Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Reader in Literary Studies
BA, MA, PhD (Manchester)

E-mail: Marie.Mulvey-Roberts@uwe.ac.uk

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My interests in Gothic literature focus on the body as both container and contained and its outpourings, textual and otherwise, including blood. My three volume edition of the letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, the supposed “mad-wife” of Edward Bulwer Lytton has recently been published. Her experiences of the asylum are documented in her memoir A Blighted Life, one of several of her texts which I have edited. I am also the editor of a microfilm project spanning three hundred years of madness, which is available through Adam Matthew Publications.

The relationship between writing and incarceration has also been central to two books I have edited on prisoners. The most recent is Writing for their Lives: Death Row USA published by Illinois University Press, which was nominated for the Myers Outstanding Book Award for human rights. I have also published on the imprisonment of the Suffragette Constance Lytton, the grand-daughter of Rosina Bulwer Lytton. I am currently working on a critical biography of these women. I welcome Ph.D students in any of my areas of interest including Gothic literature and film, madness, vampirism, imprisonment, radical women, literary Freemasonry and literature and medicine.

Other roles

I am the Ph.D. co-ordinator for the Department of English and editor of the international journal Women's Writing, which I co-founded in 1994 with Professor Janet Todd. I am also a member of the executive committee of the International Gothic Association, a member of the Wales and West Gothic network and on the advisory committees for the journals: Gothic Studies, Female Gothic Forum and Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror.

For knowledge exchange activities, see e.g. Night:  A Time Between or Lunchtime Literature

Teaching

At present I am teaching modules on Approaches to Literature, Gothic Literature and the dissertation

Recent Publications

Books

The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, with the assistance of  Steve Carpenter, 3 vols (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008)

Madness: Three Hundred Years of Madness. Sources from the Hunter Collection, Cambridge University Library, part 1 (Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthew Publications, 2008)

Ed. Writing for their Lives: Death Row USA (Illinois University Press, 2007).

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Cheveley: A Man of Honour, ed. in Silver Fork Novels 1826-1841, general editor, Harriet Devine Jump (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005).

Ed [with Alison Milbank and Peter Otto] Gothic Fiction, Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia, edited with Alison Milbank and Peter Otto (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2003).

Ed. Sex and Sexuality, 1640-1940: Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives, part 1, ed. (Marlborough: Adam Matthew, 2001)

Ed. The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. (London: Macmillan and New York: New York University Press, 1998)