William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at
Bath Spa UniversityBath Spa University is a university based in, and around, Bath, England. The institution has previously been known as Bath College of Higher Education, and Bath Spa University College, and was upgraded to full university status in August 2005....
, UK.
Hughes is author, co-author or editor of a number of publications connected with the subject, notably
Beyond Dracula (Palgrave 2000), the collections
Contemporary Writing and National Identity (with Tracey Hill),
Bram Stoker History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (with Andrew Smith),
Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files (with Andrew Smith and Diane Mason)and
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre (with Andrew Smith).
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William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at
Bath Spa UniversityBath Spa University is a university based in, and around, Bath, England. The institution has previously been known as Bath College of Higher Education, and Bath Spa University College, and was upgraded to full university status in August 2005....
, UK.
Publications
Hughes is author, co-author or editor of a number of publications connected with the subject, notably
Beyond Dracula (Palgrave 2000), the collections
Contemporary Writing and National Identity (with Tracey Hill),
Bram Stoker History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (with Andrew Smith),
Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files (with Andrew Smith and Diane Mason)and
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre (with Andrew Smith). He has also produced scholarly editions of Stoker's
The Lady of the Shroud and
Dracula. He is also editor of
Gothic Studies, the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association, published by
Manchester UniversityThe University of Manchester is a "red brick" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration...
Press. His new book, Bram Stoker: Dracula - A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism will be published by Palgave on 21 November 2009.
Academic activities
He is tutor for English PhD students at Bath Spa University, and is the first point of contact for those enquiring about doctoral study at BSU. He is interested, as a tutor himself, in supervising dissertations on all period of the Gothic, particularly where these touch upon
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, and has an interest in nineteenth century medicine, pathology and
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