Season 9: Episode 154
In the field of Gothic literature, from the Penny Dreadful and Chapbook through the Penny Bloods and novels. whether it a classic like Bronte or something less well known, there are many ways in which the female characters may as monstrous.
We explore the landscape of 'mad', murderous and shape-shifting women with Gothic scholar Dr Nicole C. Dittmer, author of 'Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic'.
After listening to this episode, seek out Story 4 of 'Stories from the Hearth', our storytelling show, in your podcast feed for a reading of 'The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains' narrated by Nicole.
Visit Nicole's website at www.nicoledittmer.com
Read our review of Nicole's monograph here
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Nicole is a scholar of nineteenth-century Gothic Studies currently employed at The College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ as an Adjunct Professor. She received her PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, UK, where she researched early-to-mid Victorian Gothic literature and contemporaneous medical sciences.
Her monograph, Monstrous Women in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871, is now available from Lexington Books.
Nicole is an Advisory Board member for the ETAP series at Rowman & Littlefield publishers and proofreader and Editorial Board member for the Studies in Gothic Fiction journal. She is also peer reviewer for various journals in the UK and the US where she has written extensively on the Gothic, gender, science fiction, environmental studies, and horror.
As a member of the IGA, NAVSA, ASLE, and PCAACA, she is an avid participant and presenter at both continental and international conferences.
In her free time, Nicole enjoys playing board games, photography, and film analysis. In addition to these hobbies, she also has an interest in learning new languages. Her current training incorporates both the informal and formal practices of the German language.
Her monograph, Monstrous Women in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871, is now available from Lexington Books.
Nicole is an Advisory Board member for the ETAP series at Rowman & Littlefield publishers and proofreader and Editorial Board member for the Studies in Gothic Fiction journal. She is also peer reviewer for various journals in the UK and the US where she has written extensively on the Gothic, gender, science fiction, environmental studies, and horror.
As a member of the IGA, NAVSA, ASLE, and PCAACA, she is an avid participant and presenter at both continental and international conferences.
In her free time, Nicole enjoys playing board games, photography, and film analysis. In addition to these hobbies, she also has an interest in learning new languages. Her current training incorporates both the informal and formal practices of the German language.