Name: Goth Film Club: INGHS Talk Horror Film Selection, Appreciation and Critique
Start: 2026-01-31T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-31T14:30:00+00:00
Location: Griffith College Dublin Main Campus

Goth Film Club: INGHS Talk Horror Film Selection, Appreciation and Critique

The Irish Network for Gothic & Horror Studies is a collective promoting the work of Gothic and Horror scholars and creative practitioners.
About this Event

Join us for a live panel discussion with academics Máiréad Casey, Dara Downey and Janice Lynne Deitner of INGHS.

The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies (Panel Discussion)

The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies is a collective whose aim is to promote the work of Gothic and Horror scholars and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland. At Imbolg, INGHS organisers will join us to share their experience and insights from their women-curated and managed monthly film discussion club. In a round table chaired by the INGHS’s journal general editor Dr Dara Downey, film club moderator Dr Mairead Casey and the journal’s assistant editor Dr Janice Deitner will join her to discuss how their group of horror scholars and film enthusiasts approach analysis of their chosen movies, which include the 2025 Frankenstein adaptation, Hausu, Robert Wise's The Haunting, Eyes Without a Face, Tenebre and Let's Scare Jessica to Death.

Speakers

Máiréad Casey is a Lecturer in Film & Television Studies with the Huston School of Film and Digital Media and a post-doctoral researcher and project manager for the H2021 MSCA-funded Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures (REBPAF) doctoral network. Her upcoming monograph Demon Possession and Sexual Violence in Post-Great Recession American Horror Cinema is scheduled for publication with the University of Wales Press in February 2026.

Janice Lynne Deitner is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin. Her work, funded by Research Ireland, situates American author Shirley Jackson within the postwar periodical landscape, with a focus on critically neglected magazines. She is an Assistant Editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and co-organizer of The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies.

Dara Downey lectures in literature and film in Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology. She is the author of American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (2014) and editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (https://irishgothicjournal.net/). She is currently writing a book about Shirley Jackson, and is also working on a project on servants and enslaved figures in American gothic fiction and popular culture.

About INGHS

The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies is a collective whose aim is to promote the work of Gothic and Horror scholars and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland. At Imbolg, INGHS organisers will join us to share their experience and insights from their women-curated and managed monthly film discussion club. In a round table chaired by the INGHS’s journal general editor Dr Dara Downey, film club moderator Dr Mairead Máiréad and the journal’s assistant editor Dr Janice Deitner will join her to discuss how their group of horror scholars and film enthusiasts approach analysis of their chosen movies, which include the 2025 Frankenstein adaptation, Hausu, Robert Wise's The Haunting, Eyes Without a Face, Tenebre and Let's Scare Jessica to Death.

Imbolg: Women Who Terrify Film Festival

Taking place on 30th - 31st January at Griffith College Dublin, the Imbolg Women Who Terrify Film Festival will celebrate women who terrify, both on screen and behind the camera. As winter draws to a close, this coven of creatives and connoisseurs will gather to mark the Celtic festival of Imbolg. This two-day film festival focuses the lens on the rage, resilience, and creative work of women storytellers. The Imbolg: Women Who Terrify Film Festival warmly welcomes the work and stories of trans women, gender-diverse, non-binary, and intersex creatives.