About

Teacher, monster scholar, theater critic, cat fancier.

Co-Editor, Supernatural Studies

Education

Ph.D. (2009), English (Victorian Gothic), Fordham University

M.A. (2000), English, Special Concentration in Irish Literature & Culture, Boston College

B.A. (1997), English & Philosophy, University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio College, Alamo Community College District (1993-1995)

Publications

“Class, Crime, and Cannibalism; or, the Demon Barber as Bourgeois Bogeyman,” Journal of Working-Class Studies

Representation in Steven Universe, Palgrave

“This Land was Made for You and Me: The Rise of the Oppressed in Land of the Dead,”  Journal of Popular Culture.

“The Gothic,” “The Castle of Otranto,” and “A Christmas Carol” [signed entries] in Ghosts in Popular Culture and Legend. Ed. June Michele Pulliam and Anthony J. Fonseca. Greenwood/ ABC-CLIO, 2016.

“Mass Production and the Spread of Information in Dracula: ‘Proofs of so wild a story.’” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 52: 4 (2009):  440-57.

“Mary Elizabeth Coleridge,” “Bell’s Life in London,” “The Social-Democrat” [signed entries] in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.  Ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor.  British Library/ Academia Press, 2008.

“‘No nation wanted it so much:’ Mythic Insanity in the Development of an Irish Literature.”  The Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium.  Harvard UP, 2007, pp. 385-95.

“Where There’s a Rime, Is There a Reason?  Defining the Personae in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”  The Coleridge Bulletin (2002-2003):  63-8.

Blog Posts

    Memberships

    Modern Language Association

    Popular Culture Association

    International Gothic Association

    Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association

    Professional Staff Congress, City University of New York

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