Cardiff School of English Communication and Philosophy

Authored Books

Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and European Gothic. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013.

(With Melanie Waters) Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique. Foreword by Imelda Whelehan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. (in press)

Edited Books

(With Stacy Gillis and Gillian Howie) Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Revised & expanded second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007. This is a substantially revised and expanded version of the first edition; it includes a new introduction, several new chapters, a foreword by Imelda Whelehan and an interview with Luce Irigaray.

Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006.

(With Stacy Gillis and Gillian Howie) Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004.

Special Issues of Journals

(With Paul Young) Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation. Double special issue of Literature Interpretation Theory 20.1 & 20.2 (2009).

(With Helen Taylor) Daphne du Maurier. Special issue of Women: A Cultural Review on Daphne du Maurier 20.1 (2009).

(With Stacy Gillis) Third Wave Feminism and Women’s Studies. Special issue of Journal of International Women’s Studies 4.2 (2003).

Refereed journal articles and book chapters

“Using the F-word: Girl Power, the Third Wave, and Post-Feminism.” The History of British Women’s Writing, 1970-Present, Volume 10. Ed. Emma Parker and Mary Eagleton. Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming 2014.

“‘The Future of Pemberley’: Emma Tennant, the Classic Progression and Literary Trespassing.” Uses of Austen: Jane’s Afterlives. Ed. Gillian Dow and Clare Hanson. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012. 59-76.

(With Paul Young) “Engaging the Victorians.” Literature Interpretation Theory 20.1/2 (2009): 1-11.

“BUST-ing the Third Wave: Barbies, Blowjobs and Girlie Feminism.” Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Culture. Ed. Feona Attwood. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. 183-97.

“Dracula’s Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux’s Vampiric Exchanges.” Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America. Ed. Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008. 116-33.

“‘The Desecration of the Temple’; or, ‘Sexuality as Terrorism’? Angela Carter’s (Post-)feminist Gothic Heroine.” Gothic Studies 9.2 (2007): 58-70.

“Spectres of Authorship: Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic Legacy.” The Daphne du Maurier Companion. Ed. Helen Taylor. London: Virago, 2007. 68-74.

(With Stacy Gillis and Gillian Howie) “Introduction.” Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Ed. Stacy Gillis et al. Revised and expanded second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007. xxi-xxxiv [this is a substantially revised and extended version of the Introduction that appeared in the first edition in 2004: pp. 1-6]

“‘Wake Up and Smell the Lipgloss’: Gender, Generation and the (A)politics of Girl Power.” Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Ed. Stacy Gillis et al. Revised and expanded second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007. 266-79. [first edition: pp. 142-53]

(With Stacy Gillis) “Interview with Elaine Showalter.” Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Ed. Stacy Gillis et al. Revised and expanded second edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007. 292-97. [first edition: pp. 60-64]

 “Angela Carter and the Politics of Intertextuality.” Re-visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Ed. Rebecca Munford. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006. 1-20.

“Blood, Laughter and the Medusa: The Gothic Heroine as Menstrual Monster.” Menstruation: A Cultural History. Ed. Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. 259-72.

“Re-presenting Charles Baudelaire/Re-presencing Jeanne Duval: Transformations of the Muse in Angela Carter’s ‘Black Venus’.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 40.1 (2004): 1-13.

(With Stacy Gillis) “Genealogies and Generations: The Politics and Praxis of Third Wave Feminism.” Women’s History Review 13.2 (2004): 165-82. [reprinted in The Women’s Movement Today: Primary Documents of Third Wave Feminism. Ed. Leslie L. Heywood. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 111-20.]

(With Stacy Gillis) “Harvesting Our Strengths: Third Wave Feminism and Women’s Studies.” Third Wave Feminism and Women’s Studies. Spec. Issue of Journal of International Women’s Studies 4.2 (April 2003): 1-11

“Re-vamping the Gothic: Representations of the Gothic Heroine in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.” ParaDoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 17 (2002): 235-56.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Family.” The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Ed. William Hughes, David Punter and Andrew Smith. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (1000 words)

(With Katie Garner) “Feminism”. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory Volume 2 (1966 to the Present). Ed. Robert Eaglestone. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 595-605.

 “Luce Irigaray” and “Elaine Showalter”. The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Ed. Robert Eaglestone. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 645-48, 843-45.

“Colonization” and “Horror.” Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Robin Reid. Westport: Greenwood, 2009. 71-72, 162-64.

“Bloomsbury Group,” “Anna Kavan,” “Vernon Lee,” “Emmeline Pankhurst” and “Violet Keppel Trefusis.” Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900-1950. Ed. Faye Hammill, et al. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006. 15-16, 132-33, 141-42, 180-81, 253-55.

“Gertrude Stein.” France and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History. Ed. Bill Marshall. 3 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005. 1093-1095.

“Postmodern Theory” and “Television.” The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism. Ed. Leslie L. Heywood. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 256-58, 314-20.

Book reviews

Rev. of Ilana Nash, American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006). Feminist Review 89 (2008): 151-53

Rev. of Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn, eds, Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006). Contemporary Women’s Writing 1.1-2 (2007): 206-207.

Rev. of Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (New York: Basic Books, 2002). Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone (Nov 2003).

Rev. of Kathleen Ragan. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World (New York & London: Norton, 2000). Forum for Modern Language Studies 38.3 (2002): 346.

Shorter pieces

“It’s buy, buy to women. Now the girlies rule.” Times Higher Education Supplement 9 March 2007: 16-17. [Article on postfeminism and consumerism].