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Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, September). Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition

In many ways, Bristol is a Gothic city, not just architecturally and through its involvement with the slave trade but also in regard to its literary heritage. Some of our most important women writers who wrote in the Gothic mode were inspired by Bris... Read More about Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition.

A glitch in The Matrix and other interruptions in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (2022)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, July). A glitch in The Matrix and other interruptions in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Paper presented at Gothic Interruptions, 16th International Gothic Association, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix (2022)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Angela Carter, Engineering Desire and The Matrix. Paper presented at Nomadic texts and subjectivities: Metamorphic itineraries in/of Angela Carter’s Work, University of Angers, France

Paula Rego's witches (2022)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, June). Paula Rego's witches. Paper presented at Crones, Crime and the Gothic, Falmouth University

This paper will argue that Paula Rego’s illustrations of Blake Morrison’s Pendle Witches (1996) make counter-intuitive and subversive interactions between image and word, to reveal unexpected connections with women and witches. I will suggest that he... Read More about Paula Rego's witches.

Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast? (2022)
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Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2022, March). Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?. Presented at Angela Carter: Radical Prescience, University of Chichester

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was "canonised" as the White Witch of English Literature following her death, which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This paper wi... Read More about Angela Carter’s place-making: memorialising an iconoclast?.

The dark economies of sexual myths (2021)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, July). The dark economies of sexual myths. Presented at Dark Economies: Anxious futures, Fearful Pasts, Falmouth University

According to Foucault, the Victorian obsession with sexuality proliferated through discourse. This paper will begin by exploring how it spawned a lucrative industry in anti-masturbatory self-help books and devices, which for males rested on the pseu... Read More about The dark economies of sexual myths.

Transcending gender boundaries: Cross-dressing female jazz musicians from Billy Tipton to Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998) (2021)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, March). Transcending gender boundaries: Cross-dressing female jazz musicians from Billy Tipton to Jackie Kay’s Trumpet (1998). Paper presented at Bordering Genders/Genres/Genera: Crossings, Writings, Cultures, Pescara University, Italy

Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution (2021)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2021, February). Teaching slavery and the Gothic in the Age of Revolution. Paper presented at Revolutionary Histories – Caribbean Literature, Slavery and the Gothic, Aarhus University, Denmark

Merlin, medievalism and Middle English: The untranslateable worlds of Dr Hoffman (2020)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2020, October). Merlin, medievalism and Middle English: The untranslateable worlds of Dr Hoffman. Presented at “The World is Made of Words” - Angela Carter Translator – Angela Carter in Translation, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place (2019)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, October). Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place. Presented at The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Mary Shelley’s novel has been seen as encoding the forbidden sexuality of homo-erotic desire and the taboo of illegitimate births. In regard to the former, Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori, will be discussed as a catalyst for her waking dream wh... Read More about Conceiving monstrosities: Frankenstein, sexuality and place.

Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life (2019)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, June). Poison and pens: Bulwer Lytton’s Lucretia in fiction and real life. Paper presented at Captivating Criminality, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions International Crime Fiction Association, University of Pescara, Italy

Is there anything new to say about Frankenstein? (2019)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2019, May). Is there anything new to say about Frankenstein?. Presented at MA student conference, University of Winchester

Frankenstein and hidden sexualities (2018)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, November). Frankenstein and hidden sexualities. Presented at 1818-2018: The Silent Revolution: Of Fears, Follies and the Feminine,, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities (2018)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, July). Frankenstein’s monstrous sexualities. Presented at 14th International Gothic Association Conference - Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinarity, Multi-Modal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University

Monstrous dissections: Race, performance art and the Bride of Frankenstein (2018)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2018, February). Monstrous dissections: Race, performance art and the Bride of Frankenstein. Presented at The Bicentenary conference on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, University of Venice, Italy

From the Holy Family to the Manson Family; Religion, gender and the cult (2017)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2017, July). From the Holy Family to the Manson Family; Religion, gender and the cult. Paper presented at International Gothic Association, Gothic Traditions and Departures, University of Pueblo, Mexico

Strange worlds of Angela Carter (2017)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2017, May). Strange worlds of Angela Carter. Paper presented at Receiving/Perceiving Angela Carter, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Religious painting, atheism and gender in the work of Angela Carter (2017)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2017, January). Religious painting, atheism and gender in the work of Angela Carter. Paper presented at Fireworks: The Visual Imagination of Angela Carter, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity (2016)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, June). The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity. Paper presented at Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil, University of Sheffield

In August 1816, Matthew “Monk” Lewis arrived at Villa Diodati after having narrowly escaped being massacred in a slave riot in Jamaica where he owned two plantations. Shortly after his departure, Mary Shelley started writing about the monster. His co... Read More about The Bride of Frankenstein: Race and hybridity.

Animating the inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein (2016)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, April). Animating the inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein. Paper presented at Animating the Inanimate: Automation and Frankenstein, Watershed, Bristol

Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women (2016)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2016, March). Migrations of Catholic Horror and Bleeding Women. Paper presented at PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association) national conference, Seattle University, USA

Masons and the Military in the Fiction of Rudyard Kipling (2015)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, December). Masons and the Military in the Fiction of Rudyard Kipling. Paper presented at Kipling Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol (2015)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, September). Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol. Presented at Regional History Centre Lecture, M Shed Bristol

Bristol has been recognised as a centre of radicalism, yet its association with three of the most important female radicals of the 1790s, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays remains obscure. The city’s links between Gothic buildings, sla... Read More about Gothic writing, slavery and radical women in late eighteenth-century Bristol.

Migrating medical horror (2015)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, July). Migrating medical horror. Paper presented at Gothic Migrations 12th International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver

Mary Shelley and Bristol: ‘Workshop of filthy creation’? (2015)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2015, February). Mary Shelley and Bristol: ‘Workshop of filthy creation’?. Paper presented at War, Revolution and the Romantic Era in South West England, M Shed, Bristol

The Gothicisation of World War I (2014)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, December). The Gothicisation of World War I. Paper presented at Intellectuals and the Great War, University of Ghent, Belgium

Gothic excesses: Pride and Prejudice and zombies (2014)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, October). Gothic excesses: Pride and Prejudice and zombies. Paper presented at All that Gothic: Excess and Exuberance, University of Lodz, Poland

‘The worse woman I ever heard of’: Representations of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2014)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, July). ‘The worse woman I ever heard of’: Representations of Rosina Bulwer Lytton. Paper presented at Victorian Lives and Letters, University of Hertfordshire and Knebworth House

Impact case study: Raising awareness of prisoners through writing (2014)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2014, May). Impact case study: Raising awareness of prisoners through writing. Presented at Planning for the Future: ACE Faculty Research Away Day, Watershed, Bristol

Slavery, emancipation and mixed race (2013)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2013, December). Slavery, emancipation and mixed race. Paper presented at Dark Latitudes: Mapping Gothic Sites and Mediums, University of San Jose, Costa Rica

Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and vampires: Brand and genre (2013)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2013, June). Zombies, Pride and Prejudice and vampires: Brand and genre. Paper presented at Pride and Prejudice: Celebrating 200 Years, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors (2012)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012, November). A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors. Paper presented at Bram Stoker Birthday Symposium, University of Hull

This paper will consider Dracula as a medical novel with particular reference to the ways in which Stoker made use of surgical details. It will focus upon how the treatment of vampirism may be paralleled with various surgical techniques, particularly... Read More about A paroxysm of abnormal excitement: Dracula and the castrating doctors.

