Dawn Keetley

Dawn Keetley teaches American literature and gothic / horror in all its forms (fiction, film, TV) at Lehigh University. She has most recently published in Horror Studies, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, the Journal of Popular Television, the Journal of Film and Video, and Gothic Studies. She is the editor of We’re All Infected: AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human (McFarland, 2014) and the co-editor (with Elizabeth Erwin) of a second collection, Race, Gender and Sexuality in The Walking Dead (McFarland, 2018). She is the co-editor (with Angela Tenga) of Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film (Palgrave, 2016) and (with Matthew Wynn Sivils) of The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-century American Literature (Routledge, 2017). Her monograph, Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2017. Keetley is working on essays on ecohorror and on the contemporary horror film as well as a monograph on folk horror, under contract with the University of Wales Press, and a collection of essays on Jordan Peele’s Get Out under contract with the Ohio State University Press. Dawn’s top ten list of horror films. You can find her website here.