Ellie Shawcross

PhD student

Research Overview

Ellie (she/her) is a PhD researcher in English Literature, currently working on her thesis, (Un)Natural Desires: Wildness and Abject Desire in the Contemporary Queer Horrorsphere. Her research interests include:

  • The politics of consumption, including cannibalism, vampirism, edibility, and visual/metaphorical consumption.
  • Monstrous companionship, queer homemaking, and non-normative constructions of kinship and desire.
  • The Wild, queer phenomenology, and representations of transgressive wildernesses in real and imagined spaces.


Participation in conference -Mixed Audience


Participation in workshop, seminar, course


Oral presentation


Participation in workshop, seminar, course


Oral presentation


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