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Abel F. Fenwick
Abel Fenwick is a recent graduate of Royal Holloway University of London, where she was awarded the Martin Holloway prize for her dissertation, ‘“Binding the wound”: A trauma theory reading of Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights’. Her interests include the interplay of psychology, horror and the gothic in film and literature, as well as evolutions in representations of criminality and queer identities. Recent conference papers include ‘We need to talk about Joffrey: Murder, meaning and the “evil child” post-Columbine’ and ‘All-consuming desires: The re-emergence of the queer cannibal figure in 21st century television’. Her most recent publication is ‘“I just wanted to preserve it just as it is”: Gothic nostalgia in The Watcher’ in Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture (Springer, 2024).
Contact: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.