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Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition (2022)
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In many ways, Bristol is a Gothic city, not just architecturally and through its involvement with the slave trade but also in regard to its literary heritage. Some of our most important women writers who wrote in the Gothic mode were inspired by Bris... Read More about Professorial inaugural lecture and musical performance: Bristol’s hidden Gothic history: A female literary tradition.

Paula Rego's witches (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will argue that Paula Rego’s illustrations of Blake Morrison’s Pendle Witches (1996) make counter-intuitive and subversive interactions between image and word, to reveal unexpected connections with women and witches. I will suggest that he... Read More about Paula Rego's witches.