![]() Packham, J 2021, The maritime self on the American whaleship. in K Nagai (ed.), Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories. Packham, J & Publicover, L 2023, The decontextualised deep: fathoming the whale. 10.5699/ modelangrevi.1 Chapter (peer-reviewed) Packham, J 2017, ' Pip's Oceanic Voice: Speech and the Sea in Moby-Dick', Modern Language Review, vol. Packham, J & Punter, D 2017, ' Oceanic studies and the gothic deep', Gothic Studies, vol. Packham, J 2018, ' The gothic coast: boundaries, belonging, and coastal community in contemporary British fiction', Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. Packham, J 2019, ' Children of the Quorn: the vegetarian, raw, and the horrors of vegetarianism', Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-Horror and the EcoGothic, vol. Packham, J, Passey, J & Alder, E 2022, ' Introduction: creeping along the endless beach', Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-Horror and the EcoGothic, vol. Gothic Literary Studies, University of Wales Press. Packham, J 2021, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic. ![]() My particular interests here are on works by writers such as Elizabeth Jane Howard, Robert Aickman, Francis Brett Young, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Machen, and Washington Irving.Īlder, E, Passey, J & Packham, J (eds) 2022, Our Haunted Shores: Tales From the Coasts of the British Isles (Tales of the Weird, vol. This has developed into an emergent research project on the Gothic literary history of the region: I am currently editing a special issue of the Midland History journal (for 2024) exploring the ‘haunted Midlands’. More recently, I have become interested in the literary culture local to Birmingham and the Midlands. Another off-shoot of this is my abiding interest in the Gothic literature of the Fens in East Anglia – especially in work by Caryl Churchill, Daisy Johnson, Susan Hill, and Michelle Paver. ![]() My second monograph will explore the coastal tradition of the Gothic in British writing from the 1700s to the present my work on this to date has offered readings of the political significance of coastal spaces in contemporary British Gothic fiction.This network is open to anyone who is interested in the representation of coastal regions in the Gothic, or in how a Gothic vocabulary frequently infuses how we speak about the liminal, shifting sands of our shorelines. I co-convene the Haunted Shores research network.With Dr Laurence Publicover (Bristol), I’m writing a book titled The Seafloor: A Human History, exploring the profound human presence that exists in a region that is so frequently imagined as being beyond the ken of the human.I am currently involved in several projects that explore the cultural histories of our seas and beaches. The other strand of my research focuses on the literature of the sea – especially in nineteenth-century writing, in whaling literature, and gothic literature. In particular, it wonders what ethical imperatives are loaded into encounters with “Gothic” voices: What do these voices demand? What do we gain by listening to them (or lose by ignoring them)? How does the Gothic voice help us comprehend the limits and shortcomings of our own worldview? What does it mean to commune with monsters? Second, this work seeks to further our understanding and theorising of literary voices, emphasising the predominant features, timbres, and cadences of literature’s Gothic voices. First, to establish the profound significance of voice and speech within the Gothic tradition. My research on nineteenth-century American Gothic concentrates on the many voices that emanate from this literature – haunted, haunting, disembodied, from beyond the grave, unintelligible, and animal – which I explored in my first monograph, Gothic Utterance: Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic (UWP, June 2021). I am interested in these as both individual and overlapping areas of study I also maintain a long-standing interest in the work of Herman Melville. There have been two main strands to my research to date: the American Gothic and the literature of the sea.
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