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SMITH, ANDREW

Email: asmith5@glam.ac.uk

Andrew Smith is a Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan. His research interests include Gothic literature, literature and science, nineteenth century literature and critical theory. He has published widely in both anthologies and journals including Victorian Review, Diegesis, Gothic Studies and Irish Studies Review. Andrew has given conference papers on related topics in the UK and abroad and in 2007 delivered a keynote address at the International Gothic Association conference held in Aix-en-Provence. He is the series Co-Editor for Gothic Literary Studies and Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions (both University of Wales Press) and has Guest Edited Victorian Review and Gothic Studies (twice).

Andrew is also an academic reader for Palgrave, Manchester University Press, Edinburgh University Press, University of Wales Press, Peter Lang, and Liverpool University Press, and has provided academic peer-review for Gothic Studies, Victorian Review, Frontiers, Mosaic, Anarchist Studies, Dissections, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies and Diegesis.

Also Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts & Science at Glamorgan University, Andrew is currently writing a monograph on the cultural history of the British ghost story for Manchester University Press, editing a collection of essays on Queer theory and the Gothic (with William Hughes) and editing the Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Gothic with William Hughes and David Punter. He is a Member of the International Gothic Association, British Society for Literature and Science, and the Society of Authors and is on the Advisory Board of the International Gothic Association and the editorial board of Gothic Studies, Journal of Literature and Science and Dissections.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected in 2007) and a Fellow of the English Association (elected in 2008).

Selected Publications:
Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis, and The Gothic (edited with William Hughes) (Macmillan, 1998)
Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century (Macmillan, 2000)
Gothic Modernisms (edited with Jeff Wallace, Palgrave, 2001)
Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files (edited with William Hughes and Diane Mason) (Sulis Press, 2002)
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre (edited with William Hughes, Palgrave, 2003)
Victorian Demons: Medicine, Masculinity and the Gothic at the fin-de-siecle (Manchester University Press, 2004)
Teaching the Gothic (edited with Anna Powell, Palgrave, 2006)
Gothic Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2007)

Contributed to:
The British Critical Tradition (contributor) (Macmillan, 1993)
British Horror & Fantasy in the Twentieth Century (contributor) (Pluto, 1993)
Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age (contributor) (Macmillan, 1990)
Trivial Pursuits?: Readings in Popular Culture (contributor) (Macmillan, 1990)
Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis, and The Gothic (co-editor) (Macmillan, 1998)
Gothic Modernisms (co-editor and contributor) (Palgrave, 2001)
Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files (co-editor and contributor) (Sulis Press, 2002)
Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre (co-editor and contributor) (Palgrave, 2003)
Teaching the Gothic (co-editor and contributor) (Palgrave, 2006)
London Eyes: Reflections in text and image (contributor) (Berghahn, 2007)
Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History (contributor) (Manchester, 2007)
The Routledge Companion to Gothic (contributor) (Routledge, 2007)
The Handbook to Gothic Literature (contributor) (Palgrave, 2008)
Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America (contributor) (Palgrave, 2008)
Queering the Gothic (co-writer) (Manchester University Press, 2009)
The Female Gothic (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)