All Outputs (52)

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