Women’S Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas

Megan DeVirgilis is Associate Professor of Spanish at Morgan State UniversitySandra García Gutiérrez is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies at Lamar University

• Introduction: Moving Beyond the Female Gothic: Women’s Agency Over Time – Megan DeVirgilis and Sandra García GutiérrezPart I Gothic Beginnings: Women and the Nineteenth Century 1 At the Margin of the Margins: Women Reading Gothic in Early-Nineteenth Century Spain – Miriam López Santos2 Torres y Quiroga’s Gothic Fiction: Destabilizing Nineteenth-Century Argentine Nation-Building Narratives through Violence on Women – Lina Ruiz-Guzmán3 Marital Rape in a Transatlantic Gothic Context: Juana Manuela Gorriti’s “Una visita infernal” (1867) and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s “Vampiro” (1901) – Megan DeVirgilisPart II Gothic Herstories: Capitalism, Debt, and Alternative Ways of Knowing4 Indebted Life, Gothic Mothers: A New Puerto Rican Genealogy in the Short Stories of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro – Sandra M. Casanova-Vizcaíno5 Latin American Folk Horror and Ecofeminism: The Short Stories of Mónica Ojeda and Mariana Enriquez – Emily Horton6 Social Horror and Women’s Subversion in Mayra Montero’s Gothic Narratives – Renata PontesPart III (Dis)located Fears: Genetics, Breeding, and Monstrosity7 Fungal Fears and Botanical Horrors: The Ecogothic Home in Mexican Gothic – Ilse M. Bussing López 8 Schweblin and Rossi: Cultural Anxieties in Gothic Tales of Motherhood – Nadina Olmedo9 Porous Matter and Anthropophagy in Concha Alós’s Short Stories – Ana Álvarez GuillénPart IV Hybrid Narratives in Twenty-First Century Gothic 10 Haunted Houses in Gothic Storytelling: In the Dream House (2019) by Carmen Maria Machado and “Biography” (2023) by María Fernanda Ampuero – Inés Ordiz11 The Feminine Gothic in the Micro-Stories of Patricia Esteban Erlés: Rewriting of the Folk Tale and Exploration of the Feminine Paradigm – Ana Calvo Revilla 12 A Tale of Ecogothic Multihauntings: Mourning and Nurturing in Ethel Frost y el susurro del bosque (2020) by Victoria Francés – Sandra García Gutiérrez13 Domestic Violence and the Female Gothic in Spain: A Visual/Poetic Approach to Bibiana Collado Cabrera’s Violencia, Sara Morante’s Flor fané, and Sara Mesa’s La familia – Irene Gómez-Castellano