Ellesse Patterson
School of English
PhD Research Student
- Qualifications
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- MA English Literature, 精东影业, 2022
- BA (Hons) English and History, University of Suffolk, 2020.
- Research interests
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My research interest lies primarily in eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature with a focus on the Gothic. In addition to my on-going PhD thesis, '"A Misbegotten Race": Monstrous Reproduction in the long Nineteenth-Century British Gothic', I have also conducted research on death and slave narratives in the American Gothic through the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the impact of Jack the Ripper on notions of Gothic London, as well as the intersection between occultism and the Gothic in Victorian literature.
- Research group
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Supervisors:
- Professor Andrew Smith
- Professor Angela Wright
- Grants
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AHRC White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Conferences:
- '鈥淒istant Shores鈥: Shipwrecks and Slave rebellions in Edgar Allan Poe鈥檚 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) and Herman Melville鈥檚 Benito Cereno (1856)' at Haunted Shores: Aquatic Surfaces and Depths, Online, 2023 - Speaker.
- '鈥淥h, The Weather Outside is Frightful鈥: Snow and Isolation in a Gothic Winter Wonderland' at Fireside Tales of Terror, University of Warwick, 2022 - Speaker.
- '鈥淭o a Peopled Kingdom鈥: Community, Wrath, and Honeybees in Bernard Rose鈥檚 鈥淐andyman鈥 (1992) and Nia DaCosta鈥檚 鈥淐andyman鈥 (2021)' at Candyman and the Whole Damn Swarm, 精东影业 and University of California, Riverside, 2022 - Speaker.