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Professor Darryl Jones

Professor Darryl Jones

Professor of Modern British Literature, English

3531896 1878http://people.tcd.ie/drjones

Biography

Darryl Jones was born in Wales and educated at the University of York. He has taught at TCD since 1994. His major area of teaching and research is nineteenth-century literature and popular literature.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Darryl Jones, M. R. James and the Ghost Story Men: A Cambridge Tale, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026Book, 2026
  • Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, Darryl Jones and David Lloyd, Penguin Classics, (Penguin Classics), London:, Penguin, 2025, -Critical Edition (Book), 2025
  • Libraries and Museums in, editor(s)Andrew Smith , The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Ghost Story, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2025, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2025
  • 'The Shape of Things to Come: Ideas in Chaos and Society in Collapse' in, editor(s)Sarah Cole and Duncan Bell , The Oxford Handbook to H. G. Wells, Oxford, 2025, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2025
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Darryl Jones, (The Oxford Sherlock Holmes), Oxford:, Oxford University Press, 2023, - i-xlvii + 168ppCritical Edition (Book), 2023
  • M. R. James in, editor(s)Robert Edgar and Wayne Johnson , The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, London, Routledge, 2023, pp55 - 64, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2023
  • The Green Flag, Darryl Jones, (The Edinburgh Conan Doyle), Edinburgh:, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, -Critical Edition (Book), 2022
  • Occult Horror in, editor(s)Stephen Shapiro and Mark Storey , The Cambridge Companion to American Horror, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp154 - 168, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2022
  • M. R. James's Libraries in, editor(s)Alice Crawford and Robert Crawford , Libraries in Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp114 - 127, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2022
  • Darryl Jones, M. R. James: A Life, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022Book, 2022
  • Darryl Jones, 'M. R.James: Towards a New Biography', Ghosts and Scholars, 40, 2021, p8 - 15Journal Article, 2021
  • Darryl Jones, Horror: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 1 - 131ppBook, 2021
  • Darryl Jones [trans BelĂ©n Urrutia], La Inquietante Historia Del Horror, Madrid, Alianza editorial, 2021, 1 - 171ppBook, 2021
  • Leonardo Ambasciano, Mathias Clasen, and Darryl Jones, Horror Studies: Between Humanistic Interdisciplinarity and Scientific Consilience, Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 5, (1-2), 2020Journal Article, 2020
  • Darryl Jones, 'The China Virus: Invasion, Contagion, and the "Yellow Peril", Critical Quarterly, 62, (4), 2020, p41 - 48Journal Article, 2020
  • J. W. Dunne: The Time Traveller in, editor(s)Trish Ferguson , Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp209 - 232, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2020
  • The Horror Story in, editor(s)Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter , The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp175 - 192, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2019
  • Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry [Chinese Edition], Shanghai, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2019, 1 - 200ppBook, 2019
  • M. R. James in, editor(s)Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston , The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, London, Routledge, 2018, pp134 - 141, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2018
  • Darryl Jones, Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, xii+181 pp.ppBook, 2018
  • '"Visions of Another Albion": Clive Barker and the Horror of 1980s Britain' in, editor(s)Sorcha Ni Fhlainn , Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2017, pp25 - 40, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2017
  • Darryl Jones, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xxxvi + 182ppBook, 2017
  • Darryl Jones, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xl + 125ppppBook, 2017
  • 'Oscar Cook' in, editor(s)Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy , Lost Souls, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2016, pp50 - 53, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2016
  • Darryl Jones, Arthur Conan Doyle, Gothic Tales, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, xl + 549ppppBook, 2016
  • 'In Defence of Horror' in, editor(s)Alice Northover , The OUPblog Tenth Anniversary Book: Ten Years of Academic Insights for the Thinking World, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp240 - 247, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2015
  • Iron Mike and Me: The Fall and Further Fall of Mike Tyson in, editor(s)David Scott , Cultures of Boxing, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2015, pp75 - 88, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2015
  • 'Dracula Goes to London' in, editor(s)Sylvie Mikowski , Ireland and Popular Culture, Oxford , Peter Long, 2014, pp19 - 38, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2014
  • 'The Lair of the White Worm; or, What became of Bram Stoker?' in, editor(s)Jarlath Killeen , Bram Stoker: Centenary Essays, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2014, pp163 - 178, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2014
  • Darryl Jones, Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2014, xlii+510ppppBook, 2014
  • Darryl Jones, 'The Dead Walk!: The Zombie Phenomenon and the Mysterious Workings of Popular Culture', Shanghai Review of Books, 256, 2013, p6 - 7Journal Article, 2013
