Dr Darren Oldridge
Dr Darren Oldridge
Senior Lecturer in History / Media & Cultural Studies
QualificationBA, PhD (University of Warwick)
Teaching Interests
Darren Oldridge’s teaching interests are in early modern English history, the history of religion and media history.
Major Publications
Religion and Society in Early Stuart England, 1603-1642, Aldershot: Ashgate (1998)
The Devil in Early Modern England, Stroud: Sutton (2000)
The Witchcraft Reader, London: Routledge (2002)
Strange Histories. Routledge (2005)
‘Protestant conceptions of the Devil in early Stuart England’, History, 85, 278 (2000), 232-46.
‘“Dead Man Walking”: the historical context of vampire beliefs’, in Peter Day (ed.) Vampires: Myths and Metaphors. Rodopi (2006).
‘“Video Abuse”: Gender, Censorship and I Spit on Your Grave’, in Waddell, T. (ed.) Cultural Expressions of Evil and Wickedness. Rodopi (2003)
‘Casting the Spell of Terror: The Press and the Early Whitechapel Murders’, in A. Warwick and Martin Willis (eds.) Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History. Manchester University Press (2007)
Contact
University of Worcester
Henwick Grove
Worcester, WR2 6AJ
Tel: 01905 855302
d.oldridge@worc.ac.uk