Deanna P. Koretsky
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
B.A. & M.A., Bucknell University
Research interests
Horror & The Gothic
Critical Neurodivergence Studies
Race, Gender, and Sexuality
About
Deanna P. Koretsky is a writer and scholar of literature and popular culture. Her current book project examines intersections of race and neurodivergence in vampire media since the nineteenth century. She is also the author of Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (2021) and editor of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda (2025).
Her research 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.