Fellow 2025-2026 Roger Luckhurst
Roger Luckhurst specialises in the study of science fiction and the Gothic. He has published 10 monographs, including a study of J. G. Ballard (1998), cultural histories of telepathy (2002), science fiction (2005), trauma (2008), the mummy's curse (2011), book length studies of ‘The Shining’ (2013) & ‘Alien’ (2014), zombies (2015), corridors (2019) and an illustrated history of the Gothic (2021).
His future works include a history of the graveyard (2025) and an edition of the minutes of the Ghost Club (2026). He has edited several Gothic classics for Oxford, including works by Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Stoker, Henry James and Rider Haggard. He has had an enduring interest in the representations of the apocalypse and dystopian fiction since his earliest published work on J. G. Ballard.
