DAWN KEETLEY

Department of English

Drown Hall

Lehigh University

Bethlehem PA 18015-3076

(610) 758-3303

dek7@lehigh.edu

Areas of Specialization:  Film, Television, and Popular Culture, Gothic/Horror, American Literature and Culture, American Studies, Women’s Literature and Women’s Studies, Law and Literature

I’m editing a series with Lehigh University Press: Critical Conversations in Horror Studies. You’ll find more information about it here:

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1994.

M.A., English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, May 1988

B.A., English and French, magna cum laude, University of South Alabama, May 1985

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University, 2021- present

Professor & Chair, English, Lehigh University, 2016 – 2021

Associate Professor, English, Lehigh University, 2005-2016

Assistant Professor, English, Lehigh University, 2000-2005

Visiting Assistant Professor, English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies, Lehigh University,1999-2000

Assistant Professor, English, North Carolina State University, 1996-1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Drake University, 1995-1996

Instructor, English, St. Xavier College, 1988-1989

Dawn Keetley is Professor of English, teaching horror/gothic literature, film, and television at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She has most recently published in the Journal of American Culture, Science Fiction Film and Television Studies, Gothic Nature, Journal of Popular Culture, Horror Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Journal of Popular Television, Journal of Film and Video, and Gothic Studies. She is editor of Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror (Ohio State University Press, 2020) and We’re All Infected: Essays on AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human (McFarland, 2014). She has co-edited (with Angela Tenga) Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film (Palgrave, 2016) and (with Matthew Wynn Sivils) The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-century American Literature (Routledge, 2017). Her book, Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2017. Keetley is currently working on essays on contemporary horror and on folk horror and has an edited collection (with Ruth Heholt), Folk Horror: New Global Pathways, recently out from the University of Wales Press as well as a short book, Folk Gothic (2023), in the Cambridge Gothic Elements series. She writes regularly for a horror website she co-created, www.HorrorHomeroom.com.