Van Cortlandt Park

This virtual lecture will interrogate 19th century notions of 'the haunted house' through reading literary text alongside archival material, in an effort to examine where ‘domestic’ culture and ‘domesticity’ were happening tangibly in the home, begging us to consider broader social interactions around gender, race, and class as intrinsic to the Gothic trope we all know so well!

Lawrence Lorraine Mullen holds a PhD in English with a minor in cultural studies from the University at Buffalo and a Masters of Library and Information Science, with a specialization in Archives and Records Management. Their doctoral dissertation triangulated mid-nineteenth century architectural blueprints and American house pattern books, haunted house narratives, and theories of domesticity and domestic space. They were a 2022 Historic Hudson Valley Women's History Summer Research Fellow and a 2023 American Antiquarian Society Equity Access Fellow.

This virtual talk is FREE.

Registration is required to receive a Zoom link.

Language: this talk will be delivered in English.