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Friday, June 5
 

8:15am EDT

Panel A: Conspicuous Consumption
Friday June 5, 2026 8:15am - 9:30am EDT
Butler
"Cannibal Horror in Italy"
Spencer Stoller

"“Everything is for Sale”: Commensurability and the Horror of Capitalist Forms in Stephen King’s Needful Things"
Eric Otto

"Occult Wars in the Age of Aquarius: The Battle on the Bookshelf"
Katherine Kerestman
Speakers
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Spencer Stoller

English major at Scripps College and aspiring writer.

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Eric Otto

Professor and Chair, Department of Integrated Studies, Florida Gulf Coast University
Eric Otto is Professor of Environmental Humanities at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the author of Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism (2012) and is currently editing The Liverpool Handbook of Environmental Science Fiction. His work spans environmental humanities, science fiction, horror, and scenario-based humanities pedagogy... Read More →
KK

Katherine Kerestman

Author & Independent Scholar
Katherine Kerestman is the author of Lethal (PsychoToxin Press, 2023), Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020), and Haunted House and Other Strange Tales (Hippocampus Press, 2024), and a... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 8:15am - 9:30am EDT
Butler
  Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference

9:45am EDT

Panel B: "Strangely are Our Souls Constructed": On Frankenstein
Friday June 5, 2026 9:45am - 11:00am EDT
Butler
“Creation, Grief, Ambition, and the Divine in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)”
Cynthia Pelayo

"Created by Misogyny: The Bride Archetype in James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)"
Stephanie Wytovich

"“I Am Fearless and Therefore Powerful”: Bisexuality, Belonging, and Reanimated Revenge in Frankenstein"
Gwendolyn Kiste

"Frankenstein and his Creature: Narcissism's Tragic Consequences"
George Hagman
Speakers
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Cynthia Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo is an International Latino Book Award winning poet and author.

She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, as well as dozens of sta... Read More →
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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been featured in magazines and anthologies, such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, and The Best Horror of the Year: Volumes 8 & 15.

Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press and an adjunct at Western Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University, and Point Park University. She has received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers... Read More →
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Gwendolyn Kiste

Gwendolyn Kiste is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub,  Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, CrimeReads, Titan Books, The Lineup, and The Dark. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror Award... Read More →
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Friday June 5, 2026 9:45am - 11:00am EDT
Butler
  Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference

12:30pm EDT

Panel C: "Hell with the Lid Taken Off": Steeltown and the USA
Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Butler
"Pittsburgh as Embodiment of Zombie Culture in Four Snapshots" 
Kevin Wetmore

"Female Representation in the Living Dead Films of George A. Romero"
Victoria Timpanaro

"George A. Romero's Martin and Mental Health in Postindustrial Communities"
Ande Thomas

"Nihilism, Gun Violence, and The Long Walk (2025)"
Emma Johnson-Rivard


Speakers
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Kevin Wetmore, Jr.

Volunteer Coordinator, HWA LA

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Victoria Timpanaro

Graduate Student/Educator/Film Scholar, Rutgers University
Educator and film scholar. PhD candidate with focus on women in genre film.
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Ande Thomas

Editor in Chief, What Sleeps Beneath
Ande Thomas is a founding member and Editor in Chief of What Sleeps Beneath, an online zine that explores horror in all its forms. He is a member of the HWA and the Society For Cinema and Media Studies. He is also co-sponsor of Poetry After Dark, a monthly series that features screenings... Read More →
EJ
Friday June 5, 2026 12:30pm - 1:45pm EDT
Butler
  Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference

2:00pm EDT

Panel D: Worlds of Horror
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Butler
"The Egg-Shaped Universe: Séances, Channelings & Hilma af Klint’s Transcendent Paintings"
Shannon Kearns

"Becoming the Apocalypse: The Indigipoetics of Horror"
Naomi Simone Borwein

"Haunted Tongues: Multilingualism and Gothic Elements in Gambian Literature"
Modou Lamin Age-Almusaf Sowe

"Generic Rhetorical Violations and Reconfiguration of Fear in Dead by Daylight"
Janice Day
Speakers
SK
NS
JD
Friday June 5, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
Butler
  Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference

3:30pm EDT

Panel E: Gendered Tensions and Feminist Rebellions
Friday June 5, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Butler
"Locking the Door from the Inside: marriage, surveillance, and institutional power in horror cinema"
Mo Moshaty

"Dracula's Monstrous Femininity" 
Rachel Allison

"What's in a Name? Cassandra in horror: resilience through tragedy"
Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar

Speakers
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Rachel Allison

Graduate Teaching Assistant, George Mason University
Rachel is a first year English master’s student concentrating in literature at George Mason University. They received their Bachelor of Arts in English at George Mason University and currently hold a graduate teaching assistantship. As an emerging scholar, Rachel believes in diversifying... Read More →
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Mo Moshaty

Writer, Lecturer, Producer and Journalist, NightTide Magazine/Mourning Manor Media
Mo Moshaty is a multi-award-winning horror writer, producer, and international lecturer whose work explores trauma, folklore, and the boundaries of fear through a diverse and inclusive lens. She is the author of Maddalena – 206 Word Stories (2022), Henry – A Quaint and Curious... Read More →
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Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Author/Editor/English Professor
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is a Pennsylvania writer, editor, and English professor who teaches creative writing, composition, and composition theory classes. A former secondary English teacher in Delaware public schools, she received her Doctorate of Education with a Literacy Specialization... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Butler
  Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference
 

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