Qualifications
M.A. in English, University of Arkansas, December 2025.
Thesis: “Want Me to Investigate the Kennedy Assassination While I’m At It?”: Necropolitics and the Nation in American Western Cinema. Supervised by Professor Kay Yandell.
B.A. in English, Royal Holloway University of London, May 2021. 1st Class hons.
Dissertation: ‘Binding the Wound’: A Trauma Theory Reading of Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. Supervised by Professor Sophie Gilmartin.
Refereed Journal Articles
2024
‘Masculinity, #Metoo and Misleading Marketing: The Unmet Sexpectations of the American Gigolo Remake.’ Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 13, Adaptations, Reboots and Remakes in Popular Culture, pp. 209–222. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00099_1
2023
‘Dazzled by Brass and Scarlet: The Role of the Redcoat in 19th Century British Literature.’ Clothing Cultures vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1386/cc_00070_1.
Book Chapters
2025
‘Blonde Bimbo Girls: Barbie’s Legacy on the Material Culture of Plastic Surgery’. The Barbie Phenomenon, Volume 2: Icon, Brand, Celebrity and Fandom. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003611523
2025
‘Exploitation, Legislation and Unmet Expectations – The Complex Legacy of Law and Order SVU’. Communication, Entertainment, and Messages of Social Justice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003493952
2025
‘Exploited Reservations, Ongoing Subjugation and Indigenous Historicisation: The Whitewashing of Washington State in the Twilight Novels’. The Vampire States of America: The Undead and the Making of the USA in the 21st-Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 17-29. Lead article. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283546
2024
‘“I Just Wanted to Preserve It Just as It is”: Gothic Nostalgia in The Watcher’ in Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 145-158.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43852-3
2024
‘“I don’t disagree that there’s evil in the world. I do disagree that we’re powerless against it”: Faith, Feeling and “Fleshy” Desires in HBO’s Oz’ in A Force of Habit: Nuns in Popular Culture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc, pp. 140-153.
Media and Book Reviews
2025
“Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry Review.” Western American Literature: A Journal of Literary, Cultural, and Place Studies, vol. 59, no. 4.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.2025.a983698
2025
‘“If I Hurt You, I Can’t Help It”: Brutality and Humanity in The Homesman (dir. Tommy Lee Jones, 2014).’ Middle West Review, vol. 11, no. 2.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mwr.2025.a961086
Manuscripts in Submission
In Press
““Virtue Isn’t Virtue Unless It Slams Up Against Vice” – Living Faith in the Works of Tom Fontana” in Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
In Press
“I Thought You Weren’t Going to Become a Man like your Father” – Modernity, Masculinity and Paternal Legacy in the Aftermath of The Godfather (1972)” in The Many Manifestations of the Godfather Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
In Press
“You Killed the Buffalo. So the Burrowers Found Other Food”: Ecocriticism, Social Justice, and Stereotypes in Western Creature Features” in New Perspectives on Creature Features. Bristol: Peter Lang Publishing.
Links to Profiles
Google Scholar: Abel F. Fenwick
Google Scholar Address: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MdALanYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Orcid ID: 0009-0007-1330-1733
Orcid Address: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1330-1733