6th Annual GOTH Symposium

The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program consists of the following panels:

1. Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
   • Melanie Taylor (OU): Exiled Domestics in Dorothy Whipple's novels
   • Isabelle Lepore-Thompson (OU): Christina of Markyate: a 12th century ‘Loose Woman’?
   • Antonia Saunders (OU): The Objectification of Mirah: Representations of Jewish Women as the Other in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
   • Eleanor Cullen (children’s writer): Villain or Victim? Can men only write two types of leading lady?
   • Karen Paine (OU) online: A Brief Introduction to Performative Reading in the Sensation Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
   • Gwyneth Jones (OU): Thinking About Eels
2. Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture, with particular emphasis on:
   • Panel 1: Creative Writing - Chair: Jennie Owen (OU)
     • Katie Robinson-Sherlock (OU) H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror
     • Keren Poliah (Salford) Words from World Watchers: gender and otherness in method writing of Mauritian occult experiences
   • Panel 2: Medieval and Early Modern Women - Chairs: Andrew Murray (OU) & Isabelle Lepore-Thompson (OU)
     • Bridger M Bartlett (Swansea) Beastly She-Fools in Early Modern English Culture
     • E. H. Betthell (Essex) Contested Authorship and Gendered Authority: Juliana Berners and The Boke of St Albans
     • Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway) Female Rage: Anger, Gender and Power in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
   • Panel 3: Self and Other - Chair: Katie Robinson-Sherlock (OU)
     • Katrina Rolley (Independent Scholar) Our other selves: Exploring gender and otherness in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and lived experience of lesbian identities
     • Patrick Wright (OU) A psychoanalytic and linguistic approach to the use of the pronoun "I" in contemporary poetry

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Committee:

• M A Katritzky – Director, GOTH & Professor of Theatre Studies, OU, ECW
• Dr Andrew Murray, GOTH EDI Co-ordinator, Lecturer in Art History, OU
• Mrs Jennie Owen, GOTH Health & Safety Co-ordinator, Lecturer in Creative Writing, OU, ECW.
• Isabelle Lepore, GOTH PG Forum Convenor (OU, ECW)
• Katie Robinson-Sherlock, GOTH PGR Forum Co-convenor (OU, ECW)