Event title:

‘Landfills and Garbage in American Gothic imagination’ - Tea Time Talk

Event details

Event details

Date:
Thursday, 24th October 2019
Time:
18:30 - 20:30
Location:
Wilberforce LT1
Campus:
Hull Campus
Categories:
  Tea-Time Talks - Gothic Nature  

Event description

Event description

Speaker: Layla Hendow, PhD candidate in English Literature, Faculty of Arts, Culture and Humanities. 

Abstract:

If garbage is a contemporary gothic symbol, it aptly represents a waste crisis that is both caused by humans and feared by them. Landfills are the modern equivalent of gothic landscapes or architecture: huge mounds of trash that cause emotions of fear and remind people of death, decay and destruction. Potential new developments are met with cries of “NOT IN MY BACK YARD!” from a public who do not want to have to encounter their waste. This talk grows out Layla’s research on waste in contemporary American literature. Using a variety of literary examples, the talk will look at way in which waste and garbage becomes a contemporary gothic trope: at once a source of fear on the one hand and sublimity on the other.

Biography:

Layla Hendow is a PhD candidate at the University of Hull. Her research centres on waste and garbage in contemporary North American Fiction. Previously, she completed her MA at Warwick University with a focus on waste and petro-fiction, and her BA at Lancaster University. Her interests include waste and garbage studies, thing theory and the body as waste in contemporary British and American Literature.

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This talk is part of ‘Gothic Nature’ Tea-Time Talk Series

This series of talks celebrates the research and teaching of the Faculty of Arts, Culture and Education at the University of Hull.

 

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