  • 'Gone into mourning for the death of the sun': Victorians at the End of Time in, editor(s)Trish Ferguson , Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Geographies, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp178 - 195, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2013
  • 'Fantasia: Under Milk Wood in the 1950s' in, editor(s)Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pelizzari , Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013, pp35 - 50, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Foreword in, editor(s)Helen Conrad-O'Briain and Gerard Hynes , J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, pp5 - 6, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2013
  • Gerald Dawe, Darryl Jones and Nora Pelizzari, eds., Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s., Oxford, Peter Lang, 2013, ix+197pp.ppBook, 2013
  • Darryl Jones, 'as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth': The Flood in Victorian Fiction, Literature and Theology, 26, (4), 2012, p439 - 458Journal Article, 2012
  • Darryl Jones, Welsh Nationalist Horror, Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English, 15, 2011, p1 - 28Journal Article, 2011
  • '"It's in the Trees! It's Coming!": Night of the Demon and the Decline and Fall of the British Empire' in, editor(s)Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice Murphy , It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties , London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp33 - 54, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2011
  • M. R. James, Collected Ghost Stories, edited with an Introduction by Darryl Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2011, i-iiixv + 468ppppBook, 2011
  • Darryl Jones, Elizabeth, McCarthy and Bernice Murphy (eds), It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties , London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 262ppppBook, 2011
  • Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry, 2nd edition revised, updated and enlarged, 2nd edition, London, Bloomsbury, 2011, 1 - 200ppBook, 2011
  • 'Horror', M. Keith Booker, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literature, Oxford and London, Blackwell, 2010, [Darryl Jones]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2010
  • Darryl Jones, 'Ultima Thule: Arthur Gordon Pym, the Polar Imaginary, and the Hollow Earth', Edgar Allan Poe Review, XI, (2), 2010, p56 - 74Journal Article, 2010
  • 'Robert Aickman, the Ghost Story, and the Idea of Englishness' in, editor(s)Helen Conrad O'Briain and Julie-Anne Stephens , The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century: A Ghostly Genre, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp61 - 80, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2010
  • Darryl Jones, 'Borderlands: Spiritualism and the Occult in Fin-de-Siecle and Edwardian Welsh and Irish Horror', Irish Studies Review, 17, (1), 2009, p31 - 44Journal Article, 2009
  • Darryl Jones, Scenes from the Decline and Fall of the American Empire, Forum, 5, 2007, p1 - 15Journal Article, 2007
  • 'Hunters and Patriots: The Fiction of the American Neo-Nazi Movement' in, editor(s)Kate Hebblethwaite and Elizabeth McCarthy , Fear: Essays on the Meaning and Experience of Fear, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp103 - 122, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2007
  • 'H. G. Wells and the Imagination of Disaster' in, editor(s)Philip Coleman , On Literature and Science: Essays: Reflections, Provocations', Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp129 - 147, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2007
  • Anne Dolan, Patrick Geoghegan and Darryl Jones, eds, Reinterpreting Emmet: Essays on the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet, Dublin, UCD Press, 2007, 258ppBook, 2007
  • The Liberal Antichrist: Left Behind in America in, editor(s)Kenneth G. C. Newport and Crawford Gribben , Expecting the End: millenarianism in Social and Historical Context, Waco, Texas, Baylor University Press, 2006, pp97 - 112, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2006
  • 'King of the Castle: Shirley Jackson and Stephen King' in, editor(s)Bernice Murphy , Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2005, pp214 - 236, [Dara Downey and Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2005
  • '"Distorted Nature in a Fever": Irish Bulls, Irish Novels, the 1798 Rebellion, and their Gothic Contexts' in, editor(s)Chris Fauske and Heidi Kaufman , Uncomfortable Authority': Maria Edgeworth and her Contexts, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2004, pp127 - 144, [Darryl Jones]Book Chapter, 2004
  • Darryl Jones, Jane Austen, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Book, 2004
  • Darryl Jones, 'Radical Ambivalence: Frances Burney, Jacobinism, and the Politics of Romantic Fiction', Women's Writing, 10, (1), 2003, p3 - 26Journal Article, 2003
  • Darryl Jones, Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film, London and New York, Arnold and OUP, 2002Book, 2002
  • Stephen Matterson and Darryl Jones, Studying Poetry, London and New York, Arnold and OUP, 2000Book, 2000
  • Darryl Jones, '"A Fancy Name in that Incestuous Context": Dannie Abse Writing About Wales', Poetry Ireland Review, 62, 1999, p79 - 83Journal Article, 1999
  • Gothic Parody, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, The Handbook of Gothic Literature, London, Macmillan, 1998, pp270 - 271, [Darryl Jones]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 1998
  • Darryl Jones, 'I Failed Utterly : Saunders Lewis and the Cultural Politics of Welsh Modernism', The Irish Review, 19, 1996, p22 - 43Journal Article, 1996
  • Darryl Jones, 'Frekes, Monsters and the Ladies : Attitudes to Female Sexuality in the 1790s', Literature and History, 4, (2), 1995, p1 - 24Journal Article, 1995
  • Darryl Jones, 'Celtic Nationalism and Postcolonial Theory', SPAN, 41, 1995, p28 - 36Journal Article, 1995

Research Expertise

Languages and literature,

Recognition

  • F.T.C.D. 2006