Emily Alder

Emily Alder

Dr Emily Alder

Lecturer

 0131 455 2971

  EM.Alder@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Emily has worked at the University since 2001 and is currently Lecturer in English literature in the School of Arts & Creative Industries. Outside work, Emily is a keen cyclist, hillwalker and ski mountaineer.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Haunted Shores Symposium organisation
  • Nature and the Long Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference organisation
  • Cities and Crime in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Robert Louis Stevenson in the 21st century

 

Editorial Activity

  • Editor in chief, Gothic Studies, the journal of the International Gothic Association
  • Assistant Editor for Gothic Studies, the journal of the International Gothic Association

 

Invited Speaker

  • Frankenstein’s daughters: girl scientists in children’s literature

 

Media Activity

  • Interview for BBC Natural Histories

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Panel member on Let’s Talk Frankly, Edinburgh International Science Festival. Summerhall, Edinburgh, 9 April 2018.
  • Article for The Conversation

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • External Examiner, PhD, University of Lancaster

 

Reviewing

  • Peer reviewing for Broadview Press, Liverpool University Press, and Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.

 

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Psychic touches and the psychic detective: physical manifetations of the supernatural in Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson.

Presentation / Conference
Alder, E. (2008, September)
Psychic touches and the psychic detective: physical manifetations of the supernatural in Algernon Blackwood and William Hope Hodgson. Paper presented at Ninth Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester

An exploration of the management of menopausal symptoms for women with a diagnosis of breast cancer: lay and professional experiences and expectations.

Journal Article
Alder, E., Cruickshank, S., & Hume, A. (2008)
An exploration of the management of menopausal symptoms for women with a diagnosis of breast cancer: lay and professional experiences and expectations. Breast Cancer Research, 10(S2), 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr1966
Many breast cancer survivors are menopausal either at diagnosis or as a result of a premature therapy-induced menopause, complaining frequently of climacteric symptoms [1]. Th...

Passing the barrier of life: spiritualism, psychical research, and boundaries in William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land.

Book
Alder, E. (2005)
Passing the barrier of life: spiritualism, psychical research, and boundaries in William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. In J. Ramone, & G. Twitchen (Eds.), Boundaries, 120-139. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The future was eternal night: evolution entropy and the death of the sun in Camille Flammarion's Omega and William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land.

Conference Proceeding
Alder, E. (2010)
The future was eternal night: evolution entropy and the death of the sun in Camille Flammarion's Omega and William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land

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