Ellesse Patterson
School of English
PhD Research Student
- Qualifications
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- MA English Literature, University of Sheffield, 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:
- '“Distant Shores”: Shipwrecks and Slave rebellions in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) and Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (1856)' at Haunted Shores: Aquatic Surfaces and Depths, Online, 2023 - Speaker.
- '“Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful”: Snow and Isolation in a Gothic Winter Wonderland' at Fireside Tales of Terror, University of Warwick, 2022 - Speaker.
- '“To a Peopled Kingdom”: Community, Wrath, and Honeybees in Bernard Rose’s “Candyman” (1992) and Nia DaCosta’s “Candyman” (2021)' at Candyman and the Whole Damn Swarm, University of Sheffield and University of California, Riverside, 2022 - Speaker.