Keywords
Affect, Body Theory, Contemporary Literature, Gothic, Horror, Spanish Film and Literature, Transgression
Research Areas
English Literature and Creative Writing, European Languages and Cultures, Media and Cultural Studies
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Research Student
County College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YD
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Barcelona; MA University of London
Current Teaching
Xavier is Associate Lecturer at MMU Cheshire and Academic Coordinator for the International Summer Pogramme at Lancaster University for the 'British Culture and Society 1800-2000)' course. He has taught on the ENG100 (Introduction to English Literature) and SPAN200 (Advanced Spanish: Oral Skills) courses in the past.
Thesis Title
Consuming Affect: The Staging and Screening of Corporeal Transgression
Research Interests
Xavier is particularly interested in affective and body theory, the Gothic and Horror modes/genres and contemporary literature. He is also very interested in Postmodernism, Gender Studies and Queer Theory. Xavier's PhD centres on notions of affect in the staging and screening of affect from Greek tragedy, the Gothic stage, the grand guignol and Artaud's theatre of cruelty to sadistic cinema, torture porn and faux snuff.
Current Research
Xavier is currently writing a book proposal, tentatively entitled Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Film, for the University of Wales Press Gothic Literary Series.
External Roles
Xavier is a postgraduate representative for the International Gothic Association and a member of the British Shakespeare Association. He is also an associate of the Higher Education Academy.
Web Links
Academia.edu: http://lancaster.academia.edu/XavierAldanaReyes
In Press
Skin Deep: Surgical Horror and the Impossibility of Becoming Woman in Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Skin I Live In'
Aldana Reyes, X. 2013 In: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
'Who Ordered the Hamburger with AIDS'?: Haematophilic Semiotics in 'Tru(e) Blood'
Aldana Reyes, X. 2013 In: Gothic Studies.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2012
Beyond psychoanalysis: post-millennial horror film and affective theory
Aldana Reyes, X. 09/2012 In: Horror Studies. 3, 2, p. 243-261, 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
A 'Flesh' New Start: The Transgressive Case of 'Torture Porn'
Aldana Reyes, X. 2012 Transgression and Its Limits. Foley, M., McRobert, N. & Stephanou, A. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 179-88 10 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2011
Limites Corporales: 'Degeneracion' en Jeanette Winterson y Written on the Body
Aldana Reyes, X. 2011 El cuerpo del significante: La literature contemporanea desde las teorias corporales. Falconí, D. & Acedo, N. (eds.). Barcelona: Editorial UOC, p. 125-136 12 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
2010
'The Body is a Bloody Battlefield': Gender (De)Constructions in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve and Jackie Kay's Trumpet
Aldana Reyes, X. 06/2010 In: Bodies of Work: Women in the Arts. 2
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Obsessed with Pain: Body Politics and Contemporary Gothic
Aldana Reyes, X. 2010 Twenty-First-Century Gothic. Cherry, B., Howell, P. & Ruddell, C. (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 53-68 16 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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