Ffion Mary Rose Davies

Assistant Professor

PhD in English Literature, City University of Hong Kong 
MA in Crime and Gothic Fictions, Bath Spa University 
BA in English Literature, Bath Spa University
 
Courses Taught
English Writing 
American Literature 
True Crime in Contemporary Society
 
Publications
Davies, Ffion. “Shooting Straight? Queering the Homme Fatal in Classic Film Noir.” Men and Masculinities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X251326255.
 
Davies, Ffion. “Criminally Fat: Reframing the Homme Fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943).” English Studies, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2275972.
 
Conferences
“Nightmares in Translation: The Noir Imagination in Contemporary East Asian Fiction.” Crime Fiction and the Challenges of Our Time, Monash University, Melbourne, 9 Nov. 2023.
 

“Tradition vs. Mode: Genre in Noir Fiction.” Captivating Criminality 9, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 2–4 Mar. 2023.

“Secularising Evil and the Rise and Rise of True Crime.” International Gothic Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 26–29 July 2022.

“Dangerous Appetites and the Homme Fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943).” Captivating Criminality 8, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany, 30 June–2 July 2022.

“Trauma Recovery and the Fractured Self in Tell Me Who I Am (2019).” American Comparative Literature Association, Virtual, 15–18 June 2022.

“Orientalising the Homme Fatal in Early Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction.” Popular Culture Association, Virtual, 13–16 Apr. 2022.

“The Glass Detective: Marlowe, Memory and Fragile Masculinity.” Memory, Melancholy & Nostalgia International Interdisciplinary Conference, Virtual, 8 Dec. 2021.

“Binge Culture and True Crime Narratives in the Digital Age.” Popular Culture Association in the South, Virtual, 30 Sept.–2 Oct. 2021.

“Hardboiled Femininity: Manliness as a Masquerade.” Captivating Criminality 6, D’Annunzio University of Chieti Pescara, Italy, 12–15 June 2019.

“Welsh Gothic, Tradition, and the Female Experience.” Absent Presences, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 27–28 June 2019.

“True Crime Narratives in the Digital Age.” BSU Postgraduate Conference, Bath Spa University, UK, 21 Mar. 2019.

“Queering the Final Boy in the Horror Film.” Reimagining Gothic, Sheffield University, UK, 26–28 Oct. 2018.

Invited Lectures
“Orientalising the Homme Fatal in American Pulp Fiction.” Research Seminar at City University of Hong Kong, 2022.

“Tradition vs. Mode: Genre Hybridism in Crime Fiction.” Research Seminar at City University of Hong Kong, 2022.

“#MeToo Mr. Marlowe: (Re)examining Chandler in the Twenty-First Century.” Guest Lecture at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2022.