Dr Mark Yates

Biography	I am a Lecturer in C 18th/19th English Literature, working within the School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology at the University of Salford. I am also the Admissions Lead for English and a Wordscope Tutor. After gaining a BA (hons) in English Literature and an MA in Literature, Culture, and Modernity from the University of Salford between 2006 and 2010, I completed a joint-doctorate in English Literature at the University of Salford and Ghent University in 2014. I taught English Literature as a Doctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University in 2013. Alongside working as an Associate Lecturer for the University of Salford between 2014 and 2019, I worked as a trustee for the Book-Cycle Charitable Trust—a volunteer run charity which seeks to empower communities both in the UK and in developing countries through the provision of free books and educational resources. I became a Lecturer in C 18th/19th English Literature in 2019, and I teach on a variety of modules in English across Levels 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in 2020, leading to my recognition as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2021. I have received specialised training in printmaking and, in addition to presenting conference papers in both Europe and America, I have published several articles on William Blake and David Lynch.
Research Interests	• Eighteenth-Century Literature and Print Culture • The Gothic and Horror in Literature, Film, and Television • Psychoanalysis • Ecocriticism • Intertextuality • Paratexts
Teaching and Learning	Within the English subject area, I teach or offer supervisions on a variety of modules across programmes in English, including the following: • Reading Management Skills (L3) • Critical Skills in the 21st Century (L4) • Discovering Literature (L4) • The Romantic Period: the Sublime and the Gothic (L5) • The Female Gothic (L5) • Work Placement (L5) • Dissertation (L6) • Theory, Text, Writing (L7) • Professional Practice (L7) I also teach on Wordscope, a programme of tuition with a proven record of helping students to overcome common writing problems such as inappropriate punctuation, faulty sentence structure, and confused paragraphing.