Gary Farnell

• Theories of discourse
• British Romanticism
• The Gothic
• Culture and the commodity form
• History of English studies

Supervision of research students

Dr Farnell is currently supervising a number of research students; he welcomes enquiries about research supervision.

Dr Gary Farnell is Senior Lecturer in English. His teaching and research has grown out of a base in Romantic studies and critical theory. The ‘fantasmatics of the present crisis’ denotes the focus of his work on cultural forms from the Romantic era to the present day.

• The subject of English
• Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourse, ideology and literature
• Celebrity/commodity/consumer cultures

01962 827267

• British Association for Romantic Studies
• International Gothic Association

• 2018 ‘Mary Shelley: From "Frankenstein" to "The Last Man"’, English Review, 28.3 
• 2018 ‘The New Monster Literature’, English Review, 26.3
• 2016 ‘Faulks, Tagore, Proust: From Flaubert to 'Birdsong' through Adaptation’, English, 65.248
• 2016 ‘What Do Plants Want?’, in Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film eds Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga
• 2016 ‘Anniversary Alice’, English Review, 26.3
• 2014 ‘The Gothic, the Death Drive and Angela Carter’, Women: A Cultural Review, 25.3
• 2014 ‘The New Woman (Which Is Not One) in Githa Sowerby’s 'Rutherford and Son'’, Women’s Writing, 21.4
• 2014 ‘“Talking Bodies” in a Zombie Apocalypse: From the Discursive to the Shitty Sublime’, in ‘We’re All Infected’: Essays on AMC’s 'The Walking Dead' and the Fate of the Human, ed Dawn Keetley
• 2013 ‘Melodrama’, with Peter Billingham, in The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, gen. eds William Hughes, David Punter and Andrew Smith
• 2011 ‘Gothic’s Death Drive’, Literature Compass 8
• 2011 ‘The Enigma of “La Belle Dame sans Merci”’, Romanticism 17.2
• 2010 ‘Theorising the Gothic for the Twenty-First Century’, in Twenty-First-Century Gothic, eds Brigid Cherry, Peter Howell and Caroline Ruddell
• 2009 ‘The Gothic and the Thing’, Gothic Studies 11.1
• 2005 ‘Benjamin as Producer in “The Arcades Project”’, Historical Materialism 13.4
• 2004 Reading Benjamin’s Arcades eds Merrick Burrow, Gary Farnell, and Mick Jardine (Walter Benjamin special issue of new formations)
• 1999 'Wordsworth’s “The Prelude” as Autobiography of an Orphan' Romanticism on the Net 13
• 1995 ‘Unfit for Ladies: Keats’s “The Eve of St Agnes”’ Studies in Romanticism 34.3
• 1993 ‘Rereading Shelley’, English Literary History 60