Bristol: Gothic City (2012)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2012, May). Bristol: Gothic City. Presented at Writing the West conference, M Shed, Bristol

Hand-ling patchwork girl (2011)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2011, November). Hand-ling patchwork girl. Paper presented at Contemporary Women’s Gothic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association conference, University of Brighton

The forbidden room: Gender and adaptation in bluebeard (2010)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2010, December). The forbidden room: Gender and adaptation in bluebeard. Presented at Gothic and Genre, Swansea University

Celebrating women’s writing (2010)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2010, June). Celebrating women’s writing. Presented at Celebrating Women’s Writing, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge

Brides of Frankenstein: From text to flesh (2010)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2010, March). Brides of Frankenstein: From text to flesh. Paper presented at The Monster in Art and its Different Manifestations, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Gothic totalitarianism: Jews, Nazis and shadow of the vampire (2008)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2008, August). Gothic totalitarianism: Jews, Nazis and shadow of the vampire. Paper presented at Uncanny Media, Utrecht University, Holland

Goddesses of reason and their daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler, Mary Shelley and Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2008)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2008, April). Goddesses of reason and their daughters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Wheeler, Mary Shelley and Rosina Bulwer Lytton. Presented at Mothers and Daughters Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837, Senate House, University of London

The bloody chamber: Anatomising female Gothic (2004)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004, July). The bloody chamber: Anatomising female Gothic. Presented at Female Gothic, University of Glamorgan

Bloody women (2004)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2004, February). Bloody women. Presented at Spaces of the Mind, Centre for Romanticism and Enlightenment Studies, University of Glasgow

“His prints we read”: The masonic narratives of punishment and Jacobitism in William Hogarth and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The cask of amontillado” (2003)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2003, November). “His prints we read”: The masonic narratives of punishment and Jacobitism in William Hogarth and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The cask of amontillado”. Paper presented at Fifth Annual International Conference, Freemasonry in Music and Literature, Canonbury Masonic Research Centre

Hogarth’s masonic iconography: The metaphors of secrecy, perjury and punishment (2003)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2003, June). Hogarth’s masonic iconography: The metaphors of secrecy, perjury and punishment. Paper presented at Representation in the Eighteenth-Century, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Mainz, Germany

Menstrual mythologies: Vampires, stigmatics and the cult of the Medusa (2003)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2003, January). Menstrual mythologies: Vampires, stigmatics and the cult of the Medusa. Presented at Menstruation: Blood, Body, Brand, Institute of Feminist Theory and Research, Medical Institute, University of Liverpool

Dracula at the millennium: Is there a future for the undead? (1999)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1999, July). Dracula at the millennium: Is there a future for the undead?. Presented at Bram Stoker Summer School, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Writing for their lives: Writers on America's death row (1999)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1999, April). Writing for their lives: Writers on America's death row. Presented at Amnesty International Conference, Quaker Meeting House, Bristol

The Lunacy of Rosina Bulwer Lytton: The Secret Sodomy Scandal (1998)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1998, April). The Lunacy of Rosina Bulwer Lytton: The Secret Sodomy Scandal. Paper presented at Victorian Gothic Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Vampirism and menstruation (1997)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1997, August). Vampirism and menstruation. Paper presented at Dracula ‘97: A Centennial Celebration, Los Angeles, USA

Her right his name: The lunacy and libel of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1996)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1996, July). Her right his name: The lunacy and libel of Rosina Bulwer Lytton. Paper presented at Women, Sexuality and Gender, Corpus Christi College, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Mary Shelley and Rosicrucian Romanticism (1989)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1989, March). Mary Shelley and Rosicrucian Romanticism. Paper presented at Reviewing Romanticism, King Alfred's College, Winchester

Science and the supernatural in Godwin's St Leon (1987)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1987, July). Science and the supernatural in Godwin's St Leon. Paper presented at VII International Congress on Enlightenment,, Budapest, Hungary

Burns and freemasonry (1986)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M. (1986, August). Burns and freemasonry. Paper presented at Aberdeen and the Enlightenment, University of Aberdeen