Shirley Jackson's Textual Hauntings: A Public Lecture on the Author's Intertexts and Afterlives
Scholars of Shirley Jackson are quick to note her influence on contemporary horror and gothic literature. From overt references to subtle nods and barely visible traces, Jackson's oeuvre continues to resurface with a haunting persistence. This is fitting in that Jackson's own work is full of allusions that tempt her readers to pursue tangled webs of association and signification. This talk will consider Jackson's intertextuality from both of these angles and introduce Monstrum 6.2, Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives.
Emily Banks (MFA, Ph.D) is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Franklin College. Her work on Shirley Jackson has appeared in Shirley Jackson: A Companion, Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House, Women's Studies, and JMMLA. She chairs the Shirley Jackson Society and is a managing editor of Shirley Jackson Studies. She has published additional scholarship on the American Gothic in ESQ, Mississippi Quarterly, and Arizona Quarterly, and is also the author of the poetry collection Mother Water. She lives in Indianapolis.