This page collects together my work relating to Christmas, particularly Christmas television.
Christmas Hauntings: Ghost Stories for Midwinter, hosted online by University of Glasgow Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, 16 December 2020.
“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/
“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
“Introduction: Christmas Television”, A Dossier on Christmas Television, Journal of Popular Television, 6:1, 2018, pp.81-84
“Introduction: Special Issue: Television Seasonality”, Journal of Popular Television, 5: 1, pp.3-10, April 2017
Yuletide Terror Book Launch and Lectures, Miskatonic University London, 14 December 2017
“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/
Ghost Story Evening, 27 November 2017, Lincoln, organized by Dr Scott Brewster, University of Lincoln
“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
“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
“Exploring the Seasonal Gothic in Literature and Television”, Gothic and Uncanny Explorations, Karlstad University, Sweden, 10-12 September 2014
“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