On this page I have collected together my work that relates to the Gothic, whatever form that may be in.
“Gothic Television”, Cambridge History of the Gothic, Volume Three: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 1896-Present, ed. Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp.221-241.
“How the BBC Created Hammer”, Horrified Magazine (online), 5 May 2021 https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/television/how-the-bbc-created-hammer/
“Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia”, Genre / Nostalgia, University of Hertfordshire (online), 5 January 2021 – Read here.
“The Ghost Story for Christmas and the Christmas Ghost Story”, Horrified Magazine (online), 22 November 2020 https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/a-ghost-story-for-christmas/a-ghost-story-for-christmas-introduction/
“Tradition, Nation and the Power of the Schedule”, Power and the Media: International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) XXVII Conference, Newcastle, UK, 16-18 July 2019 – Read here.
“Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and Pagan in Folk Horror”, Gothic Journeys: Paths, Crossings and Intersections, Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia Conference, Surfer’s Paradise, Australia, 22-23 January 2019 – Read here.
“Season, Landscape and Identity in the Ghost Story for Christmas”, A Dossier on Christmas Television, Journal of Popular Television, 6:1, 2018, pp.105-118
“Exploring Television Seasonality”, State of Play: Television Scholarship in TVIV, Critical Studies in Television Conference, Edge Hill University, 5-7 September 2018 – Read here.
“Understanding History and Causality through the Television Ghost Story”, Supernatural in Contemporary Society Conference, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, 23-24 August 2018. – Read here.
“Hybrid Time in The Living and the Dead”, Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches: International Gothic Association Conference 2018, Manchester, UK, 31 July – 3 August 2018 – Read here. Note that this is a different version of the paper to the one delivered at After Fantastika listed below.
“Hybrid Time in The Living and the Dead”, After Fantastika, Lancaster University, UK, 6-7 July 2018 – Read here.
“Writing and Rewriting Broadcast Traditions”, QUB Centre for Public History blog entry, 11 December 2017 https://qubpublichistory.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/writing-and-rewriting-broadcast-traditions/
“Why the Ghost Story at Christmas”, in Paul Corupe and Kier-La Janisse, eds., Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, Toronto: Spectacular Optical, 2017
“Ghosts and Television”, Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston (eds) A Companion to the Ghost Story (London: Routledge, 2017), pp.378-387
“Seasons, Family and Nation in American Horror Story“, Rebecca Janicker (ed) Reading American Horror Story: Essays on the Television Franchise (Jefferson: McFarland, 2017), pp.45-63
“The Sublime Horror of the English Countryside”, Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the Ecogothic, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 17-18 November 2017 – Read here.
“Broadcast Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear”, 27th International Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 23-25 June 2017 – Read here.
“Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear”, Media and Fear Symposium, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 16 March 2017 – Read here.
“The Broadcast Afterlife of the Christmas Ghost Story”, GANZA Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia Conference 2017: Gothic Afterlives: Mutations, Histories and Returns, Auckland, New Zealand, 23-24 January 2017 – Read here.
“From Oral Culture to Television: The Christmas Ghost Story”, BAFTSS British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Conference 2016, Reading, UK, 14-16 April 2016
“Migrating M.R.James’ Christmas Ghost Stories to Television”, Gothic Migrations: International Gothic Association Conference 2015, Vancouver, Canada, 28 July – 1 August 2015 – Read here.
“Why ghosts haunt England at Christmas but steer clear of America”, The Conversation, 15 December 2014
“Time and Identity in Folk Horror”, A Fiend in the Furrows: Perspectives on Folk Horror in Literature, Film and Music, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK, 19-21 September, 2014 – Keynote presentation – Read here.
“Exploring the Seasonal Gothic in Literature and Television”, Gothic and Uncanny Explorations, Karlstad University, Sweden, 10-12 September 2014
“The Consolations of Horror: Heritage and Tradition in the Televisual Haunted Country House”, Country House in Britain, 1914-2014, Newcastle University, UK, 6-8 June 2014 – Read here.
Biographies of Innes Lloyd, Louis Marks and Robert Holmes for BFI DVD release of Dead of Night television series, October 2013
“Translating Tradition: Domesticating Seasonal Horror through Television”. PCA/ACA National Conference, Chicago, USA, 27-30 March 2013
“Translating Tradition: Domesticating Seasonal Horror through Television”. International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, USA, 19-24 March 2013
“Eruptions of the Abnormal: Gothic/Horror Episodes of Mainstream Television Series and the Dominance of Rational Worldviews”, Gothic: Culture, Subculture, Counterculture, Strawberry Hill House, London, UK, 8-9 March 2013
“Eruptions of the Abnormal: Gothic/Horror Episodes of Mainstream Television Series and the Dominance of Rational Worldviews”, University of Stirling, UK, 24 November 2012“A Haunted Season: Seasonality and the Television Gothic”, ‘Viewer, I Married Him’: Reading (Re)Productions of the Long Nineteenth Century in Period Drama, University of Hull, UK, 29 June 2012“A Haunted Season: Seasonality and the Television Gothic”, PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 11-14 April 2012
“Horror, Heritage, Nostalgia and Taste: the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas”, New Television History symposium, Cinema and Television History (C.A.T.H.) Research Centre, De-Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 10 September 2010
“‘Sadists and Readers of Horror Comics’: The BBC, Nineteen-Eighty-Four and the British Horror Comics Campaign”, Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 4-5 March 2010 – Read here.
“‘… And the BBC Created Hammer’: Examining the Interdependence of Public Service Broadcaster and Exploitation Film-maker”, Keep Calm and Carry On Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 17 February 2010 – Read here.