Telephone: 020 7911 5000
Email:E.McEvoy@wmin.ac.uk
Postal: University of Westminster, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies,
32-38 Wells Street,
London, W1B 2UW
Section: English Literature

Emma McEvoy was educated at the University of Leeds (BA Hons in English, 1986) and the University of Wales, Cardiff (PhD in English, 1994).

Before working at Westminster, she was also employed at Goldsmiths, University of London and St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She is also a musician and is musical director for a youth drama group. Emma's major research interests are in Romantic writing, the Gothic and theatre. She is co-editor (with Catherine Spooner) of the volume Routledge Companion to the Gothic (2007), in which she has essays on 'Gothic and the Romantics' and 'Contemporary Gothic Theatre', and has published on various topics in Romantic and Gothic studies. She wrote the introduction and notes for the OUP edition of Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1995) and is co-author (with Catherine Spooner again) of Beginning Gothic (forthcoming MUP 2008). She is currently working on an edition of Charlotte Dacre’s Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805).

Emma teaches on the level four module “Introduction to Poetry” and the level six module “Romantic Explorations”.

Books

Romanticism (coursebook for the External Degree, University of London Press, 1998)

Edited Collections

Routledge Companion to the Gothic (edited with Catherine Spooner) (Routledge, 2007)

Journal Articles

‘Dennis Severs House: Performance, Psychogeography and the Gothic’ Visual Culture in Britain, (2011)

'"Who will be the witness when we're all too healed to see?" : The sad demise of Nick Cave' Gothic Studies (2006)

'Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley' Romanticism on the Net (November 2005))

'"Really, but secretly, a Papist" G. K. Chesterton and J. Meade Falkner rewrite the Gothic' Literature and Theology (March, 2004)

Book Chapters

“‘Boo!’ to taboo”: Burlesque, Circus, Walkabouts and Museums of Curiosities in PopGothic ed. Justin Edwards and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, (Forthcoming in Routledge)

‘“West End Ghosts and Southwark Horrors”: London's Gothic Tourism’ in London Gothic, ed. Anne Witchard & Lawrence Phillips, (Continuum 2010).

“I had to have this talk with you”: Remediation in Gothic Music in Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music ed. Patrick Burger, Martin Butler and Arvi Sepp (Trier Scientific Press, 2009)

Essays on 'Contemporary Gothic Theatre' and 'Gothic and the Romantics' for Routledge Companion to the Gothic (Routledge, 2007)

Chapter on 'Wordsworth' for Augustans and Romantics by Mike Bruce (course book for External Degree, University of London Press, 2004)

Chapters on 'Bakhtin' and 'New Historicism' for Modern Literary Theory by Chris Baldick (course book for External Degree, University of London Press, 1998)

Reviews

"Review of Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay’s Trivia (1716) edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman" in Literary London (2008)

Review of Theatre for Children and Young People (ed. Stuart Bennett) in Theatre Notebook (May 2006)

Review of Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment 1690-1760 by John O’Brien (March 2006)

Review of Imagined Londons (ed. Pamela K. Gilbert)' in Literary London (April, 2003)

'Review of Gothic Writing 1750-1820 by Robert Miles' British Journal of Eighteenth-century Studies (Summer, 1996)

'Review of Gothic Immortals by Marie Roberts' British Journal of Eighteenth-century Studies (Spring, 1992)

Other Work

Introduction and notes to Matthew Lewis's The Monk (Oxford University Press, 1995)

Entries on 'The Picturesque' and 'Ann Radcliffe' for Encyclopedia of European Romanticism (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004)

Selected Unpublished Conference Papers

‘Performing Gothic: theatricality and non-theatre spaces’ Gothic NEWS, Eighth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Aix-en-Provence, June 2007.

‘“Paint it Black”: repetition and exchange in Gothic cover version’(with Catherine Spooner) at International Gothic Association Conference, Liverpool, 2003.

'The Gothic House Materialized : Dennis Servers' Unheimlich home' at Conference on the Persistence of Gothic, Greenwich, October, 2002.

'Written on the Female Body : Silence of the Lambs, Stigmata and The Monk' guest lecture at Tonbridge School, December, 2001.

'The Picturesque and the Politics of Passivity' at Conference on Romanticism and the Picturesque, Gregynog, 1991.