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Dr Matthew Crofts

Academic & Library Specialist

Faculty and Department

  • University Library
  • Collections, Learning and Research

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and 'Dungeon Crawler' Videogames

Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

"Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats": Rats, repression and the Gothic mode

Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2020). “Rats is bogies I tell you, and bogies is rats”: Rats, repression and the Gothic mode. In R. Heholt, & M. Edmundson (Eds.), Gothic animals: Uncanny otherness and the animal with-out (127-140). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34540-2_8

Journal Article

Review: The Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination by William Hughes

Crofts, M. (2019). Review: The Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination by William Hughes. Victorian popular fictions journal, 1(1), 115-117. https://doi.org/10.46911/sbek7148

Dickens's gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips's The dead heart

Crofts, M. (2018). Dickens’s gothic double: A tale of two cities and Watts Phillips’s The dead heart. Victoriographies, 8(3), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2018.0319

"The Fairy Tale That Won't Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman's Stardust and Matthew Vaughn's Film Adaptation

Crofts, M., & Hatter, J. (2016). "The Fairy Tale That Won’t Behave"?: Ageing and Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and Matthew Vaughn’s Film Adaptation. Femspec, 16(1), pp.19-43

Research interests

Gothic Literature

Victorian Literature

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