Here are some of the things I’m currently working on.
Perhaps it seems like a lot, and whilst in some ways it is a big list, it’s important to note that academic publishing takes a long time. For example – some of this was completed months or even years ago, but remains pending as manuscripts are prepared or final adjustments made by editors or publishers.
- a Focus Issue of the feminist journal of visual culture, MAI, on gendered death in visual culture with colleagues Dr. Devaleena Kundu and Dr. Khyati Tripathi;
- a journal Special Issue on representations of Students on Screen for Open Screens, building on previous work with my colleague Dr. Kay Calver. This forms part of mine and Kay’s wider work on students on screen;
- an edited collection working with Dr. Kate Woodthorpe and Dr. Helen Frisby on Institutions and Death, resulting from the 2022 Death and Institutions conference at the University of Bath. For the collection, I am working in an editorial role and also on a chapter with Dr. Devaleena Kundu on representations of institutions and death in popular culture;
- a journal article with colleagues Dr. Kate Woodthorpe, Dr. Helen Frisby and Dr. Devaleena Kundu examining the death of Queen Elizabeth II from a range of perspectives;
- a book chapter on empathy and death in Squid Game for a book on Television and Empathy edited by Dr. Michael Samuel;
- a book chapter on the television series The Fades and its representations of zombies in relation to environmental damage and climate crisis;
- an ongoing project with colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Death and Society at the University of Bath on writing, death and the self. As part of the project there have been a series of well received online writing workshops ran by myself and colleagues Professor Gayle Letherby, Dr. Tamarin Norwood and Dr. Kate Woodthorpe;
- my ongoing journalling and creative writing practices, which help me to process my thoughts and feelings.
