Dr Emily Horton
Senior Lecturer
Gaskell Building 143
- Email: emily.horton@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266369
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Emily received her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2009 and worked at various universities, including Brunel, as a Visiting Lecturer before taking on a full-time staff position at Brunel in 2018. As a lecturer in English, specialising in World Literatures in English, she is particularly interested in exploring globalization, cosmopolitanism and diasporic literatures, often through the lens of trauma and affect theories. She has also published in relation to contemporary British literature, Gothic fiction, and queer writing, again often in relation to the abovesaid theories.
Academia.edu page: https://brunel.academia.edu/EmilyHorton
Newest selected publications
Horton, E. (2024) '21st Century British Gothic: The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction'. London: Bloomsbury. ISSN 10: 1350286567 ISSN 13: 978-1350286566
Horton, E. (2023) ''A Pale View of Hills: Diaspora, Trauma, Spectrality and World Literary Writing'', in Shaw, K. and Sloane, P. (eds.) Kazuo Ishiguro (Twenty-First Century Perspectives). Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. ISBN 10: 1526157535. ISBN 13: 978-1526157539.
Horton, E. (2022) '‘‘Why would you play a game like that?’: Community and the pandemic in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun’', in Upstone, S. and Ely, P. (eds.) Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit. London : Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 177 - 197. ISBN 10: 1-350-24403-1. ISBN 13: 978-1-350-24402-3.
Horton, E. (2021) '“What’s Real?”: Digital Technology and Negative Affect in Jennifer Egan’sLook at MeandThe Keep'. Contemporary Women's Writing, 15 (2). pp. 226 - 243. ISSN: 1754-1476