Ellie Shawcross

PhD student

Research Overview

Ellie (she/her) is a PhD researcher in English Literature, currently working on her thesis, (Un)Natural Desires: Wildness and Abject Desire in the Contemporary Queer Horrorsphere. Her research interests include:

  • The politics of consumption, including cannibalism, vampirism, edibility, and visual/metaphorical consumption.
  • Monstrous companionship, queer homemaking, and non-normative constructions of kinship and desire.
  • The Wild, queer phenomenology, and representations of transgressive wildernesses in real and imagined spaces.

Speculative Fiction and Criticism in Precarious Times
Participation in conference - Academic

18th Biennial International Gothic Association Conference: Gothic Selves/Artificial Others
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Monsters Under Pressure: The Queer Art of Resistance
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

"I have / Immortal longings in me": Queer Dreamscapes and the Wildness of the With in Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' (1872)
Oral presentation

Cannibal Imaginaries
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Cannibal Imaginaries
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

"You're Killing People!" "I'm Killing Boys": the Gendered Ethics of Consumption in Jennifer's Body (2009)
Oral presentation

Chancellor's Medal
Prize (including medals and awards)