Biography: Tracy Hayes received her PhD in 2017 with a thesis investigating
masculinity in the novels of Thomas Hardy. She is the Secretary and Website/Social
Media Director for the Thomas Hardy Society and regularly organizes conferences
and study days. Having presented papers on Hardy, M.R. James and Edgar Allan
Poe at numerous conferences throughout the UK, Dr Hayes has also published in
various journals including the DNHAS, Palgrave Communications, RRR, Merry
Meet, Victorian Popular Fiction Association and Short Fiction Studies. Her current
research centres around representations of Gothic masculinity in the short stories
of Poe, Hardy and M.R. James.