Barbara Hughes-Moore

Dr Barbara Hughes-Moore is a Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University and Reviews Editor for Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840. Her research interests include law and literature, criminal legal theory and gothic fiction, with a focus on the nineteenth century and the literary double. She has published on Frankenstein, gendered assumptions underlying partial defences to homicide, and distinct ‘Welsh’ values emerging from devolved health law (with Professor John Harrington and Erin Thomas). Her work has been published in the Journal of Law and Society and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, and she is currently developing her doctoral thesis into a monograph.