Newcastle University

Dr Stacy Gillis
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature

• Email: stacy.gillis@ncl.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 7360
• Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8708
• Address: School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
  Percy Building
  Newcastle University
  Newcastle, U.K.
  NE1 7RU
  

I am the Senior Tutor for the School. My office hours are Wednesday (9-11) and Thursday (9-11) - if these times are not convenient then please email to make another appointment.

Research Interests

My research falls into four main areas: crime fictions, particularly detective and sensation novels; cybertheory and cyberpunk; First World War Studies; and, feminist history and theory, particularly third wave feminism and (post)feminism.

Current Work

Forensic pathology, detective fiction, and the Gothic.

Selected Publications

• Gillis S. Feminism and Popular Culture: Explorations in Post-feminism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010.
• Gillis S; Hollows J, ed. Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2009.
• Gillis S. Crime Fiction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
• Gillis S. The Brand, the Intertext, and the Reader: Reading Desires in the Harry Potter Series. In: Julia Briggs, Dennis Butt, Matthew Grenby, ed. Popular Children's Literature in Britain. Aldershote: Ashgate, 2008, pp. 301-316.
• Gillis S. 'Many sisters to many brothers': the women poets of the First World War. In: Kendall T, ed. Oxford handbook of British and Irish war poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 100-113.
• Gillis S. Consoling Fictions: Mourning, World War One, and Dorothy L. Sayers. In: Rae, P, ed. Modernism and Mourning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007, pp. 185-197.

More Publications

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective research students in the following fields: cybertheory, cyberpunk and technology studies; sensation and detective fiction; First World War studies; contemporary popular culture; feminist history and theory; C20 women's writing; and, postmodern culture.

Current Ph.D. Students

Alex Adams - Torture in Contemporary Popular Culture (AHRC)

Haifaa Al-Hadi - Fairy Tales and Contemporary Women's Writing

Lee Barbrook - New Media Theory and Neal Stephenson (AHRC)

Katherine Cooper - Sovereignty and Nationhood in the Fiction of Storm Jameson (AHRC)

Malcah Effron - Narrative Devices in Detective Fiction

Katherine Farrimond - The Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema (AHRC)

Helen Fenwick - The City and Sexuality in Neo-Victorian Texts

Lucy Gallagher - The English Middlebrow Womens' Novel (AHRC)

Shu-Hui Hou - Motherhood in Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen and Rebecca West

Colleen Robertson - The White Mistress in Women's Slave Narratives

Emma Short - The Hotel in Jean Rhys, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen (AHRC)

Robin Stoate - Cyberspace and its Ecologies of (Dis)Embodiment (AHRC)

Maureen Sunderland - Chandlerian Nostalgia in C20 American Detective Fiction

Ellen Turner - Sovereignty, Modernism and Women's Writing (AHRC)

Current M.Litt. Students

Sarah Chapman - Class and Gender in Golden Age Detective Fiction

Rosalie Tuplin - Late C19 Popular Representations of Science

Daniel Rawcliffe - Infection and Disease in Contemporary Popular Culture

Completed Ph.D. Students
2009

Sian Harris - The Canadian Künstlerroman: The Creative Protagonist in L.M. Montgomery, Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence (AHRC)

Esteem Indicators

Editorial Board, Journal of Popular Culture
Editorial Board, Feminist Theory
Editorial Board, Journal of War and Cultural Studies

Funding

UTLC Innovation Fund (2009/10)
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)
Erle Stanley Gardner Fellow, Harry Ransom Centre (2009)
UTLC Innovation Fund (2007/8)
British Academy Small Research Grant (2007)
Faculty Research Funding (2007)
CRASSH Fellow, Cambridge University (2007)
HASS Faculty Teaching Fellowship (2006/7)
British Academy Conference Grant (2006)
English Subject Centre Project Funding (2005/6)
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant (2005)

Qualifications

B.A.(Dalhousie), M.A. (Acadia), Ph.D. (Exeter)

Memberships

Feminist and Women's Studies Assocation
Modern Language Assocation
Assocation for Research in Popular Fictions
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English

Undergraduate Teaching

SEL2063 Murder 101: British and American Detective Fiction and Film
SEL2088 Technocultures: Cyberpunk Fiction and Film

I also contribute to SEL1009 Academic Research, SEL1004 Introduction to Literary Studies II (and I convene this module), SEL1002 Special Topic: The Fairy Tale and SEL1011 Literary Theory.

Postgraduate Teaching

SEL8059 The Body, Identity and Technology in Cyberspace
SEL8322 Remembering the First World War
SEL8333 War, Memory, Culture

I also contribute to the core modules for the M.A. in Literary Studies and the M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Studies.