Dr Robert Lloyd

(he/him)

Publication

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Research

Books and Edited Collections 

Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction (co-edited with Dr Joan Passey) - the first dedicated critical survey of Jackson's short fiction for thirty years: Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales

Areas of Research Interest 

Shirley Jackson's Writing
Gothic Fiction 
Ghost Stories
Spectrality Studies
Horror in Literature and Film
Contemporary Women's Writing
Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Modern Drama


Lectures and Presentations 

I have presented the following papers at acadmic conferences and research seminars:

07/06/2024 - 'A Hauntographic Reading of Shirley Jackson's "Nightmare"', Haunting(s): Multidisciplinary Approaches Symopisum (Co-organiser), Cardiff University 

16/06/2023 - 'Thinking Through Ghosts: Hauntography and Spectral Methodology', Keynote, ENCAPsulate Postgraduate Research Conference, Cardiff University 

12/11/2020 - 'Witchy Women and the Parameters of Female Power in We Have Always Lived in the Castle', Cardiff BookTalk Event

11/06/2019 - '"X" and the City: Missing Woman as Spectral Presence in Shirley Jackson's "Nightmare"', ENCAPsulate Postgraduate Research Conference, Cardiff University 

21/03/2019 - 'Missing Women and Spectral Presence in Shirley Jackson's "The Missing Girl" and "The Good Wife"', Tales of Terror: Gothic, Horror, and Weird Short Fiction Conference, University of Warwick

02/08/2018 - 'Shirley Jackson In (and Out of) American Gothic', International Gothic Association's 14th Conference - Gothic Hybridities: Interdisciplinary, Multimodal and Transhistorical Approaches, Manchester Metropolitan University

08/06/2017 - '[L]ike children playing ghost': Spectral Adolescence in Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman', ENCAPsulate Postgraduate Research Conference, Cardiff University

22/02/2017 - 'A Nightmère in Suburbia: Mother and/as Monster in The Babadook', Assuming Gender Research Seminar, Cardiff University

08/02/2017 - 'Haunted Rooms and Haunted Women: Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Cardiff BookTalk Event

Teaching

In the 2024/25 Academic Year, I am teaching on the following modules:


SE2139 Drama: Stage and Page - Year 1, Autumn (Module Leader)

SE2457 Imaginary Journeys: More to Huxley - Year 2, Autumn (Module Leader)

SE2636 Victorian Worlds: Revolution, Disease, Deviance - Year 2, Autumn 

SE2581 Utopia: Suffrage to Cyberpunk - Year 3, Spring (Module Leader)

SE2524 Dissertation - Year 3, Autumn & Spring 

SET296 Research Methods and Communications I - MA, Autumn 

Biography

I joined the department as Teacher in English Literature in September 2021, having completed my BA (2013), MA (2015) and PhD (2021) studies at Cardiff.