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Dr Robert Appelbaum
'John Smith's Fish: Mapping Natural Resources, Cultural Habits, and Food,' Texts of Imagination and Empire, Folger Institute, www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/c_appelbaum.htm
'Belch's Hiccup: Disturbances of the Appetite in Twelfth Night,' Textus 13 (2000), 231-62.
'Aguecheek's Beef,' Textual Practice 14.2 (2000), 327-41.
'Newe Bokes of Cookerie,' Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 1.1 (2001),128-43.
'War and Peace in The Lepanto of James VI and I,' Modern Philology 97.3 (2000), 333-65; reprint Reading Monarchs Writing, ed. Peter Herman (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002).
Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'Eve's and Adam's Apple: Horticulture, Taste, and the Flesh of the Forbidden Fruit in Paradise Lost,' Milton Quarterly 36.4 (2002), 221-39.
'Rhetoric and Epistemology in Early Printed Recipe Collections,' Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.2. (2003), 1-35.
'Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off Over Excess, Want, and Need,' in Envisioning an English Empire, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Invention of the North Atlantic World, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
'Comedy of Errors,' 'Timon of Athens,' 'Sonnets 71, 94, 147,' in A Student Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Joseph Rosenblum (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005).
'Genres utopiques en Angleterre, 1516-1640,' in Histoire transnationale des utopies litteraires et de l'utopisme, ed. Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion) in press.
Dr Brian Baker
'The Geometry of the Space Age: J.G. Ballard's short fiction and science fiction of the 1960s', J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives , ed. Jeanette Baxter (London and New York: Continuum, forthcoming 2008)
' Evolution, Literary History and Science Fiction', forthcoming in Essays and Studies 2008, ed. by Sharon Ruston.
'A Man of Wealth and Taste: The Strange Career of Hannibal Lecter,' in The Lure of the Dark Side--Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture , ed. Chris Partridge and Eric S. Christianson (London: Equinox, forthcoming 2007).
Iain Sinclair (Contemporary British Novelists series) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2007)
'Sinclair's poetry: from Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge to Saddling the Rabbit ', for City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair , ed. Jenny Bavidge and Robert Bond (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2007).
'Gothic Masculinities', in The Routledge Companion To Gothic , ed. by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007).
'Ray Bradbury', The Literary Encyclopaedia < www.litencyc.com >, December 2006
Masculinity in fiction and film: Representing Men in popular genres 1945-2000 (London and New York: Continuum, 2006)
'Constructing the Normative: Male Subjects and Others in the Dystopias of Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth', Extrapolation 46:4, Winter 2005, 439-452.
Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction , with John H. Cartwright (Santa Barbara CA and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005).
'Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 ', Blackwell's Companion to Science Fiction , ed. David Seed (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 489-499.
'Witness to the Ends of the World: colonialism, the scientific romance and Michael Moorcock's Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy', A Celebration of British Science Fiction/ Foundation 93 (34:1), ed. Andy Sawyer, Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendelsohn (Spring 2005), pp. 40-48.
'Key Concepts in Film Studies', in Cinéma Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film , ed. Eric S. Christianson, Peter Francis and William R. Telford (London: SCM, 2005), pp. 44-60.
'The Nelson Mandala', Vector: The Critical Journal of the BSFA , 236, July-August 2004, 16-19.
'Maps of the London Underground: Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock's Psychogeography of the City', Literary London , vol 1, number 1, March 2003. <http://www.literarylondon/ london-journal/march2003/baker.html>
'The Resurrection of Desire: J.G. Ballard's Crash as a Transgressive Text', in Foundation 80 (November 2000), pp.84-96.
'The Map of Apocalypse: Nuclear War And The Space Of Dystopia', in Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction , ed. by Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley (London: Palgrave, 2000), pp.124-136
Professor Simon Bainbridge
'"Of war and taking towns': Byron's siege poems", in Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793-1822, ed. Philip Shaw (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).
British Poetry and the Revolutionary and NapoleonicWars: Visions of Conflict (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
'"Was it for this [...]": The Poetic Histories of Southey and Wordsworth', Romanticism on the Net, Issues 32-33 (November 2003-Feb 2004).
'The Historical Context', in Romanticism - An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford University Press, 2004).
'Napoleon and European Romanticism', in Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber (Blackwell: 2005).
'Theological Readings of Literature: Wordsworth and Coleridge', in Oxford Companion to Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press, 2005/6).
'God sans Being: Derrida, Marion and "a paradoxical writing of the word without "', Literature and Theology, 14: 3 (2000) pp. 299-312.
'Without Negative Theology: Deconstruction and the Politics of Negative Theology', The Heythrop Journal , 42: 2 (2001) pp. 133-47.
'Reactionary and Romantic: Joseph de Maistre and Percy Bysshe Shelley', in Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth Century Contexts (ed.) Linda Woodhead (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 139-48.
'Thinking the Outside: Foucault, Derrida and the Thought of Negative Theology', Textual Practice , 16: 1 (2002), pp. 57-74.
'Save the Name: Christian Mysticism and Modern French Thought', in Mysticisms East and West: Studies in Mysticism, (eds) Theodore Gabriel and Chris Partridge (Carlyle: Paternoster, 2003), pp. 255-77.
'Shelley, Ireland and Romantic Orientalism', in English Romanticism and the Celtic World (eds) Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp.117-29.
Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. xvi + 226.
'Romanticising Biography' in Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. xi-xvii.
'"Winging itself with Laughter": Byron and Shelley after Deconstruction', in Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 152-67.
'Religion', in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory , vol 11 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2003), pp. 139-62.
'Romanticising Biography', in Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. x-xvi.
'Religion', in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory , vol 12 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2004), pp. 143-65.
Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy , Routledge Studies in Religion (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xiii + 244.
'The Letter Giveth: Derrida and Stiegler on Faith and Technics', in Mind Factory (ed.) Louis Armand (Prague: Charles University Press, 2005), pp. 106-20.
'Religion', in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory , vol 13 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2005), pp. 159-75.
'Deus ex Machina : Religion and Technology in Aristotle, Heidegger and Derrida' Comparative Critical Studies , 2: 1 (2005), pp. 271-84.
'Derrida's god: A Genealogy of the Theological Turn', Paragraph , 29: 3, (2006), pp. 21-42.
'"Until death tramples it to fragments": Shelley and Postmodern Theology', in Religion and Romanticism from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens, (eds) Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006), pp. 191-207.
Technicity (eds) Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand (Prague: Charles University Press, 2007).
'Originary Technicity? Technology and Anthropology', in Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand (eds) Technicity (Prague: Charles University Press, 2007).
'No Future? Bernard Stiegler's Politics of Memory', in Mapping Liminal Spaces (ed.) Lawrence Phillips (New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming, 2007).
'Politics without Politics: Derrida, Marion and the Politics of Negative Theology', in Otherwise than Philosophy (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Manchester: MUP, forthcoming 2007).
'The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom, de Man, Derrida' in Reading, Writing and Harold Bloom (eds.) Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears (Manchester: MUP, forthcoming, 2007).
Derrida's Of Grammatology: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2008).
Dr Sally Bushell
Re-Reading The Excursion. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002.
'Wordsworth’s Excursion: Narrative Memory and the "Minds of Men",' Blackwell’s Literature Compass 1 (2004): 1-13. http://www.literature-compass.com.
'Reading below the Surface: Wordsworth and A Compositional Method,' The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2003): 9-13.
'Retold Tales and Structured Silences in The Excursion,' Romanticism and Silence, eds. F. L. Price and S. J. Masson (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
Wordsworth’s “Spots of Time”. Dir. David Blacow. Scripted and presented by Sally Bushell. Videocassette and D.V.D. L.U.T.V., 2002.
The Excursion by William Wordsworth, eds. Sally Bushell, James Butler and Michael Jaye (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005-6).
'Intention Revisited: Towards an Anglo-American "genetic criticism",' TEXT, vol. 17 (2005).
'Wordsworthian Composition: The Micro-Prelude,' Studies in Romanticism (Summer/Fall 2005).
'Meaning in Dickinson’s Manuscripts: Intending the Unintentional,' Emily Dickinson Journal
'Teaching Living Poets: An Active Environment for Poetry,' Living Writers in the Curriculum, English Subject Centre Publication (2005).
Dr Tess Cosslett
Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods, eds. Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
'Matrilineal Narratives Revisited', in Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods edited Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 141-151.
'Child's Place in Nature: Talking Animals in Victorian Children's Fiction', Nineteenth Century Contexts, Vol 23 (2002), pp. 475-495.
'"History from Below": Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity', The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2002), pp. 243-253
'Transformations of Pastoral and Gothic in Children's Fiction', Signal: Approaches to Children's Books, No. 98 (May 2002), pp.91-101.
'"Animals Under Man"? Margaret Gatty's Parables from Nature', Women's Writing Vol. 10 No. 1 (2003), pp. 137-152.
Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction,1786-1914 (Ashgate, 2006).
Dr Alison Easton
Angela Carter, edited Alison Easton (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).
'The Debateable Land: Ellis Island Museum, Margaret Elphinstone's A Sparrow's Flight and Border Readings', in Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging, edited Lynne Pearce (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp.56-72.
'Subjects-in-Time: Slavery and African-American Women's Autobiographies', in Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods edited Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London: Routledge, 2000), pp.171-184.
'Nation Making and Fiction Making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley' in Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms, 1845-1936 edited Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett (Manchester University Press 2002) 139-159.
'Hawthorne and the Question of Women' in The Cambridge Companion to Hawthorne, edited by Richard Millington (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.79-98.
Dr Kamilla Elliott
'Exposing the Victorians,' Mid-Atlantick Almanac, special issue, 'Aspects of Victorian Culture in Contemporary Popular Culture,' eds. Richard Currie and Anthony Giffone, November 2002.
'The Victorian Novel in Film and on Television,' co-authored with Joss Marsh for The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing, Blackwell, 2002.
Featured guest with Susan Orlean in 'The Current,' Part 3, CBC Radio, August 4, 2003. Host Diana Swain. Producer Aaron Brindle. Archived at
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200308/20030804.html
Participant in a videotaped roundtable transcribed and edited by Gerhard Joseph: 'Dickens, psychoanalysis, and film: a roundtable,' Dickens on Screen, ed. John Glavin, Cambridge UP, October 2003.
'Cinematic Dickens and Uncinematic Words,' Dickens on Screen, ed. John Glavin, Cambridge UP, October 2003.
Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate, Cambridge UP, 2003.
'Literary Film Adaptation and the Form/Content Dilemma,' Narrative Across Media, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan, Nebraska UP, Winter 2004.
'Through the Looking Glass: Pedagogical Uses of Literary Film Adaptations,' Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation, ed. Kecia McBride, U of Tennessee P, November 2004.
'Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars,' A Companion to Film and Literature, ed. Robert Stam, Blackwell, 2004.
'Teaching Wuthering Heights through Its Film and Television Adaptations,' forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Wuthering Heights, eds. Sue Lonoff and Terri Hasseler, MLA Press, 2005.
'Adaptation.' Commissioned entry for The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, forthcoming 2005.
Professor Alison Findlay
Scenes from A Pastorall by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, directed Alison Findlay (video, Lancaster University Television, September, 2000).
Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700, with Stephanie Hodgson-Wright and Gweno Williams (Longman's Medieval and Renaissance Library; Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000).
'Women and Drama', in A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture edited Michael Hattaway (Oxford: Blackwell, December 2000), pp. 499-512.
'Theatres of Truth: Drinking and Drama in Early Modern England' in A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature, edited J ames Nicholls and Susan J. Owen (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 21-40.
'(En)gendering Performance: Staging Plays by Early Modern Women', with Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams, in Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries edited Jane Donaworth and Adele Seeff (Newark : University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 289-308.
'Gendering the Stage' in The Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Drama edited Arthur Kinney (Blackwell Publishers, 2002) 399-415.
'Sexual and Spiritual Politics in the events of 1633-4 and Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches' in The Late Lancashire edited Robert Poole (Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 126-145.
'Much Ado About Nothing' in A Companion to Shakespeare: The Comedies edited Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, Blackwell, 2003).
‘Daughters of Ben’, in Jonsonians: a living tradition, ed. Brian Woolland (Ashgate Press, December 2003), pp.107-120.
'Playing Spaces and Performances in the Age of Shakespeare' Literature Compass 1 (2003) SH 033, ed. Michael Hattaway (Blackwell Publishers), 1-7.
http://www.literature-compass.com/shakespeare/view_LICO_033.asp.
'"Adam's Sons are My Bretheren": Reading Beatrice's Feminism, Past and Present,' in The Shakespeare Yearbook 2003: New Studies in the Shakespearian Heroine, ed. Helen Wilcox.
'"I hate such an old fashioned house": Margaret Cavendish and the search for home', Early Modern Literary Studies, Special issue on Margaret Cavendish (2004).
'"Good sometimes queen": Richard II, Mary Stuart and the Poetics of Queenship,' in Shakespeare's Histories and Counter-Histories, ed. Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Steve Longstaffe (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2004)
‘Theatres for Early Modern Women: From Household to Playhouse’, in Women and Drama in England and Spain 1500-1700, ed. Rina Walthaus, Marguerite Corporaal and Helen Wilcox (Kassel: Reichenberger, forthcoming 2004).
Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama (contracted to Cambridge University Press for publication in 2005). Monograph, approx 90,000 words. AHRB funding to cover leave in Lent-Summer term 2004, ms to be submitted January 2005.
‘Sisterly Feelings in the drama of Cavendish and Brackley,’ in Thicker Than Water: Sisters and Brothers in the Early Modern World, ed. Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh (to be published by Ashgate, 2005)
Women in Shakespeare, monograph as part of the Shakespeare Dictionary Series (General Editor Sandra Clark) contracted to Continuum Press for publication in 2006. MS to be submitted March 2006.
Dr Michael Greaney
'Lord Jim and Embarrassment', in 'Lord Jim': Centennial Essays, edited Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 1-14.
Conrad, Language and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'Stories of Work in Heart of Darkness', in Wieslaw Krajka, ed., Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad's Ideology and Art (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 2005), pp. 81-94.
Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory: The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006)
Professor Keith Hanley
'Wordsworth's Grand Tour', in Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel 1775-1884, edited Amanda Gilroy (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp.71-92.
Wordsworth: A Poet's History (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001).
Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Plays and Poems edited Amanda Gilroy and Keith Hanley (London Pickering and Chatto, 2002).
'The Presentation and Reception of Wordsworth's Texts' in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth edited Stephen Gill (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'"Things of which I need not speak": Between the Domestic and Public in Wordsworth's Poetry', in The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. XXXIV, No.1, Winter 2003, pp.39-44.
'Textual Issues and a Guide to Further Reading', in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 246-64.
'Following Wordsworth, Resolutely and Independently', forthcoming in The Wordsworth Circle.
Co-curated the exhibition on Ruskin's Northern Times, the Ruskin Library, March 2003.
Dr Hilary Hinds
'The Undeveloped Heart: Forster, Pym and the English South' in Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging edited Lynne Pearce (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 37-55
The Cry of a Stone by Anna Trapnel, Critical edition of text first published in 1654 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 220; Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000).
'Imagining Feminism, Imagining Femininity: Bra-Burners, Diana and Women who Kill' Feminist Media Studies Vol. 1, No. 2 (2001). Jointly authored with Jackie Stacey, pp. 153-177.
The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama, eds. Hilary Hinds and Simon Barker (London: Routledge, 2002).
'Sectarian Spaces: The Politics of Place and Gender in Seventeenth Century Sectarian Writing' (forthcoming 2004, Literature and History).
'Soul-Ravishing and Sin-Subduing: Anna Trapnel and the Gendered Politics of Free Grace' in special issue of Renaissance and Reformation: 'Religion and Literature in Early Modern England: Case Studies', to be published 2004.
Dr Lee Horsley
The Noir Thriller from 1920 to the Near Future, Crime Files series edited by Clive Bloom (London: Palgrave, 2001).
'Fatal Women in the Hard-Boiled Fifties', Crime Time: The Journal of Crime Fiction 25 (Autumn 2001) 39-44.
Crimeculture.com (founded jointly with Katharine Horsley, October 2002) academic web site for students/teachers of crime fiction as well as for a more general readership. http://www.crimeculture.com
Pulporiginals.com (founded jointly with Allan Guthrie, mid-October 2003) a web e-book publishing venture making available mid-century 'pulp original' crime novels. Most recent titles published: a double edition, Day Keene's Sleep with the Devil and Who Has Wilma Lathrop? http://www.pulporiginals.com
'Hard-Boiled Investigators' ('Crime-Mystery-Detective Stories' section of Justin Carr (ed), Short Story Criticism, Gale, 2003, Vol. 59, 173-210).
'Body Language: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction', co-authored with Katharine Horsley (forthcoming in Paradoxa, Autumn/Winter 2004)
'Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: the Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing', chapter requested by the German art book published Taschen, for book entitled American Detective Magazines: 1924 to 1990 (to be published late 2004).
'Learning Italian: Serial Killers Abroad in the Novels of Highsmith and Harris' (jointly with Katharine Horsley), conference paper, Florence, July 2004; for inclusion in Murder and Mayhem in the Mare Nostrum (to be published by University of Delaware Press).
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (Oxford University Press, submitted 3 Sept. 2004, publication August 2005).
Dr Lindsey Moore
'"Some internalisation of the other has already begun": Borderwork/Translation in Writing by Assia Djebar and Ahdaf Soueif', Comparative Literature and Translation/Littérature Comparée et Traduction, ed. CCLMC, Rabat: MJB, 2006.
'Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship and Iranian Cinema', Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 20:2 (2005): 1-33.
'The Veil of Nationalism: Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers ', Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25:2 (2003): 56-73.
'Frayed Connections, Fraught Projections: The Troubling Work of Shirin Neshat', Women: A Cultural Review 13:1 (Spring 2002): 1-17.
Book Review. Peter Hitchcock, Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism , Nicholas Harrison, Postcolonial Criticism: History, Thoery and the Work of Fiction , Stephen Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Textual Practice 181 (Spring 2004):131-40.
Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2007).
'La Littérature dans une ère de terreur: Perspectives transculturelles britanno-asiatiques', Discours et relations de pouvoir, Conference proceedings, University of Cairo, early 2007.
Dr Liz Oakley-Brown
Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006).
'Titus Andronicus and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Renaissance Studies 19.3 (2005), 325-47.
'Framing Robin Hood: Textuality and Temporality in Anthony Munday's Huntington Plays', in Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval , ed. by Helen Phillips (Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 113-128.
(with Matt Jarvis) 'Talking After Theory: An Interview with Terry Eagleton', English, 53 (2004), 177-190
'Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Sexual Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Literature Compass, 1, 2003, 1-19.
'The Cultural Politics of Classical Translation', English, 52.202 (2003), pp. 81-85.
Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (eds.), Translation and Nation: Towards a Cultural Politics of Englishness (Multilingual Matters, 2001).
'Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England 1560-67', in Translation and Nation: Towards A Cultural Politics of Englishness, ed. by Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (Multilingual Matters, 2001), pp. 48-84.
Professor Lynne Pearce
Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging, ed. Lynne Pearce (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).
'Devolutionary Desires' in De-centring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis, ed. Richard Phillips, David Shuttleton, and Diane Watt (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 241-257.
'The viewer as producer: British and Canadian feminists reading Prudence Heward's "Women"'. RACAR, xxv(1-2), 2001, 94-102.
'The place of literature in the spaces of belonging', European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, (August 2002), pp. 275-91.
'"Jaz" - bralka: besidilo, sobesedilo in ravnovesje moci' [translation of part of book into Slovenian], Tina Potrato in Apokalipsa, 72, October 2003, pp.63-73.
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press (London and New York, Routledge, Sept 2003).
How to Examine a Thesis (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 2004)
'Popular Romance and its Readers' in A Companion to Romance, ed Corrine Saunders (Oxford, Blackwell, 2004), pp. 521-538.
‘The Dialogic Principle’, in The Oxford Guide to Literary Theory, ed. Patricia Waugh (Oxford: Oxford Univesrity Press, forthcoming 2004/5).
‘After the Twilight: Intimacy and Its Demise in Late Twentieth-Century Lesbian Romance’ in After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789’, eds. Karl Leydecker and Nicholas White (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2005).
Mr Tony Pinkney
'Eliot as Critic and Teaching The Waste Land', CIEFL Bulletin, Vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, December 2001 (co-authored with Georgina Taylor).
'J.W. Mackail as Literary Critic', Journal of the William Morris Society, 2000.
'News from Nowhere' entry in Encyclopaedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004/5).
'Kinetic Utopias: H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and William Morris's News from Nowhere ', Journal of William Morris Studies , vol XVI, nos 2 and 3, Summer-Winter 2005, pp.49-55.
We Met Morris: Interviews with William Morris, 1885-96, editor (Reading: Spire Books Ltd, 2005).
Professor John Schad
Arthur Hugh Clough - Writers and their Work (British Council/ Northcote House 2006) 120pp.
Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Joyce (Sussex Academic Press, 2004) 180pp
life.after.theory, ed., with Michael Payne (Continuum, 2003) 194pp.
Writing the Bodies of Christ: the Church from Carlyle to Derrida, ed. (Ashgate, 2001) 180pp.
'Someone Called Derrida. An Oxdord Mystery,' Textual Practice 21 (2007) 1-14.
Dr Tony Sharpe
Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life (London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's, 2000).
'Auden's Prose,' chapter in forthcoming Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden, series ed, Stan Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
'The Planet on the Table: Some Modernist Perspectives on Globalism,' in volume marking the centenary of the English Association (forthcoming, 2006).
Dr Catherine Spooner
The Routledge Companion to Gothic, co-edited with Emma McEvoy (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007).
'"Spiritual Garments": fashioning spirits in Sarah Waters' Affinity', in Dress and Literature ed. Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson (New York: Cambria Press, forthcoming 2007).
Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth', in Goth: Undead Subculture ed. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad (Chicago: Duke University Press, 2007).
Contemporary Gothic (Focus on Contemporary Issues series), (London: Reaktion, 2006).
Fashioning Gothic Bodies, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
'Angela Carter', 'Emma Tennant', and 'Counterculture and Literature' in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature ed. Steven Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myers (New York: Continuum, 2003).
'Cosmo - Gothic: the Double and the Single Woman' in Women: A Cultural Review (Vol. 12, no. 3, winter 2001, 292-305).
Dr Jayne Steel
'Three Voices'. Short story commissioned for performance at Lancaster Literature Festival. 1998.
'Taking the Trama Out of Creative Writing', Writing in Education (spring 2001).
Mavis and the Mermaid: screenplay for Shoreline Films. Winner of 2000 'Kodak Showcase for New European Talent'. Shown at 2000 Cannes Film Festival and 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival. Screened in London, Los Angeles, Houston and Sweden. Short-listed for the 'Stella Artois Short Film Shoot-Out' and 'Writing on the Wall'. Won the coveted 'Special Gold Jury Award' at 2001 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival'.
Public showing of Story of the Sands at the Poetry Society in London (May 2001).
Thereby Hangs A Tale: screenplay (2001). Winner of 2001 Third Annual DNA/Script Factory First Draft Award.
'The Trials of Death on the Rock' Irish Review 27 (Summer 2001).
'The Television Document and the Real', JPCS, 8.2 (Autumn 2003).
'And Behind Him A Wicked Hag Did Stalk' in Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags: Historical and Cultural Representations of Iris Nationalist Women (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004).
'Pyschologising the Private', in Representing The Troubles: Texts and Images, eds. Brian Cliff and Eibhear Walshe(Dublin: Four Courts, 2004).
Frozen: Screenplay. Feature film. RS Productions (2004). Premiered at London Film Festival.
'Jayne Steel on How To Write Like Isabelle Allende', Myslexia (25: Spring, 2005), 49.
Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice (London: Palgrave, 2006).
Demons, Hamlets and Femmes Fatales: Representations of the Troubles (forthcoming, 2007).
Dr Andrew Tate
'"Archangel" Veronese: Ruskin as Protestant Spectator', in Ruskin's Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy, ed. Robert Hewison (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp.131-145.
Contributor of explanatory notes on French Painters for electronic edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters I (1843).
'Evangelical certainties: Charles Spurgeon and the sermon as crisis literature', in Woodhead, L. (ed.), Reinventing Christianity: nineteenth-century contexts, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001, 27-36.
'"Now - here is my secret": Ritual and Epiphany in Douglas Coupland's Fiction', Literature and Theology 16:3 (2002) 326-338.
Essays on George Butler, W.P. Ker, Carveth Read and Henry James Richter, Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2002), pp. 171-2, 631-2, 942-3, 951-2.
'Firing the Canon: the BBC's Big Read', Third Way, 26.6 (2003), pp. 8-9.
'"He himself with His Human Air": Browning writes 'the Body of Christ'', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 25.1(2003), pp. 39-43.
'"I Was Guilty": Interpretation as heresy in John Updike's Roger's Version', The Glass, 16 (Spring 2004).
'“So, here, be well again”: the human/divine body of Jesus Jim Crace's Quarantine', Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in, ed. by Jonathan Taylor and Andrew Dix (Brighton: Sussex Press, 2005).
'Postmodernism, the Bible and Culture', The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture, ed. by John Sawyer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
'”I am your witness”: Douglas Coupland at the end of the world', Biblical Religion and the Novel, ed. Mark Wright (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Professor Emeritus Meg Twycross
'The Leuven Ommegang and Leuven City Archives: Report on Work in Progress' in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on European Medieval Drama, Camerino edited André Lascombes (European Medieval Drama 4; Turnhout: Brepols, 2001).
'"Fart Prike in Cule": The Pictures', with with Malcolm Jones (Sheffield) and Alan J. Fletcher (UC Dublin), Medieval English Theatre 23 (2001) pp. 100-121.
Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England, with Sarah Carpenter (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
Editor, Medieval English Theatre.
Editorial Advisory Board, European Medieval Drama.
Editorial Board, Durham Medieval Texts.
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Robert Appelbaum is currently completing a book, Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns, which is to be published by University of Chicago Press. This book covers literature in Italian and French as well as English, and includes studies of medical texts, cookbooks, prose fiction, poems, and plays, all of which develop a discourse of food in the period. He is also beginning a study of literary representations of terrorism, from the early moderns to the post-moderns. An upcoming conference on the Gunpowder Plot, sponsored by the English department at Lancaster, will help him inaugurate what he hopes will be a long term and collaborative project on understanding the symbolic and historical dimensions of terror.
Simon Bainbridge is continuing his research into the cultural responses to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars while also examining the work and afterlife of the poet Byron. He is also editing a Sourcebook of documents from the Romantic Period (Romanticism, forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Brian Baker is currently beginning two research projects. The first further considers masculinity, in terms of the monstrous and horror. To this end he has recently written articles on Hannibal Lecter and will continue to use Thomas Harris's texts as a lens to focus discussions of masculinity in fiction and film. The second project involves a comparative consideration of time, space and modernity in terms of Bakhtin's notion of the 'chronotope', in a range of representations of city spaces (London, New York, Paris, Istanbul, Tokyo) and generic spaces (the fortress, the jail, the casino, the shopping mall).
Arthur Bradley is currently working on a book provisionally entitled Deus ex Machina: Religion and Technology from Marx to Derrida (proposal to be submitted to Continuum in 2005) together with a number of related articles. He has been invited to submit a proposal for a volume on Derrida's Of Grammatology as part of a new series of introductory philosophy guidebooks (proposal to be submitted to Edinburgh University Press 2005). He will also be co-editing (with Jo Carruthers and Andrew Tate) two collections of essays from the Spiritual Identities conference in 2005/6.
Sally Bushell is completing a research project funded by an AHRB Innovation Award in 2003-2004. The project takes as its focus the long poetic structure and connects literary critical with text critical and philosophical ideas about poetic creativity and composition. It aims to open up manuscript material to more creative critical interpretation. The book, entitled A Compositional Method: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dickinson, will be published by the University Press of Virginia, 2006.
Jo Carruthers has joined Lancaster as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in order to work on a cultural history of Purim. The Jewish festival linked to the Book of Esther, Purim celebrates the salvation of the Jews from genocide in this biblical tale. Sometimes referred to as the Jewish 'Mardi Gras', Purim celebrates Jewish 'chosenness'. She is primarily interested in the festival - and of course its textual representation - as a contributor to modern and historical Jewish identity construction by both jews and non-Jews. She would be interested in hearing from anyone engaged in similar resreach.
Tess Cosslett is working on representations of the North in children's literature, and on the significance of the Continental journey in Victorian fiction.
Alison Easton is working on a book-length study of Jewett and class/gender relations, entitled Relating Class: Sarah Orne Jewett. She is also developing, with two other members of the UK Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Research Group as editors, a volume of essays on American Gilded Age women writers, exploring Women in Public.
Kamilla Elliott is working on a monograph entitled Names and Faces: Iconographies of Identity in Victorian Prose Fiction—Printed, Illustrated, Filmed, and Televised. Her forthcoming articles include 'Hyde and the Faces of Evil,' an invited contribution to Gothic and Film, eds. Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy; and 'The Names and Faces of Oliver Twist'.
Alison Findlay's projects include ‘Early Quakers in the North West and the Politics of Place’ – transcription work from the first Large Research Grant from the British Academy now completed. A second application has been made to the University Project Fund and to the British Academy Small Grant Fund for costs of filming; website installation and filming to be undertaken January 2005- followed by application to AHRB for project Research Grant. Her other major project is ‘Shakespeare and Early Women Dramatists: Performance Histories’ (Dir. Jim Fitzmaurice, University of Northern Arizona), for which a grant application has been made to the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA, to cover filming at Bolsover Castle, and sites in the US over June –December 2005.
Mike Greaney is on AHRB-funded research leave during 2004-5, completing his new book, Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory, a study of the reception and representation of theoretical ideas in literary fiction since the 1960s. He is also organizing a conference on present-day fiction, to be held in Lancaster in September 2005, The Twenty-First Century Novel: Reading Contemporary Fiction.
