{"id":32,"date":"2019-01-10T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2019-01-10T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T11:53:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glitches and Ghosts in an interdisciplinary conference taking place at Lancaster University on 17th April 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organisers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kerry Dodd<\/strong> is a PhD researcher at Lancaster University, UK and Reviews Editor for\u00a0<i>Fantastika Journal<\/i>. His thesis, entitled \u201cThe Archaeological Weird: Excavating the Non-human,\u201d examines the intersection between archaeology and Weird fiction. Utilising a post-structural materialist framework, his thesis focuses on how archaeological framings can offer a re-conceptualisation of object-orientated ontology through the Weird. Kerry also works more widely in the fields of: Science Fiction (particularly Cosmic Horror and Cyberpunk), the Gothic and glitch aesthetics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><strong><span class=\"highlight selected\">Brian Baker<\/span><\/strong> is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University,\u00a0UK. He has published, among other books,\u00a0<em>Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film\u00a0and Television\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) and\u00a0<em>The Reader\u2019s Guide to Essential\u00a0Criticism: Science Fiction<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is currently making films,\u00a0engaged in several critical\/creative writing projects including a book on 1960s Science Fiction, and is developing projects that investigate the relation between sound\/music,\u00a0narrative and subjectivity.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glitches and Ghosts in an interdisciplinary conference taking place at Lancaster University on 17th April 2019. Organisers Kerry Dodd is a PhD researcher at Lancaster University, UK and Reviews Editor for\u00a0Fantastika Journal. His thesis, entitled \u201cThe Archaeological Weird: Excavating the Non-human,\u201d examines the intersection between archaeology and Weird fiction. Utilising a post-structural materialist framework, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaBAby-w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/glitchesandghosts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}