Sara Crosby

Affiliation: The Ohio State University at Marion

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sara L. Crosby is a Professor of English at the Ohio State University at Marion. She has authored two books on poisonous women and has also published essays on ecohorror/ecoGothic in Cambridge’s History of the Gothic and in ISLE. Her current book project investigates the disastrous interplay between extractive interests and American popular culture’s representation of South Louisiana as a place of ecohorror.

Email: crosby.sara@gmail.com