for a (tentatively) two-day conference on the weekend of his 215th deathday where we will critically examine the Tomahawk’s works, including his poetry, prose, novel, and essays. (Other media such as theatrical, graphic, televised, or cinematic adaptations of his work may also be considered, provided they relate back to the author’s legacy and work. For instance, any of the Universal Studios adaptations or Scott Cooper’s loosely biographical The Pale Blue Eye (2022) or the recent Mike Flanagan production The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) may be explored).
Lenses through which to consider presentations may include but are not limited to:
Orientalism
Psychoanalysis
Feminism
Marxism
Gothic
Corporeality
Other-than-human
Gender, sexuality, and/or queerness
Spatiality and Temporality
Race
Narratology
New Materialism
Disability
Trauma
Monstrosity and Abjection
Religion, spirituality, the occult, and theology
Ecocriticism
Rhetoric and Poetics
DEADLINE AND HOW TO APPLY
Please submit abstracts of 200 words as well as any and all inquiries to eap215conference@gmail.com. Please also provide a short biographical note of up to 100 words in addition to your timezone in order to best arrange presentation times for those outside of PST. This conference will be held online at no charge. The Zoom link will be sent out the week prior.