Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and Dr Ruth Heholt on ghosts, haunting, the Gothic, Catherine Crowe, the supernatural and starting a journal

The Death Studies Podcast

What's the episode about?

In this episode, hear a breakdown of the Death and the Screen Special Issue of Revenant and editor-in-chief Professor Ruth Heholt on ghosts, haunting, the Gothic, Catherine Crowe, the supernatural and starting a journal

This special episode accompanies a Special Issue of the academic journal Revenant focused on Death and the Screen. You can find the issue and the journal more broadly at: https://www.revenantjournal.com/

Who is Ruth?

Professor Ruth Heholt is Professor of Literature and Culture at Falmouth University, UK and lead of the Dark Economies research group.

She is author of Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction (Anthem Press, 2022). She is co-editor of several collections including Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles (2018), and Haunted Landscapes (2017).

She has organised international conferences including Folk Horror in the Twentieth Century (Falmouth and Lehigh Universities 2019) and is editor of the peer reviewed journal Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural.

Revenant is dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the supernatural, the uncanny and the weird and can be found at revenantjournal.com. She is co-editor of the Gender and the Body book series and the Nineteenth Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures book series (Edinburgh University Press).

Ruth is on the advisory and editorial boards of several scholarly associations, book series, and journals. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists?

To cite this episode, you can use the following citation:

Heholt, R. (2023) The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 23 January 2023. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21944186

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