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Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition (2022)
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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.

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)
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)
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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?.