Mr Andrew Fergus Wilson
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Job title: Assistant Head of Social Science; Subject Leader JHS Popular Culture & Media
Email: a.f.wilson@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591849
Room: E216
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I'm currently writing up a chapter on apocalyptic prophecies and 2012 for a collection to be published by Ashgate/Inform volume; a rewrite 0f the JRPC article for a volume entitled 'Screen Revelations' (Phoenix); I have also been invitated to write a piece for Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies on neo-fascism in neo-paganism/magickal groups; in addition, I am currently co-editing a collection of essays on nationalism, extremism, and transgression which is to be published by Gylphi. I am also in the early stages of designing a questionnaire focussing on 'stigmatized beliefs' which I hope to develop during 2013.
Recent publications
(2011) 'On the outskirts of the new global village: computer-mediated visions of the end.' In Rob G. Howard (ed.) Network Apocalypse: Visions of the End in an Age of Internet Media Sheffield: Phoenix Press
(2011 'Beyond reason: The exotic millennium in English culture' Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. Vol. 23(2). Summer 2011
(Forthcoming) 'The Invisible Empire: Political extremity and myths of origin in the networked cultic milieu' in Marion Gibson, Garry Tregidga and Shelley Trower (eds.) Myth, Mysticism, and 'Celtic' Nationalism. London: Routledge
Faculty: Education, Health and Sciences
School: School of Education
Subject Area: Social Science
- Assistant Subject Head of Applied Social and Community Studies.
- Subject Leader for Joint Honours Popular Culture & Media
- Module Leader of Deviance and Difference; Popular Culture; Visualising Society; Supernatural Belief in Culture and Society; Apocalyptic and Paranoid Cultures
Teaching responsibilities
Level 4
- 4SL002 Popular Culture
- 4SL020 Deviance and Difference
Level 5
- 5SL053 Supernatural Belief in Culture and Society
- 5SL060 Visualising Society
Level 6
- 6SL009 Apocalyptic and Paranoid Cultures
Research interests
Apocalyptic and millenarian beliefs; the apocalypse in popular culture; prophecy on the internet; new religious movements; the cultic milieu; belief in the supernatural and its connection with new forms of spirituality. I have also begun research on the extent to which neo-fascist and nationalist idealogues have sought to appropriate European pre-Christian belief and its resurgent neo-pagan forms.
Recent Conferences
2007. 'We're all doomed: themes of the apocalypse and the occult in a heavy metal subgenre.' Annual Conference of the Centre for Millennial Studies. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, 12-14 July 2007
2008. 'The Dianic Mysteries. Cults, Conspiracies and the appeal of the 'Queen of Hearts'' to be delivered at Centuries of Celebrity: Re-Contextualizing the Meaning of Fame University of East London 27th June 2008.
'Beyond reason: The exotic millennium in English culture' delivered at Millennialism in The Modern World. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, 7-9 July 2008
'The Invisible Empire: Political extremity and myths of origin in the cultic milieu' delivered at Mysticism, Myth, Nationalism Conference, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, 23 & 24 July 2010
Media experience
BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2, Derby Evening Telegraph, BBC Radio Derby, NewsTalk Radio (Ireland), Straits Times (Singapore)
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