Conference Paper: Bloodlust, Beloveds, and Breaking Binaries: The Bisexual Vampire in 21st Century Television

Contemporary LGBTQ+ Screen Cultures Symposium

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 25th May 2023

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Lecture: 21st Century Gothic Musicals: Consumerism, Virality and the Horrors of the I Want Song

Romancing the Gothic

Online, 10th December 2022

Available to view on youtube

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Conference Paper: The Horrors of Forced Cohabitation in the Gothic Houseshare Sitcom

International Gothic Association: Gothic Interruptions

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 26th – 29th July 2022

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Conference Paper: ‘I’ve Found the First Risen … He’s Beautiful’: Oppression, The Uncanny and Sympathetic Monstrosity in Dominic Mitchell’s In the Flesh (2013-2015)

MMU Shared Futures

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 8th – 9th July 2022

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Lecture: ‘Depraved’ Bisexuals: Biphobia and Bisexual Erasure in Post-Millennial Gothic Television

Romancing the Gothic

Online, 3rd July 2020

Available to view on youtube

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Conference Paper: ‘Our beloved’s potential comes true’: Queer Erotic Triangles and Killer Influence in NBC’s Hannibal

Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 27th – 28th June 2019

Also a member of the organisational committee

Revised form of paper delivered at 2018 Finnish Gender Studies Conference (see below)

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Conference Paper: “There is no straight when you’re 400 years old”: The Liminality of the 1980s Bisexual Vampire

The Gothic 1980s Symposium

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 8th June 2019

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Conference Paper: ‘You Made Him Real’: Interactive Digital Hauntings for the YouTube Generation

Glitches and Ghosts

Lancaster University, UK, 17th April 2019

Revised form of paper previously delivered at International Gothic Association: Gothic Hybridities (see below)

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Conference Paper: ‘Our beloved’s potential comes true’: Queer Erotic Triangles and Killer Influence in NBC’s Hannibal

2018 Finnish Gender Studies Conference

University of Turku, Finland, 22nd – 24th November 2018

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Conference Paper: ‘Look at me, I’m a beautiful creature’: The Eurovision Song Contest as contemporary freak show

Reimagining the Gothic

University of Sheffield, UK, 26th – 28th October 2018

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Conference Paper: ‘You Made Him Real’: Interactive Gothic Texts for the YouTube Generation

International Gothic Association Conference: Gothic Hybridities

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 31st July – 3rd August 2018

Access the paper transcript on Humanities Commons

Unpublished open-access papers: