Contemporary Women's Gothic Fiction

Gina Wisker is Head of Learning and Teaching and Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, University of Brighton, UK. She teaches MA and BA in literature and supervises postgraduate students. Gina is an Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning development consultant. She has lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Malta and now runs workshops worldwide – in the Far East, Australasia, the USA, Sweden and South Africa – particularly on supervising postgraduates and writing for academic publication. She is the author of a number of books, chapters and articles including Getting Published, The Good Supervisor, Postgraduate Research Handbook and Horror Fiction. She also writes and publishes poetry and short stories, and is co-editor of SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International, online horror journal Dissections and poetry e-zine Spokes. Gina peer reviews for several literature and higher education journals andis on the advisory board for FEMSPEC and the Atlantic Literary Review. She lives in Cambridge with her two sons and small dog.

• 1.Introduction.- 2.Angela Carter: Living in Gothic Times.- 3.Margaret Atwood and Canadian Women's Gothic: Spite, Lies, Split Selves and Self Deception.- 4.Cultural Haunting: Toni Morrison and Tananarive Due.- 5.Postcolonial and Cultural Haunting Revenants: Letting the 'Right' Ones In.- 6.Testing the Fabric of Bluebeard's Castle: Postcolonial Reconfigurations, Demythologizing, Re-Mythologizing and Shape-shifting.- 7.Vampire Bites.- 8.Vampire Kisses.- 9.Ghostings and Hauntings: Splintering the Fabric of Domestic Gothic with Horror Houses, Stately Homes, Ghosts Behind Walls, Playroom Deaths, Women in Black, Little Strangers.- 10.Reviving, Revisiting and Mainstreaming Gothic

“This study offers an incredibly comprehensive and detailed analysis of contemporary women’s Gothic fiction. Wisker’s ability to categorise the various strains of contemporary women’s writing into their relevant Gothic subgenres creates an orderly and fascinating catalogue of research that is not only beneficial to scholars working in such areas but also a true delight to read!” (Donna Mitchell, The Gothic Imagination, February, 2017)