William Hughes FRHistS FSA Scot is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, China: he has specialised in the study of Bram Stoker.
He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and the University of East Anglia, and also holds a PGCE from Christ Church, Canterbury.
His most recent volume of medical history is That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination[9] for Manchester University Press (2015).
His most recent publication, Suicide and the Gothic, co-edited with Andrew Smith for Manchester University Press, appeared in 2019.
[6] He is interested in supervising dissertations on all periods of the Gothic, particularly where these touch upon Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu or Algernon Blackwood, continues to work upon the ecoGothic and Queer Gothic, and maintains an interest in nineteenth century medicine, pathology and criminal psychology.