Ruth is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of York UK where she started work in April 2008.
Her research interests focus on death, celebrity and popular culture and crime. She is a founder of the Death and Culture Network (DaCNet) and editor of Emerald Series in Death and Culture. Ruth is the author of Death, The Dead and Popular Culture (2018).
Death is no excuse for celebrities to stop working. James Dean, despite being dead since 1955, has recently been cast in a new Vietnam war movie, Finding Jack. His co-starring role will b...
Have you ever thought about how you’d like your funeral to be? Or what dying might feel like? Or what should happen to your body?
