Dr Simon Marsden BA, MA, PhD (Lancaster)
Senior Lecturer English
- +44 (0)151 794 2729 Ext. 2729
- Work email S.J.Marsden@liverpool.ac.uk
Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- Teaching Victorian Literature at Elizabeth Gaskell Conference, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Anglia Ruskin University, 2023)
- Liberating Texts: James Cone, James Baldwin and the Theological Work of Literary Criticism at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Warwick, 2023)
- Literature and Liberation: Reading James Baldwin with James Cone at International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (University of Chester, 2022)
- How Heathcliff came to Halifax: Emily Bronte at Law Hill at Locating the Brontes (University of Sheffield, 2019)
- In God We Trust: The Contested Sacred Spaces of American Horror Film at Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, by Invitation (University of Sheffield, 2019)
- Natural Theology and the Romantic Imagination in Patrick Bronte's Poetry at Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century (Lancaster University, 2019)
- "Face to face she speaks with God": Charlotte Bronte and the Ruskinian Artist at Ruskin and his Contemporaries (Anglia Ruskin University, 2019)
- "I wanna see how it ends": Buffy and the Contemporary Gothic Apocalypse at Buffy and the Bible (University of Sheffield, 2019)
- 'Becoming the Brontes: The Creativity and Craft of the Juvenilia' , by Invitation (Institute of English Studies, 2019)
- ‘The Victorian Texts that Never End’, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Death and the Sacred, 2019)
- 'Ghost Writing: Emily Bronte and Spectrality at A Peculiar Music: Emily Bronte Bicentenary Conference (York, 2018)
- "Say Something Religious!": Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Gothic Hybridities: International Gothic Association (Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018)
- Contemporary Gothic and the Problem of Theological Language at Society for the Study of Theology (University of Nottingham, 2018)
- Tainted Cities: Adam Nevill's Austerity Gothic at The Urban Weird (University of Hertfordshire, 2018)
- 'Observing Grief: A Symposium on Literature, Religion and the Work of Mourning', by Invitation (Lancaster University, 2017)
- 'Holy Ghosts: Spectres of the Sacred in Contemporary Gothic Fictions', by Invitation (Gothic Manchester Festival , 2015)
- The Apocalyptic Imagination (Gladstone's Library, 2015)
- 'Much Ado About Nothing: Privation Theory and the Ontology of Evil in Peter Straub's Fiction', Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Contemporary Gothic Study Day, Lancaster University, 2014)
- 'Christianity and the Words of Faith in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Poetry', by Invitation (Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, University of St Andrews, 2012)
Event Roles
- What Have Poems Got To Do With Freedom? Reading Literature with Black Liberation Theology at God, Ethnicity and Social Justice, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Lancaster Castle, 2023)
- Dark Imaginings: Emily and Heathcliff at Bradford Literature Festival, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Bradford, 2023)
- The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Brontes in Brussels Lecture, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Online, 2022)
- 'In the dead of night I suddenly awoke': The Gothic Mode of Charlotte Bronte's Villette at Teesside University English Departmental Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Teesside University, 2021)
- Apocalypse Not Quite Yet: Waiting for the End in Mid-Victorian Literature at Nineteenth-Century Studies Unit, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Anglia Ruskin University (online), 2020)
- The Brontes' Evangelical Romanticism at Research Seminar, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, University of Huddersfield, 2020)
- The Lives and Works of the Brontes at 91 Club, Saddleworth, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Oldham, 2019)
- Panel discussion on Emily Bronte with Lily Cole, Bonnie Greer and Michael Stewart, by Invitation (RRU News, FACT Liverpool, 2018)
- 'Emily Bronte: Heretic or Mystic?', by Invitation (Bradford Literature Festival, 2018)
Examination Roles
- University of Sheffield, PhD (2020)
- Lancaster University, PhD (2020)
- Teesside University, BA English Studies (2019)
- Keele University, PhD (2018)
- Lancaster University, PhD (2017)
- University of St Andrews, PhD (2016)
Media Appearances
- Contributor to special episode on the Emily Bronte Bicentenary, BBC Songs of Praise (Invited, July 2018)
Professional Body Memberships
- International Gothic Association (Member, 2019 - present)
- British Association for Victorian Studies (Member, 2017 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- School of the Arts Academic Lead for Admissions and Widening Participation
- Admissions Tutor for English