Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial (2022)
Journal Article
Hardey, M., & James, S. J. (2022). Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 19(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2029513

This paper explores the characteristics of storytelling in a digital medium through Season One of the podcast Serial. We also analyse how Serial’s digital audience engages with and reacts to the narrative, and the ways in which such an audience influ... Read More about Digital Seriality and Narrative Branching: Season One, the Podcast Serial.

The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, S., James, S., James, K., Brown, C., Kokotsaki, D., & Wigham, J. (2023). The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation. Arts Education Policy Review, 124(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640

This paper reports on the evaluation of the In2 music project in Darlington, England. The project ran for seven weeks from January – March 2020 and involved Year 6 pupils from four primary schools (n = 103) and Year 7 pupils from one secondary school... Read More about The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation.

Review of 'Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press' by Will Tattersdill (2019)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2019). Review of 'Science, Fiction, and the Fin-de-Siècle Periodical Press' by Will Tattersdill. Victorian popular fictions, 1(1),

Durham Commission on Creativity and Education (2019)
Report
James, S., Houston, A., Newton, L., Daniels, S., Morgan, N., Coho, W., …Lucas, B. (2019). Durham Commission on Creativity and Education. Arts Council UK and Durham University

Daily bread: food and drink in the Holmes canon (2018)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2018). Daily bread: food and drink in the Holmes canon. Critical Quarterly, 60(3), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12427

While in the Sherlock Holmes canon Watson is married twice (and once widowed), the domestic scenario most frequently staged by the stories sees Holmes and Watson sharing 221b Baker Street, attended by their housekeeper Mrs Hudson. Holmes himself nost... Read More about Daily bread: food and drink in the Holmes canon.

H. G. Wells’s London (2018)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (in press). H. G. Wells’s London. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_74-1

The First Men in the Moon. (2017)
Book
James, S. J. (2017). The First Men in the Moon

At the village of Lympne, on the south coast of England, the failed playwright Mr Bedford meets the brilliant inventor Mr Cavor, and together they invade the moon. The First Men in the Moon is both an inspired and imaginative fantasy of space travel... Read More about The First Men in the Moon..

The Idea of a Planned World: H. G. Wells's 'The First Men in the Moon'. (2016)
Digital Artefact
James, S. J. (in press). The Idea of a Planned World: H. G. Wells's 'The First Men in the Moon'. [youtube podcast.]

We should remember HG Wells for his social predictions, not just his scientific ones. (2016)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2016). We should remember HG Wells for his social predictions, not just his scientific ones

The Worlds of H. G. Wells (2016)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2016). The Worlds of H. G. Wells. Nature, 537, 162-164. https://doi.org/10.1038/537162a

Simon J. James looks back at the richly varied contribution of the science-fiction writer and science popularizer.

Charles Dickens, Mental Time-Travelling and Autobiographical Memory. (2016)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2016). Charles Dickens, Mental Time-Travelling and Autobiographical Memory. In C. Huguet, & P. Vita (Eds.), Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress and Change (33-54). Éditions du Sagittaire

A Body Undressed for Text: Trilby in Parts (2016)
Journal Article
James, S. J., & Miller, E. V. (2016). A Body Undressed for Text: Trilby in Parts. Feminist Theory, 17(1), 83-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700115620862

George Du Maurier’s best-selling novel, Trilby (1894), is as important because of its defiance of social and cultural norms as it is for its apparent compliance with them. Trilby is a fiction that, like its eponymous heroine, attempts to negotiate th... Read More about A Body Undressed for Text: Trilby in Parts.

Review of Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author. By Robert L. Patten. (2015)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2015). Review of Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author. By Robert L. Patten. Modern Language Review, 108(4), 1275-1276

'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial (2015)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2015). 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial. In M. O'Neill, M. Sandy, & S. Wootton (Eds.), The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns (45-58). Pickering & Chatto

What might it entail to speak or write in words of beauty, especially of physical beauty? Is it the case that the literary arts can never portray beauty itself su ciently, but only the e ects of beauty (wonder, sexual desire , envy)? If it is admitte... Read More about 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial.

Desert Island (2015)
Book
James, S. J. (Ed.). (in press). Desert Island. Insitute of Advanced Study

Books for Boys: Literacy, Nation and the First World War (2015)
Book
James, S. J. (Ed.). (in press). Books for Boys: Literacy, Nation and the First World War. Insitute of Advanced Study

Q is for Queen: The Reading Nation (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2014). Q is for Queen: The Reading Nation. In S. J. James (Ed.), Books for Boys : literacy, nation and the First World War (6-9). Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University

Afterword (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2014). Afterword. In The time machine by H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Greg Bear and a new afterword by Simon J. James (119-128). Penguin Group (USA)

Decline and Fall. (2014)
Book
James, S. J. (Ed.). (in press). Decline and Fall. Oxford University Press

Review of Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures. Ed. Robert L. Patten. (2013)
Journal Article
James, S. J. (2013). Review of Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures. Ed. Robert L. Patten. Dickens quarterly, 30(2), 156-159