Call for Papers – Geographies of Horror
Department of English Studies (University of Zadar) in collaboration with The Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG)
Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Central Michigan University)
The interdisciplinary conference explores the spatial dimensions of dread and the cultural cartography of the gothic. Scholars are invited to submit proposals examining how fear, trauma, and memory imprints onto architectural and urban landscapes throughout historical and contemporary media representations.
May 20-21st 2027, University of Zadar (Zadar, Croatia)
Call for Chapters – Scary Levels: Designing Fear in Games and Interactive Media
The volume explores how fear is designed and experienced in games and interactive media through space, movement, environmental and indexical storytelling, and interdisciplinary methods.
Proposal deadline: July 1, 2026.
Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2026.
Full essays due: December 1, 2026.
Publications
The ASTRAH project translates empirical fieldwork into theoretical frameworks through interdisciplinary research published in leading architectural and sociological journals.
Geography of Horror: Spaces, Hauntings and the American Imagination
M. Lukić, Springer Nature, 2022
Dark Urbanity
T. Parezanović & M. Lukić, Springer International Publishing, 2020
Heterotopian Horrors
M. Lukić & T. Parezanović, Springer International Publishing, 2020
Urban Legends and the Cultural Geography of Horror
I. Jurković, M. Lukić & T. Prezanović, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2026
The Omnipresent Dread and Spatial Displacement in the Horror Video Game Killer Frequency
In: Urban Legends and the Cultural Geography of Horror, 173-186; Z. Bukač, 2026
Symbolism of Compass Roses on Early Modern Nautical Charts of the Adriatic Sea
In: KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information, 19 - 37; J. Faričić; I. Kljajić; L. Mirošević & D. Mlinarić, 2023
Fear and Anxiety in Louisiana: Affects and Immersion in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Z. Bukač co-authored with Emilia Musap, presented at the conference Culture at Play: Avatars, Players, and Others, 2023
