Drusilla, Kendra, & the Role of Agency in Vampire Literature

This morning I spoke at the Buffy to Batgirl conference at Rutgers-Camden. I did not get to give my full paper because of some time constraints, but here is the full version of the paper. I talk about Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Carmilla, and Dracula with a strong focus on Mina Harker, Kendra, and Drusilla.

I need to thank Courtney Stoker who helped me edit this paper when I originally wrote it. This paper was submitted a few years ago to a journal who liked it, but said to make a few changes. One of them was unclear, so I asked for an example. I was told the editor did not have time to read it again and that I should have a colleague look at it. I did not resubmit it to that journal. Courtney helped me a lot with crafting my argument in here and I really appreciate her hard work helping me.

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Podcast #11

Here is podcast #11. This one is my recording of my article for The Victorian about adapting Dracula as a work of hypertext fiction. This is a new version. The one I previously posted did not come out well. This one has better audio.

New Publication In The Victorian

I have a publication in a promising new journal called The Victorian on adapting Dracula as a work of hypertext fiction. If you have engaged with my MA Thesis at all over the years, a good portion of this essay is a rewritten version of some pieces of it.

I am working on a few more publications this fall. One is for a familiar publishing venue and another will be engaging with a familiar project. More soon.

MA Thesis

After nearly two years of hard work, frustration, anger, thrills, and multitudes of new learning paths gained I present my MA Thesis:

A Threat To The Known: The Unknown Descendants Of Print Culture

My primary focus, I hope, is on the role of reader agency and how it is affected by hypertext fiction.  I used These Waves Of Girls and The Unknown as my primary examples and Dracula as a canonical touchstone.

I’ll have a longer post next week documenting my thoughts about my work, the MA Thesis process, and other issues that crossed my path.

 

Weekly Reader

  • The New Yorker on Dracula and other Vampire related media.
  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s very moving tribute to her colleague David Foster Wallace.
  • Performing Subjectivities: Multi-Mimesis in These Waves of Girls
  • Jeanette Winterson reviews the new edition of Cosmicomics.
  • The Guardian interviews Feministing’s Jessica Valenti.