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Maddy Potter is an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh specializing in the Long Nineteenth Century, particularly in Romanticism and Victorianism. She joined the University after previously serving as a research assistant at Edinburgh Napier University and holding the Barker Fellowship at Durham University. Her postdoctoral fellowship at Edge Hill University was supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Maddy completed her PhD at the University of York in 2020, focusing on intersections between literature and theology in nineteenth-century Gothic texts, with a keen interest in vampire literature. Her forthcoming academic monograph, 'Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic' from University of Wales Press, theorizes theological monsters within the Irish Gothic context. Maddy's research interests also include EcoGothic and Romani history, with a trade book titled 'The Roma: Travelling History' published by Bodley Head UK and Harper Collins USA. Her current projects examine the role of blood in Gothic imagination and the intersection of metaphysical discourse and medical realism.
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