Curriculum Vitae – Stephen Carver

Dr Stephen Carver
Curriculum Vitae

Jan 2025 – date:
General Editor, Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Wordsworth Editions

June 2012 – date:
Reader, Mentor & Complaints Moderator
The Literary Consultancy

1995 – 99:
Ph.D (19^th Century Literature), conferred 2000
Supervisor: Professor Victor Sage
University of East Anglia (fully funded by AHRB)

1993 – 94:
MA Modern Literature, UEA (fully funded by AHRB)
Pass with Distinction

1990 – 93:
BA (Hons) English Literature with Philosophy, UEA, 2.1

Books

The Author Who Outsold Dickens (Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2020)
The Nineteenth Century Underworld (Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2018)
Shark Alley: The Memoirs of a Penny-a-liner (London, Green Door Press, 2016)
The Life & Works of the Lancashire Novelist (New York: EMP, 2003)
As Editor, The Wendigo & Other Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood (London: Wordsworth Editions, 2025)
As Editor, Man-size in Marble & Other Grim Tales by E. Nesbit (London: Wordsworth Editions, 2025)
As Editor, Between Two Worlds: The Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (London: Wordsworth Editions, 2024)
As Editor, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (London: Wordsworth Editions, 2023)
As Editor (with Ashley Stokes), Unveiled Anthology of New Writing (London: Unthank Books, 2019)
As Ghost-writer, Drifters in an Upside-down Land by Arun Debnath (Kolkata: Kamaline, 2019)

Forthcoming

Chapters in Books

‘“He wants to be just like Vincent Price”: Influence & Intertext in the Gothic Films of Tim Burton.’ In J. Weinstock ed, The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream (New York: Palgrave, 2013) pp 117 – 133
‘“Addicted to the Supernatural”: Spiritualism and Self-Satire in All in the Dark (1866).’
In Crawford, Rockhill & Showers eds, Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu (New York: Hippocampus, 2011) pp 346 – 363
‘“The Wrongs & Crimes of the Poor”: The Urban Underworld of The Mysteries of London in Context.’ In Louis James & Anne Humphreys, eds, G.W.M. Reynolds & Nineteenth-Century British Society (London: Ashgate, 2008), pp 185 – 212
‘“A Wrappage of Traditions”: Nineteenth Century Narratives of British National Identity.’ In G. Subramaniam ed, Nationhood & Literature: Expressions of Realities (Selangor: PPB & Linguistik, 2005) pp 195 – 219

Encyclopaedia Contributions

W. Hughes, D. Punter & A. Smith eds, The Encyclopaedia of the Gothic Vols I & II (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Chris Murray ed, Encyclopaedia of the Romantic Era, 1760 – 1850 Vols I & II (London: Routledge, 2003)
Clarke, Robert, General Editor, The Literary Encyclopaedia (Cambridge: The Literary Dictionary Company Ltd, 2002)

NB Also numerous magazine/journal articles & short fiction – details available on request

For full academic publication history please refer to my Academia.Edu profile

ONLINE

Stephen Carver: Author ǀ Teacher ǀ Editor – Website
Stephen Carver: Author ǀ Teacher ǀ Editor – Creative Writing/Teaching Blog
Ainsworth & Friends: Essays on 19^th Century Literature & The Gothic – Academic Blog
Tales from a Rat Biker – Motorcycle Film Review & Lifestyle Blog
Wordsworth Editions – Literary Blog
The Jack Vincent Papers – Online Serial

Editorial/Peer Review/Advisory

Awards

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Society Award for Scholarly Excellence, 2022

June 2012 – Dec 2018
Head of Online Courses/Lecturer in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction)
Unthank School of Writing
Norwich

Oct 2006 – Dec 2012:
Tutor (Literature & Creative Writing)
Centre for Continuing Education
School of Education
University of East Anglia

Oct 2005 – Sept 2011:
Lecturer in Critical Studies & Study Skills Advisor
Norwich University of the Arts

Oct 2002 – Sept 2005:
Professor of English & American Literature
Department of English, Faculty of Education
University of Fukui, Japan

March 2000 – Aug 2002:
Course Director, Literature, Film & Cultural Studies
Centre for Continuing Education, UEA

Sept 1994 – March 2002:
Tutor in English Literature
School of English & American Studies, UEA

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST