Dr. Ruth Heholt
Ruth Heholt is Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic literature at Falmouth University, UK and lead of the Dark Economies research group. She is author of Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction (Anthem Press, 2022). She is co-editor of several collections including Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles (2018), and Haunted Landscapes (2017). She has organised international conferences including Folk Horror in the Twentieth Century (Falmouth and Lehigh Universities 2019) and is editor of the peer reviewed journal Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Revenant is dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird and can be found at revenantjournal.com. She is co-editor of the Gender and the Body book series and the Nineteenth Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures book series (Edinburgh University Press). Ruth is on the advisory and editorial boards of several scholarly associations, book series, and journals. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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ruth.heholt@falmouth.ac.uk
Dr. Jill Kirby
Dr Jill Kirby is a Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, at the University of Sussex. She is Director of Teaching and Learning for the Central Foundation Year and convenes the Foundation Year history module. She specialises in twentieth-century British history and is particularly interested in everyday life, well-being and emotion. Her book, Feeling the strain: a cultural history of stress in 20th century Britain, was published by MUP in 2019. She is currently writing a book about the cultural history of menopause, provisionally titled ‘Silent women sufferers’ which draws on contemporary personal testimony as well as archival material from the Mass Observation Archive, women’s magazines, self-help books, newspapers and other items of popular culture.
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j.kirby@sussex.ac.uk
Twitter: @DrJillKirby
Professor Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature and has published over 30 books. Her single-authored book Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Manchester University Press, 2016) is the winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize and reflects her interest on the relationship between literature, history and human rights. She has edited two books on the death penalty in America, including Out of the Night: Writings from Death Row (New Clarion Press, 1994), which won the LifeLines book of the year and Writing for their Lives: Death Row USA (Illinois University Press, 2007), nominated for the Gustavus Myers Center’s Outstanding Human Rights Book Award. Her latest human rights research relates to female sexual health and to the historical, literary, and cultural representations of FGM and gynaecological malpractice. In addition, she is exploring stigmas surrounding the menopause, building on the work she has already carried out on menstrual taboo. She is the editor-in-chief of Women’s Writing, a journal on women writers before 1900 and a series editor for Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing and co-founder of the Scholarly Association of Menopausal Studies.
Contact details:
Mariemulvey-Roberts@uwe.ac.uk
https://mariemulveyroberts.com/
Dr. Jo Parsons
Dr Jo Parsons is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Originally a Victorian Literature specialist with interests in masculinity, the body, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, Jo is now leading Falmouth’s move into the area of Erotica and Romantic Fictions and is currently working on a new project on popular women’s writing from 1970–2000, with a particular focus on the Bonkbuster. Her research, both Victorian and contemporary, is grounded in gender and cultural studies. Jo is also a co-editor (with Ruth Heholt) of both the Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture and Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures book series with Edinburgh University Press.
Contact details:
jo.parsons@falmouth.ac.uk
Twitter: @joparsons
Dr. Jennifer Young
Jennifer Young is the Head of Writing and Journalism at Falmouth University, UK. Jennifer’s research interests centre on genre fiction, particularly historical and Crime Fiction. Jennifer has published a successful historical thriller trilogy set in the 1950s (Cinnamon Press) which follows a female archaeologist named Max Falkland. The first book in the series, Cold Crash (2017) won the Cinnamon Press debut novel prize. The second book, The Running Lie, came out in 2020 and the third, A Little Switch was published in 2022. Jennifer works with Helen Lederer on the Comedy Women in Print Prize and is the Head Judge of their unpublished novel category. Jennifer is currently researching paranormal menopausal cozy crime.
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