Christine Ferguson

Christine Ferguson is Professor of English Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is author of Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival (2025), Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006). Her previous editions include, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (2018), and, as solo editor, a volume on Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation for Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series (2014).