Richard Sugg
Richard Sugg is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Durham. He is the author of John Donne (Palgrave, 2007), Murder After Death (Cornell University Press, 2007), The Secret History of the Soul (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), The Smoke of the Soul (Palgrave, 2013), and Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from The Renaissance to the Victorians (Routledge, 2015). He has just completed The Real Vampires, and is researching a new book on ghosts and...See more
Richard Sugg is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Durham. He is the author of John Donne (Palgrave, 2007), Murder After Death (Cornell University Press, 2007), The Secret History of the Soul (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), The Smoke of the Soul (Palgrave, 2013), and Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from The Renaissance to the Victorians (Routledge, 2015). He has just completed The Real Vampires, and is researching a new book on ghosts and poltergeists. He has written articles on corpse medicine, cannibalism, vampires, witches, ghosts, poltergeists and mummies for encyclopedias and international newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Lancet, and Der Spiegel. A few years ago he appeared on television, helping Tony Robinson to make corpse medicines. It was educational. See less