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Bethany\u2019s PhD in creative writing and history<\/a> is using her grandmother\u2019s against-the-odds divorce as a case study for exploring the use of gothic literature to communicate critical family histories, with a focus on women.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research interests include gothic literature, critical family history, women\u2019s history, and creative practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch her presentation on contemporary Australian gothic and its use of landscape to illustrate our discomfort of living on stolen land:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q3xPtePuJrg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Bethany\u2019s PhD in creative writing and history is using her grandmother\u2019s against-the-odds divorce as a case study for exploring the use of gothic literature to communicate critical family histories, with a focus on women.\u00a0 Her research interests include gothic literature, critical family history, women\u2019s history, and creative practice. Watch her presentation on contemporary Australian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindolhall.com\/bethany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}