Faculty of Arts & Society

School of Cultural Studies

Dr Sue Chaplin

Dr Sue Chaplin
LLB (Hons), MA, PhD

School Responsibilities
Senior Lecturer in English, Course Leader for BA (Hons) English & History

Teaching Interests
Sue currently teaches six undergraduate modules on the BA (Hons) English Literature and BA (Hons) English & History programmes. She also teaches a module on the MA English: Twentieth-Century Literature entitled Twentieth-Century Gothic.
   
Research Interests
Sue has researched and published in the fields of literature and law and her research continues to engage both disciplines. She is interested particularly in the interface between legal and literary theory. Her more purely ‘literary’ interests embrace eighteenth-century and Romantic-era writing, women’s writing of these periods and Gothic fiction from the eighteenth century to the present. Her most reecent , The Gothic and the Rule of Law (2007), interrogates the relation between juridical discourses and emerging forms of Gothicism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her previous monograph, Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction (2004), is an interdisciplinary study of women’s writing and women writers from 1740 to the early-nineteenth century.

Sue is currently working on a new monograph, The Gothic and the Rule of Law, for publication in 2006/7, and she is also initiating a joint project with a colleague in the field of critical legal studies on feminist ontologies of law.

Sue is the secretary of the British Association for Romanticism Studies and a member of the International Gothic Association, the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Critical Law Association. She is a member of the editorial board of the online journal Literature Compass and acts as a referee and reviewer for the journal Feminist Legal Studies. Sue has experience of supervising research students on various aspects of eighteenth-century fiction, Romanticism and the Gothic. She welcomes research students in all of these areas, particularly those interested in law and literature or in women’s writing and the Gothic.

Publications
Chaplin, S. (2007) The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820. London: Palgrave.

Chaplin, S. (2006) Spectres of Law in the castle of Otranto, Romanticism, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 177-88.

Chaplin, S. (2005) Fictions of Origin: Law, Abjection, Difference, Law and Critique, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 161-180.

Chaplin, S. (2005) Written in the Black Letter: The Gothic and the Rule of Law, Cardozo Journal of Law & Literature, Vol.17, pp. 47-68.

Chaplin, S. (2004) Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Fiction. London: Ashgate.

Chaplin, S. (2003) Entries on ‘Gender’ and ‘Women’. In C. Murray (ed.)  Encyclopaedia of the Romantic Era. London: Routledge, Vol. 1, pp. 626-7 and Vol. 2, pp. 1131-2.

Chaplin, S. (2002) ‘Fictions of Femininity: Gender, Genre and the Law of Genre in Eighteenth-Century England’. Griffith Law Review 1, pp. 34-43.

Chaplin, S. (2002) ‘Romance and Sedition in the 1790s: Radcliffe’s The Italian’. Romanticism 7:2, pp. 40-61.

Chaplin, S. (2001) ‘How the Sublime comes to Matter: An Irigarayan Critique of Hobbes, Locke and Burke’. Feminist Legal Studies 2, pp. 199-220.

Chaplin, S. (2001) ‘The Sublime Object in Eliza Fenwick’s Secresy, or The Ruin on the Rock’. In F. Price (ed.) Silence and Romanticism. New York and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, pp. 109-28.

Chaplin, S. (2000) ‘Memory, Imagination and the (M)Other in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette’. In A. Horner and A. Keane (eds) Body Matters: Feminism, Textuality, Corporeality. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 225-33.

Chaplin, S. (2000) ‘Terror, Transcendence and Control in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya, or The Moor’. In S. Ruston (ed.) Spectres of Romanticism. New York and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, pp. 3-21.

Consultation Hours
Tuesday 11:00 – 13:00

Contact Details
Room A214
School of Cultural Studies
Humanities Building
Broadcasting Place
Leeds Metropolitan University
Civic Quarter
Leeds LS2 9EN
Tel: 0113 8124973
Fax: 0113 812 3112
Email: s.chaplin@leedsmet.ac.uk

MA English: Twentieth Century-Literature
The MA in English enables students to engage in a critical exploration of some of the centrally challenging literary and theoretical texts and contexts of twentieth-century English Literature.

QV32 BA (Hons) English & History
This course explores the relationship between English and History, some of the tensions between them and how, when combined they provide new and challenging insights into the writing of History and the reading of English.

Q320 BA (Hons) English Literature
This course focuses in particular on some of the exciting directions which the study of literature has taken over the past thirty years.

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