Drumlin N. M. Crape

Biography

Drumlin Noah Magnus Crape is a PhD candidate (ABD) working under the supervision of Dr. S. Brooke Cameron. Their research examines the ways queer creators, adaptors, and fans reckon with and reclaim the historical connection between monstrosity and gender and sexual diversity in new media forms.

Research Interests

The Gothic and Neogothic; Horror; Popular Fiction; Adaptation; New Media; Gender and Sexuality Studies

Selected Publications

Forthcoming

Crape, Drumlin N.M. “Technological Pasts and Queer Futures in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.” Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror. Edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo and Anna Marta Marini. Forthcoming.

Publications

Crape, Drumlin N.M., and Brooke Cameron, editors. Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2025.  

Crape, Drumlin N.M., “’It’s like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, forever and ever’: Chronic Illness and Crip Time in Catherine Jinks’ The Reformed Vampire Support Group.” Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture, edited by Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Cameron. Routledge, 2025. 

Crape, Drumlin N. M. "Transforming Monster-Human Relationships in BBC's Dracula and NBC's Hannibal." Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter 2024. https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/52_1/transforming_monster_human_relat….

Crape, Drumlin N. M. “Out of Time: Disabling Normative Time in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” Humanities, vol. 12, no. 4, July 2023, p. 64. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.3390/h12040064.

Crape, Drumlin N. M. “‘This Girl Changed the Story of the World’: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV’s Carmilla.” Humanities, vol. 12, no. 3, May 2023, p. 42. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.3390/h12030042.

Crape, Drumlin N.M. “’But Virgil Was Not There’: The Lasting Impact of Dante’s Homosocial Hell.” University of Saskatchewan’s Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, 2020, https://doi.org/10.32396/usurj.v6i2.476.

Selected Presentations

 “‘My Coven is Claudia’: Agency, Monstrosity, and Sapphic Horror in AMC’s Interview with the Vampire (2022-).” Female Vampires, Conference Presentation, Romancing the Gothic, August 23 2026, delivered via Zoom. 

 “‘It really does look black in the moonlight’”: Blood in NBC’s Hannibal.” It’s In Their Blood: Television Series and the Representation of Violence in 21st Century, Conference Presentation, March 6 2026, delivered via Microsoft Teams. 

 “’More Microphone Than Man’: Cecil as Queer Cyborg in Welcome to Night Vale.” Haunting and Recovering Media: Analog Pasts, Digital Presents, and Multimedia Futures, Conference Presentation, Modern Language Association, January 11 2026, Toronto, ON. 

 “Reclaiming the Queer Monster.” Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 9 2025, delivered via Zoom.  

 “Crip Time in Jane Eyre.” Gender and Otherness in the Humanities 2024. Invited Conference Talk, November 14 2024, delivered via Microsoft Teams. 

 “’You Always Chose to See’: Omniscience, Visibility, and Queer Ways of Seeing in Welcome to Night Vale and The Magnus Archives.” Monsters and the Monstrous, Conference Presentation, Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 4 2024, delivered via Zoom.  

 “‘This Girl Changed the Story of the World’: Queer Complications of Authority in KindaTV’s Carmilla.” Rewriting the Victorian Vampire. Recovering the Vampire, Conference Presentation, November 5 2022, Delivered via Microsoft Teams. 

 “Fluid Bonding: Blood as Subversive Signifier in Hannibal.” Beyond Queer Fears: Rethinking Queerness as Monstrosity in Literature and Film. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Conference Presentation, March 12, 2022, Delivered via Zoom.  

 “Queering Neverland: Readership, Adaptation, and 2SLGBTQ+ Imaginings of Peter Pan.” Public Lecture, 16 April 2021, held via Webex.

 “All’s Fair in Love and Murder: Interpretive Communities and Hannibal.” Trash Talkin’ Conference, 14 March 2021, Delivered via Zoom

Awards and Recognition

• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D), awarded in 2022
• Canada Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS-M), awarded in 2020

Graduate Supervision

S. Brooke Cameron