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MA by Research (Literary Studies)
PhD English
PGCE English
Fellow of the HEA
Senior Lecturer in English for the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Cheshire, Manchester Metropolitan University (2016-2017)
Academic Coordinator of the International Summer Programme, Lancaster University (2015 - 2016)
Associate Lecturer (English, Sociology), Lancaster University (2010 - 2016)
Outreach Officer for English, Lancaster University (2014 - 2016)
Senior Examiner for AQA (English Language and Literature GCSE) (2010 - 2015)
Tutor for Lancashire Adult Learning (2008 - 2010)
Teacher of English and Media Studies (11-18) for Lancashire County Council and Cumbria County Council, (2005 - 2010)
French
I have taught several courses at undergraduate level, including:
Courses I have taught at postgraduate level include:
I am interested in supervising projects related to the following themes
Previous and Current PhD Students
External Examiner for Masters by Research at Sheffield Hallam University
External Examiner for the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination at The University of Stirling
My research expertise spans English Literature, especially the Gothic and other modes of the Fantastic in fiction, the Environmental Humanities and Game Studies. I am a member of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies where I develop participatory research projects with young people on climate change and culture and co-director of the Manchester Game Studies Network, where I focus on analogue and material games.
C. Germaine (2023). The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature Speculative Entanglements. Bloomsbury Perspectives on Chi.
C. Germaine, P. Wake (2022). Material Game Studies A Philosophy of Analogue Play.
C. Germaine The Dark Matter of Children's "Fantastika" Literature Speculative Entanglements. Bloomsbury Academic.
C. Germaine (2019). The Cthulhu Hack: Mother's Love. Just Crunch Games.
CA. Buckley (2017). Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic. Edinburgh University Press.
C. Buckley, S. Ilott (2017). Telling It Slant Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi. CA. Buckley. Sussex Academic Press.
C. Germaine Buckley (2020). A tale of two women: the female grotesque in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful. Feminist Media Studies. 20(3), pp.361-380.
S. Ilott, C. Buckley (2016). Fragmenting and becoming double": Supplementary twins and abject bodies in Helen Oyeyemi's the Icarus Girl. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 51(3), pp.402-415.
CAG. Buckley (2016). How monsters are made: ‘No remorse, no pity’ in Shelley, Dickens and Priestley’s Mister Creecher. Horror Studies. 7(1), pp.25-40.
CG. Buckley (2015). Psychoanalysis, “Gothic” Children’s Literature, and the Canonization of Coraline. Children's Literature Association Quarterly. 40(1), pp.58-79.
C. Buckley, C. Stevenson (2014). Reviews. Horror Studies. 5(2), pp.265-272.
C. Buckley (2014). “Hatcht up in Villanie and Witchcraft”:. Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. 3(1), pp.85-109.
C. Germaine, B. Bowman, P. Kishinani, C. Balchin (2024). The Climate Imaginary: Reading Fiction to Make Sense of the Climate Crisis. JW. Atkinson, SJ. Ray. In: The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators: How to Teach in a Burning World. University of California Press, Berkeley,
C. Germaine (2023). Uncanny Globalgothic Ecologies: Animate Intimacies. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic. Edinburgh University Press,
C. Germaine, P. Wake (2022). Introduction: Material Game Studies. In: Material Game Studies A Philosophy of Analogue Play. Bloomsbury, pp.1-18.
C. Germaine (2022). Nature' Games in a time of Climate Crisis. In: Material Game Studies A Philosophy of Analogue Play. Bloomsbury,
CG. Buckley (2020). Encountering Weird Objects:. In: Diseases of the Head. Punctum Books, pp.361-394.
C. Germaine (2020). Gameful Interactions: The ‘Ludification’ of Zombie Fiction. In: Death, Culture & Leisure Playing Dead. Emerald Publishing Limited,
C. Germaine Buckley (2020). Encounters with the ‘Hidden’ World in Modern Children’s Fiction. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Springer International Publishing, pp.589-607.
NA. Salmon, F. Gumbmann (2019). Front Matter: Volume 11164. NA. Salmon, F. Gumbmann. In: Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi. SPIE,
C. Germaine Buckley (2019). Weird History/ Weird Knowledge: H. P. Lovecraft versus Sherlock Holmes in Shadows over Baker Street. In: Sideways in Time Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction. Liverpool University Press,
CA. Germaine Buckley (2018). Metamorphosis of the Blood: Vampiric Femininity in Contemporary Children’s Fiction. In: Growing up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media. McFarland,
CA. Germaine Buckley (2018). Jeremy Dyson's The Haunted Book (2012), the Gothic Child and the West Yorkshire Moors. In: Gothic Britain Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles. University of Wales Press,
C. Germaine Buckley (2018). “You Don’t Think I’m Like Any Other Boy. That’s Why You’re Afraid”: Haunted/Haunting Children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror. In: The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. Springer International Publishing, pp.233-247.
C. Buckley (2017). New Directions in Children’s Gothic. A. Jackson. In: New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands. Routledge, pp.16-31.
CA. Germaine Buckley (2017). Gothic Children in Boy Snow Bird, The Opposite House and The Icarus Girl. In: Telling It Slant Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi. Sussex Academic Press,
SE. Ilott, CA. Germaine Buckley (2017). Conclusions. In: Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi. Sussex Academic Press,
CA. Germaine Buckley (2016). Gender, Sexuality and the Monsters of Literary Horror. In: Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories that Speak to Our Deepest Fears. ABC-CLIO GREENWOOD,
CA. Germaine Buckley (2016). Young Adult Horror. In: Horror Literature through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories that Speak to Our Deepest Fears. ABC CLIO GREENWOOD,
C. Buckley (2013). Gothic and the Child Reader, 1850—Present. In: The Gothic World. Routledge, pp.254-263.
Organised "Fractured Images, Broken Words" - Conference at Lancaster University, 2010
Organised "Beyond Twilight" - A Symposium on YA Gothic at Lancaster University, 2012
On the organising committee for the International Gothic Association Conference 2018.
EU and the Child: Crisis, Activism, Culture, 2020
Death, Dying and Disposal - 15th Annual Conference for the Association for the Study of Death and Society, 2021
Reviewer for Children's Literature Association Quarterly; Fantastika ; Journal of Victorian Culture; Feminist Media Studies; Feminist Theory; Revenant; Studies in Gothic Fiction
Reviewer for University of Mississippi Press; the University of Wales Press; Bloomsbury.
Co-Investigator on the Beyond Twilight project @ Lancaster University 2012-2013
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the International Gothic Association