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Shane McCorristine
Shane McCorristine FRHistS is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University. He is an interdisciplinary cultural historian with interests in the ‘night side’ of mode...view moreShane McCorristine FRHistS is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Newcastle University. He is an interdisciplinary cultural historian with interests in the ‘night side’ of modern experience, namely social attitudes to ghosts, dreams, death, and species extinction in the long nineteenth century. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was educated at University College Dublin and has held several postdoctoral positions, in the UK and Ireland, including a Marie Curie Fellowship and Wellcome Trust Fellowship. He is the author of Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920 (2010) and William Corder and the Red Barn Murder: Journeys of the Criminal Body (2014).view less