Call For Papers: An Interdisciplinary Virtual Symposium on Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Gothic Culture and Research to be held Friday 12 February 2021, 0930 – 1930 (AEST)
Deadline for abstracts: 5pm, Friday 2 October 2020
Returning to the Gothic Ocean is a one day interdisciplinary virtual symposium dedicated to
an exploration of the haunted waters stretching across Australia to the Pacific, Southern and
Indian Oceans as well as the Timor, Tasman, Arafura and Coral Seas. Australian Gothic
fictions are steeped in terrestrial lore of the land and landscape and the architectural forms
built upon it. It descends from the “weird melancholy” of the bush in colonial literature