I research the Gothic; I'm particularly interested in the American Gothic, and the British Gothic in the twentieth century. I also work on twentieth century New Zealand literature. Recent work has treated carnivalesque writing, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Sargeson, Alan Garner, Robert Aickman, Aleister Crowley and folk horror.
I'm very happy to receive enquiries for PhD topics in Gothic studies, and associated areas of twentieth century and contemporary literature.
Book Chapter
Folk Horror and the Globalgothic
Jones T (2023) Folk Horror and the Globalgothic. In: The Edinburgh Companion to the Globalgothic. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 309-321.
Book Chapter
The Devil His Due: Folk Horror, Occulture and the Black Magic Story
Jones T (2023) The Devil His Due: Folk Horror, Occulture and the Black Magic Story. In: Horror Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 113-126.
Book Chapter
Aleister Crowley and the Black Magic Story
Jones T (2020) Aleister Crowley and the Black Magic Story. In: Bloom C (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_21
Book Chapter
Clarence John Laughlin's Ghosts Along the Mississippi (1948): Southern Gothic
Jones T (2018) Clarence John Laughlin's Ghosts Along the Mississippi (1948): Southern Gothic. In: Bacon S (ed.) The Gothic: A Reader. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 53-60. https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79030?format=PBK; https://doi.org/10.3726/b13432
Book Chapter
Jones T (2018) The Weird Tale. In: Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 160-174. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english-hb.html
Book Chapter
Entering the Darkness: Robert Aickman and the Regions
Jones T (2018) Entering the Darkness: Robert Aickman and the Regions. In: Heholt R & Hughes W (eds.) Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles. Gothic Literary Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. http://www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-britain-ebook-pdf/
Article
Affairs of the Tell-Tale Heart: Sargeson’s Poe and the Horrors of Love
Jones T (2017) Affairs of the Tell-Tale Heart: Sargeson’s Poe and the Horrors of Love. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 35 (2), pp. 15-31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90018322
Book Chapter
"This Hill is Still Dangerous": Alan Garner's Weirdstone Trilogy - A Hauntology
Jones T (2017) "This Hill is Still Dangerous": Alan Garner's Weirdstone Trilogy - A Hauntology. In: Jackson A (ed.) New Directions in Children's Gothic: Debatable Lands. Children's Literature and Culture. London: Routledge, pp. 176-188. https://www.routledge.com/New-Directions-in-Gothic-Childrens-Literature/Coats-Jackson/p/book/9781138905474
Book Chapter
"German has a word for the total effect": Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories
Jones T (2017) "German has a word for the total effect": Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories. In: Brewster S & Thurston L (eds.) The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. Routledge Literature Handbooks. London: Routledge, pp. 168-176. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-to-the-Ghost-Story/Thurston-Brewster/p/book/9781138184763
Book Chapter
Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction 1950-1970
Jones T (2016) Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction 1950-1970. In: Williams M (ed.) A History of New Zealand Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 153-166. http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-general-interest/history-new-zealand-literature?format=HB
Authored Book
The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
Jones T (2015) The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture. Gothic Literary Studies. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. http://www.uwp.co.uk/editions/9781783161928
Article
The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out
Jones T (2014) The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out. M/C Journal, 17 (4). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/849
Book Chapter
Jones T (2013) New Zealand Gothic. In: Hughes W, Punter D & Smith A (eds.) The Encyclopedia of the Gothic. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 468-471. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405182903.html
Other
Book Review: The Mijo Tree by Janet Frame
Jones T (2013) Book Review: The Mijo Tree by Janet Frame. New Zealand Listener, (3840). http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/books/book-review-the-mijo-tree-by-janet-frame/#print
Book Review
The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction
Jones T (2012) The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction. Review of: 'The Lonely and the Alone: The Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction' by Doreen D'Cruz and John C Ross, Rodopi 2011, 428 pp, ISBN 9789042034747. New Zealand Books: A Quarterly Review, 24/4 (100). http://nzbooks.org.nz/2012/literature/only-the-lonely-timothy-g-jones/
Book Review
The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame
Jones T (2011) The Frame Function: An Inside-out Guide to the Novels of Janet Frame. Review of:
Jan Cronin, Auckland University Press, 2011, ISBN 9781869404864. New Zealand Books: A Quarterly Review, 21 (96). http://nzbooks.org.nz/2011/literature/reframing-timothy-g-jones/
Book Review
Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jones T (2010) Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand. Review of:
Christina Stachurski, New Zealand, Rodopi, 2010, 256 pp, ISBN 9789042026445. New Zealand Books: A Quarterly Review, 20 (91). http://nzbooks.org.nz/2010/contents/issue-91-contents/
Book Review
Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde
Jones T (2009) Lighted Windows: Critical Essays on Robin Hyde. Review of:
Mary Edmond-Paul (ed.), Otago University Press, New Zealand, 2008, 226 pp, ISBN 978877372582. New Zealand Books: A Quarterly Review, 19 (86). http://nzbooks.org.nz/2009/non-fiction/hyde-and-seek-timothy-g-jones/
Article
The Canniness of the Gothic: Genre as Practice
Jones T (2009) The Canniness of the Gothic: Genre as Practice. Gothic Studies, 11 (1), pp. 124-133. https://www.manchesterhive.com/abstract/journals/gs/11/1/article-p124.xml
Book Review
Jones T (2008) Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, (4), pp. 87-88. https://irishgothichorror.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/ijghsissue4.pdf
Book Review
Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture
Jones T (2007) Gothic NZ: The Darker Side of Kiwi Culture. Review of:
Misha Kavka, Jennifer Lawn, Mary Paul (eds.), Dunedin, Otago University Press, 2006, 176 pp, ISBN 9781877372230. Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, - (3), pp. 93-95. https://irishgothichorror.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/ijghsissue3.pdf
Other
Jones T (2002) The Exorcist and Me. [Radio Documentary] 2002.
Article
Jones T (2001) The Divine Miss Page. Sport, (27).