CFP

We invite proposals on (but not limited to) the following topics:

  1. EcoGothic Landscapes
    • Botanical Gothic, sentient flora, cursed gardens in eco-horror
    • Predatory animals, bestiaries, and entomological horror
    • Haunted wilderness, rural Gothic, toxic ecologies
    • Nautical Gothic: abyssal creatures and aquatic dread
    • Ecocritical and postcolonial approaches to Gothic environments
  2. Microscopic and Fungal Gothic
    • Plague, contagion, and pandemic narratives
    • Parasites, viruses, and microbial horror
    • Fungal Gothic: mycelial networks, symbiosis, and body horror
  3. Gothic Mythic and Folkloric Nature
    • Nature spirits, shapeshifters, and monstrous feminine archetypes
    • Indigenous ecologies and decolonial EcoGothic narratives
  4. Anthropocene and Geological Gothic
    • Anthropocene Gothic: climate catastrophe, extinction, collapse
    • Meteorological Gothic: atmospheric phenomena as agents of terror
    • Seasonal and temporal Gothic: unnatural seasons and distorted cycles of time
    • Subterranean Gothic: caves, mines, volcanic landscapes, and sentient minerals
  5. Gothic Science, Ethics, and Artificial Intelligence
    • Mad scientists, experimental Gothic, hybrid bodies
    • Bioethics, cloning, resurrection, and Gothic laboratories
    • Artificial Intelligence and evil technologies
  6. Science Fiction and the Gothic
    • Alien ecologies and extraterrestrial landscapes
    • Terraforming and colonization of space in Gothic futures
    • Posthuman and cybernetic bodies: cyborgs, androids, and hybrid lifeforms
    • Virtual ecologies and simulated Gothic worlds

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to congresogotico.elm@ucr.ac.cr by June 5, 2026.

The abstract should also include a 50-word biographical note and audiovisual requests..

The conference will be held primarily in English; however, a limited number of proposals in Spanish will be accepted.These proposals will be grouped into panels by language rather than by topic, and their acceptance will depend on the availability of a sufficient number of proposals to form a panel.