Dr Monica Germana
“‘Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best’”: A Gothic Reading of Technology and the Body in Sam Mendes’s Skyfall
Germanà, M. 2024. “‘Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best’”: A Gothic Reading of Technology and the Body in Sam Mendes’s Skyfall. in: Hines, C., Sweeney, T. and Joy, S. (ed.) James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise New York Wallflower Press. pp. 276-287
Skeleton Woman and the Haunted Underwater: A Three-Part Podcast Series
Germanà, M. 2023. Skeleton Woman and the Haunted Underwater: A Three-Part Podcast Series.
‘Engendering Globalgothic: The “hideous progeny” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’
Germanà, M. 2023. ‘Engendering Globalgothic: The “hideous progeny” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’. in: Duncan, R. (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Global Gothic Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press. pp. 84-99
‘Between Desire and Control: The Fashioned Image in Muriel Spark’s Life and Fiction’
Germanà, M. 2022. ‘Between Desire and Control: The Fashioned Image in Muriel Spark’s Life and Fiction’. in: Carruthers, G. and Stoddart, H. (ed.) The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark Glasgow Association for Scottish Literary Studies. pp. 63-87
Ghost-Tours, Body Snatchers, and Optical Illusions: An Introduction to Haunted Scotlands
Germanà, M. 2022. Ghost-Tours, Body Snatchers, and Optical Illusions: An Introduction to Haunted Scotlands. Gothic Studies. 24 (1), pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0117
The Haunted Landscape of the Uncanny North: Scott Graham’s Shell (2012) and Gordon Napier’s 1745 (2017)
Germanà, M. 2022. The Haunted Landscape of the Uncanny North: Scott Graham’s Shell (2012) and Gordon Napier’s 1745 (2017). Gothic Studies. 24 (1), pp. 93-109. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0124
Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender
Germanà, M. 2019. Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender. London and New York Bloomsbury Academic.
2024
“‘Sometimes the Old Ways Are the Best’”: A Gothic Reading of Technology and the Body in Sam Mendes’s Skyfall2023
‘Engendering Globalgothic: The “hideous progeny” of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’2022
‘Between Desire and Control: The Fashioned Image in Muriel Spark’s Life and Fiction’2020
Ali Smith2017
Authorship, “Ghost-filled” Islands, and the Haunting Feminine: Contemporary Scottish Female Gothic’2017
Other Stories: Strangers and Intrusions in Ali Smith’s Fiction2016
Community Spirit? Haunting Secrets and Displaced Selves in Contemporary Scottish Fiction2015
The Coming of Age of Graphic Narratives2014
“What Are All Those Things He Once Thought He Knew, and Where Have They Gone?”: The End of the Wor(l)d in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003)2014
The Awakening of Caledonias? Scottish Literature in the 1980s2014
Brownies2013
The Death of the Lady: Haunted Garments and (Re-)Possession in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger’2013
Madness and the city: the collapse of reason and sanity in Alan Moore’s From Hell2013
‘The Uncanny can happen’: Desire and Belief in Ali Smith’s The Seer’2012
Contemporary fiction2012
Being human? Twenty-first century monsters2011
Beyond the gaps: postmodernist representations of the metropolis2011
From hijab to sweatshops: segregated bodies and contested space in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane2011
The dear green place2009
Red stiletto2009
Lost and found2008
In and outside post-devolution Scotland: Scottish national identity and women writers2008
Crossing dream boundaries: decoding nonsense and fantastic ambiguities in Naomi Mitchison’s beyond this limit2023
Skeleton Woman and the Haunted Underwater: A Three-Part Podcast Series2022
Ghost-Tours, Body Snatchers, and Optical Illusions: An Introduction to Haunted Scotlands2022
The Haunted Landscape of the Uncanny North: Scott Graham’s Shell (2012) and Gordon Napier’s 1745 (2017)2003
'Une Petite Mort’: Death, Love and Liminality in the Fiction of Ali Smith2003
Real Gorgons or Fantastic Chimeras? Re-shaping Myth and Tradition: Alice Thompson’s Justine2003
Historical Places of Interest, Books, Tourism and Advertising: Scottish Icons in Contemporary Halifax (Nova Scotia)2019
Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender2017
Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion2014
Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture: Post-Millennial Perspectives of the End of the World2013
Contemporary Critical Perspectives: Ali Smith2010
Scottish women's gothic and fantastic writing: fiction since 19782017
Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy (2007)2011
Introduction: the sick body and the fractured self: (contemporary) Scottish gothic2011
Becoming Hyde: excess, pleasure and cloning2008
Plagiarising the Ettrick shepherd? A note on the manuscript of Charlotte Brontë's tales of the islanders and Winifred Gérin's Emily Brontë2024
Vanishing Landmarks: Artivisim and Climate