Teresa Fitzpatrick
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Teresa Fitzpatrick is an Academic Tutor in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
Teresa gained her MA with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at MMU, as well as her doctorate, with a thesis titled Killer Plants and Gothic Gardeners, which develops a material ecofeminist Gothic framework to explore the intersection of gender and cultivated nature in plant monster narratives from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
Teresa is also co-founder and blog editor of the independent PGR/ECR Long 19th Century Interdisciplinary Research Network, managing the associated website.
Research interests: material ecofeminism, critical plant studies, environmental humanities, intersectionality (nature and gender), ecogothic, ecohorror, sci-fi and weird, nineteenth and twentieth century fiction. Her current projects focus on fungal gothic.
Email: teresa.fitzpatrick@mmu.ac.uk