"The House that Jackson Built" Panel Two: Folk Horror

Описание: Our second panel from our 14 December 2022 event focused on Jackson’s legacy through the lens of the Folk Horror subgenre, which, like Jackson herself, is experiencing a remarkable popular and academic resurgence. The panellists included Kevin Corstorphine (Lecturer in American Literature, University of Hull), Faye Ringel (Professor Emeritus, United States Coast Guard Academy), and our own Bernice Murphy. Luke Reid was the chair. Our panellists discussed the rich and varied ways in which Jackson’s writing has long influenced and continues to influence Folk Horror.

BIOS:

Dr Kevin Corstorphine is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Hull, and Programme Director in American Studies. His research interests lie in horror and Gothic fiction, both literary and popular, and he is particularly interested in representation of space and place, the environment, and haunted locations. He has published widely on authors including Bram Stoker, H.P.  Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Clive Barker. He is co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature, published in 2018. He is currently working on several research projects including US imperialism, haunted graveyards, and ecology in nineteenth-century US literature.

Bernice M. Murphy is Associate Professor in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. She edited the 2005 collection Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, and has written many book chapters on Jackson’s work. She was also academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Her most recent book is The California Gothic in Fiction and Film, published by Edinburgh University Press in July. 

Luke Reid teaches in the English department at Dawson College, Montreal. His research focuses on representations of architecture in the Gothic and horror genres, placing architectural history and theory alongside figures of the haunted house. His publications include work on Shirley Jackson and her House Trilogy, as well as on depictions of architecture and gothic space in popular television.

Faye Ringel is Professor Emerita of Humanities, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London CT. She is the author most recently of The Gothic Literature and History of New England: Secrets of the Restless Dead (Anthem Press, 2022). She recently had her first fiction publication, a short story about the Rhode Island vampire exhumations, in the anthology We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State (Weird House Press, 2022), for which she also wrote the introduction, "The Roots of Horror in Rhode Island." A lifelong New England resident, she lives in the house where she grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, built over a desecrated Native burial ground.

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