Professor Christine Ferguson (FEA, FRHistS) is chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of popular fiction, science, and alternative spirituality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. She is the author of three books and two edited works, including the essay collection The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with Andrew Radford, and the new monograph Opens Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival, 1842-1936  (Oxford University Press, 2025). In 2026, she will publish the first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Dr Ferguson will be presenting some of her recent work on a panel titled "Occultism, History, and Literature: Why the Margins Matter," held in the Coach House at 5:00 pm on May 5. 

Dr Ferguson is also a society member of Green College. She was in residence at Green College for a week in late July 2025, and has returned for a longer period beginning in late April through mid-May 2026.