Ellie Shawcross

PhD student

Research Overview

Ellie (she/her) is a PhD researcher in English Literature, currently working on her thesis, (Un)Natural Desires: Wildness and Abject Desire in the Contemporary Queer Horrorsphere. Her research interests include:

  • The politics of consumption, including cannibalism, vampirism, edibility, and visual/metaphorical consumption.
  • Monstrous companionship, queer homemaking, and non-normative constructions of kinship and desire.
  • The Wild, queer phenomenology, and representations of transgressive wildernesses in real and imagined spaces.


Participation in workshop, seminar, course


Oral presentation


Participation in workshop, seminar, course


Oral presentation


Prize (including medals and awards)