Publications
Academic
Carabine, Alex, ‘Knights of the Cross, Up to Date with a Vengeance: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Unholy Grail Quest’, International Gothic Association (March 2025). DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2025.0216
Carabine, Alex, ‘An Inheritance of Witches: William Harrison Ainsworth’s Uses of the Medieval in The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest’, in Literature, the Gothic and the Reconstruction of History, eds. Daniel Radcliffe and Neil Cocks (Oxon: Routledge, 2025), pp.85-98.
Baumeister, Hannah, and Alex Carabine, ‘Drawing on Forced Marriage’, The Law Teacher (RALT) (June 2024).
Carabine, Alex, ‘Haunted Transposition in Violet Kupersmith’s Build Your House Around My Body (Review)’, Moveable Type (February 2024), online.
Carabine, Alex, ‘CRSF 11 (Review)’, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 51.3 (2022), pp.86-90.
Forthcoming chapter: ‘Make Me Your Beloved: Forced Marriage and the Magic of Consent in Marie de France’s ‘Yonec’’, in Forced Marriage: A Multidisciplinary Response to a Global Issue edited collection(Routledge, 2025).
Work in Progress: ‘‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White’, written in collaboration with Dr Hannah Baumeister, with the intention to submit to Law and Literature journal.
Work in Progress: ‘Inscribing Sin: The Legacy of Melusine’s Medieval Hybridity in Vernon Lee’s Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady,’ with the intention to submit to Victorians journal
Short Stories:
Carabine, Alex, ‘In the Garden of Monsters’, Gothic Nature Journal, 4 (2023), online.
Carabine, Alex, ‘Ill-Met by Moonlight Flash Fiction: Fairy Stained’, Gramarye, 22 (2022), p.122.
Novels:
The Ancient Work of Trees, a Victorian eco-Gothic that incorporates Sir Gawain and The Green Knight as an indigenous uncanny return. Currently approaching agents.
The Dark Age, a dark academia novel set in the 1990s that weaves a murder mystery with a Gothic plot, inspired by medieval necromancy and witchcraft. Currently approaching agents.
Shades Remain, a Victorian haunted portrait Gothic, inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the medieval narrative, Mélusine. Work in progress.
Public Speaking
2025:
‘‘Fatal Words of Consent’: On Marriage and the Law in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White’ was presented at Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) annual conference (April 2025).
2024:
Presented at the North West Medieval Graduate Symposium. I gave a draft of my chapter ‘Make Me Your Beloved: Forced Marriage and the Magic of Consent in Marie de France’s ‘Yonec’’.
As part of the ‘Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics‘ project, I chaired an interdisciplinary panel on Human Rights at Liverpool John Moores University. The panel included representatives from Liverpool museums, charities and universities.
2023:
Presented at the North West Medieval Graduate Symposium. The North West Medieval Studies Network aims to provide an inclusive platform for interdisciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration which connects researchers of all stages across the North West.
Presented my research on Letitia Landon’s ‘The Fairy of the Fountains’ at the Progressive Connexions conference (Prague). The conference theme was ‘Evil Women, Women and Evil.’
2022:
Presented my research on William Harrison Ainsworth’s The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest at The Past as Nightmare interdisciplinary conference (Reading). The conference asked such questions as ‘How is the discipline of history itself, and the historian or antiquarian as an individual, portrayed in the Gothic mode?’
Presented my research on Coleridge’s uses of Dante’s Inferno at the International Gothic Association Conference (Dublin).The IGA is the foremost academic meeting of scholars devoted to Gothic and Horror studies. 2022’s conference explored the theme of “gothic interruptions”.
Presented a synopsis of my research methodologies at the interdisciplinary workshop Medieval Forgeries/Forging the Medieval (London).
Presented my research at the Current Research in Speculative Fiction conference (Liverpool). CRSF promotes the research of speculative fictions, media and technologies. I presented an extract of my thesis on the influence of medieval werewolves on Victorian lycanthrope narratives.
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