William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Literature at Bath Spa University, England: he has specialised in the study of Bram Stoker.
He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and the University of East Anglia, and also holds a PGCE from Christ Church, Canterbury.
He has presented radio programmes for the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, and has also appeared on live television through Living TV's Most Haunted Live!, most recently during the 2009 broadcast from St George's Hall, Liverpool.
In 2015, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.