Kala Hirtle Clarke
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Kala Hirtle completed her PhD in English Literature at Dalhousie University where she studied 19th-century Gothic literature with a focus on altered states of consciousness, gender, and early vampire literature (texts published before Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula). She has presented on Gothic popular culture on topics such as The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s It, and many vampire texts.
Email: kala.hirtle@dal.ca