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Rachel Carroll
Dr. Rachel Carroll is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Teesside. She has published widely on representations of gender and sexuality in twentieth century and contemporary fiction, including neo-Victorian fiction. She is the editor of Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009). Dr. Carroll’s principal research and publication interests are in gender and sexuality studies, especially feminist theory but more recently queer theory and also masculinity studies. She has published a book, Rereading Heterosexuality: Feminism, Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction and Film (Edinburgh University Press). Recent publication topics include spinsterhood and heterosexuality in Sarah Waters’ fiction, representations of human cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction and depictions of illegitimacy in the 2005 BBC television adaptation of Dickens’s Bleak House.