Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol.  She is the editor and author of over 30 books, many of which are in the areas of gender and the Gothic. Her Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal won the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has edited two books on the death penalty including Out of the Night, which was awarded LifeLines Book of the Year and Writing for their Lives, nominated for the Gustavus Myers Center’s Outstanding Human Rights Book Award.

She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Writing, the leading journal on historical women writers, and is also a book Series Editor for Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing.  Her latest ventures are in filmmaking in the areas of women’s literary heritage and a female history of surgical malpractice. She has contributed to programmes for local and national radio such as the World Service, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 (Woman’s Hour,Front Row and Beyond Belief). She has appeared on BBC 1 Breakfast TV, BBC 2, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Discovery Channel to discuss a variety of topics including the Gothic novels Frankenstein and Dracula, the work of Angela Carter, Freemasonry, the death penalty and menstrual taboo. She is a co-founder of the Scholarly Association for Menopausal Studies. For leisure, she does gardening, plays the pipe organ and piano.