Syllabus 2026-27
Week 1: Introduction
Stories: Algernon Blackwood, 鈥淭he Willows鈥� (1907); Okamoto Kid艒, 鈥淪ea Turtles鈥� (1934); China Mi茅ville, 鈥淐ovehithe鈥� (2011)
Amitav Ghosh, 鈥淪tories,鈥� The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Mark Fisher, from The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater, 2016)
Week 2:
Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle [1962] (Penguin, 2009)
Nicole Seymour, from Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013)
Week 3
Marlen Haushofer, The Wall [1963], trans. Shaun Whiteside (Quartet, 2013)
Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan H枚glund, eds., from Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
Week 4
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [2009], trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Fitzcarraldo, 2018)
Ed Yong, from An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Vintage, 2023)
Week 5
Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot: A Novella, trans. Marjam Idriss (Verso, 2018)
Sigmund Freud, 鈥淭he Uncanny鈥�
Week 6: Reading week
Week 7
Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation (Fourth Estate, 2015)
Merlin Sheldrake, from Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Vintage, 2021)
Week 8
Eka Kurniawan, Kitchen Curse: Stories, trans. Annie Tucker et al. (Verso, 2019)
Glennis Byron, ed., from Globalgothic (Manchester University Press, 2016)
Week 9
Rita Indiana, Tentacle, trans. Achy Obejas (And Other Stories, 2018)
The Salvage Collective, The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene (Verso, 2021)
Week 10
Fernanda Tr铆as, Pink Slime, trans. Heather Cleary (Scribe, 2023)
Derek Jarman, from Modern Nature (Vintage, 2018)