James Green, PhD
Summer term 2024
123045 PS PS Literary Studies - New Dimensions of Terror: Weird Fiction
Green, J. (2024). 'Lest the night carry on forever': the transcendent Gothic unconscious in Bloodborne. In C. M. Davison (Ed.), Gothic dreams and nightmares Manchester University Press.
Green, J. (2023). “Old things made new”: Transfusive rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”. Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 9(1), 35-53. https://doi.org/10.1515/fns-2023-2004
Green, J. (2023). After Death to T. S. Eliot. In R. Nemesvari, & W. Baker (Eds.), Wilkie Collins in Context (pp. 97-104). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wilkie-collins-in-context/721143344ED323D033BF8943092883B5
Green, J. (2023). Contemporary. In R. Nemesvari, & W. Baker (Eds.), Wilkie Collins in Context (pp. 89-96). Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wilkie-collins-in-context/721143344ED323D033BF8943092883B5
Green, J. (2022). Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War. Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
James Aaron Green, PhD
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Austria
James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral researcher (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. His current project (2021–24) is Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918.
James is a British-born literary historian of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His recent work is in literary age and aging studies, in particular fictions of radical life extension. He holds additional interests in the gothic, sensation fiction, and game studies. His work has been published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Wilkie Collins in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Gothic Dreams/Nightmares (Manchester UP, 2024), among other places. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan; a second, based on his APART-GSK project, is due with Bloomsbury Academic.
In addition to teaching experience at two members of the Russell Group of UK universities, James has a diverse history of academic service and experience of gaining competitive grant funding from various sources.
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien
Austria
James Aaron Green is a postdoctoral researcher (ÖAW APART-GSK) at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. His current project (2021–24) is Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918.
James is a British-born literary historian of the mid-to-late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His recent work is in literary age and aging studies, in particular fictions of radical life extension. He holds additional interests in the gothic, sensation fiction, and game studies. His work has been published in Gothic Studies, the Journal of Victorian Culture, and Wilkie Collins in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Gothic Dreams/Nightmares (Manchester UP, 2024), among other places. His first monograph, Sensation Fiction and Modernity, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan; a second, based on his APART-GSK project, is due with Bloomsbury Academic.
In addition to teaching experience at two members of the Russell Group of UK universities, James has a diverse history of academic service and experience of gaining competitive grant funding from various sources.
Employment
Academic third-party funded project staff
Department of English and American Studies
Universität WienAustria
1 Aug 2021 → present
External lecturer
Department of English and American Studies
Universität WienAustria
1 Mar 2024 → present
Education
| 2019 | PHD ENGLISH, University of Exeter and University of Reading (AHRC-funded). |
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| Thesis Title: Sensation Fiction and Modernity: Narratives of Order and Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain. | |
| 2015 | MA ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES, University of Exeter. Grade: Distinction. |
| 2014 | BA ENGLISH (HONS.), University of Exeter. Grade: Class I. |
Projects
LivFor: Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878–1918
Green, J. & Pietrzak-Franger, M.
1/08/21 → 31/10/24
Research Interests
age and aging studies; nineteenth-century studies; Victorian studies; literature and science; sensation fiction; the gothic; game studies.
Publications
‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)’
Green, J., 24 Apr 2024, In: Women's Writing. 34, 2, p. 254-272 18 p.'Lest the night carry on forever': the transcendent Gothic unconscious in Bloodborne
Green, J., 2024, Gothic dreams and nightmares. Davison, C. M. (ed.). Manchester University Press“Old things made new”: Transfusive rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”
Green, J., Jul 2023, In: Frontiers of Narrative Studies. 9, 1, p. 35-53After Death to T. S. Eliot
Green, J., 2023, Wilkie Collins in Context. Nemesvari, R. & Baker, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 97-104 8 p.Contemporary
Green, J., 2023, Wilkie Collins in Context. Nemesvari, R. & Baker, W. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 89-96 8 p.Fictions of Radical Life Extension: Living Forever from the Fin de Siècle to the First World War
Green, J., Oct 2022, (In preparation) Bloomsbury Academic. (Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life).Activities
'Death Outlived': Desiring and Fearing Longevity in Fin-de-siecle Britain
James Green (Speaker)
29 Nov 2023
Constructing Age in Modern Literature
James Green (Speaker)
13 Nov 2023
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard’s She (1887) and the ‘Young Soldier Problem’
James Green (Speaker)
2 Sep 2023
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard's She (1887) and Literary Age Studies
James Green (Speaker)
6 Jun 2023
‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)
James Green (Speaker)
30 Sep 2022
'“Old Things Made New”: Transfusive Rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham”
James Green (Speaker)
29 Aug 2022
‘“A Large Capital of New Blood”: Exchanging Youthfulness in Dowling and Milne’s Short Stories of 1887
James Green (Speaker)
16 Jul 2022
'Death Outlived': Desiring and Fearing Longevity in Fin-de-siecle Britain
James Green (Speaker)
29 Nov 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Constructing Age in Modern Literature
James Green (Speaker)
13 Nov 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard’s She (1887) and the ‘Young Soldier Problem’
James Green (Speaker)
2 Sep 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Feverish Youths and Fossilized Men: Haggard's She (1887) and Literary Age Studies
James Green (Speaker)
6 Jun 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
‘“You belong to my time, not his”: aging, obsolescence, and ‘allotted time’ in Edith Nesbit’s Dormant (1911)
James Green (Speaker)
30 Sep 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
'“Old Things Made New”: Transfusive Rejuvenescence in M. E. Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne” and H. G. Wells’s “The Story of the Late Mr Elvesham”
James Green (Speaker)
29 Aug 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
‘“A Large Capital of New Blood”: Exchanging Youthfulness in Dowling and Milne’s Short Stories of 1887
James Green (Speaker)
16 Jul 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of English and American Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 8 (Campus)
1090 Wien