Many of my conference papers are archived here at Humanities Commons. Links to these papers are provided where available, alongside any links to public recordings of the papers or the events.
“The Folk of Folk Horror”, Contemporary Folk Horror in Film and Media, Leeds Beckett University (online), UK, 29-30 January 2022. – Read here.
“Reading Past Reception: A Case Study of the BBC Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)”, Critical Studies in Television 2021, Edge Hill University (online), UK, 19 July – 6 August 2021. – Read here.
“Reading Folk Horror Through Nostalgia”, Genre / Nostalgia, University of Hertfordshire (online), 5 January 2021 – Read here.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Repositioning The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953): Predecessors, Comparisons and Origin Narratives”, Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected Conference, Royal Holloway University, UK, 22-24 April 2015 – Read here.
“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
“Before Quatermass: The Neglected Beginnings of British TV SF”, Diversity in Speculative Fiction, LonCon 3 / 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, London, UK, 14-18 August 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.
“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
“Exploring the Kozure Ōkami / Lone Wolf and Cub Mega-text”, Contemporary Japanese Media Cultures: Industry, Society and Audiences Symposium, University of East Anglia, UK, 5 September 2012
“Music, Nation and Civilisation in Terry Nation’s Survivors”, European Popular Culture Conference, London, UK, 11-13 July 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
“Transcultural Reinterpretation of the Lone Wolf and Cub Narrative”, Media Across Borders conference, University of Roehampton, UK, 9 June 2012
“A Haunted Season: Seasonality and the Television Gothic”, PCA/ACA National Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 11-14 April 2012
“‘Child of Sorrow’: Child as Symbol of the Poisoned Future in Adaptations of the Kozure Ōkami (Lone Wolf and Cub) Manga”, Child Actors / Child Stars: Juvenile Performance on Screen, University of Sunderland, UK, 8-9 September 2011
“The Sound of Civilisation: Music in Terry Nation’s Survivors”, Alien Nation: A Conference on British Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Television, University of Northumbria, UK, 20-21 July 2011
“‘Times Have Changed’: Re-Envisioning the Artist Hero”, PCA/ACA National Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA, 20-23 April 2011
“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
“‘Sword for Hire, Son for Hire’: Performances of Warrior Fatherhood in Film and Television Adaptations of the Kozure Ōkami (Lone Wolf and Cub) Manga”, 20th International Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 2-4 July 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.
“‘Something In-Between’: Finding a Television Identity”, What is “New” Here? Film, Television and New Media Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 29 October 2009
“Parent Issues: How Life on Mars Negotiates a Television Generation Gap”, What’s Past is Present Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 17 February 2009
“The Rise of the Unreal Real: Realism and Science Fiction on British Television 1936-1950”, Film and History Conference, Chicago, USA, 30 October – 2 November 2008
“The Rise of the Unreal Real: Realism and Science Fiction on British Television 1936-1950”, What is Television For? Study Day, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 27 October 2008
“Life on Mars: Negotiating the Quality Generation Gap”, It Has Happened Before, It Will Happen Again: The Third Generation of Quality Television, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-10 October 2008
“The BBC Versus Science Fiction”, Television Without Borders Conference, Reading, UK, 27-29 June 2008