Lancaster University

Department Member, English and Creative Writing

Other Affiliations: Manchester Metropolitan University, Interdisciplinary Studies

PhD student, teaching staff

County Main

Thesis Title: 'Consuming Mutilation: Affect, Torture and the Staging/Screening of Corporeal Transgression'

About

I am currently undertaking funded doctoral studies at Lancaster University. My PhD thesis analyses the aesthetics of pain, bodily mutilation and affectivity in Horror and Gothic texts. Recent and forthcoming publications include:

Book chapters:

‘Discipline... But Punish!: Foucault, Agamben, and Torture Porn’s Thanatopolitical Scaffold’, in Cinema and the State-Tortured Body, ed. by Mark de Valk (under review by Palgrave Macmillan).

'Situating Postmodern Gothic Landscapes (2001-2011): Suburban Spaces, Machinic Systems and the Redundancy of the Body', in Where Horror Dwells: Locating Horror Across Media Landscapes, ed. by Patricia Oman and Drew Beard (under review by Continuum).

'Contemporary Horror Film and the Mediation of Violence', in Violence and the Limits of Representation, ed. by Graham Matthews and Sam Goodman (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, forthcoming).

‘A ‘Flesh’ New Start: The Transgressive Case of ‘Torture Porn’’, in Transgression and its Limits, ed. by Matt Foley, Neil McRobert and Aspasia Stephanou (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, forthcoming).

‘Obsessed with Pain: Body Politics and Contemporary Gothic’, 21st Century Gothic, edited by Caroline Ruddell and Brigid Cherry (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).


Journal articles:

‘Beyond Psychoanalysis: Post-Millennial Horror Film and Affective Theory’, Horror Studies (Intellect, 2012, forthcoming).

‘Skin Deep: Surgical Horror and the Impossibility of Becoming Woman in Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live in’, The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Liverpool University, 2012, forthcoming).

'Theorising Corporeal Apocalypse: Carnal Nihilism, Technology and the Filmic Body', EnterText (University of Brunel, 2012, forthcoming).

‘“Who Ordered the Hamburger with AIDS?”: Haematophilic Semiotics in Tru(e) Blood, in Gothic Studies (Manchester University Press, November 2012, forthcoming).

'Bodily Boundaries and Desire: "Genderlessness" in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body’, in The Body of the Signifier: Contemporary Literature and Body Theory (El cuerpo del significante: La literatura contemporánea desde las teorías corporales) (Barcelona: UOC, Open University of Catalonia, 2011).

‘“The Body is a Bloody Battlefield”: Gender (De)Constructions in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve and Jackie Kay's Trumpet', Bodies of Work: Women in the Arts, AHRC-funded monograph, June 2010 (on-line component), [http://www.bodiesofwork.info/Body%20is%20a%20Blood%20Battlefield. html].

- and reviews in ‘The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies’, 'Transgressive Culture' (forthcoming) and 'The Gothic Imagination'.

I am the Academic Coordinator of the International Summer Programme at Lancaster University (for the ‘British Culture and Literature 1800-2000’ course), where I lecture. I have taught on the ‘ENGL100 Introduction to English Literature’ and 'SPAN200/209 Oral Skills: Advanced Spanish' courses at Lancaster and I am also an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire (Crewe), where I teach on the Year 2 course 'Gothic and Gender'.

I am a postgraduate representative for the International Gothic Association, a mamber of the British Shakespeare Association and an associate of the British Higher Education Academy.

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