Research Interests
Nineteenth century literature; Victorian culture; the Gothic; monstrous Others; queer sexualities; gender subversion; medical humanities; science and technology; the supernatural;
Awards and Recognition
2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Province of Ontario and Queen’s University
Dissertation
I examine nineteenth-century depictions of vampiric bodies (diseased, decayed, distorted) in tandem with emergent medical discourses on sexuality, race, and gender. Identity is strongly tied to the body, so how do conceptions of identity shift when presented in a monstrous body, and what if this body is medicalized?
