McEvoy, Emma
Telephone: 020
7911 5000
Email:E.McEvoy@wmin.ac.uk
Postal: University of
Westminster, Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies,
309
Regent Street,
London, W1B 2UW
Section: English Literature
Emma McEvoy was educated at the University of Leeds (BA Hons in English, 1986) and the University of Wales, Cardiff (PhD in English, 1994).
Before working at Westminster, she was also employed at Goldsmiths, University of London and St Patrick's College, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland. She is also a musician and is musical director for a youth drama group.Emma's major research interests are in Romantic writing, the Gothic and theatre. She is co-editor (with Catherine Spooner) of the volume Routledge Companion to the Gothic (2007), in which she has essays on 'Gothic and the Romantics' and 'Contemporary Gothic Theatre', and has also published on Mary Shelley, G. K. Chesterton, J. Meade Falkner, Nick Cave, Ann Radcliffe and the Picturesque. She wrote the introduction and notes for the OUP edition of Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1995) and is co-author (with Catherine Spooner again) of Beginning Gothic (forthcoming MUP 2008). She is currently working on a book on Gothic Music and an edition of Charlotte Dacre’s Confessions of the Nun of St Omer (1805).Emma teaches on the ‘London Theatre in Performance’ module for International Students, the ‘Romantic Writings’ option for home students, and the MA module ‘Reading London: 1700-1900’. She also convenes the ‘London Vortex’ MA module.
Books
Beginning Gothic (with Catherine Spooner) (forthcoming, MUP, 2008)
Romanticism (coursebook for the External Degree, University of London Press, 1998)
Edited Collections
Routledge Companion to the Gothic (edited with Catherine Spooner) (Routledge, 2007)
Journal Articles
'"Who will be the witness when we're all too healed to see?" : The sad demise of Nick Cave' Gothic Studies (2006)
'Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley' Romanticism on the Net (November 2005))
'"Really, but secretly, a Papist" G. K. Chesterton and J. Meade Falkner rewrite the Gothic' Literature and Theology (March, 2004)
Book Chapters
“I had to have this talk with you”: Remediation in Gothic Music in Sound Fabrics: Studies on the Intermedial and Institutional Dimensions of Popular Music ed. Patrick Burger, Martin Butler and Arvi Sepp (Forthcoming, Trier Scientific Press, 2009)
Essays on 'Contemporary Gothic Theatre' and 'Gothic and the Romantics' for Routledge Companion to the Gothic (Routledge, 2007)
Chapter on 'Wordsworth' for Augustans and Romantics by Mike Bruce (course book for External Degree, University of London Press, 2004)
Chapters on 'Bakhtin' and 'New Historicism' for Modern Literary Theory by Chris Baldick (course book for External Degree, University of London Press, 1998)
Reviews
"Review of Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London: John Gay’s Trivia (1716) edited by Clare Brant and Susan E. Whyman" in Literary London (2008)
Review of Theatre for Children and Young People (ed. Stuart Bennett) in Theatre Notebook (May 2006)
Review of Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment 1690-1760 by John O’Brien (March 2006)
Review of Imagined Londons (ed. Pamela K. Gilbert)' in Literary London (April, 2003)
'Review of Gothic Writing 1750-1820 by Robert Miles' British Journal of Eighteenth-century Studies (Summer, 1996)
'Review of Gothic Immortals by Marie Roberts' British Journal of Eighteenth-century Studies (Spring, 1992)
Other Work
Introduction and notes to Matthew Lewis's The Monk (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Entries on 'The Picturesque' and 'Ann Radcliffe' for Encyclopedia of European Romanticism (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004)
Occasional reader for Gothic Studies.
Selected Unpublished Conference Papers
‘Performing Gothic: theatricality and non-theatre spaces’ Gothic NEWS, Eighth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Aix-en-Provence, June 2007.
‘“Paint it Black”: repetition and exchange in Gothic cover version’(with Catherine Spooner) at International Gothic Association Conference, Liverpool, 2003.
'The Gothic House Materialized : Dennis Servers' Unheimlich home' at Conference on the Persistence of Gothic, Greenwich, October, 2002.
'Written on the Female Body : Silence of the Lambs, Stigmata and The Monk' guest lecture at Tonbridge School, December, 2001.
'The Picturesque and the Politics of Passivity' at Conference on Romanticism and the Picturesque, Gregynog, 1991.