Andrew Ireland is the associate dean for undergraduate students in the Media School of the United Kingdom’s Bournemouth University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction—Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND)      PART I: Narrative and TorchwoodOne — Playing to the Crowd: Torchwood Knows We’re Watching(ANDREW IRELAND)      Two — Existentialism and Christian Symbolism(R. C. NEIGHBORS)      Three — Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny(SUSAN J. WOLFE and COURTNEY HUSE WIKA)      Four — Touching the Other: Alien Contact and Transgressive Touch(RIA CHEYNE)      Five — More Than Just a Hero’s Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Six — Screwing Aliens and Screwing with Aliens: Torchwood Slashes the Doctor(RICHARD BERGER)      PART II: Character and TorchwoodSeven — The Eternal Vigil: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero(G. TODD DAVIS)      Eight — Gwen’s Evil Stepmother: Concerning Gloves and Magic Slippers(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Nine — Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of Gothic Aesthetics?(DANIEL J. RAWCLIFFE)      Ten — The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental(CARRIE DUNN)      Eleven — Outside the Heroic Paradigm(TOM POWERS)      PART III: Sexuality and TorchwoodTwelve — “Love the coat”: Bisexuality, the Female Gaze and the Romance of Sexual Politics(CHRISTOPHER PULLEN)      Thirteen — Fashioning Masculinity and Desire(SARAH GILLIGAN)      Fourteen — Sexual Relations and Sexual Identity Issues: Brave New Worlds or More of the Old One?(SHERRY GINN)      Fifteen — “Loving the Alien”: The Erotics of Technology(PAUL WINTERS)      Sixteen — Cyberwomen and Sleepers: Rereading the Mulatta Cyborg and the Black Woman’s Body(ELSPETH KYDD)      Seventeen — No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual Penetration(CARRIE DUNN)      Eighteen — Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction Heroics of Captain Jack(LEE BARRON)      Episode Guide      About the Contributors      Index

Andrew Ireland is the associate dean for undergraduate students in the Media School of the United Kingdom’s Bournemouth University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction—Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND)      PART I: Narrative and TorchwoodOne — Playing to the Crowd: Torchwood Knows We’re Watching(ANDREW IRELAND)      Two — Existentialism and Christian Symbolism(R. C. NEIGHBORS)      Three — Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny(SUSAN J. WOLFE and COURTNEY HUSE WIKA)      Four — Touching the Other: Alien Contact and Transgressive Touch(RIA CHEYNE)      Five — More Than Just a Hero’s Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Six — Screwing Aliens and Screwing with Aliens: Torchwood Slashes the Doctor(RICHARD BERGER)      PART II: Character and TorchwoodSeven — The Eternal Vigil: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero(G. TODD DAVIS)      Eight — Gwen’s Evil Stepmother: Concerning Gloves and Magic Slippers(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Nine — Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of Gothic Aesthetics?(DANIEL J. RAWCLIFFE)      Ten — The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental(CARRIE DUNN)      Eleven — Outside the Heroic Paradigm(TOM POWERS)      PART III: Sexuality and TorchwoodTwelve — “Love the coat”: Bisexuality, the Female Gaze and the Romance of Sexual Politics(CHRISTOPHER PULLEN)      Thirteen — Fashioning Masculinity and Desire(SARAH GILLIGAN)      Fourteen — Sexual Relations and Sexual Identity Issues: Brave New Worlds or More of the Old One?(SHERRY GINN)      Fifteen — “Loving the Alien”: The Erotics of Technology(PAUL WINTERS)      Sixteen — Cyberwomen and Sleepers: Rereading the Mulatta Cyborg and the Black Woman’s Body(ELSPETH KYDD)      Seventeen — No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual Penetration(CARRIE DUNN)      Eighteen — Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction Heroics of Captain Jack(LEE BARRON)      Episode Guide      About the Contributors      Index

Andrew Ireland is the associate dean for undergraduate students in the Media School of the United Kingdom’s Bournemouth University. In 2004 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction—Reading the Rift (ANDREW IRELAND)      PART I: Narrative and TorchwoodOne — Playing to the Crowd: Torchwood Knows We’re Watching(ANDREW IRELAND)      Two — Existentialism and Christian Symbolism(R. C. NEIGHBORS)      Three — Policing the Rift: The Monstrous and the Uncanny(SUSAN J. WOLFE and COURTNEY HUSE WIKA)      Four — Touching the Other: Alien Contact and Transgressive Touch(RIA CHEYNE)      Five — More Than Just a Hero’s Journey: Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, and Captain Jack Harkness(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Six — Screwing Aliens and Screwing with Aliens: Torchwood Slashes the Doctor(RICHARD BERGER)      PART II: Character and TorchwoodSeven — The Eternal Vigil: Captain Jack as Byronic Hero(G. TODD DAVIS)      Eight — Gwen’s Evil Stepmother: Concerning Gloves and Magic Slippers(VALERIE ESTELLE FRANKEL)      Nine — Transgressive Torch Bearers: Who Carries the Confines of Gothic Aesthetics?(DANIEL J. RAWCLIFFE)      Ten — The Alien Woman: Othering and the Oriental(CARRIE DUNN)      Eleven — Outside the Heroic Paradigm(TOM POWERS)      PART III: Sexuality and TorchwoodTwelve — “Love the coat”: Bisexuality, the Female Gaze and the Romance of Sexual Politics(CHRISTOPHER PULLEN)      Thirteen — Fashioning Masculinity and Desire(SARAH GILLIGAN)      Fourteen — Sexual Relations and Sexual Identity Issues: Brave New Worlds or More of the Old One?(SHERRY GINN)      Fifteen — “Loving the Alien”: The Erotics of Technology(PAUL WINTERS)      Sixteen — Cyberwomen and Sleepers: Rereading the Mulatta Cyborg and the Black Woman’s Body(ELSPETH KYDD)      Seventeen — No Consent Necessary: A Feminist Perspective on Non-Consensual Penetration(CARRIE DUNN)      Eighteen — Out in Space: Masculinity, Sexuality and the Science Fiction Heroics of Captain Jack(LEE BARRON)      Episode Guide      About the Contributors      Index