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Head of department of Humanities and Law, Bournemouth University

I’m Professor of English and Head of the Department of Humanities and Law at Bournemouth University. My research focuses on contemporary literature and text. My essay on ‘Postmodern Literary Labyrinths: Spaces of Horror Reimagined’ (available to buy as a stand alone chapter) is published in The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (2018), edited by Dr Kevin Corstorphine and Dr Laura R. Kremmel I have a co-edited volume for Manchester University Press with Dr Kate Watson, entitled Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Remarking (2019).

Katharine is currently researching representations of tennis on film.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Head of department of Humanities and Law, Bournemouth