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Catherine Spooner
Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University. She has published widely on Gothic in literature, film, fashion and popular culture. Her seven books include Fashioning Gothic Bodies (Manchester University Press, 2004), Contemporary Gothic (Reaktion, 2006) and Post-millennial Gothic: Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic (Bloomsbury, 2017), which was awarded the 2019 Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize by the International Gothic Association. Her most recent book, The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 3: The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Cambridge University Press), co-edited with Dale Townshend, was published in September 2021. She makes regular media appearances and has featured on shows including BBC Breakfast and The Steve Lamacq Show on BBC Radio 6 Music. She is also a prize-winning writer of poetry and fiction with a Gothic slant.
Contact: Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK.
