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“Fighting Back, Writing Back: Monologues of the Marginalised in Neo-Victorian Media”
Delivered at I19 Conference 2025, 2nd – 3rd May 2025, Virtual Conference.
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State(s) of the Nation: Regionalism and the Recurrence of the Wagons West series
Delivered at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s 2025 Conference, 19th – 22nd February 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico. While critiques of Noel Bertram Gerson’s idealistic biographies of historic figures have long prevailed in academic circles, his historical fiction has so far evaded critical attention. Whether dismissed as a topic of enquiry due to assumptions about the value…
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Gendering the Ghost: The Spectacle of the Woman Spectre in Dickens’ Wider Works.
Delivered at I19 Conference 2024, 2nd – 3rd May 2024, Virtual Conference.
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“Dazzled by Brass and Scarlet”: The Soldier as Sexual Scapegoat in 19th Century British Literature
Delivered at The Uniform: Symbols of Power, Propaganda and Organisation in Popular Culture, 20th April 2023, Virtual Conference. Sexual promiscuity was common in men of all classes and occupations, with sailors frequenting brothels often enough slang terms were developed for the sex workers they visited. In spite of this, however, only members of the military…
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Frankenstein’s Promethian Beginnings: The Mythical Origins of Shelley’s Origin Myth
Delivered at I19 Conference 2023: Beginnings, 31st March – 1st April 2023, Virtual Conference.
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‘“I Wonder His Mother Does Not Rise From Her Grave” – Nightmares and Traumatic Repetition in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights,’
Delivered at “Trauma and Nightmare”, 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, 16th – 17th March 2023, Virtual Conference.
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We Need to Talk About Joffrey: Murder, Meaning and the ‘Evil Child’ Post-Columbine
Delivered at 2nd Global Conference: Evil Children: Children and Evil, 9th – 10th October 2021, Virtual Conference.