William Hughes (professor)

Profesor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK [http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/] . Author of "Beyond Dracula" (Palgrave 2000), and co-editor of the collections "Contemporary Writing and National Identity"(with Tracey Hill), "Bram Stoker History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic"(with Andrew Smith), "Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files" (with Andrew Smith and Diane Mason) and "Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre"(with Andrew Smith), he has also produced scholarly editions of Stoker's "The Lady of the Shroud" and "Dracula". He is also editor of "Gothic Studies", the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association, published by Manchester University Press.

He is tutor for English PhD students at Bath Spa University, and is the first point of contact for anyone enquiring about doctoral study at BSU [http://ecs.bathspa.ac.uk/prospective/postgrad/PHD_english/overview.htm?pagevalue=one] . He is interested, as a tutor himself, in supervising dissertations on all period of the Gothic, particularly where these touch upon Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu or Algernon Blackwood, and has an interest in nineteenth century medicine, pathology and criminal psychology [http://ecs.bathspa.ac.uk/staff/english-lit/w-hughes.htm?pagevalue=seven] .