Prof Fred Botting
| Position: | Professor English Literature And Creative Writing |
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| School: | Humanities |
| Email: | F.Botting@kingston.ac.uk |
| Extension: | 67344 |
| Location: | Room PR HH 1014, Holmwood House, Penrhyn Road |
Profile
Fred Botting has taught English Literature, Critical Theory, Film and Cultural Studies at the Universities of Lancaster, Keele and Cardiff. He has written extensively on Gothic fictions, and on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror - zombies in particular - and on spectrality, the uncanny and sexuality.
Educational and professional qualifications
| 1986-89 | PhD , University of Wales, Cardiff |
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| 1982-5 | BA (Hons) , University of Wales, Cardiff |
Professional experience (post-1990)
| 2005-10 | Professor, Lancaster University |
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| 2000-05 | Professor, Keele University |
| 1993-99 | Lecturer, Lancaster University |
| 1992-3 | Lecturer, University of Wales, Cardiff |
| 1990-92 | Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Wales |
Teaching
Contemporary Literature
Modernism
Literary Theory
Gothic Fiction
Research areas
| English Literature and Creative Writing |
Research outputs
Article
Botting, Fred (2015) Horrorspace: Reading House of Leaves. Horror Studies, 6(2), pp. 239-254. ISSN (print) 2040-3275
Botting, Fred (2012) More things: horror, materialism and speculative weirdism. Horror Studies, 3(2), pp. 281-303. ISSN (print) 2040-3275
Botting, F. (2010) Poe's Phantasmagoreality. The Edgar Allan Poe Review, XI(1), pp. 9-21. ISSN (print) 2150-0428
Botting, Fred (2010) a-ffect-less: zombie-horror-shock. English Language Notes, 48(1), pp. 177-190. ISSN (print) 0013-8282
Botting, Fred (2004) Extimatrix. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 35(2), pp. 269-286. ISSN (print) 1369-8486
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2002) This is not a presentation. Critical Quarterly, 44(3), pp. 27-36. ISSN (print) 0011-1562
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2002) Venus in foam. New Formations, 46, pp. 64-84. ISSN (print) 0950-2378
Book
Botting, Fred (2008) Gothic romanced: consumption, gender and technology in contemporary fictions. London, U.K. : Routledge. 223p. ISBN 9780415450904
Botting, Fred (2008) Limits of horror: technology, bodies, Gothic. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. 233p. ISBN 9780719077548
Botting, Fred and Wilson, Scott (2001) Bataille. Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave. 232p. (Transitions) ISBN 0333914619
Botting, Fred and Wilson, Scott (2001) The Tarantinian ethics. London, U.K. : Sage. 186p. ISBN 0761968377
Botting, Fred (1999) Sex, machines and navels: fiction, fantasy and history in the future present. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. 240p. ISBN 071905625X
Book Section
Botting, Fred (2014) Post-millennial monsters : monstrosity-no-more. In: Byron, Glennis and Townshend, Dale, (eds.) The gothic world. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 498-509. (Routledge Worlds) ISBN 9780415637442
Botting, Fred (2012) Love your zombie: horror, ethics, excess. In: Edwards, Justin D. and Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik, (eds.) The gothic in contemporary literature and popular culture: pop goth. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 19-36. (Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, no. 8) ISBN 9780415806763
Botting, Fred (2012) Stories, spectres, screens. In: Sacido, Jorge, (ed.) Modernism, postmodernism, and the short story in English. Editions Rodopi. pp. 99-123. (Postmodern studies , no. 48) ISBN 9789042035577
Botting, Fred (2010) Zombie London: unexceptionalities of the new world order. In: Phillips, Lawrence and Witchard, Anne, (eds.) London gothic: place, space and the gothic imagination. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 153-171. ISBN 9781441106827
Wilson, Scott and Botting, David (2008) Gothspeare and the origins of cultural studies. In: Drakakis, John and Townshend, Dale, (eds.) Gothic Shakespeares. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 186-200. (Accents on Shakespeare) ISBN 9780415420662
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2007) Homoeconopoeisis II: presents, technology, enjoyment. In: McQuillan, Martin, (ed.) Deconstruction reading politics. Hampshire, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 197-219. ISBN 9780230536951
Wilson, Scott and Botting, David (2004) Toy law, toy joy, Toy Story 2. In: Moran, Leslie , Loizidou, Elena , Christie, Ian and Sandon, Emma, (eds.) Law's moving image. London, U.K. : The GlassHouse Press. pp. 61-76. ISBN 9781904385011
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2003) Sexcrash. In: Arthurs , Jane and Grant, Iain, (eds.) Crash cultures: modernity, mediation and the material. Bristol, U.K. : Intellect Books. pp. 79-90. ISBN 9781841500911
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2002) Morlan. In: Zylinska, Joanna, (ed.) The cyborg experiments: the extensions of the body in the media age. London, U.K. : Continuum. pp. 149-167. (Technologies: Studies In Culture & Theory) ISBN 9780826459039
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2001) Homoeconopoeisis 1. In: McQuillan, Martin, (ed.) Deconstruction: a reader. Edinburgh, U.K. : Edinburgh University Press. pp. 263-274. ISBN 9780748612550
Botting, David and Wilson, Scott (2000) Dead time (a ghost story). In: Morra, Joanne , Robson, Mark and Smith, Marquard, (eds.) The limits of death: between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Manchester, U.K. : Manchester University Press. pp. 57-78. ISBN 9780719057519
Conference or Workshop Item
Botting, Fred (2014) 'Sir Walter Scott disease': from 'girly-girly romance' to the 'Southern school of degeneracy'. In: Gothic Study Day; 06 Dec 2014, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Botting, Fred (2010) Love your zombie. In: Memory, identity and new fantasy cultures; 09 Oct 2010, Kingston upon Thames, U.K.. (Unpublished)