Jeanette A Laredo
I’m using the critical thinking, writing, research and editing skills I acquired with my doctorate to navigate postgraduate life. I currently work in the UNT registrar’s office where I edit the undergraduate and graduate catalogs, and create documentation for internal processes related to academic publishing.
I adjunct at the Tarrant Count Connect online campus where I continue engaging students with innovative content and digital teaching techniques:
I completed my Ph.D. in English at the University of North Texas under the direction of Dr. Deborah Needleman Armintor, Dr. Dahlia Porter, and Dr. Nora Gilbert. My dissertation, entitled “Reading the Ruptured Word: Detecting Trauma in Gothic Fiction from 1764-1853,” explores the structural abnormalities of gothic fiction as signifiers of trauma that characters within these texts seek to prevent or repair via detection.
As my dissertation suggests, I specialize in British literature of the long nineteenth century (1764-1914). Specifically, I’m interested in the origins of Gothic horror and its evolution into the Victorian period; literary and cinematic monsters; horror films; and how digital humanities can transform our modern understanding of and engagement with the dark spectres of our past.
My work has appeared in The Journal of Victorian Culture Online and the International Gothic Association student blog. I am working on an article from one of my dissertation chapters entitled “This Secret Sin; This Untold Tale: Narrative Fragmentation and the Trauma of Incest in Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother.”
You can read more of my thoughts on horror at my Monster Scholar blog, and The International Gothic Association Postgraduate Blog. I update my professional activities here.
You can find me on Academia, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. I invite you to contact me if you ever want to chat about literature, the postgrad struggle or things that go bump in the night.
Supervisors: Deborah Armintor, Nora Gilbert, and Dahlia Porter
I adjunct at the Tarrant Count Connect online campus where I continue engaging students with innovative content and digital teaching techniques:
I completed my Ph.D. in English at the University of North Texas under the direction of Dr. Deborah Needleman Armintor, Dr. Dahlia Porter, and Dr. Nora Gilbert. My dissertation, entitled “Reading the Ruptured Word: Detecting Trauma in Gothic Fiction from 1764-1853,” explores the structural abnormalities of gothic fiction as signifiers of trauma that characters within these texts seek to prevent or repair via detection.
As my dissertation suggests, I specialize in British literature of the long nineteenth century (1764-1914). Specifically, I’m interested in the origins of Gothic horror and its evolution into the Victorian period; literary and cinematic monsters; horror films; and how digital humanities can transform our modern understanding of and engagement with the dark spectres of our past.
My work has appeared in The Journal of Victorian Culture Online and the International Gothic Association student blog. I am working on an article from one of my dissertation chapters entitled “This Secret Sin; This Untold Tale: Narrative Fragmentation and the Trauma of Incest in Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother.”
You can read more of my thoughts on horror at my Monster Scholar blog, and The International Gothic Association Postgraduate Blog. I update my professional activities here.
You can find me on Academia, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. I invite you to contact me if you ever want to chat about literature, the postgrad struggle or things that go bump in the night.
Supervisors: Deborah Armintor, Nora Gilbert, and Dahlia Porter
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