Lecture: Monstrous Maternal and Haunted Futures: Women’s Trauma, Resistance, and Reimagining in Horror and Speculative Writing

This conference will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of women’s writing. This conference is dedicated to the discussion of a broad range of women’s writing, including the popular and the literary; bestsellers and genres; poetry and prose; screen and script; writing for games and digital spaces; creative non-fiction; life-writing, biography, and memoir; and journalism and other forms of cultural production.

We will be thinking and talking about women’s voices and artistic practices; the changing landscape of and about women’s writing; forms and mediums; representing the past and writing the future; textual and sexual politics; resistance and re-imaginings; interventions and intersections; writing as activism; and all of this across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts.