ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ISSUE 3 - October 2007
Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of several books: Horror (Batsford, 1992); The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism (CUP, 1993); Rational Fears: American Horror in the 1950s (MUP, 1996); and The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption, (with Lucy Faire and Sarah Stubbings, BFI, 2003). He is also the editor several collections: Approaches to Popular Film (with Joanne Hollows, MUP, 1995); The Film Studies Reader (with Joanne Hollows and Peter Hutchings, Arnold/OUP, 2000); Horror, The Film Reader (Routledge, 2001); Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans (with James Lyons, BFI, 2003); Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (with Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, Julian Stringer and Andrew Willis, MUP, 2003); and Film Histories: An Introduction and Reader (with Paul Grainge and Sharon Monteith, EUP, 2006. He was the founder of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies; and is currently series editor (with Eric Schaefer) of the MUP book series, Inside Popular Film. He is currently writing a history of horror in the 1940s.
Brian Jarvis is senior lecturer in American Literature and Film in the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University in the UK. He is the author of Postmodern Cartographies: the Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture (Pluto, 1998) and Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and US Culture (Pluto, 2004) as well as essays on, amongst other things, 9/11 and popular culture, serial killer cinema, Vietnam fiction, TV prison dramas, cultural geography, dirty realism and crime writing. He is currently working on a study of recent US fiction and film that is provisionally entitled Seeing Red: Marxism and Contemporary US Visual Culture. His e-mail address is B.Jarvis@lboro.ac.uk.
Kirsty Macdonald is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the UHI Millennium Institute, based in Orkney, where she teaches literature, language and folklore of the Highlands and Islands. She completed a PhD in the fantastic in Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow in 2006. Recent publications include an article on Scottish fantasy in The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (EUP 2007), and an article on the fantastic in Revisioning Scotland: New Readings of the Cultural Canon (Peter Lang, forthcoming). She is also co-editor of this collection.
Jake Huntley is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. His is currently completing a critical/creative Phd at the same institution on Derrida, Deleuze and genre fiction.
Coralline Dupuy completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The title of her thesis is ‘Mentors in Nineteenth-century Gothic Literature and Detective Fiction.’ This work focuses on the essential part played by mentors (such as Van Helsing in Bram Stoker’s Dracula) in seminal Gothic novels and detective fiction of the 19th century. Her teaching areas are Gothic novels, children’s fiction, and translation studies. Her research focuses on modern developments of the Gothic (in literature, films, illustrated books and children’s fiction) and fiction for children of the 19th and 20th centuries. She is particularly interested in the works of Neil Gaiman, and in contemporary crossover novels for young adults.
ISSUE 2 - March 2007
Richard Haslam is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, where he teaches courses in Irish drama, fiction, film, and poetry. His recent publications include “‘Broad Farce and Thrilling Tragedy’: Mangan’s Fiction and Irish Gothic,” in Éire-Ireland (Fall / Winter 2006), “W. B. Yeats: Snobbery as Mood and Mode,” in Études Irlandaises (Spring 2004), and “Critical Reductionism and Bernard Mac Laverty’s Cal,” in Representing the Troubles: Texts and Images, 1979-2000 (2004). In addition to publishing on Irish Gothic writers Charles Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Oscar Wilde, he has contributed the essay “Irish Gothic” to The Routledge Companion to Gothic (forthcoming, 2007). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Unhomeliness, Interpretation, and Nineteenth-Century Irish Fiction.”
Patricia MacCormack is senior lecturer in Communication and Film at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her PhD was awarded the Mollie Holman doctorate medal for best thesis. She has published on perversion, Continental philosophy, feminism and Italian horror film. Her most recent work is on Cinesexuality, masochism, necrophilia, perversion, extreme body modification and Becoming-Monster in Alternative Europe, Women: A Cultural Review, Thirdspace, Rhizomes, Body and Society and Theory Culture and Society. Her book Cinesexuality is forthcoming from Ashgate. She is currently writing on Blanchot, Bataille and Cinecstasy.
James Rose is a freelance writer based in North Yorkshire. Predominately concerned with interpretations of contemporary horror cinema and its ongoing relationship with Gothic Literature, he has written critical texts for a range of national and international publications. Published critical essays and articles include Where the dust has settled: the Brothers Quay (Senses of Cinema, issue 32), In Amity, one man can make a difference (The Film Journal, issue 13) and Oil in the Veins - the films of Shinya Tsukamoto (Terrorizer, issue 118).Forthcoming publications include There's Nothing out There: The Landscape in Greg McLean's Wolf Creek in the February 2007 edition of SCOPE and an in-depth analysis of Neil Marshall's The Descent for Splice (Autumn 2007, ISSN 1751-7516). These and other critical works can be read at www.theblacklodge.co.uk/jamesrose
Niall Kitson is a freelance writer based in Dublin. The holder of a masters Degree in Film Studies from UCD he has been writing fiction and criticism for almost 9 years. He has had work appear in a number of titles including Mongrel, Headpress and Redeye and is a regular contributor to Film Ireland. Niall also runs a blog at www.doublebarrelled.blogspot.com and was nominated in the 2007 Irish Blog Awards. He currently works in publishing.
Joanne Watkiss is a part-time lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University and is currently writing a PhD on the space of the literary ghost in contemporary fiction. Her interests lie in the realm of the haunted house and how this space has been determined by the doctrine of philosophy. In her Doctoral thesis, she evaluates how the figure of the ghost distorts these spaces into instances of the uncanny, and in doing so, challenge metaphysical rules of 'Being'. She is presently working on absence and 'the nothing' in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.
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Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction includes The Night Mayor, Bad Dreams, Jago, the Anno Dracula novels and stories, The Quorum, The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories, Famous Monsters, Seven Stars, Unforgivable Stories, Dead Travel Fast, Life’s Lottery, Back in the USSA (with Eugene Byrne), Where the Bodies Are Buried, Doctor Who: Time and Relative and The Man From the Diogenes Club under his own name and The Vampire Genevieve and Orgy of the Blood Parasites as Jack Yeovil. His non-fiction books include Nightmare Movies, Ghastly Beyond Belief (with Neil Gaiman), Horror: 100 Best Books (with Stephen Jones), Wild West Movies, The BFI Companion to Horror, Millennium Movies and BFI Classics studies of Cat People and Doctor Who. He is a contributing editor to Sight & Sound and Empire magazines and has written and broadcast widely on a range of topics, scripting radio documentaries about Val Lewton and role-playing games and TV programs about movie heroes and Sherlock Holmes. His short story ‘Week Woman’ was adapted for the TV series The Hunger and he has directed and written a tiny short film Missing Girl. He has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Critics Award, the British Science Fiction Award and the British Fantasy Award but doesn’t like to boast about them. He was born in Brixton (London), grew up in the West Country, went to University near Brighton and now lives in Islington (London). His official web-site, ‘Dr Shade’s Laboratory’ can be found at www.johnnyalucard.com.
Dr. Jarlath Killeen is a lecturer in Victorian Literature in Trinity College Dublin. He has previously taught in University College Dublin, the University of Toronto, and Keele University. He is the author of The Faiths of Oscar Wilde (Palgrave, 2005), Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century (Four Courts Press, 2005), and The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Ashgate, forthcoming 2007). He is currently writing a history of Gothic literature in nineteenth century Britain to be published by the University of Wales Press.
John Exshaw is a freelance writer. Abridged versions of his interviews with Christopher Lee and the late Peter Cushing, which first appeared in the Bram Stoker Society Journal (Issue 6, 1994), were later published in the book, Dracula: Celebrating 100 Years (Mentor Press, 1997). He has written for Sight & Sound, and is a regular contributor to The Independent. He is currently writing a book on Italian genre films.
Maria Parsons is from Mayo and is currently completing her PhD on Menstrual Blood in Horror Fiction and Film in Trinity College Dublin. She also lectures part-time on Gothic and Horror Fiction and Film in the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. Her Doctoral thesis investigates menstrual blood in horror fiction and film. To date, she has presented work on topics ranging from nineteenth century vampirism to monstrous menstrual girls in 1970s horror. She is currently working on the rape-revenge film genre. Her research interests are in gender studies and body theory.
Kevin Corstorphine hails from Dundee, Scotland, where he studied for his Honours degree in English and Philosophy. This was followed by an M.Litt in Romanticism from St Andrews and then back to Dundee for a PhD entitled Space and Fear in Contemporary Horror Fiction. Having completed this he embarked on a backpacking trip to Australia and the Far East and reluctantly returned to sit the viva. Now fully doctored, he is regaining his sanity and plans to lecture in English. His research interests are varied but in addition to horror and the Gothic include theoretical perspectives on popular texts, post-modern literature, identity concerns in class, gender and race, and the literary tensions and intersections of science with religion and mythology.