Keith Hanley, having become the Director of the Ruskin Programme at Lancaster, has devoted his recent research activity to Ruskin's Romantic Tours, 1837-8, and, together with Stephen Wildman, he is currently preparing an edition of Ruskin's Diaries. He has received British Academy support for Ruskin's Romantic North (forthcoming).
Hilary Hinds is beginning work on a new project, provisionally entitled 'Subjectivity, Sectarianism and Space', exploring the intersection of discourses of sectarian spirituality and gender with those of the burgeoning colonialism of the later seventeenth century. Her other area of research interest is in twentieth-century women's writing and feminist theory, and she has recently begun work, with Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce, on a new research initiative on the representation of feminism in the British press between 1968 and 2000. She is also involved in a major research project, Early Quakers and the Politics of Place in North West England, awarded a British Academy Larger Research Grant for the pilot stage of the project. Publications resulting from this project will include journal articles, a parallel edition of Fox's Journal and a website.
Lee Horsley's main current research project, undertaken in collaboration with her daughter, Katharine Horsley, is a reader entitled Criminal Confessions (contracted to Edwin Mellen Press); she is co-editing (with Charles Rzepka) the Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction. She is also co-authoring, with Graham Mort, articles on e-learning and the pedagogy of creative writing.
Lindsey Moore's next research projects will be on Arab women's literary responses to war and exile, and on formulations of British-Asian identity in the work of writers such as Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Zadie Smith. Work under consideration for publication includes Arab, Muslim, Woman: Re-Orienting the Gaze in Postcolonial Literature and Film (under consideration by Routledge).
Liz Oakley-Brown is currently working on two edited collections, Shakespeare and Translation 1550-1650 and The Ritual and Rhetoric of Queenship: Medieval to Early Modern (with Dr Louise Wilkinson), and a second monograph, provisionally entitled Shakespearean Skins: Reading, Writing and Performing Corporeal Surfaces in Elizabethan Drama, and researching travel, translation and identity in the works of Thomas Churchyard (1520-1604) for a future book-length study.
Lynne Pearce's next book, for Polity Press (2006), is entitled A Cultural History of Romance and will investigate the changing cultural/ideological status of romantic love from the eighteenth-century to the present through a number of textual case-studies. Together with Dr Robert Crawshaw and Dr Graham Mort, Lynne will head the 'Mediating Marginalities' Project, in receipt of a major AHRB award for the period April 2005-September 2008. This project will explore the processes whereby specific immigrant communities in the Greater Manchester area have employed – and continue to employ – written narrative (e.g., fiction, poetry, autobiography, drama, screen-play, multi-media installations) to define and affirm their identities.
Tony Pinkney is working on a book on Morris's News from Nowhere and the theoretical problems of interpreting utopian fiction. William Morris and Victorian Angling is currently with Thoemmes Press for consideration.
John Schad is currently completing an experimental book, the title of which is Someone Called Derrida. A Oxford Mystery, to be published by Sussex Academic Press (due to be submitted in March 2007 and published in November 2007). It runs from 1930 to the present day and combines traditional archival scholarship with memoir, investigative history, detective fiction, and Oxford. He is also General Editor for a new series of experimental monographs called critical inventions, to be published by Sussex Academic.
Tony Sharpe is working on a critical study of W.H. Auden, alongside an additional project exploring Auden's use of place-names and locations in the North of England. His Complete Critical Guide to W.H. Auden is under contract to Routledge, submission March 2005; Auden in Eden: Localities, Love and Loss (a detailed proposal for an illustrated book on Auden's Pennine associations and their meaning for him, jointly with Robert Forsythe) is being considered by Yale University Press.
Catherine Spooner is currently completing Beginning Gothic for Manchester University Press, which she is co-writing with Emma McEvoy, She is also working on a major project on the literary representation of youth subcultures: Subcultural Fictions: Writing the Underground.
Jayne Steel's ongoing research concerns children in horror fiction; she is also preparing proposals for The Creative Writer in Higher Education and The Theory and Practice of Modern Literary Theory.
Andrew Tate's current projects are a monograph on contemporary fiction and Christianity; and a full-length study of Douglas Coupland.
Meg Twycross is pursuing research into the pictorial and archival evidence of pageant waggons and theatrical processions in the Southern Low Countries, especially Leuven in Belgium, with colleagues fom the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She is also interested in medieval perceptions of the interface between the human and the Other World, and how they interact.
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