Public Appearances Archive

True Love Never Dies, But It Might Just Kill You - Why Audiences Love the Toxicity of Twilight Romances 

 at 2025 PCA/ACA International Conference in New Orleans

Sleeping with the Vampire with Romancing the Gothic 17 December 2022 


Pardon My Bite: Vampire Women who kill Children talk at the Children of the Night International Dracula Congress

16th to 18th April 2021. 


Lesung aus Es geschah zu Halloween 

25. Oktober 2019 

Heimatstube Calbe


Pardon My Bite at the Academic Conference of the 

International Vampire Film & Arts Festival

10 July 2019

Reading from a selection of stories at the Creative Congress 

of the 

International Vampire Film & Arts Festival

12 July 2019

Highgate Village & Camden Town, London


Monstrous Women at the 

2019 PCA/ACA International Conference in Washington, DC

Friday, 19 April 2019 


Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and 

Transhistorical Approaches

14th conference of the International Gothic Association: IGA 2018

31 July – 03 August 2018, Manchester Metropolitan University

Sleeping with the Vampire Part 2: Tracing Vampire Characteristics from Dracula to 21st Century YA Literature

 at 2024 PCA/ACA International Conference in Chicago, IL

Watch the award  video

image showing a number of books that author Nancy Schumann contributed to

Popular Culture / American Culture Conference 2017

12 - 15 April 2017, San Diego, USA 

‘Women with Bite: The vampire in folklore’


Into the Woods book launch

17 März 2017 International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester; a Hic Dragones event 


Transylvanian Society of Dracula

International Open Conference

20 & 21 October 2016 Trinity College, Dublin, Irland


Lesung aus Kaffeeduft in London

09. May 2016 Bavarian Beerhouse Old Street

20. February 2016 London South Bank Centre 

26. February 2016 Heimatstube Calbe/S.


Daughters of Fangdom

A Conference on Women and the Television Vampire

18 April 2015 University of Roehampton


(De)Constructing Stereotypes Workshop

International Conference Beliefs and Behaviours

25-27 June 2015 West University of Timisoara, Romania


Halloween Vampir Lesungen 2013

25. October 2013 - Heimatstube Calbe/S.

27. October 2013 - Absintherie Sixtina; Leipzig 


Impossible Spaces book launch

19 July 2013 International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester;  a Hic Dragones event 


A Night of Strange and Dark Fictions

27 May 2013 Prestwich, Manchester 

Cannibals: Cannibalism, Consumption and Culture

25 April 2013 Manchester

a Hic Dragones event


Halloween Vampire Lecture 2012 

Bart's Pathology Museum, London 

‘Women with Bite: The vampire in folklore’


03 November 2011 

Vampires: Myths of the Past and the Future Conference 

University of London


26 June 2011

The Crypt, Manchester


12 June 2011

WAVE GOTIK TREFFEN LEIPZIG