William Lamb, Emmanuel

Biographical Information

I am a PhD candidate at Emmanuel College. I received an English BA at the University of Exeter, before studying an MA in Critical Theory at King's College, London. Throughout my academic career, I have taken an interdisciplinary approach. Although mainly situated in English, I have also worked in Film Studies and History of Art.

Research Interests

 

My research examines late 1960s and 1970s British television that reconfigures the weird literary tradition, focusing on its ecological and political dimensions. Drawing on Marxist, queer, and feminist theory, I explore how works such as Penda’s Fen (1974) and Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968) use landscape, haunting, and the uncanny to interrogate the English pastoral imaginary and the intersections of ecology, identity, and power. Aside from this, I have strong interests in surrealism, modernism, Nature writing, and Victorian/Edwardian ghost stories.