Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham and an Anglican priest. She has formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Virginia. She wrote about the influence of Gothic and apocalyptic on Charles Dickens as part of her doctoral thesis, which was published as Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction in 1992. Other books include Dante and the Victorians (1998 & 2010) and Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real (2007). With Andrew Davison, she has co-authored For the Parish: A Critique of Fresh Expressions (2011). She is currently working on a theological study of horror fiction, ‘God and the Gothic’.