Independent Research

This page records my research ouput produced between 2015 and October 2024. During this time I was employed on a range of contracts with no provision for research, either in terms of workload allocation. During this time I did receive the benefits of institutional affiliation, library access, and supportive colleagues. I did not receive monetary support from the university for my research, and any research undertaken was conducted in my spare time rather than in working hours. Where necessary I made use of annual leave to attend conferences, covering conference fees and travel expenses out of personal funds rather than university expenses.

Under the new workload allocation model at warwick, I have 10% of my workload dedicated to research and in my current position I have access to funds to cover conference fees etc

Publications

• ‘Deconstructing Depth: Proximity and Contemplation in Déjà Vu’, Film-Philosophy Special Issue: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy, 22:2, (2018) 240-260 [available here]Link opens in a new window
• ‘Introduction: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy’, Film-Philosophy Special Issue: The Surfaces of Film-Philosophy, 22:2, (2018) 143-147 (co-author) [available here]Link opens in a new window
• ‘In Celebration of Her Wickedness?: Critical Intertextuality and the Female Vampire in Byzantium’, in Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film, edited by Samantha Holland, Robert Shail, and Steven Gerrard (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2019) [link to publisher website]Link opens in a new window
• 'Queer Cinema' in The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas, edited by J.P. Telotte, (Oxford University Press, 2023) (co-author) [available here]Link opens in a new window
• '"Knowing Me Alan Partridge, Knowing You Steve Coogan": Character-Brand Franchising and Metafictional Stardom' (co-author) [forthcoming]
• 'Not Actual Play: Examples of Play and Expectations of Experience in TRPGs' (co-author) [forthcoming]

Conference Papers

• 'Tony Scott's Déjà Vu (2006): Looking Again at Spectacle, Style, and Substance'
  Film-Philosophy Conference, 20th – 22nd June 2015, Oxford University
• 'In Celebration of Her Wickedness? Critical Intertextuality and the Female Vampire in Byzantium'
  Fear 2000 Conference, 21st – 22nd April 2017, Sheffield Hallam University
• 'Don’t Call it a Horror Film: The Uses of the Gothic in Crimson Peak'
  Gothic Feminisms Conference, 24th – 26th May 2017, University of Kent Canterbury
• 'The Postmodern Auteur: A New Wave Legacy'
  The American New Wave: A Retrospective, 4th – 6th July 2017, Bangor University
• ‘Robotic Revenants and Machine Ghosts: Posthuman Hauntings in Transcendence and Be Right Back’
  CATH Postgraduate Conference: ‘It is true, we shall be monsters’: new perspectives on horror, science fiction and the monstrous onscreen, 13th June 2018, De Montfort University,
• ‘Gothic, Folk, and Post: Labels and Value in Horror Cinema’
  International Gothic association Conference 2018: Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, July 31st–August 3rd 2018, Manchester Metropolitan University
• ‘Acting Like He has Genuine Emotions: Human and Inhuman Characters in 2001: A Space Odyssey’
  Character as Character: Understanding and Appreciating People in films, 13th October 2018, University of Bristol 2018
• ‘“The Field … The Field … It’s Covered in Blood!”: Watership Down as Folk Horror’
  The legacy of Watership Down: Animals, Adaptation, Animation, 10th November 2018, The University of Warwick
• 'Female Labour and Algorithmic Horror in Cam’
  Gothic Feminisms Conference, 2nd - 3rd May 2019, University of Kent Canterbury
• 'Views from Hills: Folk Horror as a Mode of Seeing'
  Folk Horror in the 21st Century, 5th - 6th September 2019, Falmouth University
• 'Happy Death Day, Dionysis: Nietzsche and the Final Girl'
  International Gothic Conference 2022: Gothic Interruptions, 26th - 29th July, Trinity College Dublin
• '“These Woods Are No Place for Children!”: Reconsidering Children’s Folk Horror'
  Fear 2000 Horror Uncaged, 21st - 22nd July and 27th - 29th July 2023, Sheffield Hallam University
• '“That goes in the butt bank”: Tina Belcher and The Horny Teen in a Queer Time and Place'
  Sex in Contemporary Media: An Interdisciplinary Conference 4th - 6th October 2023, University of Warwick and Online