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Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature

Dr Paul Davis read for his first degree at the University of Chichester, after which he spent a number of years teaching English in the independent sector. He came to �鶹ֱ�� in 1986 to pursue his interest in Victorian Literature, and has remained to concentrate on researching 19th-century Anglo-Irish Literature. He is a Research Associate on the English and Digital Media Department’s Dickens Journals Online project, and is currently working on a new edition of William Carleton’s The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852).

Qualifications

• BA, English Literature and Religious Studies, University of Chichester
• MA, University of �鶹ֱ��
• MPhil, University of �鶹ֱ��
• DPhil, University of �鶹ֱ��
  

Research Interests

• Victorian Literature
• 19th-century Anglo-Irish Literature
• J.S. Le Fanu
• Bram Stoker

External Roles

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Contact Details

• Tel: +44 (0)1280 814080

Selected Publications

• Paul E.H. Davis, From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula: Anglo-Irish Agrarian Fiction in the Nineteenth Century (�鶹ֱ��: University of �鶹ֱ�� Press, 2011)
• Paul E.H. Davis, “Dracula Anticipated: The ‘Undead’ in Anglo-Irish Literature”, in Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan (eds), The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013), 17-31
• Paul E.H. Davis, “The Nightmare Tales of J.S. Le Fanu”, in Barbara Brodman & James E. Doan (eds), The Supernatural Vampire: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First Century Chic (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016), 35-49