October meeting
Season of the Witch – Bridget M. Marshall
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
6:30 to socialize
The meeting proper starts at 7pm
In the spirit of Halloween, Marshall will discuss the lesser known witch trials of western Massachusetts.
Bridget M. Marshall is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell where she teaches courses on Gothic novels, disability in literature, witchcraft trials, and American literature. Her most recent book is Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature (2021, University of Wales Press). In it she explores how nineteenth-century British and American literature reflects anxieties about the Industrial Revolution and how authors used Gothic stock characters and imagery – vampires, ghosts, and haunted buildings – to explore some of the real-life terrors of the world’s industrial transformation.