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William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UK.
Hughes is author, co-author or editor of a number of publications connected with the subject, notably Beyond Dracula (Palgrave 2000), the collections Contemporary Writing and National Identity (with Tracey Hill), Bram Stoker History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (with Andrew Smith), Fictions of Unease: The Gothic from Otranto to The X-Files (with Andrew Smith and Diane Mason)and Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre (with Andrew Smith). He has also produced scholarly editions of Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud and Dracula. He is also editor of Gothic Studies, the refereed journal of the International Gothic Association, published by Manchester University Press. His new book, Bram Stoker: Dracula - A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism will be published by Palgave on 21 November 2009.
He is tutor for English PhD students at Bath Spa University, and is the first point of contact for those enquiring about doctoral study at BSU. He is interested, as a tutor himself, in supervising dissertations on all period of the Gothic, particularly where these touch upon Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu or Algernon Blackwood, and has an interest in nineteenth century medicine, pathology and criminal psychology.