Evie Jeffrey
Research project title
Accessories to Murder: Objects and Things in the Novels of Agatha Christie
Supervisors
Dr Stacy Gillis and Dr Kirsten MacLeod
Contact details
Email: e.jeffrey2@newcastle.ac.uk
Research interests
- detective fiction
- thing theory
- middlebrow literature
- dress history
- 20th-century cultural and social history
Publications
E. Jeffrey, ‘Capital Punishment and Women in the British Police Procedural: Josephine Tey’s A Shilling for Candles and To Love and Be Wise’, Clues, 37.2 (2019), 40–50
Placements and funding
- Robinson Bequest Bursary, Newcastle University - 2017-2020
- Faculty Research Group Funding: Conference Support – 2017
Conferences
- March 2021, ‘’Definitely Not Natural’: Hair Dye in Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery’, Crime Studies Network Vodcast Series
- June 2018, Symposium Co-Organiser, Sex, Death, Disease & Conflict: The State and Morality, 1864-1964, Newcastle University
Research groups
- Crime Studies Network
- Association of Dress Historians