ACADEMIC RESEARCH • 學術研究 2021 UMAGAZINE 24 • 澳大新語 56 等平台宣傳相關活動。近期我們計劃舉辦關於「小 說家伯蘭‧史杜克的跨國影響」的專題討論會和一 場關於學術出版的圓桌會議，期望支持新晉研究人 員。UMGothic歡迎澳大所有學科的同仁提出有關舉行 會議和研討會的建議，也期望在策劃活動、宣傳活動和 提議出版項目等方面提供建議和幫助。與此同時，我們 還銳意發展新的研究方向，包括分析哥德文學在澳門文 化乃至粵港澳大灣區文學、電影和藝術中的地位。 在2021年7月3日舉行，匯聚美國、英國、歐洲其他國家 和亞洲各領域的學者和研究者。出席的澳大學者有人文 學院的Damian Shaw教授，會議由西安交通利物浦大學 Tom Duggett教授主持，講者來自英國埃克塞特大學、英 國公開大學、香港大學、馬來西亞莫納什大學、德國馬爾 堡大學、丹麥奧爾胡斯大學和美國東北大學。 展望將來，我們會繼續在《今日澳大》和UMGothic的社交 媒體專頁（Twitter：@UMGothic、Facebook：UMGothic） The University of Macau (UM) is fast becoming an international centre for the study of the Gothic tradition in literature, art, television, and cinema. The Gothic originated in 17th‑century England, in part as a political movement, before developing as a reaction to the cultural changes associated with increasing industrialisation and the intellectual challenges of the European Enlightenment. Gothic fiction is characterised by the evocative description of sublime and menacing landscapes, by the presence or suggestion of the supernatural, and by extremes of characterisation and emotion. Though the writings of early writers in the Gothic tradition – such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Matthew Lewis – may well be unfamiliar to readers in Macao, others – such as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and Bram Stoker, who wrote Dracula – composed novels that have undoubtedly shaped not only the fiction but also the television and cinema of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Gothic is also an important precursor to the Romantic movement associated with Anglophone poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, the Pre‑Raphaelite movement of artists and writers, and strongly influenced the works of German writers such as Goethe and Schiller, French authors including Hugo and Le Roux (both of whom have inspired enduring Gothic musicals: Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera), and American writers and poets from Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King and Anne Rice. The genre has also had a significant impact upon contemporary film in Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Since their appointment to the university in January 2020, UM professors Nick Groom and William Hughes have worked closely with colleagues within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and with eminent scholars across the world, in order to develop a new research network for the study of Gothic: UMGothic. UMGothic was launched with a Zoom symposium on 27 May 2020, chaired by Prof Tim Simpson (FSS), in which the aspirations of the new research network were discussed – specifically in considering how research in the humanities and social sciences can respond creatively and critically to global issues, from environmentalism to health and well‑being, and to connect with other communities around the world; expressions of interest were invited from across the university. A more substantial online conference followed this introductory event on 30 June 2020, this being a highly topical and timely consideration of the culture and issues surrounding pandemics in general and the COVID‑19 outbreak in particular. Provocatively entitled ‘CoronaGothic’, the event was chaired by Prof Victoria Harrison, then assistant dean of the FAH. The symposium’s substantial international audience engaged with presentations delivered by David Punter at the University of Bristol, Samantha George at the University of Hertfordshire, Darryl Jones at Trinity College Dublin, Mariaconcetta Costantini at Università degli studi G.D’Annunzio Chieti Pescara, Corinna Wagner and Steve Hinchliffe at the University of Exeter, as well as Nick Groom and William Hughes at UM. The neologism ‘CoronaGothic’ was coined by FAH professor Matthew Gibson, and became the title of the published version of the conference which appeared in a special issue of the prestigious internationally refereed journal Critical Quarterly in December 2020, and has already been cited in academic publications. The success of ‘CoronaGothic’ led to a further online conference, organised by FAH professor Jeremy de Chavez, who drew on his specialist research into Gothic in Philippine culture. Hosted again on Zoom, ‘Gothic in the Philippines’ took
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