Val Scullion gained her PhD at Anglia Ruskin University and is an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. She has published articles on E. T. A. Hoffmann (Journal of Literature and Science 2009, European Review 2010); Dennis Potter (Gothic Studies 2008, English Review 1998); Susan Hill (Women: a cultural review 2003, Gothic Studies 2005) and a profile on Hill in The Handbook of the Gothic (Palgrave 2009). She has also authored entries in the Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing, 1900-1950 (Palgrave 2006). Her current research continues on the work of the German author, Hoffmann.