Deanna P. Koretsky

About

Deanna P. Koretsky is a writer and scholar with a special interest in vampires and other darknesses in literature, film, and popular culture. Her recent projects examine race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in vampire media since the nineteenth century. Her current book project extends these inquiries to neurodivergence in horror and other speculative genres.

Deanna’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Rockefeller Foundation, and others. In addition to her solo writing, she is a founding member of the Bigger 6 Collective and occasionally pops into the Dear Vampire Diaries podcast. She teaches at Spelman College and lives near the “real” Mystic Falls.

Education

Ph.D. in English & Feminist Studies - Duke University

B.A. in English & Russian - Bucknell University

Scholarly Interests

horror & the gothic

race, gender, & sexuality

critical autism studies