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Simon Marsden

Dr Simon Marsden
BA, MA, PhD (Lancaster)

Senior Lecturer
English
Part of
School of the Arts
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

S.J.Marsden@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 794 2729 Ext. 2729

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Teaching Victorian Literature at Elizabeth Gaskell Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Anglia Ruskin University, 2023)
  • Liberating Texts: James Cone, James Baldwin and the Theological Work of Literary Criticism at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Warwick, 2023)
  • Literature and Liberation: Reading James Baldwin with James Cone at International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (University of Chester, 2022)
  • How Heathcliff came to Halifax: Emily Bronte at Law Hill at Locating the Brontes (University of Sheffield, 2019)
  • In God We Trust: The Contested Sacred Spaces of American Horror Film at Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, by Invitation (University of Sheffield, 2019)
  • Natural Theology and the Romantic Imagination in Patrick Bronte's Poetry at Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (Lancaster University, 2019)
  • "Face to face she speaks with God": Charlotte Bronte and the Ruskinian Artist at Ruskin and his Contemporaries (Anglia Ruskin University, 2019)
  • "I wanna see how it ends": Buffy and the Contemporary Gothic Apocalypse at Buffy and the Bible (University of Sheffield, 2019)
  • 'Becoming the Brontes: The Creativity and Craft of the Juvenilia' , by Invitation (Institute of English Studies, 2019)
  • ‘The Victorian Texts that Never End’, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Death and the Sacred, 2019)
  • 'Ghost Writing: Emily Bronte and Spectrality at A Peculiar Music: Emily Bronte Bicentenary Conference (York, 2018)
  • "Say Something Religious!": Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Gothic Hybridities: International Gothic Association (Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018)
  • Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Nottingham, 2018)
  • Tainted Cities: Adam Nevill's Austerity Gothic at The Urban Weird (University of Hertfordshire, 2018)
  • 'Observing Grief: A Symposium on Literature, Religion and the Work of Mourning', by Invitation (Lancaster University, 2017)
  • 'Holy Ghosts: Spectres of the Sacred in Contemporary Gothic Fictions', by Invitation (Gothic Manchester Festival , 2015)
  • The Apocalyptic Imagination (Gladstone's Library, 2015)
  • 'Much Ado About Nothing: Privation Theory and the Ontology of Evil in Peter Straub's Fiction', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Contemporary Gothic Study Day, Lancaster University, 2014)
  • 'Christianity and the Words of Faith in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Poetry', by Invitation (Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews, 2012)

Event Roles

  • What Have Poems Got To Do With Freedom? Reading Literature with Black Liberation Theology at God, Ethnicity and Social Justice, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Lancaster Castle, 2023)
  • Dark Imaginings: Emily and Heathcliff at Bradford Literature Festival, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Bradford, 2023)
  • The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Brontes in Brussels Lecture, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Online, 2022)
  • 'In the dead of night I suddenly awoke': The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Teesside University English Departmental Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Teesside University, 2021)
  • Apocalypse Not Quite Yet: Waiting for the End in Mid-Victorian Literature at Nineteenth-Century Studies Unit, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Anglia Ruskin University (online), 2020)
  • The Brontes' Evangelical Romanticism at Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Huddersfield, 2020)
  • The Lives and Works of the Brontes at 91 Club, Saddleworth, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Oldham, 2019)
  • Panel discussion on Emily Bronte with Lily Cole, Bonnie Greer and Michael Stewart, by Invitation (RRU News, FACT Liverpool, 2018)
  • 'Emily Bronte: Heretic or Mystic?', by Invitation (Bradford Literature Festival, 2018)

Examination Roles

  • University of Sheffield, PhD (2020)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2020)
  • Teesside University, BA English Studies (2019)
  • Keele University, PhD (2018)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2017)
  • University of St Andrews, PhD (2016)

Media Appearances

  • Contributor to special episode on the Emily Bronte Bicentenary, BBC Songs of Praise (Invited, July 2018)

Professional Body Memberships

  • International Gothic Association (Member, 2019 - present)
  • British Association for Victorian Studies (Member, 2017 - present)

Other Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Admissions Tutor for English