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Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments (2024)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D., Fielding, L., & Dickenson, S. J. (online). Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments. Support for Learning, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9604.12497

In a context where more than 40% of LGBTQIA+ individuals in the UK are estimated to avoid sports due to experiences of discrimination, with disengagement closely linked to negative experiences during physical education at school, the ability of speci... Read More about Playing it Safer: Applied Drama as a means of reducing barriers to LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports and education environments.

Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s (2024)
Thesis
Li, W. Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867124

“The analogies between women and flowers have a long history in sex ideology” (Pollock: 2007: 106). Yet queer readings of flowers are sometimes different from heterosexual and patriarchal perspective. Some gender-queer artists have refused to see flo... Read More about Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s.

The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America (2024)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (in press). The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America. Oxford Art Journal, 47(2),

This article examines the photographic representation of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist who was arrested in 1932 in Atlanta through seldom-used Georgian anti-insurrection legislation. Herndon (aged 19) endured many months in jail and faced 18-20 y... Read More about The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon- Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America.

Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (2024)
Book
Williams, R. (2024). Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront. Kent State University Press

Tabernacles in the Wilderness discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a civilian relief agency established by northern evangelical Protestants to minister to Union troops during the American Civil War. USCC workers saw in... Read More about Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront.

Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017 (2024)
Thesis
Dankoff, L. Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4587958

The UK City of Culture 2017 in Hull serves as a useful archive to develop a new model for the Creative Producer, a designation of a new type of producer that recognises the remit and capabilities of contemporary producing practice. The title of UK Ci... Read More about Heritage, Community, Trawling and Gold Nose: Towards a model for the creative producer in UK City of Culture 2017.

The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2024). The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film. In E. Parisot, D. McAllister, & X. Aldana Reyes (Eds.), Graveyard Gothic. Manchester University Press

Indian burial grounds are a staple of American popular culture, and through their representation in fiction and film reach a global audience. In such narratives, ‘old Indian burial grounds’ are built over with houses, hotels, and other such dwellings... Read More about The Old Indian Burial Ground in Fiction and Film.

Gothic Horror Fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Gothic Horror Fiction. In B. Santin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics (205-218). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009030274.017

The horror novel appears in the late twentieth century as a significant genre of popular fiction. Growing out of older traditions of the European Gothic and weird fiction, and their trajectory through American literature, the horror novel has produce... Read More about Gothic Horror Fiction.

US Imperial Gothic (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). US Imperial Gothic. In R. Duncan (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic. Edinburgh University Press

Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror (2023)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2023). Horror Theory Now : Thinking About Horror. In S. Bacon (Ed.), Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (13-26). Rowman & Littlefield

Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine (2023)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2023). Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2221919

On 25 March 1931 nine young African Americans were arrested in Alabama for the alleged rape of two White women, nearly lynched, sentenced to death and eventually incarcerated for years. This article examines the arrest photograph of the Scottsboro Ni... Read More about Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine.

The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt (2022)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (in press). The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt. Studies in American Fiction, 49( Special Issue on the Ecogothic),

Ambrose Bierce’s short stories present Gothic visions of the colonial encounter with the American wilderness in a way that complicates notions of land ownership and the relationship of humans to the environment. In ‘The Damned Thing’ (1893), a seemin... Read More about The Vanishing South: Race and the Ecogothic in Ambrose Bierce and Charles Chesnutt.

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving (2022)
Book
Offiler, B., & Williams, R. (Eds.). (2022). American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving. Bloomsbury Publishing

American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad explores the different ways in which charities, voluntary associations, religious organisations, philanthropic foundations and other non-state actors have engaged with traditions of giving. Using examples from... Read More about American Philanthropy at Home and Abroad: New Directions in the History of Giving.

Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic (2022)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (in press). Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic. In S. Ni Fhlainn, & B. M. Murphy (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This chapter is a survey of the evolution of weird fiction and how it relates to the Gothic in the twentieth century. It argues for an understanding of the mode in terms of its blending of genres and resistance to categorisation, emphasising publicat... Read More about Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic.

The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression (2022)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (in press). The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression. Arts, 11(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11020045

In 1931, Fortune published an article entitled ‘American Workingman’, a survey of labor in the midst of the worsening Depression, with an emblematic composite image of hands at work to indicate the manual character and the diverse jobs of industrial... Read More about The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression.

The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

Het Dorp: Experimental Incarceration (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kember, M. (2021, November). Het Dorp: Experimental Incarceration. Presented at Cultures of Incarceration Centre Research Series 2021/22, University of Hull

Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (2020)
Book
Fenwick, J., Foster, K., & Eldridge, D. (Eds.). (2020). Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501351624

Filmmakers and cinema industries across the globe invest more time, money and creative energy in projects and ideas that never get produced than in the movies that actually make it to the screens. Thousands of projects are abandoned in pre-production... Read More about Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films.